Gemini & SKA MNRF Symposium 2005

Marsfield Lecture Theatre
June 7, 2005

Program

Time	Speaker	Title
09:30-09:35	Martin Cole (Chair, AABoM)	Welcome
09:35-09:50	Lister Staveley-Smith (CSIRO)	MNRF Overview
Gemini (Chair: Penny Sackett)
09:50-10:10	Warrick Couch (UNSW)	Gemini: Local Activities and International Developments.
10:10-10:30	Matthew Colless (AAO)	Australia's Path to a Giant Telescope
10:30-10:50		Coffee break
10:50-11:10	Ken Freeman (RSAA)	The Outermost Regions of Galactic Disks
11:10-11:40	Sam Barden (AAO)	WFMOS, a wide-field, fibre-fed, multi-object spectrograph for the Gemini/Subaru observatories.
11:40-12:10	Peter McGregor (RSAA)	NIFS and GSAOI: Confronting the simulations with reality.
12:10-12:30	Randall Wayth (Univ. Melbourne)	Measuring the properties of QSO broad-line regions with the GMOS Integral Field Unit.
12:30-13:45		Lunch (provided by ATNF)
SKA (Chair: Ron Ekers)
13:45-14:15	Brian Boyle (ATNF)	SKA pathway and science objectives
14:15-14:45	Anne Green (Univ.of Sydney)	The SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP) Project
14:45-15:15	Steven Tingay (Swinburne)	Baseband Processing and SKA Simulations using Supercomputers - enhancing Australia'a radio astronomy facilities and its bid for the SKA.
15:00-15:20		Coffee break
15:20-15:40	Ron Beresford (ATNF)	Radio Frequency Interference Measurements at Australia's candidate SKA site - Mileura Station, WA.
15:40-16:00	Simon Johnston (ATNF)	Configurations for the Australian SKA Site Bid
16:00-16:30	Warwick Wilson (ATNF)	The Compact Array Broadband Backend and MMIC projects
16:30-17:00	Colin Jacka (ICT) & John O'Sullivan (ATNF)	Focal Plane Arrays for the New Technology Demonstrator

* To be confirmed