CASS/ATNF Student Symposium 2011
Sydney, 27th June 2011
Introduction
The annual CASS/ATNF student symposium will be held on the
27th of June at the CASS/ATNF Headquarters, Sydney.
This event is a forum for CASS/ATNF postgraduate students to present their
research to fellow students and staff, all of whom are welcome to attend.
It is
expected by CASS/ATNF that
students will attend, and preferably give a presentation about their work.
These are not formal talks: their purpose is for students to gain experience
at public speaking, and to provide staff the opportunity to see some of the
excellent research they are undertaking. Students also frequently find that
the feedback from these symposia is useful for their research.
Interstate students are particularly encouraged to present their work and
teleconference facilities will be available for those that cannot attend
in person.
There will be
prizes for the best talks!
Format
There are a number of ways in which a student may choose to present their
work:
- Talk.
Students are strongly encouraged to
give a short talk (12 minutes, plus 3 mins of questions) about their research.
This may be:
- an introduction and description of your thesis topic (for
first-year students);
- a summary of the results you have obtained thus far in your research;
- an in-depth description of a particularly interesting result; or
- a description of an interesting problem you have encountered.
Feel free to finish your talk early, and ask the audience to
speculate about possible solutions.
- Poster.
Posters will be displayed
outside the auditorium. We recommend also giving a sparkler session,
to briefly describe your research to the audience and encourage them to
come and see your poster.
- Sparkler session.
If you wish to talk
about some interesting piece of science, possibly unrelated to your
main project, prepare a single slide and spend a few minutes explaining
it in a sparkler session. You may do this in addition to a full-length
talk.
Facilities
The symposium will take place in the lecture theatre at
CASS/ATNF's Marsfield
headquarters in Sydney. Presenters are recommended to prepare
presentations in either PDF or PowerPoint format, and bring them on a
USB drive. If you instead choose to show your presentation with your own
laptop, please test it well before your talk.
Catering
Morning tea and lunch will be provided. All attendees are welcome to come
to a symposium dinner afterwards, at a restaurant yet to be selected.
Accommodation
Accommodation is the responsibility of the participant. Some accommodation
has been reserved for interstate CASS/ATNF students in the Marsfield Lodge,
and can be booked via the
online form with
"Student Symposium"
as the reason for your visit. However, there are limited rooms available,
and they will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Further
information regarding accommodation bookings for the Marsfield Lodge can be
obtained from
Vicki Drazenovic.
Student accommodation is also available at the residential colleges of the
nearby Macquarie University: Dunmore Lang College and
Robert Menzies College.
Registration
Students presenting at the symposium are asked to register by the
20th of June 2011, via the
web form.
Other attendees are asked to register
here for catering purposes.
A list of current registrants is available
here.
Further
inquiries:
- Justin Bray (justin.bray@adelaide.edu.au)
- Vanessa Moss (vmoss@physics.usyd.edu.au)
- Kitty Lo (k.lo@physics.usyd.edu.au)
Print out a copy of the
poster and put it up at your institution to promote the
symposium!
