---

Open Session: Monday, 19th of March

*** Session Begins 10:30 ***

Welcome & Introduction	Anne Green	10min
Director’s Report	Ron Ekers	30min
Opportunities in the Government’s Innovation Statement	Ray Norris	20min
Observatory Reports
ATCA Mopra	Dave McConnell	20min
Parkes	John Reynolds	20min

*** Lunch Break 12:30-13:30 ***

Future Development Plans	John Brooks	20min
SKA Update – first Australian consortium meeting	Ron Ekers	10min
“Methanol Multibeam” – 6GHz MB system for Parkes & Jodrell Bank	Jim Caswell	10min
22GHz MB system for Parkes	Lister Staveley-Smith	10min
Polarimetry with the LBA	Roopesh Ojha	10min
Millimetre Program
Current status and milestones antenna efficiency LO distribution	Mike Kesteven, Mark Leach	10min
Immediate & near-term Science Possibilities	Bärbel Koribalski	10min

*** Tea Break 15:00-15:30 ***

Large Survey Projects — Possibilities 22 GHz explorer: all-sky, fast, 1 baseline 1.4 GHz deep: selected areas, matched to optical surveys 1.4 GHz wide: southern extension of NVSS	Elaine Sadler	20min
Virtual Observatory	Dave McConnell	10min
Next generation spectral line correlator	Ray Norris	10min
Public Outreach Program – new webmaster	Andrew Wright	5min
Sensistivity Calculators for ATCA	Steven Tingay	5min
AIPS++ project status	Neil Killeen	10min

*** Session Ends 17:00 ***

---

Closed Session: Tuesday, 20th of March

starting at 9:30am – ATNF, Lecture Theatre

PRELIMINARY ITEMS

• Apologies
• Matters Arising from Director’s Response
• Additional agenda items

AGENDA ITEMS

1. What is ATUC’s reaction to improvements in availability of accommodation?
2. How effective are our Key Performance Indicators (item 3, previous meeting)
   Do we wish to refine the reporting system?
3. What is the view of ATUC on the level of support provided at Mopra?
4. Is ATUC happy with the steps taken to provide sensitivity calculators and calibrator information?
5. What is ATUC’s view of the concept of an online archive of ATCA data, along the lines of the HST archive? Is there interest in developing such a facility into a Virtual Observatory?
6. With the success of the film “The Dish” and the opening of the new Visitor Centre at Parkes, what is ATUC’s view of guided tours of the Parkes telescope?
7. Science priority for new/revisited proposals (no particular order here):
   • ATCA commitment to large/public survey programmes generally
   • VLBI polarimetry proposal
   • Parkes 6 GHz multibeam system
   • Parkes 22 GHz multibeam system
8. Can the committee make suggestions for new ATUC members?
9. Report to Director

*** Session Ends 17:00 ***