Current & Future Visitors to the ATNF

Current & Future Visitors to the ATNF


NOTE: Accomodation bookings for visits shown on this list have not necessarily been confirmed.
Each visit to each site must be separately booked.
Caroline Andrzejewski
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Melbourne University
Parkes Arrival: 29/03/2002, Departure: 01/04/2002
Project ID: P389 Reason for Visit: Observing.

Edo Berger
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Caltech
ATNF Username: ber194
Interests:
Gamma-ray bursts. Brown dwarfs.
Narrabri Arrival: 21/04/2002, Departure: 30/04/2002
Project ID: C1018 Reason for Visit: Observing.
Marsfield Arrival: 30/04/2002, Departure: 05/05/2002
Project ID: C1018

Catherine Brocksopp
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Liverpool John Moores University, UK
ATNF Username: cbrockso
Interests:
circumstellar material around hot stars
Narrabri Arrival: 03/04/2002, Departure: 08/04/2002
Project ID: C974 Reason for Visit: Observing.

Martin Cohen
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of California, Berkeley
ATNF Contact: Stacy Mader/Lister Staveley-Smith
ATNF Username: mcohen
Interests:
Halpha comparisons with radio & mid-IR, ZOA, LMC
Marsfield Arrival: 02/05/2002, Departure: 12/05/2002
Reason for Visit: Continued collaborations with Lister Staveley-Smith, Anne Green, Stacy Mader, Vince McIntyre

James Cordes
Visitor Category: Distinguished
Home Institute: Cornell University
ATNF Contact: Dick Manchester
ATNF Username: cor189
Interests:
pulsars, signal processing, interstellar scattering
Marsfield Arrival: 05/03/2002, Departure: 02/04/2002
Reason for Visit: Am visiting as a 'Distinguished Visitor' as per Dick's invitation. I will spend most of the time in Sydney though I will be going to the pulsar workshop in Orange and may accompany Dick et al. to Parkes for a few days after the Orange meeting.

John Dickey
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of Minnesota
ATNF Contact: Naomi McClure-Griffiths/Lister Staveley-Smith
ATNF Username: jdickey
Interests:
radio spectroscopy, interstellar medium, galaxies, Magellanic Clouds
Marsfield Arrival: 01/01/2003, Departure: 30/06/2003
Reason for Visit: Research with ATNF telescopes collaboration with ATNF staff.

Alan Fey
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: US Naval Observatory
ATNF Contact: Roopesh Ojha
Parkes Arrival: 14/04/2002, Departure: 23/04/2002
Reason for Visit: Support VLBI observations.
Marsfield Arrival: 23/04/2002, Departure: 03/05/2002
Reason for Visit: Support VLBI Observations

Alexa Figgess
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Melbourne University
Parkes Arrival: 29/03/2002, Departure: 01/04/2002
Project ID: P389 Reason for Visit: Observing

Dale Frail
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Marsfield Arrival: 16/04/2002, Departure: 18/04/2002
Project ID: C1018 Reason for Visit: Observing & visiting to attend the AT/AAO Symposium.
Narrabri Arrival: 18/04/2002, Departure: 25/04/2002
Project ID: C1018 Reason for Visit: Observing.

Ken Freeman
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: MSSSO
ATNF Username: kfreeman
Interests:
Formation and structure of Galaxies
Parkes Arrival: 03/04/2002, Departure: 04/04/2002
Reason for Visit: travelling to SSO.

Diego Garcia
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Cardif University
ATNF Contact: Dr Erwin de Blok
ATNF Username: dgarcia
Parkes Arrival: 06/04/2002, Departure: 15/04/2002
Project ID: P387 Reason for Visit: Observing

Biping Gong
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Dept of Astronomy, Nanjing University
ATNF Contact: Dick Manchester
ATNF Username: gon026
Interests:
application of relativistic effects, general relativity.
Marsfield Arrival: 20/03/2002, Departure: 20/04/2002
Reason for Visit: To study and discuss some possible effects in pulsar timing

Minh Huynh
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: RSAA, Australian National University
ATNF Contact: Ray Norris
ATNF Username: minh
Interests:
Extragalactic hubble deep field south
Narrabri Arrival: 09/04/2002, Departure: 17/04/2002
Reason for Visit: Duty astronomer.

Minh Huynh
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: RSAA, Australian National University
ATNF Contact: Ray Norris
ATNF Username: minh
Interests:
Extragalactic hubble deep field south
Narrabri Arrival: 09/04/2002, Departure: 17/04/2002
Reason for Visit: Duty astronomer.

Aris Karastergiou
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: MPIfR Bonn
ATNF Contact: Simon Johnston
ATNF Username: akaraste
Interests:
Pulsars
Marsfield Arrival: 27/02/2002, Departure: 08/04/2002
Reason for Visit: Collaboration with Simon Johnston & Orange meeting

Anton Koekemoer
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Space Telescope Science Institute
ATNF Contact: Ray Norris
ATNF Username: koe010
Interests:
Active Galaxies, Cosmology, CDF-S / GOODS collaboration
Narrabri Arrival: 03/04/2002, Departure: 15/04/2002
Project ID: C1035 Reason for Visit: Observing.
Marsfield Arrival: 15/04/2002, Departure: 18/04/2002
Project ID: C1035

Roger Lynch
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: CSIRO IT Services
ATNF Contact: Shaun Amy
Marsfield Arrival: 01/04/2002, Departure: 06/04/2002
Reason for Visit: PABX and Voice related work at a number of CSIRO sites in Sydney.

Martin Meyer
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of Melbourne
ATNF Username: mmeyer
Parkes Arrival: 28/03/2002, Departure: 07/04/2002
Project ID: P389 Reason for Visit: Observing

Mary Putman
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: CASA, University of Colorado
ATNF Contact: Lister Staveley-Smith
ATNF Username: mputman
Interests:
High Velocity Clouds
Marsfield Arrival: 25/03/2002, Departure: 03/04/2002
Project ID: P372 Reason for Visit: Staying off site. Going on to Parkes for obs.
Parkes Arrival: 03/04/2002, Departure: 11/04/2002
Project ID: P372 Reason for Visit: Observing.
Marsfield Arrival: 11/04/2002, Departure: 13/04/2002
Reason for Visit: Collaboration with ATNF and AAO astronomers.

Emma Ryan-Weber
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of Melbourne
ATNF Contact: Dr Lister Staveley-Smith
ATNF Username: eryan
Interests:
Column Density Distribution Function of the Local Universe
Marsfield Arrival: 29/04/2002, Departure: 03/05/2002
Reason for Visit: Student Symposium

Stuart Ryder
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Anglo-Australian Observatory
ATNF Contact: Lister Staveley-Smith
ATNF Username: sryder
Interests:
Dynamics and evoltuion of spiral galaxies; SNe.
Narrabri Arrival: 01/04/2002, Departure: 01/04/2002
Project ID: c184 Reason for Visit: Observing.

Anja Schroeder
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK
ATNF Contact: Lister Staveley-Smith
ATNF Username: aschroed
Parkes Arrival: 28/03/2002, Departure: 07/04/2002
Project ID: P357 Reason for Visit: Observing.
Marsfield Arrival: 07/04/2002, Departure: 15/07/2002
Project ID: P357 Reason for Visit: Observing/working at the ATNF.

Jamie Stevens
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of Melbourne
ATNF Contact: Dr Lister Staveley-Smith
ATNF Username: jstevens
Interests:
Galaxy group evolution
Parkes Arrival: 05/04/2002, Departure: 14/04/2002
Project ID: P387 Reason for Visit: Observing

Ian Stewart
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of Leicester
ATNF Username: istewart
Parkes Arrival: 30/03/2002, Departure: 11/04/2002
Project ID: P357 Reason for Visit: Observing

Zheng-wen Sun
Visitor Category: Long-term
Home Institute: Urumqi Astronomical Observatory
ATNF Contact: Dick Manchester
ATNF Username: sun027
Interests:
Pulsars, receiver engineer
Parkes Arrival: 24/07/2001, Departure: 01/06/2002
Reason for Visit: Construction of 18cm receiver for Urumqi Astronomical Observatory.

Eon-Chang Sung
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: RSAA, ANU
ATNF Contact: Lister Staveley-Smith
ATNF Username: sun028
Interests:
Dwarf Galaxies
Narrabri Arrival: 26/03/2002, Departure: 29/03/2002
Project ID: C1024 Reason for Visit: Observing.

Sharon Sutton
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Trinity College Dublin
Parkes Arrival: 27/03/2002, Departure: 28/03/2002
Reason for Visit: To learn more about the Apollo II story

Russell Taylor
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of Calgary
ATNF Username: rtaylor
Interests:
Galactic Interstellar medium, Surveys of the galaxy, radio stars.
Marsfield Arrival: 01/05/2002, Departure: 31/08/2002
Reason for Visit: Distinguished Visitor Program.

Sonia Temporin
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Institute of Astrophysics, Innsbruck
ATNF Contact: Dr Lister Staveley-Smith
Interests:
Compact galaxy groups, galaxy interaction and activity.
Marsfield Arrival: 03/06/2002, Departure: 26/06/2002
Project ID: C1026 Reason for Visit: Cooperation with Lister on the reduction and first analysis of data obtained at the ATCA.

Wil van Breugel
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of California
ATNF Contact: Ron Ekers
ATNF Username: wvanbreu
Interests:
High redshift radio galaxies
Marsfield Arrival: 19/05/2002, Departure: 23/05/2002
Reason for Visit: Joint AAO/ATNF seminar May 22 and discussion ATNF staff on high redshift radio galaxy observations.

Thijs (J.M.) van der Hulst
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Kapteyn Institute
ATNF Contact: Erwin de Blok
ATNF Username: tvdhulst
Interests:
Galaxy structure and galaxy evolution.
Marsfield Arrival: 19/01/2002, Departure: 20/07/2002
Reason for Visit: Distinguished Visitor Program

Willem van Straten
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Swinburne University of Technology
ATNF Username: wvanstra
Interests:
Pulars
Parkes Arrival: 24/03/2002, Departure: 29/03/2002
Reason for Visit: assist in the commissioning of the new wideband correlator, related software development and polarimetric calibration

Stephen White
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University of Maryland
ATNF Contact: Bob Duncan
ATNF Username: swhite
Interests:
Stars, Sun
Narrabri Arrival: 09/04/2002, Departure: 12/04/2002
Project ID: C186 Reason for Visit: Observing

Nick Whyborn
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: Space Research Organization of the Netherlands
ATNF Contact: Russell Gough
ATNF Username: nwhyborn
Interests:
receivers
Marsfield Arrival: 24/06/2001, Departure: 31/03/2002
ATNF Room:203a Desk:B

Kinwah Wu
Visitor Category: Short-term
Home Institute: University College London
ATNF Username: kwu
Interests:
X-ray binaries, jets, normal galaxies, radiative transfer, accretion process
Narrabri Arrival: 02/04/2002, Departure: 07/04/2002
Project ID: C1028 Reason for Visit: Observing