The 2020/21 CASS Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship Student Symposia will be held on two days; Thursday 11 and Thursday 18 February 2021. The event will be accessible online via Webex (details at bottom of page).
Please join us to hear more about the diverse and exciting range of projects undertaken by our Undergraduate Vacation Scholars.
Marsfield: The Lecture Theatre will be used subject to COVID-19 seating restrictions.
Kensington: Auditorium subject to any COVID-19 seating restictions.
| Day One: Thursday 11 February 2021 | |||||
| Time (AEDT) | Session | Speaker | Title | Location | Chair |
| 12.30-12.35 | 1 | Emma Gaschk | |||
| 12.35-12.50 | 1 | Tristan Ward | Australian Bushfires from Satellite Radar | Kensington | |
| 12.50-13.05 | 1 | Brandon Venville | Searching for cold gas in bright radio galaxies | Melbourne | |
| 13.05-13.20 | 1 | Krithi Shivakumar | Bluering Signal Analysis | Marsfield | |
| 13.20-13.35 | 1 | Tina Phan | Developing a friendlier version of the Friendly Virtual Radio Interferometer | Kensington | |
| 13.35-13.50 | Break | ||||
| 13.50-14.05 | 2 | Sophia Ridolfo | Tracing Angular Momentum in the Universe with Radio Galaxies | Kensington | Tristan Ward |
| 14.05-14.20 | 2 | Emma Gaschk | Life on M22? The Breakthrough Listen Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence | Kensington | |
| 14.20-14.35 | 2 | Laura O’Neill | Measuring Performance of a 3D Printed Waveguide Feed Array for a Lens Antenna with Integrated Polarisers | Marsfield | |
| 14.35-14.50 | 2 | Tayla Dahms | Measuring Performance of a 3D Printed Waveguide Feed Array for a Lens Antenna with Integrated Polarisers in CST Studio Suite | Townsville | |
| 14.50-15.05 | Break | ||||
| 15.05-15.20 | 3 | Patrick Chiu | Direction estimation for radio frequency sources using the Australian Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) | Marsfield | Sophia Ridolfo |
| 15.20-15.35 | 3 | Franziska Knappe | Measuring effects of COVID-19 from space | Dutton Park | |
| 15.35-15.50 | 3 | Emi Cashman | Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Radar | Tidbinbilla | |
| 15.50-16.05 | 3 | Gabe Francas | Searching for the structure of magnetic fields in extended AGNs | Kensington | |
| 16.05-16.10 | 3 | Rob Hollow | Wrap Up | Marsfield | |
| Day Two: Thursday 18 February 2021 | |||||
| Time (AEDT) | Session | Speaker | Title | Location | Chair |
| 12.30-12.35 | 4 | Introduction | Gabriella Quattropani | ||
| 12.35-12.50 | 4 | Jonathan Barrett | Csirosat-1 Ground Data Pipeline | Marsfield | |
| 12.50-13.05 | 4 | Clara Morris | Detecting Cosmological Recombination Signals from the Early Universe in the Cosmic Microwave Background | Marsfield | |
| 13.05-13.20 | 4 | Samantha Gordon | RFI Analysis and Mitigation | Marsfield | |
| 13.20-13.35 | 4 | Martin Gossow | Detecting Pulsars in Compact Binary Orbits | Marsfield | |
| 13.35-13.50 | Break | ||||
| 13.50-14.05 | 5 | William Giang | Development of Ground Station Hardware for Satellite Communication | Marsfield | Martin Gossow |
| 14.05-14.20 | 5 | Elise Hardy | Radio Frequency Interference at the Parkes Telescope | ||
| 14.20-14.35 | 5 | Gabriella Quattropani | Catching a Pulsar Switching Off | ||
| 14.35-14.50 | 5 | tbd? | Observing with ATCA | ||
| 14.50-15.00 | Rob Hollow | Program wrap up and review | |||