Important Information
The ATUC Open Session will be in person at the Lecture Theatre at CSIRO, Marsfield (Sydney), NSW. Online attendees will be able to join via Teams.
- To participate in the ATUC Open Session, please register, in advance. The registration deadline is 17:00 AWST on 12 September 2025.
- 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.
- If you, as a user (or potential user) of the ATNF, are aware of any issues that need to be raised at the next ATUC meeting, or would like to offer feedback on ATNF activities and facilities, you can do so via the ATUC Community Submission Form or by contacting any member of ATUC.
Agenda
16 September – ATUC Open session: 11:00 – 16:20 AEST (09:00 – 14:20 AWST)
10:00 – 10:30 | S&A Director’s Morning Tea (in-person only) | |
Session 1: High level overview | Chair: Andrew Zic | |
11:00 – 11:10 | ATUC Chair’s Welcome | Stanislav Shabala |
11:10 – 11:30 | ATNF Director’s Update | Douglas Bock |
11:30 – 11:40 | Status update on the ATNF and current projects | George Hobbs |
11:40 – 11:45 | Towards an Australian radio transients network | James Miller-Jones |
11:45 – 11:55 | ASKAP: status update and planning for survey completion | Cath Trott |
11:55 – 12:15 | Catch up time/discussion/Q&A | |
Session 2: Science and technology direction | Chair: Barnali Das | |
12:15 – 12:25 | ATCA facility access and BIGCAT timeline/update | Elizabeth Mahony |
12:25 – 12:35 | Murriyang and CryoPAF update/timeline | Shi Dai |
12:35 – 12:45 | ASKAP software and firmware update | Stephen Ord |
12:45 – 12:50 | The ASKAP PAF Upgrade | Alex Dunning |
12:50 – 13:00 | Catch up time/discussion/Q&A | |
13:00 – 13:45 | Lunch East Coast / Break West Coast | |
Session 3: Getting the most from our data | Chair: Agastya Kapur | |
13:45 – 13:55 | Our backend systems for Murriyang, ATCA, and ASKAP | John Tuthill |
13:55 – 14:05 | Towards operational real-time RFI mitigation | Tommy Marshman |
14:05 – 14:15 | Reprocessing EMU and other ASKAP data with FLINT | Tim Galvin |
14:15 – 14:25 | An update on data archiving and data access | Lawrence Toomey |
14:25 – 14:35 | Spectrum management update | Balthasar Indermuehle |
14:35 – 14:40 | Catch up time/discussion/Q&A | |
14:40 – 15:30 | Break East Coast / Lunch West Coast | |
Session 4: From now, to the future | Chair: Jishnu Thekkeppattu | |
15:30 – 15:35 | A low energy beamformer and its potential use for the ATNF | Paul Roberts |
15:35 – 15:40 | A nexus of surveys | Emily Kerrison |
15:40 – 15:50 | VLBI with ASKAP: practical considerations and science cases | Kelly Gourdji |
15:50 – 16:00 | LOTRUN and CRACO as part of the National Facility | Andrew Zic |
16:00 – 16:10 | Student Committee update | Rob Hollow |
16:10 – 16:20 | Catch up time/discussion/Q&A |