CASS Summer Vacation Program
Summer Vacation Program Events 2011/2012
Please note that there may be changes during the program. This page will be kept up to date with the most recent program of events.
| Date | Time | Venue | Event | Speaker/Leader(s) | Talks |
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| Monday 28 Nov 2011 |
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| 09:30 | Reception/Marsfield Lecture Theatre | Students meet at Reception | |||
| 10:00 | Marsfield Lecture Theatre | Welcome and group overview | Directors | ||
| 10:45 | Marsfield Lecture Theatre | HR Questions | |||
| 11:00 | Outside Marsfield Lecture Theatre | Morning tea with Supervisors | |||
| 11:30 | Marsfield Lecture Theatre | HSE session | |||
| 12:00 | Canteen area | Group and individual photographs | |||
| 12:30 | Canteen | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 | Marsfield Lecture Theatre | Scavenger Hunt Site Tour | tbd | ||
| 15:00 | Discussions with supervisors | supervisors | |||
| 18:00 - Onwards | A nearby restaurant | students, supervisors & others | Shari Breen & Russell Jurek | ||
| Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 | 13:30 - 14:30 | Basement Meeting Room | Introduction to Radio Astronomy | Phil Edwards | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Basement Meeting Room | Introduction to Radio Technologies | Graeme Carrad | TALK | |
| Wednesday 30 Nov 2011 |
15:00 - 15:20 | Basement Meeting Room | Masers! Nothing else matters. | James Green | TALK |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Basement Meeting Room | The multi-phase interstellar medium | Alex Hill | TALK,MOVIE1,MOVIE2 | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Basement Meeting Room | Galaxy evolution in the Nearby Universe | Ivy Wong | TALK | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Basement Meeting Room | Magnetic fields in Active Galactic Nuclei | Shane O'Sullivan | TALK | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Basement Meeting Room | Pulsars | Ryan Shannon | TALK | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Basement Meeting Room | Unveiling the high-frequency radio source population | Elizabeth Mahoney | ||
| Thursday 8 Dec 2011 |
9:00-10:00 | Basement Meeting Room | Introduction to Interferometry | Baerbel Koribalski | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Basement Meeting Room | Introduction to the ATCA | Phil Edwards | ||
Thursday 15 Dec 2011 |
10:00 - 11:00 |
Basement Meeting Room | Observing Trip planning meeting | Shari Breen | |
| Friday 16 Dec 2011 |
Site Christmas party | ||||
| Saturday 24 Dec 2011 to Tuesday 2 Jan 2012 |
(tbc) | - | Christmas Holidays/Site Shutdown | - | |
| Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 |
13:30- 14:30 |
basement Meeting Room | Final briefing for Observing trips | Shari Breen, Russell Jurek | |
| Friday 13 Jan 2012 |
10:30 | Strathfield station | Train departs for Narrabri Students will travel by train |
Observations will be supported by Shari Breen & Russell Jurek |
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| Saturday 14 Jan to Monday 16 Jan 2012 |
Compact Array, Narrabri | Observing trip | Observations will be supported by Shari Breen & Russell Jurek |
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| Tuesday 17 Jan 2012 |
09:20 approx | Narrabri station | Train departure time from Narrabri for return to Sydney |
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| Thursday 19 Jan 2012 |
1:30-3:30 | Marsfield Basement Meeting Room & Narrabri Meeting Room |
Observing trip debrief and Symposium planning | Shari Breen, Russell Jurek & Rob Hollow |
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| Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 |
tbd | tbd | Symposium planning & Talk: Scientific Presentations: Improving your talk |
Russell Jurek Rob Hollow |
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| Thursday 2 Feb 2012 |
13:00- 18:30 |
Macquarie Uni | Big Day In | Rob Hollow |
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| Friday 3 Feb 2012 |
14:30- 18:30 |
Macquarie Uni | Big Day In | Rob Hollow |
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| Wednesday 8 Feb 2012 |
09:00- 15:20 |
Marsfield lecture theatre | CASS/AAO/AusGO Joint Vacation Student Symposium | ||
| Friday 10 Feb 2012 |
Last day of program Please arrange your leaving with your supervisor |
Students |