The Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (C3DIS), 2018 was held from 28-31 May at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. C3DIS aims to build a national community of practice of scientists, researchers, and computing, data and information management specialists from publicly funded Australian research organisations. These all share a common interest: the production of breakthrough science outcomes that require large scale, complex computations and analyses to be carried out over massive data sets.

As part of the conference the PULSE@Parkes team gave a demonstration of this program, that provides high school students the opportunity to control the Parkes radio telescope under the guidance of professional astronomers. (Picture credit: Rob Hollow)