5 February 2026

Locations

Marsfield: Lecture Theatre

Kensington: Auditorium

Thursday 5 February

Session	Time NSW/ACT	Time SA	Time WA	Speaker	Title	Location
1	11:30- 13:00	11:00- 12:30	08:30- 10:00	Chair: Jackson Hood	Session 1	Marsfield
	11:35	11:05	08:35	Dr Douglas Bock Director S&A	Introduction	Marsfield
	11:45	11:15	08:45	Samhita Sodhi	A blind search for pulsars and transients in BL Galactic Centre surveys	Marsfield
	12:00	11:30	09:00	Rahul Ramachandran	Real-time synthetic traffic generation using FPGAs	Marsfield
	12:15	11:45	09:15	Yoyo Yin	Charting Einstein’s Seas	Marsfield
	12:30	12:00	09:30	Damon Xia	SKA-Low AA0.5 station calibration and imaging	Kensington
	12:45	12:15	09:45	Olivia Anderson	Automatic bandpass classification to identify SKA-Low antenna failure modes	Kensington
					Recording of Session 1 talks
	13:00	12:30	10:00		Lunch (NSW/ACT/SA), Morning tea (WA)
2	13:30- 15:00	13:00- 14:30	10:30- 12:00	Chair: Carmen-Isobel Martinez Harris	Session 2	Kensington
	13:30	13:00	10:30	Aleyna Acar	Studying ongoing maser flaring events in the high-mass star-forming region NGC6334I using Very Long Baseline Interferometry	Marsfield
	13:45	13:15	10:45	Rishika Janarthanan	Role of high temperature superconductive materials in RFI mitigation for radio astronomy receivers	Marsfield
	14:00	13:30	11:00	Jackson Hood	Design and evaluation of a differential L-band Low Noise Amplifier	Marsfield
	14:15	13:45	11:15	Joshua Fan	Using CRACO for fast, automated Interplanetary Scintillation detection and data reduction	Kensington
	14:30	14:00	11:30	Xuan Truong Nguyen	PID-Net (Physics-Informed Dual-Stream Network) for multi-task, multi-horizon tropospheric ducting forecasts	Kensington
	14:45	14:15	11:45	LJ Spriggs	A study of near-Earth asteroid characteristics	Tidbinbilla
					Recording of Session 2 talks
	15:00	14:30	12:00		Afternoon tea (NSW/ACT), Lunch (WA)
3	15:30- 17:05	15:00- 16:35	12:30- 14:05	Chair: Damon Xia	Session 3	Kensington
	15:30	15:00	12:30	Campbell Gregor	Geospatial ML in the cloud: getting from data to training	Adelaide
	15:45	15:15	12:45	Cayley Tonks	The “dish” on my summer vacationship at Murriyang	Marsfield
	16:00	15:30	13:00	Ethan Davidson	Near field simulation of satellite emissions with the SKA-Low	Kensington
	16:15	15:45	13:15	Carmen-Isabel Martinez Harris	Expanding the catalogue of Bent-Tail Radio Galaxies in the Southern Sky Survey: making sense of the galactic alphabet soup	Kensington
	16:30	16:00	13:30	Tahlia Williams	Investigating the HI content of blue early-type galaxies	Kensington
	16:45	16:15	13:45	Jasper Chong	To (visibility) average, or not to (visibility) average	Kensington
	17:00	16:30	14:00	Robert Hollow	Concluding comments	Marsfield
					Recording of Session 3 talks

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