| Schedule |
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| Monday 25th September |
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| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:45 | Introduction to the ATCA and other National Facilities | Jamie Stevens | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy | Ron Ekers | talk |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00-11:45 | Single-dish Telescopes | Jennifer West | talk |
| 11:45-12:30 | Receiver systems | Alex Dunning | talk |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:15 | Signal processing | Max Voronkov | talk |
| 14:15-15:00 | Principles of radio interferometry I | Baerbel Koribalski | talk |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15:30-16:15 | Principles of radio interferometry II | Dave McConnell | talk |
| 16:15-17:00 | Calibration | Helga Denes | talk |
| 17:15 | Bus to Narrabri |
| 18:30 | Dinner at Narrabri Bowling Club |
| Tuesday 26th September |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Radio Astronomy then, now and future | Ron Ekers | talk |
| 9:45-09:55 | VIP's & local staff move into Visitors Centre |
| 9:55-10:20 | 50th Anniversary celebrations for the Solar Heliograph |
| Welcome by Peter Mirtschin |
| Brief site history by Ron Ekers | talk |
| Possible talk by Federal Member for the electorate of Parkes |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea with Birthday cake! |
| 11:00-12:00 | VIP's go on antenna tour |
| 11:00-11:45 | Imaging and deconvolution | Mark Wieringa | talk |
| 11:45-12:30 | Polarimetry I | Bob Sault | talk |
| 12:30-13:15 | Polarimetry II | George Heald | talk |
| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-18:00 | Tutorial Session (Site tour/Observing/Data Reduction) |
| Wednesday 27th September |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Error recognition | Emil Lenc | talk |
| 09:45-10:30 | Wide-field Wide-band Imaging and Image Fidelity | Tim Cornwell | talk |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00-11:45 | HDR imaging | Tim Cornwell | talk |
| 11:45-12:30 | Observing Strategies and the Art of Science Proposals | Shari Breen | talk |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-17:00 | Tutorial Session (Site tour/Observing/Data Reduction) |
| 18:30 | Dinner + Talk - How not to be misled by data | Chaired by Ron Ekers | talk by Maarten de Jong |
| 21:30 | Bus to town |
| Thursday 28th September |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Spectral Lines | Ivy Wong | talk |
| 09:45-10:30 | VLBI | Maria Rioja | talk |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00-11:45 | The missing zero spacing in interferometers | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | talk |
| 11:45-12:30 | Radio Frequency Interference and Mitigation | Aaron Chippendale | talk |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-18:00 | Tutorial Session (Site tour/Observing/Data Reduction) |
| Friday 29st September |
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| 09:00-09:45 | ASKAP PAFs | Aidan Hotan | talk |
| 09:45-10:30 | ALMA | Katie Jameson | talk |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00-11:45 | Radio Transients | Keith Bannister | talk |
| 11:45-12:30 | Astronomy in the SKA era | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | talk |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | End |
| 14:00-17:00 | Optional trip to
Sawn Rocks in Mt. Kaputar National
Park |
