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Monday 6 June - Science Results

Time	Details
08:30 - 09:30	Registration, tea & coffee
09:30 - 09:45	Welcome to Country
09:45 - 10:00	Conference Chair welcome address
10:00 - 11:00	Results presentations (15 minutes each) Antony Schinckel: ASKAP the telescope Helga Denes: HI absorption measurements in the Milky Way Jing Wang: The WALLABY multi-wavelength dataset and pilot studies
11:00 - 11:30	MORNING TEA
11:30 - 13:00	Results presentations (15 minutes each) Sarah Hegarty: Shape-constrained beamforming with ASKAP Vanessa Moss: Connecting radio and X-ray absorption in galaxies with ASKAP Jeroen Stil: Polarisation as a function of angular scale Paolo Serra: Kinematical misalignments in galaxies Evangelia Tremou: CHILES VERDES: A deep radio transient survey Greg Hellbourg: Spatial RFI mitigation for ASKAP
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30	Results presentations (15 minutes each) Danail Obreschkow: The cosmic evolution of angular momentum Isabella Prandoni: Characterising the radio-quiet AGN population with ASKAP Tom Franzen: Constraining episodic jet activity in radio galaxies Ron Ekers: Cosmic ray air showers Karen Lee-Waddell: WALLABY: detection and analysis of tidal features [plus NGC253mom0 map (as .mp4)] Pop-up result
15:30 - 16:00	AFTERNOON TEA
16:00 - 17:00	Results presentations (15 minutes each) Jo Dawson and Andrew Walsh: SPLASH, GASKAP and Galactic OH James Allison: Illuminating neutral gas in the z = 0-1 Universe Elizabeth Mahony: Searching for HI absorption in the brightest southern radio galaxies Pop-up result
17:00	CLOSE

Tuesday 7 June - ASKAP Surveys

Time	Details
09:00 - 09:30	Tea & coffee
09:30 - 10:15	WALLABY: the ASKAP HI All-Sky Survey Tobias Westmeier, Karen Lee-Waddell, Paolo Serra, Baerbel Koribalski, Lister Staveley-Smith
10:10 - 11:00	DINGO: how the HI content of galaxies has changed over cosmic time Martin Meyer and Attila Popping
11:00 - 11:30	MORNING TEA
11:30 - 12:15	Evolutional Map of the Universe: WTF? Ray Norris [*latest EMU Newsletter available now!]
12:15 - 13:00	Polarisation possibilities from the POSSUM posse Bryan Gaensler and Cormac Purcell
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 14:45	ASKAP FLASH: the first large absorption survey in HI Elaine M Sadler and the FLASH team: Sara Ellison, Filippo Maccagni and Marcin Glowacki.
14:45 - 15:30	Paving the road to GASKAP Naomi McClure-Griffiths and Claire Murray
15:30 - 16:00	AFTERNOON TEA
16:00 - 16:45	VLBI: the very high resolution component of ASKAP Chris Phillips and Cormac Reynolds
16:45 - 17:00	Discussion
17:00	CLOSE

Wednesday 8 June - ASKAP Surveys

Time	Details
09:00 - 09:30	Tea & coffee
09:30 - 10:15	VAST: exploring the transient and variable sky with ASKAP Tara Murphy, Shivani Bhandari and Kenta Hotokezaka
10:10 - 11:00	CRAFT reborn Keith Bannister and Jean-Piere Macquart
11:00 - 11:30	MORNING TEA
11:30 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 12:15	Ian Heywood: A pilot multi-epoch continuum survey with ASKAP-BETA
12:15 - 13:00	The MRO and RFI Kate Chow: The MRO, Australia's radio-quiet site: enabling world-class radioastronomy Balthasar Indermuehle: ASKAP's RFI environment as seen through BETA Leonie Boddington: Wajarri Yamatji view of the sky
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 17:00	Breakout meetings 14:00 - 15:00 [Lecture Theatre] LIGO discussion 15:15 - 16:30 [Lecture Theatre] ASKAP / MWA synergies 14:00 - 17:00 [Foundation Room, School of Physics] POSSUM early science proposals
17:00	CLOSE
19:30	Depart King Street Wharf 1 for dinner cruise

Thursday 9 June - Complementary Surveys

Time	Details
09:00 - 09:30	Tea & coffee
09:30 - 10:00	Invited speaker - Andreas Wicenec: Extracting science from massive data sets: experience from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and the Very Large Array (VLA)
10:00 - 10:30	Complementary survey presentations (15 minutes each) Emil Lenc: Synergies in joint MWA-ASKAP polarimetry Nick Seymour: ASKAP synergy with MWA All Sky Surveys
10:30 - 11:00	Invited speaker - Tamara Davis: OzDES, the Australian dark energy survey: synergies with ASKAP surveys
11:00 - 11:30	MORNING TEA
11:30 - 12:00	Complementary survey presentations (15 minutes each) Mark Lacy: The Very Large Array Sky Survey Luca Cortese: The synergy between ASKAP and IFU surveys
12:00 - 12:30	Invited speaker - Simon Driver: The GAMA and WAVES spectroscopic and panchromatic campaigns and their intersect with ASKAP
12:30 - 13:00	Invited speaker - Michelle Cluver: The WISE Survey: Cool, Calm and Collected
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30	Invited speaker - Christian Wolf: SkyMapper and ASKAP - synergies from two large Australian surveys
14:30 - 15:00	Invited speaker - Elisabete da Cunha: Galaxy evolution with ASKAP and ancillary multi-wavelength surveys
15:00 - 15:30	Invited speaker - Tsvi Piran: Radio follow-up of LIGO events
15:30 - 16:00	AFTERNOON TEA
16:00 - 16:30	Invited speaker - Claudia Lagos: Simulations in the radio waves regime for ASKAP
16:30 - 17:00	Complementary survey presentations (15 minutes each) Tessa Vernstrom: The Synchrotron Cosmic Web: What is it and how might we find it? Shea Brown: Detecting the synchrotron cosmic web with ASKAP
17:00	CLOSE

Friday 10 June - Extracting Science From Data

Time	Details
09:00 - 09:30	Tea & coffee
09:30 - 10:00	Invited speaker - Bernd Vollmer: The Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre: What tools are relevant for ASKAP surveys?
10:00 - 11:00	Science from data presentations (15 minutes each) Laura Wolz: Prospects of Intensity Mapping with the SKA and its Pathfinders Barbara Catinella: Galaxy evolution with HI spectral stacking Matt Whiting: The ASKAP science pipelines Discussion time
11:00 - 11:30	MORNING TEA
11:30 - 12:30	Science from data presentations (15 minutes each) Max Voronkov: Why ASKAP needs novel data processing Claire Trenham: Managing multi-PB data: perspectives from Earth systems Francesco Cavallaro: Galactic Plane map: source extraction and characterisation Chiara Ferrari: Spatio-spectral reconstruction of diffuse sources
12:30 - 13:00	Invited speaker - Yeshe Fenner: The All-Sky Virtual Observatory
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30	Invited speaker - Andrew Hopkins: Integrating Anglo-Australian Telescope data into the All-Sky Virtual Observatory
14:30 - 15:30	Invited Workshop - Jessica Chapman: Getting started with CASDA, the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive
15:30 - 15:45	Conference Chair wrap-up
15:45	CLOSE