ATUC Science Day on Time Domain Astronomy
24th October 2011, 10:00 – 16:35
Marsfield Lecture Theatre, Marsfield

Meeting invitation
Videocon & Audio

10:00 – 10:30	Review of Time Domain Astronomy (invited) (talk)	Ron Ekers
10:30 – 10:45	Design and performance of fast transient detectors (talk, .pdf)	Cathryn Trott
10:45 – 11:10	Searching for fast transients with interferometric arrays (invited) (talk)	Ramesh Bhat
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11:10 – 11:30	Morning Tea
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11:30 – 11:55	Searching for nanosecond-scale lunar pulses (invited) (talk)	Justin Bray
11:55 – 12:10	Results of automatic, high time resoulution GRB follow-up with the Parkes 12 m (talk)	Keith Bannister
12:10 – 12:25	9000 Days of Supernova 1987A(talk)	Giovanna Zanardo
12:25 – 12:40	WVR’s for the Australia Telescope Compact Array (talk)	Balt Indermuehle
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12:40 – 13:30	Lunch (provided)
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13:30 – 13:55	Radio emission from CU Virginis (invited) (talk)	Kitty Lo
13:55 – 14:20	Transient emissions in solar flares (invited) (talk)	Alina Donea
14:20 – 14:45	Resolving the jets of Circinus X-1 with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (invited) (talk)	James Miller-Jones
14:45 – 15:00	Multi-epoch monitoring with the LBA and ATCA (talk)	Phil Edwards
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15:00 – 15:20	Afternoon tea
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15:20 – 15:35	Time Domain Astronomy and Scintillation (talk)	Bill Coles
15:35 – 15:50	Fast interstellar scintillation of quasars, and PKS 1257-326 revisited (talk)	Hayley Bignall
15:50 – 16:05	Variable and transient sources discovered in the High Time Resolution Universe Survey for Pulsars and Fast Transients. (talk)	Michael Keith
16:05 – 16:20	Pulsar timing experiments at Parkes (talk)	George Hobbs
16:20 – 16:35	Advances in Wideband SETI and Implications for Radio Telescope Design (talk)	Ian Morrison
16:35	End

ATUC Open session
25th October 10:00-16:00
Marsfield Lecture Theatre, Marsfield

Videocon & Audio

10:00 – 10:05	Welcome from Chair	Sarah Maddison
10:05 – 10:30	Director’s Report	Phil Diamond
10:30 – 11:00	ATNF Operations	Douglas Bock
11:00 – 11:30	Morning Tea
11:30 – 11:45	Mopra time allocation/ATOA update	Jessica Chapman
11:45 – 12:00	Astrophysics	Simon Johnston
12:00 – 12:30	ASKAP	Ant Schinckel
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:30	Community Forum	Sarah Maddison
14:30 – 14:50	Technologies for Radio Astronomy	Graeme Carrad
14:50 – 15:10	Parkes remote operations	Dave McConnell
15:10 – 15:25	Afternoon Tea
15:25 – 15:50	Parkes instrumentation options	Ettore Caretti
15:50 – 16:00	Parkes broad-band receiver proposal	Dick Manchester
16:00 – 16:10	Next steps in the consultation process	Douglas Bock
16:10 – 16:30	Discussion	Sarah Maddison
16:30	Close

16:30 – 17:00 Closed session, Chief’s Meeting Room