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Science with SKAMP Workshop
Widefield Spectroscopy of the Southern Radio Sky
Registration to the workshop is free. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided on the 16th. Morning tea and lunch will be provided on the 17th.
Workshop Dinner - 16th September 2009
The workshop dinner will be held at the Blue Q Cafe, Queanbeyan Leagues Club which is an 800m walk from the Queensgate Motel. This dinner is not included as part of registration and delegates are asked to cover their own costs of the dinner.
Program
| Day One – Wed 16th Sept 2009 | |
| SESSION ONE: OVERVIEW (Chair: Bryan Gaensler) | |
| 0930-1000 | SKAMP Overview – Anne Green (U Sydney) |
| 1000-1015 | Instrumentation: Front End – Duncan Campbell-Wilson (U Sydney) and Darshan Thakkar (USYD) |
| 1015-1030 | Instrumentation: Digital System – John Bunton (ATNF) |
| 1030-1145 | Instrumentation: Software Pipeline – Mike Birchall (AAO), Mike Kesteven (ATNF) |
| 1045-1100 | Cognitive Radios – Adrian Blake (U Sydney) |
| 1100-1130 | MORNING TEA |
| SESSION TWO: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR ABSORPTION (Chair: Dick Hunstead) | |
| 1130-1200 | Physical Properties of Redshifted HI Absorbers - Frank Briggs (ANU) |
| 1200-1230 | H1 21cm Absorption Line Searches and Science with SKAMP - Jeremy Darling (U Colorado, USA) |
| 1230-1245 | HI Absorbers - Elaine Sadler (U Sydney) |
| 1245-1300 | The Best Candidates for Redshifted Atomic and Molecular Absorption - Steve Curran (UNSW) |
| 1300-1430 | LUNCH AND TOUR OF MOLONGLO/SKAMP |
| SESSION THREE: TRANSIENT SCIENCE (Chair: Lisa Harvey-Smith) | |
| 1430-1500 | Wide Field Transient Surveys - Geoff Bower (UC Berkeley, USA) |
| 1500-1530 | Transient and Variable Science with SKAMP - Tara Murphy (U Sydney. Presentation here. |
| 1530-1545 | A 12-Year Southern Sky Survey for Radio Variability and Transients using MOST - Keith Bannister (U Sydney) |
| 1545-1600 | GMRT Transient Plans - Ramesh Bhat (U Swinburne) |
| 1600-1630 | AFTERNOON TEA |
| SESSION FOUR: TRANSIENTS AND RELATED SURVEYS (Chair: Elaine Sadler) | |
| 1630-1700 | Transients - Matthew Bailes (U Swinburne) |
| 1700-1730 | SKYMAPPER - Stefan Keller |
| 1730-1800 | Wide-field Surveys with MWA - Rachel Webster (U Melbourne) |
| Day Two - Thurs 17th Sept 2009 | |
| SESSION FIVE: OTHER SCIENCE (Chair: Tara Murphy) | |
| 0900-0930 | Wide-field surveys with ASKAP - Simon Johnston (ATNF) |
| 0930-0945 | Radio Recombination Line Science with SKAMP - Greg Madsen (U Sydney) |
| 0945-1000 | Forty years of VLBI in the Land of Oz; some lessons learned and a suggestion - David Jauncey (ATNF, MSO) |
| 1000-1030 | Redshifted OH Lines with SKAMP: Detection and Science - Jeremy Darling (U Colorado, USA) |
| 1030-1100 | MORNING TEA |
| SESSION SIX: DIFFUSE EMISSION (Chair: Anne Green) | |
| 1100-1130 | Diffuse, Non-thermal Emission in Radio Sources - DJ Saikia (ATNF; NCRA; TIFR) |
| 1130-1200 | Polarimetry of the Galactic Plane with Arcminute Angular Resolution - Tom Landecker (DRAO, Penticton, Canada) |
| 1200-1230 | Wrap up - Bryan Gaensler (U Sydney) |
| 1230-1330 | LUNCH |
The workshop will commence at 0930 on Wed 16th September and conclude at 1300 on Thurs 17th September.
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