AusSRC Design Study Program – by Karen Lee-Waddell

March 15, 2021

Earlier this month, the Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC) held its first ever full (in-person) team workshop. Although the AusSRC is in a fairly early stage of design and development, […]

International Women’s Day: Ivy Wong

March 12, 2021

Ivy Wong re-joined CASS last year , as a CSIRO Science Leader working on the big data challenges in the SKA era. Her most recent co-authored publication was led by […]

International Women’s Day: Shivani Bhandari

March 11, 2021

It’s hard to believe, but it is three years since Shivani joined CASS as a CSIRO ResearchPlus postdoc. Shivani has contributed to great advances in the field of Fast Radio […]

ATNF Colloquium – Radio Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events

March 10, 2021

Dougal Dobie (Swinburne University of Technology) Abstract: The detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation from a neutron star merger, GW170817, heralded the dawn of a new age of astronomy […]

International Women’s Day: Mary Stahr Carpenter

March 9, 2021

With yesterday marking International Women’s Day, today we recall the work of American astronomer Martha Stahr Carpenter. In her first year of college, Carpenter took an astronomy course given by […]

International Women’s Day: Ruby Payne-Scott

March 8, 2021

We celebrate International Women’s Day by reviewing the career of pioneering radio-astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott . In 1941 Ruby joined the CSIR Division of Radiophysics as a research scientist, working on […]

ATCA and ALMA observations of Hyper Luminous Infrared Galaxies – by Riechers et al.

March 5, 2021

Hyper-luminous infrared galaxies (HyLIRGs) represent the most intensely star-forming galaxies through cosmic history. While rare at any epoch, they are particularly uncommon in the early universe, when structure formation had […]

What we know about FRBs

March 4, 2021

In a recent article for The Conversation , Ryan Shannon (Swinburne) and Keith Bannister (CASS) summarise what we have learnt about Fast Radio Bursts since their discovery in 2007, the […]

ATNF Colloquium – Geometric Intuition and Image-plane Methods for Measuring Closure Phases in Interferometry

March 3, 2021

Nithya Thyagarajan (CASS) Abstract: In interferometric applications, closure phase refers to the phase of the product of spatial coherences obtained around a closed loop of interferometer elements. Its property of […]

Welcome Nikhel Gupta

March 2, 2021

We welcome Nikhel Gupta, who has joined CASS as a Future Science Platform Postdoc at Kensington. In his role at CASS, Nikhel will be developing machine learning techniques to classify […]

Governor of NSW visits Parkes

March 1, 2021

Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, the Governor of New South Wales, visited the Parkes region recently, and included a visit to the CSIRO Parkes Observatory, where she […]