Science Symposium for the Australia Telescope Compact Array's 25th Birthday

Programme

The scientific programme of the symposium will cover a broad range of scientific topics from the local planets to the distant CMB in recognition of the engineering and science achievements of the ATCA.

The programme includes both invited and contributed talks. All talks will be 20 mins including time for questions.

Schedule Presentations
Monday 2nd September
13:00-20:00 Official 25th Anniversary Celebrations - onsite at ATCA -
Tuesday 3rd September
08:30-08:55 Registration
08:55-09:00 Introduction Simon Johnston
09:00-09:30 Prime Minister, we have delivered! Bob Frater
09:30-10:00 Project Management ATNF style John Brooks
10:00-10:30 Morning Tea
10:30-11:00 ATCA: A pre-history Dick Manchester
11:00-11:30 Receivers Mal Sinclair
11:30-12:00 Correlators old and new Warwick Wilson
12:00-12:30 ATCA - Australia's first National Facility Ron Ekers
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 ATCA upgrades over 25 years Mark Bowen
13:50-14:10 Calibratibility of the ATCA Jamie Stevens
14:10-14:30 The AT20G correlator Paul Roberts
14:30-14:50 The AT20G Survey Elaine Sadler
14:50-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-15:40 Centaurus A Ilana Feain
15:40-16:00 Deep radio surveys with the ATCA Andrew Hopkins
16:00-16:20 Continuum observations of galaxy clusters with the ATCA Melanie Johnston-Hollitt
16:20-16:40 Gamma-Ray Bursts and the ATCA Mark Wieringa
16:40-17:00 Radio Surveys: Parkes and the ATCA join forces Dave McConnell
Wednesday 4th September
09:00-09:20 Supernova 1987A Dick Manchester
09:20-09:40 Stellar Forensics with the ATCA Stuart Ryder
09:40-10:00 Two decades of scintillation: the story of PKS 1257-326 Hayley Bignall
10:00-10:20 The ATCA precise measurements of total and polarized radio flux - the "game changer" for science of variable radio sources Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer
10:20-10:50 Morning Tea
10:50-11:10 The Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS) Baerbel Koribalski
11:10-11:30 HI velocity fields and rotation curves of LVHIS Se-Heon Oh
11:30-11:50 HI in Nearby Galaxies - or how ATCA led to THINGS Erwin de Blok
11:50-12:10 HI observations with ATCA: understanding galaxy evolution Virginia Kilborn
12:10-12:30 Masers - the key to Galactic structure and high mass star formation James Caswell
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 Water masers Shari Breen
13:50-14:10 Methanol masers with ATCA Maxim Voronkov
14:10-14:30 MALT-45: Using the ATCA in a new way Andrew Walsh
14:30-14:50 First results for MALT-45: A single dish survey on the ATCA Chris Jordan
14:50-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-15:40 Spectropolarimetry of AGN in the ATCA Fornax beta field Craig Anderson
15:40-16:00 Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays in Halos of Spiral Galaxies Ralf-Juergen Dettmar
16:00-16:20 The spectropolarimetric revolution driven by the CABB and ATCA upgrades Shane O'Sullivan
16:20-16:40 ATCA Operations Robin Wark
16:40-17:00 Science Impact of the ATCA Phil Edwards
19:00-22:30 Conference Dinner
Thursday 5th September
09:00-09:20 Mosaicing the Milky Way with the ATCA Naomi McClure-Griffiths
09:20-09:40 Supershells as Molecular Cloud Factories? Joanne Dawson
09:40-10:00 Magellanic Clouds John Dickey
10:00-10:20 The Magellanic Stream: a giant gas stream in the sky Bi-Qing For
10:20-10:50 Morning Tea
10:50-11:10 Water Vapour Radiometer for the ATCA Balt Indermuehle
11:10-11:30 Multi-wavelength observations of the massive star forming region G305 Luke Hindson
11:30-11:50 Unveiling the properties of high-mass star formation regions with ATCA Yanett Contreras
11:50-12:10 From pointed observations to mapping Maria Cunningham
12:10-12:30 The MACS-Planck Radio Halo Cluster Project: searching for large-scale diffuse emission in clusters of galaxies Giulia Macario
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:50 The Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer Peter Tuthill
13:50-14:10 A history of VLBI on the ATCA Chris Phillips
14:10-14:30 The ATCA's first VLBI, and how we found the Einstein Ring in PKS1830-211 Dave Jauncey
14:30-14:50 Radio pulsars on the ATCA Simon Johnston
15:10 End
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