Program
The program is as follows:
Innovation and Discovery in Radio Astronomy
13-17th September, Queenstown, NZ.
Final Program
Tuesday September 13th
Venue: Millennium Hotel, Galaxy Ballrooms II and III9:00 Welcome - Melanie Johnston-Hollitt
Session 1: Ron’s Impact part 1
9:10 Innovation and Discovery at the NRAO (30min)Marcus Price
9:40 Ron Ekers: Foundation Director of the ATNF (30min)
Douglas Bock
Session 2: Technical Advances in Radio Astronomy
10:10 The Very Large Array - learning how to do large N radio interferometry (25min)Tim Cornwell
10:35 – Morning Tea
11:00 The Australian SKA Pathfinder and its phased array feeds (25min)
David McConnell
11:25 Advances in Radio Astronomy: Why it’s important to always ask if your assumptions are correct, no matter how many decades they have been in place! (25min)
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt
11:50 Way out there! (Space VLBI) (25min)
Philip Edwards
12:15: Lunch
Session 3: Pulsars, FRBs & Transients
13:30 48 years of science with pulsars (30min)Dick Manchester
14:00 Superposed orthogonally polarized modes of radio pulsar emission ... wait a moment! (25min)
Willem van Straten
14:25 Fast Radio Bursts Discoveries with the UTMOST and SUPERB surveys (30min)
Matthew Bailes
14:55 The origin of FRBs (25min)
Jean-Pierre Macquart
15:20 Afternoon Tea
Session 4: Ron’s Impact part 2
16:00 My Life with Ron (30min)John Brooks
16:30 Meeting logistics. (30min)
17:00 END
Wednesday September 14th
Venue: Millennium Hotel, Galaxy Ballrooms II and IIISession 5: Survey Science
9:00 Survey Science (30min)Lister Staveley-Smith
9:30 AT20G and the high-frequency radio sky (30min)
Elaine Sadler
10:00 Unveiling the high-frequency radio source population (25min)
Elizabeth Mahony
10:25 Morning Tea
11:00 The Planck ATCA Co-eval Observation (PACO) Project: a support to cosmology from the AT20G(25min)
Marcella Massardi
11:25 The AT20G survey: new insights to high frequency radio source properties (25min)
Carole Jackson
11:50 Lessons learned from the AT20G: the importance of innovation, mentoring, and getting it right (25min)
Paul Hancock
12:15 Lunch
13:30 CHILES: The COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey (30min)
Jacqueline van Gorkom
14:00 Diffuse Emission Detected in SPT Clusters (25min)
Cathie Zheng
14:25 Radio Halos and Relics in GLEAM (25min)
Stefan Duchesne
14:50 Illuminating cold gas with the SKA pathfinders: A statistical method for measuring the spin temperature in distant galaxies (25min)
James Allison
15:15 Afternoon Tea
15: 55 WTF? Discovering the Unexpected (25min)
Ray Norris
Session 7: AGN
16:20 Questioning Dogmas – The Unification of Church and Heresy (30min)George Miley
16:50 The indefatigable power-law of radio sources? Ron Ekers curving the trend (25min) Joseph Callingham
17:15 END
Thursday September 15th
Venue: Millennium Hotel, Galaxy Ballrooms II and IIISession 8: Dynamic Universe
9:00 Exploring the dynamic radio sky (30min)Tara Murphy
9:30 Scintillating ideas in the frequency and time domain (25min)
Emil Lenc
9:55 The LUNASKA project: searching for radio pulses from ultra-high-energy particles impacting the Moon (25min)
Justin Bray
10:20 Morning Tea
11:00 Technological Innovation in the search for high energy particles (25min)
Paul Roberts
11:25 Abell 3266 – dynamics of a complex cluster merger (25min)
Siamak Dehghan
11:50 Interstellar Correlations (25min)
Mark Walker
12:15 Lunch
Session 9: History of Science
13:30 Serendipitous Discoveries in Radio AstronomyKenneth Kellermann (30min)
14:00 From the Sun to the Cosmos, Joseph Lade Pawsey, Founder of Australian Radio Astronomy, a biography by Miller Goss, Ron Ekers and Claire Hooker (30min)
Miller Goss
14:30 Passing the baton: Notes on Ron’s PhD supervisor John Bolton (25min)
Peter Robertson
14:55 Epilogue: Parkes, Bolton, and Shaping of Researchers (25min)
Marcus Price
15:20 Afternoon Tea
15:50 John H. Van Vleck’s Legacy to Radio Astronomy (25min)
Jim Moran
16:25 The events leading up to the discovery of 3C273 the first quasar (25min)
David Jauncey
16:50 Remote Participants
17:10 END
Friday September 16th
Venue: Copthorne Hotel, Conference Rooms I and IISession 10: Wider Impacts
9:00 The first 25 years of the SKA (25min)Richard Schilizzi
9:25 SKA in Australia: Ron’s influence (25min)
Sarah Pearce
9:50 The SKA and the growth of Radio Astronomy in South Africa (25min)
Justin Jonas
10:15 Morning Tea
10:45 Innovations and Discoveries (30min)
Ron Ekers
11:15 The Golden Age of Science? (30min)
Peter Shaver
11:45 The role of astronomy in WiFi technology (30min)
John O'Sullivan
12:15 Lunch
13:30 The niverse, history and everything else: from radio astronomy to art history & conservation
Haida Liang (30min)
14:00 Visualisation: reflections on past successes, present methods and future challenges (25min)
Vanessa Moss
14:25 Signal and noise? A cross disciplinary conversation about what caused radio astronomy in Australia (25min)
Claire Hooker
14:50 Mentoring, cross-disciplinary links and the Antikythera Mechanism (25min)
Tasso Tzioumis (25min)
15:20 Mentoring the next generation - The Ron Effect (25min)
Kate Brooks
14:45 Afternoon Tea
15:10 The Ekers way to get people to innovate (25min)
Keith Bannister
15:35 No stone unturned – a story of resolution (25min)
Rajan Chhetri
16:00 Fireside Chats with Ron Across the Years (25min)
Anne Green
16:25 Getting the Right Outcomes – Ron’s Political Influence (25min)
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt + others
16:50 Conference Summary
17:30 END
Saturday September 16th
12:00pm Cruise on the TSS Earnslaw and exploration of Queenstown. Meet at 11:45 on the docks. See Google Map.
6:00pm Gondola ride to SkyLine Restaurant overlooking Queenstown. Please wear your conference badge to gain access to the priority lane. There is no need to buy tickets.
6:30pm -11:00pm Conference Dinner/Ron’s 75th Birthday Party
Google Map link showing locations for conference venues and excursion events.
