About the Symposium
The Bolton Symposium, named after the first director of Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope, John Gatenby Bolton (1922-1993), provides a forum for early-career research (ECR) staff within the Australia Telescope National Facility to showcase their excellent science, find out what colleagues are up to, and to develop and strengthen collaborations.
The Bolton Symposium 2025 will be held on May 20-21, 2025. The symposium will be held in-person at the CSIRO Kensington site, and via Teams for remote/hybrid attendees.
The first day of the symposium will be an open day with science talks from ATNF ECRs, and the second day will hold a closed session dedicated to practical discussions for ECR career development and getting the most out of their time with CSIRO.
Agenda
Science day: 20 May (09:30 – 15:00 AWST / 11:30 – 17:00 AEST)
| Time (AWST) | Title | Presenter | Session chair |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session 1: VLBI Science | |||
| 09:30-09:40 | Welcome | ||
| 09:40-09:55 | John Bolton and his impact on astronomy | Ron Ekers | Andrew Zic |
| 09:55-10:10 | Advancing SETI with VLBI | Dongjin Kim | |
| 10:10-10:25 | VLBI astrometry with OH masers in the Milky Way | Jayender Kumar | |
| 10:25-10:40 | ASKAP VLBI | Kelly Gourdji | |
| 10:40-11:10 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session 2: Pulsars, time-domain, and low-frequency techniques | |||
| 11:10-11:25 | TBD | Dilpreet Kaur | Barnali Das |
| 11:25-11:40 | TBD | Wenhua Ling | |
| 11:40-11:55 | A visibility-based periodicity search technique | Andrew Zic | |
| 11:55-12:10 | Dynamic spectroscopy of polarised radio transients | Josh Preston-Pritchard | |
| 12:10-12:25 | Precision Low-Frequency Radio Sky Brightness Measurement | Luke McKay | |
| 12:25-12:40 | All m-mode transit interferometry with the EDA2 and the MWA | Jaiden Cook | |
| 12:40-13:30 | Lunch | ||
| Session 3: Radio surveys and machine learning | |||
| 13:30-13:45 | Radio surveys from 300 to 1655 MHz | Stefan Duchesne | Kelly Gourdji |
| 13:45-14:00 | What to do with Big Data in Astronomy? | Nikhel Gupta | |
| 14:00-14:15 | TBD | Alec Thompson | |
| 14:15-14:30 | TBD | Li Wang | |
| 14:30-14:45 | Deep learning Very-long Baseline Interferometric Imaging with Closure Invariants | Samuel Lai | |
| 14:45-15:00 | Magnetic hot stars in ASKAP surveys | Barnali Das | |
| 15:00 | Close/afternoon tea |
Postdoc career development (ATNF postdocs only): 21 May (09:30 – 13:00 AWST / 11:30 – 15:00 AEST)
| Time (AWST) | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30-10:00 | How technology can enhance your science | Keith Bannister (ATNF) |
| 10:00-10:15 | ATNF Computing Infrastructure | Shaun Amy (ATNF) |
| 10:15-10:35 | CSIRO High Performance Computing | Steve McMahon (CSIRO IM&T) |
| 10:35-11:05 | Preparing SKA-Low for Science: Commissioning a Next-Generation Low-Frequency Array | Shivani Bhandari (SKAO) |
| 11:05-11:30 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Career Progression | Nick Carter, Jimi Green, Jane Kaczmarek, Nipanjana Patra |
| 12:15-12:35 | The ATNF and You | George Hobbs |
| 12:35 | Lunch/close | |
| Afternoon | Collaboration time + SKAO Tour |
Venue
Venue information
The symposium will be held in the ARRC Auditorium. For visitor access, please sign in at Reception. The Auditorium is immediately on the right after the main entry.