Programme
(26/09/17)
Schedule | |||
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Monday 25th September | |||
08:30-09:00 | Registration | ||
09:00-09:45 | Introduction to the ATCA and other National Facilities | Jamie Stevens | |
09:45-10:30 | Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy | Ron Ekers | talk |
10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
11:00-11:45 | Single-dish Telescopes | Jennifer West | talk |
11:45-12:30 | Receiver systems | Alex Dunning | talk |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
13:30-14:15 | Signal processing | Max Voronkov | talk |
14:15-15:00 | Principles of radio interferometry I | Baerbel Koribalski | talk |
15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | ||
15:30-16:15 | Principles of radio interferometry II | Dave McConnell | talk |
16:15-17:00 | Calibration | Helga Denes | talk |
17:15 | Bus to Narrabri | ||
18:30 | Dinner at Narrabri Bowling Club | ||
Tuesday 26th September | |||
09:00-09:45 | Radio Astronomy then, now and future | Ron Ekers | talk |
9:45-09:55 | VIP's & local staff move into Visitors Centre | ||
9:55-10:20 | 50th Anniversary celebrations for the Solar Heliograph | ||
Welcome by Peter Mirtschin | |||
Brief site history by Ron Ekers | talk | ||
Possible talk by Federal Member for the electorate of Parkes | |||
10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea with Birthday cake! | ||
11:00-12:00 | VIP's go on antenna tour | ||
11:00-11:45 | Imaging and deconvolution | Mark Wieringa | talk |
11:45-12:30 | Polarimetry I | Bob Sault | talk |
12:30-13:15 | Polarimetry II | George Heald | talk |
13:15-14:00 | Lunch | ||
14:00-18:00 | Tutorial Session (Site tour/Observing/Data Reduction) | ||
Wednesday 27th September | |||
09:00-09:45 | Error recognition | Emil Lenc | talk |
09:45-10:30 | Wide-field Wide-band Imaging and Image Fidelity | Tim Cornwell | talk |
10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
11:00-11:45 | HDR imaging | Tim Cornwell | talk |
11:45-12:30 | Observing Strategies and the Art of Science Proposals | Shari Breen | talk |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
14:00-17:00 | Tutorial Session (Site tour/Observing/Data Reduction) | ||
18:30 | Dinner + Talk - How not to be misled by data | Chaired by Ron Ekers | talk by Maarten de Jong |
21:30 | Bus to town | ||
Thursday 28th September | |||
09:00-09:45 | Spectral Lines | Ivy Wong | talk |
09:45-10:30 | VLBI | Maria Rioja | talk |
10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
11:00-11:45 | The missing zero spacing in interferometers | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | talk |
11:45-12:30 | Radio Frequency Interference and Mitigation | Aaron Chippendale | talk |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
14:00-18:00 | Tutorial Session (Site tour/Observing/Data Reduction) | ||
Friday 29st September | |||
09:00-09:45 | ASKAP PAFs | Aidan Hotan | talk |
09:45-10:30 | ALMA | Katie Jameson | talk |
10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
11:00-11:45 | Radio Transients | Keith Bannister | talk |
11:45-12:30 | Astronomy in the SKA era | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | talk |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
14:00 | End | ||
14:00-17:00 | Optional trip to Sawn Rocks in Mt. Kaputar National Park |