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 9 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 Closed session: 10:15 – 10:45 AEST (08:15 – 08:45 AWST)

All times are AEST	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	Status update on potential ATCA LIEF bid	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: Jishnu Thekkeppattu
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	CASDA update and the long-term viability of our archives	Minh Huynh
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: Agastya Kapur
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

17 September – ATUC Closed session