29th Oct 2012 09:30 -16:45
Marsfield Lecture Theatre, Marsfield
09:30 – 09:35 | Welcome | John Dickey |
09:35 – 09:50 | Psshhh aaahhh sssss push it: the case for high frequency line observations with Parkes | Andrew Walsh (remote) |
09:50 – 10:10 | The diffuse interstellar medum | Alex Hill |
10:10 – 10:25 | Extragalactic HI Surveys | Martin Meyer |
10:25 – 10:40 | The Magellanic System: A Laboratory for Galaxy Interactions | Tobias Westmeier |
10:40 – 11:10 | Discussion of spectroscopic survey requirements and priorities | |
11:10 – 11:30 | Morning Tea | |
11:30 – 11:45 | Pulsar Timing and the PTA gravitational waves search | George Hobbs |
11:45 – 12:00 | Pulsar and Fast Transient Searching with the Parkes telescope | Matthew Bailes |
12:00 – 12:15 | Transients with Parkes: What it’s good at, and how to make it better | Justin Bray |
12:15 – 12:30 | Discussion of broad band receiver and back end specification for high time resolution applications | |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30 – 13:45 | The role of Parkes in Southern Maser VLBI | Simon Ellingsen |
13:45 – 14:00 | VLBI as a probe of AGN physics | Stas Shabala |
14:00 – 14:15 | S/X receiver for Parkes astrometric VLBI program | Loeg Titov |
14:15 – 14:30 | Future polarization observations with the Parkes Telescope | Ettore Caretti |
14:30 -14:45 | Discussion of VLBI and Polarization requirements | |
14:45 – 15:00 | Afternoon Tea | |
15:00 – 15:15 | Receivers and receiver development for the NRAO Green Bank Telescope | FJ Lockman |
15:15 – 16:00 | Discussion of the international context of the Parkes telescope | |
16:00 -16:15 | An Ultra-Broadband Receiver on the Effelsberg Telescope | Michael Kramer (remote) |
16:15 – 16:30 | Discussion of priorities for Parkes future receivers and operations | |
16:30 | Close |