Important notice

The Open Session will be a hybrid meeting, using Teams. Some ATUC members will gather in person in Kensington (Perth), WA.

  • To participate, please register, in advance. The registration deadline is 17:00 AWST on 16th October 2023.
  • In order to facilitate Q&A sessions during the meeting, 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.

Agenda

All times in AWST (UTC+8).

23 October, Open Session, 8:30 – 14:10 (11:30 – 17:10 AEDT), Join via Teams

 Session 1: ATNF People 
8:30 – 8:40ATUC Chair’s WelcomeStas Shabala
8:40 – 8:50ATNF Director’s ReportMark Cheung on behalf of Douglas Bock
8:50 – 9:00D&I UpdateEleanor Ingram
9:00 – 9:10Staff updates and hiring process impactsGreg Dowling
9:10 – 9:20ATNF StudentsGeorge Hobbs
9:20 – 9:30OE UpdateJo Dawson
   
9:30 – 10:30Lunch (east) or tea break (west) 
10:00 – 10:30ATUC Closed Session 
   
 Session 2: ATNF Telescopes 
10:30 – 10:50Parkes/Murriyang and CryoPAFJane Kaczmarek
10:50 – 11:00ATCA and BIGCATJamie Stevens
11:00 – 11:20ASKAP and CRACOVanessa Moss and Keith Bannister
11:20 – 11:30LBAPhil Edwards
11:30 – 12:30Future Developments discussionAidan Hotan and Alex Dunning
 (with engineering and science opening remarks) 
   
12:30 – 13:10Lunch (west) or tea break (east) 
   
 Session 3: ATNF Going Forward 
13:10 – 13:25TAC Update and Longterm ProjectsLiz Mahony
13:25 – 13:40Anonymisation – UNSW study outcomesIsabelle Kingsley
13:40 – 13:50ArchivesMinh Huynh
13:50 – 14:00ATNF of the FutureGeorge Heald
14:00 – 14:10Closing Q&A and wrapupStas Shabala

23 October, Computing discussion and Closed session 15:00-17:00 (TBC)

24 October, Closed session 09:00-17:00 (TBC)