Important Information

The ATCA Science Day, ATUC Open Session and Postgraduate Student Symposium 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 Science Day and ATUC Open Session, please register, in advance. The registration deadline is 17:00 AWST on 28 March 2025. Registration information for the Postgraduate Student Symposium will be sent out shortly.
  • 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

A full agenda will be provided closer to the meeting

8 April – ATCA Science Day: Exploring new opportunities and highlighting ATCA’s unique capabilities in the SKA era

The Australia Telescope Compact Array has been a cornerstone of the Australian radio astronomy landscape for close to 40 years. The BIGCAT upgrade, currently underway, will replace the entire backend of the telescope, doubling the instantaneous bandwidth while also making ATCA more flexible, adaptable and responsive. 

In order for the ATNF to maintain its suite of radio facilities offered to the community, ATCA likely needs to transition to a self-sustaining funding model over the next few years. The focus of this science day is to bring us together to identify additional funding avenues, explore new opportunities for collaborations, and highlight the unique capabilities of ATCA required by the community.

The format for this meeting will include a mixture of talks and discussion sessions. If you would like to present a short (~10min) talk highlighting how ATCA and its unique capabilities can support and advance your science please send a short title and abstract to organisers Elizabeth Mahony (elizabeth.mahony@csiro.au and Josh Pritchard (joshua.pritchard@csiro.au) by Friday March 21. 

9 April – ATUC Open session

10 April – ATUC Closed session

10-11 April – Postgraduate Student Symposium

More information regarding this Syposium will be made available shortly.