CASS/AAO Summer Vacation Student Symposium

Wednesday 8 February 2012

Marsfield Lecture Theatre, 9.00 am to 3.20 pm

Time	Speaker	Topic
09:00		Opening of the Symposium
	Chair: Lewis Freeland	Session 1
09:05	Joe Callingham	The Characterisation of the Mesospheric Sodium Layer Above Cerro Tololo
09:25	Ayna Musaeva	Image Quality and Environment Study using the Gemini Engineering Archive data
09:45	Observing Group Project: Philip Gregory, Camille Nicodemus, Suryashree Aniyan	tba
10:00	Philip Gregory	Microwave conversion system for next generation radio telescopes
10:15	Paramjit Das	Building the world's larget collecton of pulsar "fingerprints"
10:30	Suryashree Aniyan	Hunting the most massive black holes
10:45- 11:05	Coffee break outside Lecture Theatre
	Chair: Philip Gregory	Session 2
11.:05	Doug Compton	Mapping interstellar molecular clouds with the largest steerable radio telescope in the southern hemisphere
11:20	Jendi Kepple	Modeling of ring resonators for astronomy
11:35	Janette Suherli	Big and bigger: Comparing the mass of brightest cluster of galaxies at low and high redshifts
11:50	John Lopez	Searching for new Solar System Objects
12:05	Observing Trip Project: John Lopez, Paramjit Das, Lewis Freeland	Observing 47 Tucanae using CABB
12:20	Claire-Elise Green	Magnetic fields and their role in galaxy formation and evolution
12:35 13:30	LUNCH (not provided)
	Chair: John Lopez	Session 3
13:30	Adam Stevens	Abundance Gradients of Nearby Spirals
13:45	Andrew Dicker	Molecular environment of low-mass star formation
14:00	Lewis Freeland	Brewing great science with MALT90
14:15	Alex Bennet	Development of the starbugs robotic positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope
14:30	Observing Trip Project: Claire-Elise Green, Andrew Dicker, Doug Compton	tba
14:45	Nathanael Lampe	Presentation and school group program development for astronomy outreach
15:00	Camille Nicodemus	Monitor system GUI for engineers
15:15	CASS & AAO Summer Students	Wrap Up and Reflections
15:20	CLOSE

VIDEO CONFERENCE DETAILS**

** Please note that the video conference facilities are only available after 9.45am as prior to that we are reserving use for the Gemini students to call in and give their presentations.

Meeting ID: 0006
Meeting Password:
Audio Phone Number: 0262766622 (for audio only callers)
Video Number: 1020006 (for video conference callers)

TEST YOUR BROWSER BEFORE YOU ATTEND YOUR FIRST WEB CONFERENCE

Visit https://meet.csiro.au/mpweb/Scripts/browsertestupper.asp to test your web browser for compatibility with the web conference.

TO ATTEND THE WEB CONFERENCE AND THEN JOIN WITH AUDIO (FOR CSIRO PERSONNEL LOGGED ONTO THE CSIRO NETWORK):

1. Go to:
   https://meetingplace.csiro.au/a/bc964e6366ab142456bf4ad918e9fbc7
2. If requested, sign in with your NEXUS username and password and wait for the Meeting Console to initialise
3. Click on the phone icon located in the top right hand corner of the Meeting Console (the window with the red door icon)
4. Click on "Connect Me" and enter your phone number (including area code and no spaces)
5. Click on "Connect Me" again and MeetingPlace will now call you - so ensure your phone isnt engaged or diverted.
6. Follow the voice prompts on the phone. If asked to use the Pound Key, use "#"

Audio Phone Number: 0262766622 (for audio only callers)
Video Number: 1020005 (for video conference callers)

For further information on how to join this MeetingPlace meeting

For more information about Cisco MeetingPlace including Meeting Tips and FAQ's, please visit the CSIRO Meetingplace homepage at http://www.csiro.au/intranet/imt/it/comms/CollaborationTools/MeetingPlace.html
or for more detailed information please visit the User Help at https://meet.csiro.au/mpweb/html/help/000/pophelp.html

TO ATTEND THE WEB CONFERENCE AND THEN JOIN WITH AUDIO (FOR PERSONNEL EXTERNAL TO THE CSIRO NETWORK):

1. Go to:
   Go to: https://meetingplace.csiro.au/a/bc964e6366ab142456bf4ad918e9fbc7
2. Launch the MeetingPlace console by entering your name in the My name Is field and press Attend Meeting
3. Dial one of the Audio numbers listed below and follow the prompts to join the meeting (The meeting Id is 0006).
4. When asked to press the pound key, please press the '#' key.