Federation Fellowship Symposium 2004 Program

22-23 November 2004
Duffield Lecture Theatre (Mt. Stromlo)

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Monday 22 Nov
Time Speaker Title
09:30-10:00 Registration & Coffee
10:00-10:10 Geoff Bicknell Opening remarks
Star Formation & Galaxy Evolution (Chair: Geoff Bicknell)
10:10-11:10 M. Dopita (RSAA, ANU) Theoretical Modelling of the UV-Radio SED of Starburst Galaxies
11:10-11:40 J. Bland-Hawthorn (AAO) The Solar Family: where are the stars that were born with the Sun?
11:40-12:10 B. Gibson (Swinburne) Building a Universe Byte-by-Byte
12:10-13:10 Lunch break
Active Galaxies (Chair: Tony Wong)
13:10-13:30 P. Francis (RSAA) Do Quasars Destroy Near-by Galaxies?
13:30-14:00 R. Sutherland (RSAA) Observational Consequences of Blackhole Driven Jet Outbursts in FRII Class Radio Sources
14:00-14:30 G. Bicknell (RSAA) Magnetized Accretion Disks
14:30-15:00 K. Bekki (UNSW) Starburst-AGN connection in forming early-type galaxies
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
Gas & Star Formation (Chair: Lister Staveley-Smith)
15:30-16:30 R. Ekers (ATNF) Radio Continuum - Far Infrared - CO correlation in galaxies
16:30-17:00 I. Klamer (U. Syd & ATNF) High redshift molecular gas: where does it come from and what can it tell us?
17:00-17:30 T. Wong (ATNF & UNSW) The FIR-Radio Correlation in the LMC
19:00- Conference Dinner (University House, ANU main campus)

Tuesday 23 Nov
Time Speaker Title
Pulsars & Gravity Waves (Chair: George Hobbs)
09:30-10:30 R. Manchester (ATNF) A Millisecond Pulsar Timing Array
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 D. McClelland (ANU) Laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors
11:30-12:00 Y. Levin (CITA) Doing astrophysics with gravitational waves
12:00-12:30 J. Weisberg (Carleton) General Relativistic phenomena in the first binary pulsar B1913+16: An update
12:30-13:00 R. Edwards (ATNF) Pulsars and Terrestrial Time Standards
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
AGN & Galaxy Formation (Chair: Ralph Sutherland)
14:00-14:30 A. Graham (RSAA) Galaxy assembly through major mergers: insight from the damage caused by coalescing supermassive black holes
14:30-15:00 R. Soria (Harvard CfA) Intermediate-mass black holes in late-type disk galaxies
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
Panel Discussion (Moderator: Rachel Webster)
15:30-16:30 Federation Fellows et al. Discussion on future of Australian astronomy

Last update 26 Nov 2004