Future directions for Parkes, Tidbinbilla and the LBA

25th May 2010, 10:00-15:30
ATNF Lecture Theatre, Marsfield

While ATNF allocates substantial effort towards the development of ASKAP, we need to ensure the existing observatories remain world class as we move towards the advent of ASKAP and during ASKAP operations. In the first of a series of ATUC science meetings, we welcome your contributions to the “Future Directions for Parkes, Tidbinbilla and the LBA” workshop on Tuesday 25th May. The workshop will include presentations and discussion sessions by both scientists and engineers. We are inviting contributions which focus on exciting new science results from Parkes, Tidbinbilla and the LBA, along with ideas for future directions.

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Program

09:30	10:00	Coffee/Tea
Session 1: Scientific Presentations. Chair: Sarah Maddison
10:00	10:05	Sarah Maddison	Welcome
10:05	10:25	Shinji Horiuchi	Current status, science highlights, and future plan of Tidbinbilla radio astronomy
10:25	10:45	Chris Phillips	Bigger, Faster, Better – What’s News with the LBA – (talk PDF)
10:45	11:05	Simon Ellingsen	Measuring Galactic Structure through Methanol Maser Parallax – (talk PPT)
11:05	11:30	Coffee/Tea
11:30	11:50	Phil Edwards	The Indispensable Role of the Long Baseline Array in the Multiwavelength Age – (talk PPT)
11:50	12:10	Hayley Bignall	First science with the LBA+ASKAP+NZ: structural evolution of the GPS radio galaxy PKS 1934-638 – (talk PPT)
12:10	12:30	Michael Burton	ALMA’s missing band 0: an opportunity for Parkes and Tidbinbilla – (talk PDF)
12:30	13:30	Lunch
13:30	13:45	Ettore Carretti	S-PASS: the Polarized Emission of the Southern Sky – (talk PDF)
13:45	14:05	Shari Breen	Masers as evolutionary tracers of high mass star formation: MMB follow up observations – (talk PPT)
Session 2: Technical Aspects. Chair: Naomi McClure-Griffiths
14:05	14:25	Ettore Carretti	The Parkes Backends – (talk PDF)
14:25	14:45	Lister Staveley-Smith	A Wideband, Multibeam Parkes spectrometer – (talk PDF)
14:45	15:05	Matthew Bailes	The Parkes Single Digital Backend – (talk PPT)
15:05	15:30	Graeme Carrad	An engineer’s view of the proposals / General Discussion

Registration

There is no registration fee for the meeting, but for catering purposes, please email your intention to attend via email to Anne Barends with subject=”ATUC Science Day Attendance”. Morning/afternoon tea and lunch will be provided to all participants.

Speakers

If you wish to present recent results using current facilities or suggest avenues for future operations, please email Stacy Mader. At this stage a limit of two to three presentations per telescope is set aside, so first in… Presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. All speakers should email their contributions to at_meetings@atnf.csiro.au (subject: ATUC-Science-Day May 2010) before the meeting starts. This will allow people from remote locations to access your talk.