Preliminary Program

 

20 mins talks + 5 mins questions

Monday, December 5, 2011
Time Speaker Talk title
Session 1: Introduction
09:15 Simon Johnston Welcome and Introduction
09:30 Ron Ekers John Bolton - Who he was and his impact on astronomy
Session 2: Surveys/Techniques/Instruments
09:55 James Allison A Search for HI Absorption in Young Compact Radio Galaxies
10:20 Julia Bryant SAMI - A New Multi-object IFU for the AAT
10:45 Coffee Break
Session 3: Galaxies
11:15 Shane O'Sullivan New Insights into the Faraday Rotation Measure Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei
11:40 Amanda Bauer Linking Star Formation Histories with Galaxy Assembly
12:05 Sarah Brough Galaxy Environments
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Michelle Cluver Gas, Dust and Star Formation in a Nearby HI-massive Galaxy: An Analogue to z~1 Galaxy Evolution
14:25 Andy Green Using Late Bloomers to Study Early Galaxy Evolution
14:50 Ivy Wong Understanding the Evolving Local Universe from a Neutral Gas Perspective
15:15 Coffee Break
Session 4: Cosmology, Clusters & Particle Physics
15:45 Shea Brown Probing the OffState of Giant Radio Halos
16:10 Russel Jurek The UV Luminosity Function of WiggleZ Galaxies
16:35 Christopher Lidman Harnessing the Full Power of Supernova Legacy Survey to Improve Contraints on Dark Energy
17:00 Close

Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Session 5: Surveys/Techniques/Instruments
09:55 Alan Duffy ASKAP Surveys and the Cosmic Evolution of HI
10:20 Thomas Franzen The 10C Survey: Investigating the Faint High Radio Frequency Source Population
10:45 Coffee Break
Session 6: Milky Way & ISM
11:15 Shari Breen Evolutionary tracers of high-mass star formation
11:40 Jimi Green A Fistful of Masers - Studying the Properties of our Galaxy through Large Maser Surveys
12:05 Gayandhi De Silva Galactic Archaeology and HERMES
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Alex Hill MHD Simulations of a Supernova-Driven Turbulent ISM
14:25 Sarah Martell Globular Clusters and Galactic Halo Assembly
14:50 Yiannis Gonidakis Morphology and Kinematics of the 43 GHz SiO Masers in Mira Variables
15:15 Coffee Break
Session 7: Cosmology, Clusters & Particle Physics
15:45 Matt Owers Cluster Merger Driven Galaxy Transformation in Abell 2744
16:10 David Parkinson Testing Modified Gravity with WiggleZ
16:35 Close

Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Session 8: Surveys/Techniques/Instruments
09:55 Paul Hancock Source Finding for the Next Generation of Radio Continuum Surveys
10:20 Keith Bannister Results of Automatic, High Time Resolution GRB Followup with the Parkes 12m
10:45 Coffee Break
Session 9: Jets/Blackholes AGN
11:15 Sean Farrell The Dectection of Jets from an Intermediate Mass Black Hole with the ATCA
11:40 Bjorn Emonts CO(1-0) Survey of Highz Radio Galaxies with ATCA/CABB
12:05 Stas Shabala AGN Feedback Drives the Colour Evolution of Local Galaxies
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Julie Banfield Radio Sources and Where They Stand in the Cosmic Magnetism Puzzle
14:25 Elizabeth Mahony Is the high-frequency radio luminosity distribution of QSOs bimodal?
14:50 Kate Randall Spectral Index Properties of milliJansky Radio Sources in ATLAS
15:15 Coffee Break
Session 10: Cosmology, Clusters & Particle Physics
15:45 Signe Riemer-Sorensen The Largest Scales and the Smallest Particles - Constraining Neutrino Mass from Galaxy Surveys
16:10 Ryan Shannon Limiting the Gravitation Wave Background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
16:35 Close
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