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 | Deep learning Very-long Baseline Interferometric Imaging with Closure Invariants | Samuel Lai | 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 | Unlocking the hidden potential of pulsar astronomy | Dilpreet Kaur | Barnali Das |
| 11:25-11:40 | Quantum meets pulsars | 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 | Unveiling the Southern Magnetised Sky with ASKAP | Alec Thomson | |
| 14:15-14:30 | From Cube to Catalogue: End-to-End Source Finding with a 3D Foundation Model | Li Wang | |
| 14:30-14:45 | Magnetic hot stars in ASKAP surveys | Barnali Das | |
| 14:45-15:00 | John Bolton and his impact on astronomy | Ron Ekers | |
| 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 | The ATNF and You | George Hobbs (ATNF) |
| 10:00-10:15 | ATNF Computing Infrastructure | Shaun Amy (ATNF) |
| 10:15-10:35 | CSIRO High Performance Computing | Daniel Collins (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 |
| 12:15-12:45 | How technology can enhance your science | Keith Bannister (ATNF) |
| 12:45 | 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.
Organisers
Barnali Das
Kelly Gourdji
Andrew Zic
Code of Conduct
By attending this event, you agree to comply with the ATNF Events Code of Conduct:
https://www.atnf.csiro.au/code-of-conduct/