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Scientific Program
Third
and Final Draft November 2005 |
| Wednesday 7th of December | |
| Session 1: Low Frequency Instruments | |
| 9:00am | Opening Remarks |
| 9:05am | George Miley "Status Report on LOFAR" (provisional title) |
| 9:45am | Colin Lonsdale "The Mileura Widefield Array (MWA) Low Frequency Demonstrator (LDF)" (provisional title) |
| 10:25am | Randall Wayth "Sun Diesel, Dust & Bugs: Radio Astronomy in the WA outback" |
| 10:45am | Morning Tea |
| 11:15am | Rob Gates/ Kelly Kranz-Little "SKA-Related Activities in Western Australia" |
| 11:35am | Steve Ellingson "The Eight-meter-wavelength-transient array (ETA)" |
| 11:55am | Elanie Sadler "SKA key
science and redshifted HI at 200-1400 MHz" |
| 12:20pm | LUNCH |
| Session 2: EoR and Line Emission | |
| 13:20pm | Lincoln Greenhill "The Epoch of Experimentation - Recent Progress in Theory and Instrumentation Targeting Cosmological Reionization" |
| 14:00pm | Ravi Subrahmanyan "The ATNF Cosmological Reionization Experiment" (provisional title) |
| 14:40pm | Ue-li Pen "Results of a search for 21cm Reionization using PAST/21CMA and the GMRT" (provisional title) |
| 15:00pm | Stuart Wyithe "Cosmic HII Regions" |
| 15:20pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 15:50pm | Nissim Kanekar "Do the fundamental constants change with time?" |
| 16:30pm | Alan Rogers "Detection of the 327 MHz Line of Deuterium in the Galactic Anticenter" |
| 17:10pm | Jay Pasachoff "Long-Wavelength Studies of Deuterium in the Galactic Center and Throughout the Galaxy" |
| 17:30pm | Close |
| Thursday 8th of December | |
| 9:00am | |
| Session 3: Low Frequency Instruments (cont) | |
| 9:05am | Anne Green "The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope - Now and the Future" |
| 9:45am | Slava Kitaeff "The Software Radio Telescope (SoRT)" (provisional title) |
| 10:05am | Tim Natusch "Towards Australasian SKA: Development of Trans-Tasman VLBI" |
| 10:25am | Enno Middleberg "Wide-filed holography of the Compact Array antennae at 1.4 GHz" |
| 10:45am | Morning Tea |
| 11:15am | Rick Fisher "Thoughts on RFI Mitigation: First, Do No Harm." |
| 11:55am | Aidan Hotan "Embedded design techniques for radio astronomy" |
| 12:15am | John Dickey: TBA |
| 12:35pm | Tsuneaki Daishido "20m x 8 +30m Spherical Dish Array for Pulsar and AGN Observations" |
| 12:55pm | LUNCH |
| Session 4: Science - Clusters | |
| 14:00am | 2 min slots for each
poster presenter to advertise their poster |
| 14:30am | Namir Kassim "A quiet scientific renaissance: High angular resolution, low frequency radio astronomy" |
| 15:10pm | Tiziana Venturi "A GMRT search for radio halos in a complete sample of galaxy clusters" |
| 15:30pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 16:00pm | Gianfranco Brunetti "Particle acceleration in galaxy clusters and future low frequency radio observations" |
| 16:20pm | Melanie Johnston-Hollitt "Follow up observations of a sample of clusters containing diffuse emission at 843 MHz" |
| 16:40pm | Close |
| Friday 9th of December | |
| 9:00am | |
| Session 5: Science - Transient Phenomena | |
| 9:05am | JP Macquart "Probing AGN with the Interstellar Telescope at Long(ish) Wavelengths" |
| 9:45am | Hayley Bignall "The rapid interstellar scintillation of PKS 1257-326" |
| 10:05am | Giuseppe Cimo: "Multi-frequency analysis of intraday variable sources" |
| 10:25am | Mark Walker "Interstellar Holography" |
| 10:45am | Morning Tea |
| Session 6: Historical Low Frequency Astronomy | |
| 11:15am | Ken Kellermann "Cosmic Static" (the life and work of Grote Reber) |
| 11:50am | Wayne Orchiston "Early low frequency radio astronomy in Australia: the CSIRO Radiophysics contribution" |
| 12:10pm | Rick Perley: TBA - (history of the VLA and Bill Erickson's role in it) |
| 12:50pm | Ron Ekers
"Paths to Discovery" |
| 13:30pm | Close |
| AFTERNOON FREE | |
| 18:30pm | Bus Leaves for Conference Dinner |
| Saturday 10th of December | |
| 9:00am | Announcements: MJ-H |
| Session 7: Science -
Transident Phenomena (cont) |
|
| 9:05am | Joseph Lazio "Planetary
Magnetospheres, Direct Detection of Extrasolar Planets, and Planetary
Habitability" |
| 9:25am | David Broderick "Estimating the soft X-ray intensity of solar flares using low frequency radio telescopes" |
| 9:45am | A. A. Despande "Pulsar
Emission Studies at low-frequencies" |
| Session 7: Science -
Surveys & Galaxies |
|
| 10:05am | Aaron Cohen "The VLA
Low-frequency Sky Survey" |
| 10:25am | Jose Afonso "Deep Radio Observations of the Chandra Deep Field South" |
| 10:45am | Emanuella Orru' "Low Frequency VLA Imaging of a sub-sample of Giant Radio Sources" (provisional title) |
| 11:05am | Morning Tea |
| 11:35am | Geoff Bicknell "Radio emitting filaments in the Galactic Centre" |
| 11:55am | Ron Ekers "Why high
redshift radio galaxies have steep spectra" |
| 12:15pm |
James Miller-Jones: TBA |
| 12:35am | Marcus Price: TBA |
| 12:55pm | Closing Words |
| 13:00pm | BBQ LUNCH |
Poster Presentations
Geoff Bicknell "Evolution of FR2 Radio Galaxies"
Aaron Chippendale "The Cosmological Reionization Experiment"
William Erickson “Solar Radio Burst Observations with the Bruny Island Radio Spectrometer”
Yoshiaki Hagiwara "A VLA study of HI/OH absorption towards the twin nuclei of NGC 6240"
Aidan Hotan “New Results from Millisecond Pulsar Timing at Parkes"
Scott Hyman “Monitoring the Galactic Center for Radio Transients at 330 MHz”
David Jauncey “Persistent Interstellar Scintillation in B0059+581”
Namir Kassim “Mission Concepts for Space-based Radio Imaging at Frequencies Below the Ionospheric Cutoff”
Jonathon Kocz “Selected results from the early deployment prototype of the MWA-LFD”
Masaya Kuniyoshi “A search for transient radio sources with the Waseda Nasu Array” (provisional title)
Enno Middelberg “The Parkes Webcam”
Kotaro Niinuma “Details of the gain calibration system of the Waseda University Nasu Pulsar Observatory” (provisional title)
Cliff Senkbeil “The Southern IDV Survey”
Williams Vilas-Boas "The Brazilian Decimetric Array"