Important notice

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

  • 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.
  • Presenters who will be in-person are indicated with [I], and online presenters are indicated with [O].

Agenda

All times in AWST (UTC+8).

28 October, ATUC Closed Session, 08:30-9:00 AWST (11:30-12:00 AEDT)

28 October, Open Session, 9:00-14:30 AWST (12:00-17:30 AEDT), Join via Teams

 Session 1 – Chair: Tessa Vernstrom 
09:00 – 09:10ATUC Chair’s WelcomeStas Shabala [I]
09:10 – 09:30ATNF Director’s UpdateDouglas Bock [I]
09:30 – 09:45Response to ATUC’s recommendationsGeorge Hobbs [I]
09:45 – 10:00Demonstration of the new ATNF websiteShinoo Swapnil [O]
   
10:00 – 10:30Tea Break (west) Lunch (east)  
   
10:30 – 11:00Session 2 – Murriyang updates (ECR Chair: Dilpreet Kaur) 
 
  • Murriyang update (and mentioning the UWM-H)
  • CryoPAF update
  • The pulsar search pipeline
  • Removing RFI from Parkes data
Jane Kaczmarek [I]
Simon Johnston [O]
Shi Dai [I]/Lawrence Toomey [O]
Tommy Marshman [O]
11:00 – 11:10Catch up time/discussion/Q&A 
   
11:10 – 11:40Session 3 – ATCA and LBA updates (ECR Chair: Josh Pritchard) 
 
  • ATCA and LBA update
  • BIGCAT
  • Using BIGCAT to study wideband properties of radio pulses from brown dwarfs
Phil Edwards [I]
Elizabeth Mahony [O]
Barnali Das [I]
11:40 – 11:50Catch up time/discussion/Q&A 
11:50 – 12:00Discussion around future of the ATNF facilitiesGeorge Hobbs [I]
   
12:00 – 13:00Lunch (west) Tea break (east) 
   
13:00 – 13:30Session 4 – ASKAP updates (ECR Chair: Barnali Das) 
 
  • ASKAP update
  • Update from ASKAP Key Capabilities project
  • Pawsey and Setonix update
  • Student view of the guest science project experience

Vanessa Moss [I]
Aidan Hotan [I]
Matthew Whiting [O]
Saurav Mishra [O]

13:30 – 13:40Catch up time/discussion/Q&A 
   
13:40 – 14:10Session 5 – Future projects (ECR Chair: Sanja Lazarevic) 
 
  • Update from the technologies group
  • LAMBDA
  • Cassata and all-sky monitors
  • What next with data and data access?

Mark Bowen [O]
Tessa Vernstrom [O]
Keith Bannister [O]
Minh Huynh [I]

14:10 – 14:20Catch up time/discussion/Q&A 
14:20 – 14:30ASKAP Guest Science Proposal discussionJohn Reynolds

28 October, ATUC Closed session 15:00 – 17:00 AWST

29 October, ATUC Closed session 09:00 – 17:00 AEST