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 |
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| Monday 31st October - History of Parkes |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
