Exploring the Unknown with Radio Surveys
A Celebration of the Career of Ray Norris
15-17 May 2023
Uluṟu, NT, Australia
This scientific conference will be held to celebrate the career of Prof Ray Norris. Ray moved to Australia to help build and commission the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array and in the last 40 years has had a huge impact on Australian radio astronomy as well as Indigenous and Cultural astronomy. While this conference will include some reflections on Ray's career it will very much be a scientific conference based around the themes below.
Contributed presentations on these topics are invited.
Invited speakers
- Michael Ghillar Anderson (Euahlayi and Gamilaraay Nations)
- Phil Diamond (SKAO)
- Ron Ekers (CSIRO)
- Duane Hamacher (UMel)
- Phil Appleton (Caltech/IPAC)
- Nick Seymour (ICRAR/Curtin)
- Enno Middelberg (Deutsche Bahn)
- Ivy Wong (CSIRO)
- Minh Huynh (CSIRO)
- Grazia Umana (INAF)
- Bärbel Koribalski (CSIRO)
- Tessa Vernstrom (UWA)
- Tanya Hill (Museums Victoria)
- Clive Ruggles (University of Leicester)
This conference will leave a legacy of Indigenous cultural and intellectual value and impact. There will be a dedicated Cultural and Indigenous Astronomy session, with scholars and elders from across Australia invited as keynote speakers.
This occasion will also be a chance to showcase the latest results and plans for Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) surveys and the related areas of Machine Learning and Citizen Science which will help astronomers maximise the science return from ASKAP and other SKA precursors.
The conference will be hybrid to allow all those who are keen to participate to attend. The in-person attendees will benefit from a scientifically focused, but culturally broad conference. Furthermore, we encourage presentations from and the attendance of ECRs and MCRs both in person and remotely.
For those who wish to attend in person, please review the COVID-19 mitigation policy.
The organisers of this conference are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and attendees will be expected to abide by a code of conduct.
Regards,
The SOC
- Minh Huynh (co-chair)
- Nick Seymour (co-chair)
- Andrew Hopkins
- Isabella Prandoni