Motivation

The 19th of November 2005 marked the 40th anniversary of telescope operation at Molonglo. To celebrate this we held a 1 day symposium at the University of Sydney, followed by a BBQ on site at Molonglo. The focus of the day was science highlights from the last 40 years, as well as future instruments and science.
Talks from the Symposium are available below - click on the talk titles in the program below.

Photos from the two days:

• Symposium attendees (Credit - Shaun Amy)
• Bernie Mills cutting the cake (Credit - Bill Tango)
• Plaque presented by Gary Nairn MP (Credit - Adrian Blake)

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Scientific Program

The final program is shown below.

Session 1: Molonglo history      Chair: Andrew Hopkins
9:15	Anne Green	Introduction and Welcome
9:20	Dick Hunstead	The Molonglo Observatory: then and now
10:00	Hugh Murdoch	The first digital survey from Molonglo
10:15	Gordon Robertson	Radio source surveys and cosmology
10:30	Jim Caswell	The Galactic legacy
10:45	David Crawford	The Molonglo Virtual Telescope
11:00	Morning tea
Session 2: Current research      Chair: Daniel Mitchell
11:30	Elaine Sadler	The Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey
12:15	Tom Mauch	6dF/SUMSS
12:30	Lewis Ball	SN1987A
12:45	Ilana Klamer	Steep spectrum radio galaxies at high redshift
13:00	Lunch
Session 3: Future research      Chair: Tara Murphy
14:30	Anne Green	SKAMP: Progress and prospects
15:15	Duncan Campbell-Wilson	Engineering challenges
15:30	Daniel Mitchell	RFI mitigation
15:45	Stefan Keller	SkyMapper: an optical complement
16:00	Adrian Blake	Molonglo - the last few years
16:10	Afternoon tea

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Organising Committee

Andrew Hopkins	ahopkins@physics.usyd.edu.au
Daniel Mitchell	mitch@physics.usyd.edu.au
Tara Murphy	tara@physics.usyd.edu.au
Anne Green
Dick Hunstead
Bruce McAdam

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