Congratulations to Vikram

September 5, 2016

by George Hobbs (CASS) CSIRO’s blog recently presented an article about Dr Vikram Ravi. Vikram was a co-supervised student at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) with Stuart Wyithe (Melbourne […]

Congratulations to Lisa !

September 2, 2016

by Helen Sim (CASS) On Wednesday evening CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science’s Lisa Harvey-Smith was awarded this year’s Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Eureka Prize for the Promoting Understanding […]

ATNF Colloquium – SKA: progress towards construction

September 1, 2016

by Phil Diamond (SKA Office) Abstract. I will discuss recent happenings across the global SKA project, provide an update on the design activities and discuss plans for the transition to […]

ATNF Colloquium – A Night on SOFIA

August 31, 2016

by Stuart Ryder (AAO) Abstract. Earlier this year I had the rare opportunity to fly on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a Boeing 747 with a 2.5m telescope […]

Tribute to Bruce Slee

August 30, 2016

by Ron Ekers (CASS) In 1978 Bruce Slee was the first to investigate the diffuse radio sources in galaxy clusters. These are now known as the “relic radio sources” and […]

Tribute to Bruce Slee

August 29, 2016

by Ron Ekers (CASS) Here is a picture of Bruce Slee observing in the old control room of the 64-m Parkes Telescope in 1988.

Tribute to Bruce Slee

August 26, 2016

by Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney University) The first demonstration of radio interferometry in astronomy came from “sea interferometry” by Bolton and Slee in 1947 at Dover Heights. The Yagi antenna looks […]

Tribute to Bruce Slee

August 25, 2016

by John Reynolds (CASS) Left: The original Mills Cross built in the 1950s on the outskirts of Sydney produced the ground-breaking MSH (Mills, Slee & Hill 1958 , 1960 , […]

ATNF Colloquium – Globular clusters and halo assembly

August 24, 2016

by Sarah Martell (UNSW) Abstract. Hierarchical accretion models for galaxy formation predict that the majority of stars in the halo of a spiral galaxy should have formed within dwarf galaxies […]

Tribute to Bruce Slee

August 23, 2016

In remembrance of Bruce Slee, who recently passed away, we show a few moments in his life. Bruce Slee was a dedicated and very productive scientist, a pioneer of radio […]

Welcome to Gulay Gurkan Uygun

August 22, 2016

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Dr Gulay Gurkan Uygun who joins the Astro Group as an OCE post-doctoral fellow, specialising in low-frequency radio astronomy and AGN. Gulay is […]

Farewell to Paolo Serra

August 19, 2016

All the best to Paolo Serra who has been with CASS for three years, working on ASKAP commissioning and science as a key member of ACES and WALLABY, studying galaxies […]