Important Information
The Australia Telescope Users Committee (ATUC) meets regularly to discuss issues that impact users of the ATNF. The next ATUC meeting will be held on 19 and 20 March at the CSIRO offices in Kensington (Perth). This will be preceded by the Postgraduate Student Symposium on 18 March.
ATUC
- The ATUC Open Day on 19 March will be held in the Auditorium at Kensington. Remote attendance will be made available via Teams. All are welcome to attend. To participate in the ATUC Open Day please register in advance, using the link below. The registration deadline is 17:00 AWST on 5 March.
- If you, as a user (or potential user) of the ATNF, are aware of any issues that need to be raised at the next ATUC meeting, or would like to offer feedback on ATNF activities and facilities, you can do so via the ATUC Community Submission Form or by contacting any member of ATUC.
- In order to facilitate Q&A sessions during the ATUC Open Day, if you are attending online, please indicate your desire to ask a question by posting a message in the Teams chat, or use the ‘raise hand’ feature. The session chair will invite you to ask your question in due course.
Postgraduate Student Symposium
- The Postgraduate Student Symposium will be held in hubs at the Auditorium at the CSIRO offices in Kensington (Perth) and the Lecture Theatre at the CSIRO offices in Marsfield (NSW). Remote attendance will be made available via Teams.
- CSIRO Registration for the Postgraduate Student Symposium is also required. Please register using the link below. The registration deadline is 17:00 AWST on 5 March.
Agenda
19 March – ATUC Open Day
| Time (AWST) | Topic | Speaker |
| 08:15-08:45 | ATUC closed session | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Session 1: High level updates | Chair: Andrew Zic |
| 09:00-09:10 | ATUC Chair’s welcome | Stas Shabala |
| 09:10-09:30 | S&A Director’s update | Douglas Bock |
| 09:30-09:45 | ATNF Program update | Celine d’Orgeville |
| 09:45-10:00 | ATNF Futures 2030 | Cath Trott |
| 10:00-10:10 | An Australian Radio Transients Network | James Miller-Jones |
| 10:10-10:30 | Q&A and discussion | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning tea | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 2: Updates on major projects | Chair: Nikhel Gupta |
| 11:00-11:08 | Operations update for the ATNF | Daleen Koch |
| 11:08-11:20 | Technical updates for the ATNF | Phil Edwards |
| 11:20-11:30 | The Murriyang CryoPAF | Aaron Chippendale |
| 11:30-11:40 | ASKAP Survey Science Projects | George Hobbs |
| 11:40-11:50 | The BIGCAT ATCA upgrade: status and first science | Elizabeth Mahony |
| 11:50-11:57 | The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey(s) | Stefan Duchesne |
| 11:57-12:04 | The Low Time Resolution UNiverse Survey | Andrew Zic |
| 12:04-12:11 | Update on LAMBDA | Tessa Vernstrom |
| 12:11-12:21 | ASKAP Key Capabilities Project | Aidan Hotan |
| 12:21-12:30 | Q&A and discussion | |
| 12:30-13:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15-14:00 | Session 3: Making the most of our facilities | Chair: Gemma Anderson |
| 13:15-13:30 | Future technology roadmap | Keith Bannister |
| 13:30-13:40 | Student Committee update | Sparrow Roch |
| 13:40-13:50 | RFI mitigation | Liroy Lourenço |
| 13:50-14:00 | Q&A and discussions + close | |
| 14:30-15:30 | ATUC closed session |
18 March – Postgraduate Student Symposium
| Time (AWST) | Topic | Speaker |
| 09:00-10:15 | Session 1 | Chair: Emily Kerrison (Marsfield) |
| 09:00-09:05 | Welcome & Housekeeping | Beth/Sparrow + Kavya |
| 09:05-09:15 | ATNF Overview | George Hobbs |
| 09:15-09:25 | Space in S&A | Mark Cheung |
| 09:25-09:35 | Timing Noise and Gravitational-wave Searches in the Parkes Young Pulsar Array | Sparrow Roch |
| 09:35-09:45 | Tracing activity and environments in repeating FRBs | Kavya Shaji |
| 09:45-09:55 | From ASKAP J1839-0756 to Beta Centauri – my three-year journey on radio transients | Yu Wing Joshua Lee |
| 09:55-10:05 | A follow-up study of ASKAP J1839-0756 | Natalie Bowesman |
| 10:05-10:15 | A Geometric Model for Long Period Transients | Csanad Horvath |
| 10:15-11:00 | Sydney Lunch/Perth Break | |
| 11:00-12:10 | Session 2 | Chair: Saurav Mishra (Kensington) |
| 11:00-11:10 | The TORCH Survey and A Tale of Two Champagne Flow HII Regions | Beth Cappellazzo |
| 11:10-11:20 | Diffuse radio emission in GAMA galaxy groups using ASKAP data. | Sai Sanjay Wagh |
| 11:20-11:30 | Twinkle twinkle compact AGN: modelling interplanetary scintillation of young radio galaxies | Sophie Young |
| 11:30-11:40 | Measuring EMU-x-EMU magnification using the angular two-point correlation function | Albany Asher |
| 11:40-11:50 | Observation from a different perspective | Andreas Froehlich |
| 11:50-12:00 | Cislunar Space Situational Awareness using the 22m Mopra radio telescope | Tim Bateman |
| 12:00-12:10 | RFI Mitigation by Spatial Filtering at LAMBDA | Jay Smallwood |
| 12:10-12:55 | Perth Lunch/Sydney Break | |
| 12:55-14:15 | Session 3 | Chair: Kavya Shaji (Marsfield) |
| 13:05-13:15 | Simulation-based inference of the cosmic dipole in radio and beyond | Mali Land-Strykowski |
| 13:15-13:25 | Wising up to CatWISE: using simulation-based inference to measure the cosmic dipole | Oliver Oayda |
| 13:25-13:35 | MEDUSA – Magnetic field evolution in dwarf galaxies using SKA Analysis | Sam Taziaux |
| 13:35-13:45 | A multiwavelength study of the most distant gamma-ray detected BL Lacertae object 4FGL J1219.0+3653 | Srijita Hazra |
| 13:45 – 13:50 | Closing | Beth/Sanja/Sparrow |
| 13:50 | Kensington Afternoon Tea/Marsfield Finish |