Important notice
The Science and Technology Day and the Open Session will be hybrid meetings, using Webex for presentations and Gather for discussions. Some ATUC members will gather in person in Marsfield.
- To participate, please register, in advance. The registration deadline is 17:00 AWST on 31st October 2022.
- You should be able to join with your web browser, but you may find using the Webex app provides a better experience.
- In order to facilitate Q&A sessions during the meeting, please indicate your desire to ask a question by posting a message in the Webex chat, or use the ‘raise hand’ feature. The session chair will invite you to ask your question in due course.
Agenda
All times in AEDT (UTC+11).
8 November, Science and Technology Day, 11:00 – 17:30, Join via Webex
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Welcome, overview of meeting, goals | Ramesh Bhat (ATUC Chair) |
| Focus area: Time domain, fast timescales, and multi-messenger | ||
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| 11:15 – 11:30 | Invited overview: science drivers and technology developments | Laura Driessen & Keith Bannister |
| 11:30 – 11:40 | Transient science with the ATCA rapid-response mode | Gemma Anderson |
| 11:40 – 11:50 | Fast radio bursts possibilities for ASKAP and beyond | Ryan Shannon |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | Cherenkov Telescope Array and linkages to ATNF | Gavin Rowell |
| 12:00 – 12:10 | Masers with ATNF instruments | Max Voronkov |
| 12:10 – 12:15 | Move to separate locations and/or connect to Gather | |
| 12:15 – 12:20 | Sparkler talks Laura Driessen, “More stars with more RACS” Clancy W. James, “Increasing the range of FRBs probed by ASKAP” Natasha Hurley-Walker, “Ultra-long period transients” | |
| 12:20 – 12:45 | Breakout discussions | |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | Lunch (east) and tea break (west) | |
| Focus area: Widefield surveys / Large field-of-view | ||
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Invited overview: science drivers and technology developments | Ivy Wong & Alex Dunning |
| 13:30 – 13:40 | The Evolutionary Map of the Universe | Andrew Hopkins |
| 13:40 – 13:50 | Machine Learning Methods for Radio Galaxy Classifications | Nikhel Gupta |
| 13:50 – 14:00 | ASKAP in the era of SKA | Lister Staveley-Smith |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | ATCA Infrastructure Upgrade 35 | Tim Wilson |
| 14:10 – 14:20 | Xenosmilus – the evolution of BIGCAT | Chris Phillips |
| 14:20 – 14:25 | Move to separate locations and/or connect to Gather | |
| 14:25 – 14:35 | Sparkler talks Ray Norris, “Odd Radio Circles: the latest news” Qingxiang Chen, “Cubelet Stacking – A New Way of 21cm Stacking” Rami Alsaberi, “ATCA Study of Small Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2–729” Arash Bahramian, “Reaching SKA image depth with the Australia Telescope Compact Array” | |
| 14:35 – 15:00 | Breakout discussions | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Lunch (west) and tea break (east) | |
| Focus area: Cross-disciplinary applications and extra-ATNF synergies | ||
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Invited overview: science drivers and technology developments | Mark Cheung & Stephanie Smith |
| 15:45 – 15:55 | Highlights from the AusSRC Design Study Program | Karen Lee-Waddell |
| 15:55 – 16:05 | Radio astronomy as a catalyst for new Australian industries | James Murray |
| 16:05 – 16:15 | Tracking Space Weather events with ASKAP and Parkes | John Morgan |
| 16:15 – 16:25 | Extended Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Radar Program | Shinji Horiuchi |
| 16:25 – 16:30 | Move to separate locations and/or connect to Gather | |
| 16:30 – 16:35 | Sparkler talks Oleg Titov, “K-band VLBI observations at East Asia VLBI network (EAVN)” Vanessa Moss, “The role of automation and autonomy in current and next-generation ATNF facilities” | |
| 16:35 – 17:00 | Breakout discussions | |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Open discussion | |
| 17:30 | Meeting close | Ramesh Bhat (ATUC Chair) |
9 November, Closed session, 10:00 – 11:00
9 November, Open Session, 11:30 – 16:30, Join via Webex
| 11:30 – 11:35 | Chair’s Introduction | Ramesh Bhat |
| 11:35 – 11:45 | ATNF Director’s Update | Douglas Bock |
| 11:45 – 11:55 | New MRO name | Kirsten Fredericksen |
| 11:55 – 12:05 | D&I update | Eleanor Ingram |
| 12:05 – 12:15 | Learning and radio schools | George Hobbs and Phil Edwards |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Open discussion | |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Lunch (east) or tea break (west) | |
| 13:00 – 13:10 | Summary of Science and Technology Day | Laura Driessen |
| 13:10 – 13:35 | Project updates BIGCAT (10 min) CryoPAF (10 min) CRACO (5 min) | Elizabeth Mahony Simon Johnston Keith Bannister |
| 13:35 – 13:50 | Observatory updates ATCA (5 min) Parkes/Murriyang (5 min) LBA (5 min) | Jamie Stevens Stacy Mader Cormac Reynolds |
| 13:50 – 14:00 | ASKAP update | Aidan Hotan and Stefan Duchesne |
| 14:00 – 14:05 | TAC updates | Adam Deller |
| 14:05 – 14:15 | National Facility support model | Jo Dawson |
| 14:15 – 14:25 | Observer training for ATCA and Parkes/Murriyang | Vanessa Moss and John Sarkissian |
| 14:25 – 14:30 | Move to separate locations and/or connect to Gather | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Breakout discussions | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Lunch (west) or tea break (east) | |
| 15:30 – 15:40 | Data and archives | Minh Huynh |
| 15:40 – 15:50 | ATNF Science updates | Ivy Wong and Vivek Gupta |
| 15:50 – 16:00 | ATNF Science Retreat outcomes | Matthew Whiting |
| 16:00 – 16:05 | ATNF of the Future | George Heald |
| 16:05 – 16:25 | Open Discussion | |
| 16:25 – 16:30 | Meeting close | Ramesh Bhat |