Programme of events
Programme v6.0 (28/09/11)
| Schedule | Presentations | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 26th September | ||||
| 09:00-09:45 | The History of Parkes | John Sarkissian | Chair: Shari Breen | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Introduction to Radio Astronomy | Dave Jauncey | slides | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | |||
| 11:00-11:45 | Radio Astronomy Fundamentals I | Jim Condon | slides | Chair: Phil Edwards |
| 11:45-12:30 | Radio Astronomy Fundamentals II | Jim Jackson | slides | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30-14:15 | Receiver Technologies | Alex Dunning | slides | Chair: Jimi Green |
| 14:15-15:00 | The Signal Path | John Reynolds | slides | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30-16:15 | Correlators and Backends | Douglas Bock | slides | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Principles of data reduction | Cormac Purcell | slides | |
| 17:00 | Day finish | |||
| Tuesday 27th September | ||||
| 09:00-09:45 | Spectral Line Observations | Simon Ellingsen | slides | Chair: Shari Breen |
| 09:45-10:30 | Continuum Observations | Jim Condon | slides | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | |||
| 11:00-11:45 | Millimetre Observations | Jill Rathborne | slides | Chair: Phil Edwards |
| 11:45-12:30 | Pulsar Observations | Ryan Shannon | slides | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30-15:00 | Tutorials | Various | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30-17:00 | Tutorials | Various | ||
| 17:00 | Day finish | |||
| 18:00 | On-site Dinner at the Dish Cafe and Evening Talk by John Sarkissian | |||
| Wednesday 28th September | ||||
| 09:00-09:45 | Science with Pulsars | George Hobbs | slides | Chair: Jimi Green |
| 09:45-10:30 | Interferometry I | Jamie Stevens | slides | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | |||
| 11:00-11:45 | Interferometry II | Jim Jackson | slides | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Polarisation I | Simon Ellingsen | slides | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30-15:00 | Tutorials | Various | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30-17:00 | Tutorials | Various | ||
| 17:00 | Day finish | |||
| Thursday 29th September | ||||
| 09:00-09:45 | Polarisation II | Shane O’Sullivan | slides | Chair: Ryan Shannon |
| 09:45-10:30 | Very Long Baseline Interferometry | Phil Edwards | slides | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | |||
| 11:00-11:45 | Combining Single dish and Interferometric data | Jo Dawson | slides | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Q and A with the Speakers | Various | ||
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30-15:00 | Tutorials | Various | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 15:30-17:00 | Tutorials | Various | ||
| 17:00 | Day finish | |||
| 18:30 | Dinner at the Leagues Club in Parkes Town | |||
| Friday 30th September | ||||
| 09:00-09:45 | Astronomers IT Toolkit | Malte Marquarding | slides | Chair: Jill Rathborne |
| 09:45-10:00 | TAC process and Proposal Writing | Phil Edwards | slides | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Tea | |||
| 10:30-11:15 | Development of Radio Astronomy | Robert Braun | ||
| 11:15-11:45 | Online Proposals and Data Access | Jessica Chapman | ATOA OPAL | |
| 11:45-12:30 | ASKAP and The SKA | Robert Braun | ||
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch and end of school | |||