Standard talks will be 25 mins and include an additional 5 mins for discussion (with the exception of Wednesday afternoons Pulsar talks and Friday mornings VLBI talks). The talks on Monday will be followed by a special celebration event onsite in the early evening. There will be a civic reception in Parkes Town on the Tuesday evening and the conference dinner will be on the Thursday evening.
Schedule |
Presentations |
Chair |
Monday 31st October - History of Parkes |
08:00 |
Bus pick up from Coachman and Station motels |
08:45-09:00 |
Introduction |
Simon Johnston |
N/A |
09:00-09:30 |
J.L. Pawsey and the Giant Radio Telescope |
Miller Goss |
PDF |
R.N. |
09:30-10:00 |
The planning and construction of the Parkes dish |
Peter Robertson |
PDF |
10:00-10:30 |
The First Observations with the GRT at Parkes |
Marcus Price |
N/A |
10:30-11:00 |
Morning Tea |
11:00-11:30 |
Early Parkes Observations of Mercury, Mars, Other Planets and Cosmic Sources |
Ken Kellermann |
PDF |
11:30-12:00 |
Pulsars at Parkes |
Dick Manchester |
PDF |
12:00-12:30 |
The Parkes Continuum Surveys |
Carole Jackson (for Jasper Wall) |
PDF |
12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
13:30-14:00 |
Parkes-Tidbinbilla Interferometer: From masers to quasars |
Ray Norris |
PDF |
S.J. |
14:00-14:30 |
The first search for glycine and other biomolecules |
John Storey |
PDF |
14:30-15:00 |
50 Years of Parkes Receiver Instrumentation |
Mal Sinclair |
PDF |
15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
15:30-15:55 |
A portrait of the inaugural director, John Bolton |
Peter Robertson |
N/A |
15:55-16:30 |
Science with Parkes from the John Bolton era to the Australia Telescope National Facility |
Ron Ekers |
PDF |
16:30-17:00 |
Dishing up the Data |
John Sarkissian |
PDF |
17:00-19:30 |
50th Anniversary Event - A Special Celebration (in Marquee adjacent to the visitors centre) |
20:30 |
Bus departure from Telescope |
Tuesday 01st November - Star Formation and Masers |
08:45 |
Bus pick up from Coachman and Station motels |
09:30-10:00 |
Understanding our Galaxy - key contributions from the Parkes telescope |
James Caswell |
PDF |
J.R. |
10:00-10:30 |
An Evolutionary Timeline for High-Mass Star Formation |
Simon Ellingsen |
PDF |
10:30-11:00 |
High mass star formation and masers |
Andrew Walsh |
PDF |
11:00-11:30 |
Morning Tea |
11:30-12:00 |
The Methanol Multibeam Survey |
Jimi Green |
PDF |
12:00-12:30 |
Molecular cloud studies with Parkes |
Tyler Bourke |
PDF |
12:30-13:00 |
CARPARCS - Carina Parkes-ATCA Radio Continuum Survey |
Kate Brooks |
PDF |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:30 |
Circumstellar masers in the Magellanic Clouds |
Jacco van Loon |
PDF |
B.K. |
14:30-15:00 |
Measuring H_0 and Weighing Supermassive Black Holes with Water Megamasers |
Jim Braatz |
PDF |
15:00-15:30 |
OH maser studies of evolved stars |
Jessica Chapman |
PDF |
15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00-16:30 |
Parkes, the AAT and the UKST |
Russell Cannon |
PDF |
16:30-17:00 |
Looking for Dark Galaxies at many wavelengths |
Mike Disney |
PDF |
17:00-17:30 |
A Parkes Legacy: the PMN survey and its high-resolution sequel |
David McConnell |
PDF |
17:40 |
Bus departure from Telescope |
18:30-19:30 |
Civic Reception at Parkes Shire Council (2 Cecile Street, Parkes NSW 2870) |
Wednesday 02nd November - Pulsars and Polarimetry |
08:45 |
Bus pick up from Coachman and Station motels |
09:30-10:00 |
Millisecond Pulsar Hunting with the Parkes 64m radio telescope |
Matthew Bailes |
PDF |
R.B. |
10:00-10:30 |
Globular clusters, supernova remnants, and magnetars: Parkes pulsar discoveries in (mostly) directed searches |
Fernando Camilo |
PDF |
10:30-11:00 |
The High Time Resolution Universe - Science highlights from the ongoing pulsar survey at Parkes |
Michael Keith |
PDF |
11:00-11:30 |
Morning Tea |
11:30-12:00 |
Pulsars at radio and gamma-ray wavelengths |
Simon Johnston |
PDF |
12:00-12:30 |
The Double Pulsar System in its 8th anniversary |
Marta Burgay |
PDF |
12:30-13:00 |
The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project |
George Hobbs |
PDF |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:25 |
Eighteen Years of Timing the Erratic Binary Pulsar B1259-63: Evidence for Spin-Orbit Coupling |
Ryan Shannon |
PDF |
N.M. |
14:25-14:50 |
The variable nature of the radio magnetar PSR J1622-4950 |
Lina Levin |
PDF |
14:50-15:10 |
Pulsar Polarimetry: A Key to Understanding Gamma-ray Emission |
Matthew Kerr |
PDF |
15:10-15:30 |
Gamma-ray pulsars: spin-down vs gamma-ray luminosity and the distance problem |
Peter den Hartog |
PDF |
15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00-16:30 |
Centaurus A at 20cm |
Ilana Feain |
PDF |
16:30-17:00 |
Spectro-polarimetric observations of the giant lobes of Centaurus A |
Shane O'Sullivan |
PDF |
17:00-17:30 |
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science |
Phil Diamond |
|
17:40 |
Bus departure from Telescope |
Thursday 03rd November - HI Science (Galactic and extragalactic) |
08:45 |
Bus pick up from Coachman and Station motels |
09:30-10:00 |
Understanding Atomic Hydrogen in the Milky Way with Parkes |
Naomi McClure-Griffiths |
PDF |
P.E. |
10:00-10:30 |
Galactic supershells and GSH 006-15+7 |
Vanessa Moss |
PDF |
10:30-11:00 |
HI in the Magellanic Clouds, Looking Back and Looking Ahead |
John Dickey |
PDF |
11:00-11:30 |
Morning Tea |
11:30-12:00 |
The Diffuse Polarized Emission from the Milky Way |
Tom Landecker |
PDF |
12:00-12:30 |
S-PASS and polarized CMB foregrounds |
Ettore Carretti |
PDF |
12:30-13:00 |
The Parkes 300-900 MHz Rotation Measure Survey |
Maik Wolleben |
PDF |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:30 |
Nearby Galaxies |
Baerbel Koribalski |
PDF |
M.P. |
14:30-15:00 |
The rise of multibeam astronomy |
Lister Staveley-Smith |
PDF |
15:00-15:30 |
HIPASS: Surveying the Extragalactic HI Universe |
Martin Meyer |
|
15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
16:00-16:30 |
Gravitational lensing of HI galaxies: a new probe of dark matter |
Rachel Webster |
|
16:30-17:00 |
Neutrino astronomy with Parkes |
Justin Bray |
PDF |
17:15 |
Bus departure from Telescope |
18:30 |
Conference Dinner at the Coachman Motel (Welcome Street, Parkes NSW 2870) |
Friday 04th November - VLBI, Instrumentation and the Future |
08:45 |
Bus pick up from Coachman and Station motels |
09:30-10:15 |
Parkes and the Coming of Age of Australian VLBI |
Dave Jauncey |
PDF |
D.M. |
10:15-11:00 |
Parkes: the Fulcrum of Southern Hemisphere VLBI |
John Reynolds |
PDF |
11:00-11:30 |
Morning Tea |
11:30-12:00 |
50 years in 15 mins |
Phil Edwards |
PDF |
12:00-12:30 |
PAFs for Parkes |
Robert Braun |
PDF |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch and finish |
14:00 |
Bus departure from Telescope |
Session Chairs: S.J. - Simon Johnston; J.R. - Jill Rathborne; N.M. - Naomi McClure-Griffiths; B.K. - Baerbel Koribalski; R.B. - Robert Braun; P.E. - Phil Edwards; R.N. - Ray Norris; D.M. - Dave McConnell; M.P. - Marcus Price.