| Sun.3 July |
| 14:00-18:00 |
ASA Council Meeting |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Registration & Reception |
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| Mon.4 July |
| 08:00-09:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00-09:10 |
Welcome & Official Opening |
| 09:10-10:00 |
Ellery Lecture - Prof. John Davis |
| 10:00-10:30 |
1. Future Face of Astronomy
Ron Ekers - IAU Activities (10)
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt - Future Astronomers: Education, Training and Outreach (10)
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Morning Tea & Posters |
| 11:00-12:30 |
2. ISM & Star Formation
Kate Brooks - Massive Star Formation (15)
Jarrod Hurley - Virtual Star Clusters - simulating dense stellar environments (15)
Rebecca Johnston - The correlation time for stochastic Faraday rotation in the ISM (10)
B. Pandey - Wave in a dense molecular cloud - effect of grain inertia (10)
Peter Tuthill - From dust to dust: the shrouds of stellar birth and death (10)
Andrew Walsh - G305.2+0.2: A Southern Region of Massive Star Formation (10)
Tracey Hill - Examining the Evolutionary Sequence of MSF (10)
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 |
3. Sun, Stars & Planets
Tim Bedding - Oscillations in Solar-like Stars (10)
James Farmer - A network model for solar flares (10)
Steven Longmore - Massive Protostellar Multiplicity (10)
Andrew Prentice - Saturn's icy satellites: predictions for bulk chemical composition and physical structure (10)
Laura Stanford - Abundances of main sequence and turnoff stars in Omega Centauri (10)
Dennis Stello - Can we use asteroseismology to probe the interiors of red giant stars (10)
Mark Wardle - Magnetic field diffusion in protostellar discs (10)
Mike Wheatland - An improved virial estimate for solar active region energy (10)
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Afternoon Tea & Posters |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Bok Prize Winner Presentation & Talk (10)
4. Virtual Observatory & Computational Astrophysics
Jeremy Bailin - Galaxy Formation in a Cold Dark Matter Universe (15)
Kenji Bekki - Numerical archeology (15)
Tara Murphy - Virtual Observatory projects at the ATNF (15)
Christopher Owen - VO Demonstration (10)
Jackie Cooper - Three-Dimensional Simulations of Starburst-Driven Galactic Winds (10)
Elizabeth Tasker - Modelling the effects of gravitational instabilities in a galactic disc (10)
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| 19:30-21:00 |
Harley Wood Lecture - Bryan Gaensler |
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| Tue.5 July |
| 09:00-10:30 |
5. Extreme Objects & Gravity Waves
David Coward - Gravitational waves and the `probability event horizon' for neutron star merger detection (10)
Russell Edwards - Gravity Waves and the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (10)
Ricky Fok - Pair Emission from a Magnetised Strange (quark) Star (10)
Bryan Gaensler - A Wind Bubble Around A Magnetar (10)
Duncan Galloway - Pushing the limit on neutron star spin rates (10)
Alpha Mastrano - Superfluid Instability: A Possible Cause of Sudden Spin-ups in Pulsars (10)
Donald Payne - Frequency spectrum of gravitational waves from an accreting neutron star (10)
Natasa Vranesevic - The Pulsar Current Revisited (10)
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Morning Tea & Posters |
| 11:00-12:30 |
6. Milky Way & the Magellanic Clouds
Naomi McClure-Griffiths - The Interaction of the Milky Way's Disk and Halo (15)
Erik Muller - The Magellanic system: a review of our nearest interacting Galactic neighbours (15)
Tim Connors - On the origin of anomalous velocity clouds in the Milky Way (10)
Annie Hughes - A multiresolution analysis of the radio-FIR correlation in the LMC (10)
Jean-Pierre Macquart - The Variability of Sagittarius A* at Radio Wavelengths (10)
Greg Madsen - The Nature of the Warm Ionized Medium in the Galaxy (10)
Holly Sims - Filamentary Structure in the Galactic Centre produced by Interacting Winds (10)
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 |
7. Galaxies
Tamara Helfer - Molecular Gas in Nearby Spirals (20)
Jamie McCallum - Scintillation in Circinus (10)
Se-Heon Oh - Star formation history of the nucleus of NGC5102 (10)
Robert Pfeifer - Can Gravitational Shielding Explain Galactic Rotation Curves? (10)
Isaac Rosenboom - The Star Formation Histories of Luminous Red Galaxies (10)
Stuart Ryder - Supernova 2001ig: The Search for Survivors (10)
Lister Staveley-Smith - Gas Evolution in Galaxies (10)
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Afternoon Tea & Posters |
| 16:00-17:00 |
AGM of the ASA |
| 17:00-18:00 |
Launching the Decadal Plan |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Heads of Departments & Directors Meeting |
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| Wed.6 July |
| 09:00-10:30 |
8. Instrumentation & New Projects
Samuel Barden - WFMOS: A powerful survey instrument for cosmology and galactic structure (15)
Simon Johnston - Science with the Extended New Technology Demonstrator (15)
John Lugten - The Allen Telescope Array (15)
Ravi Manchanda - The Indian Astronomy Satellite - ASTROSAT (15)
Wilfred Walsh - HEAT: the High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz Telescope (10)
Suzanne Kenyon - Sky Brightness at Dome C, Antarctica (10)
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Morning Tea & Posters |
| 11:00-12:30 |
9. Galaxy Groups, Clusters & Large-Scale Structure
Kevin Pimbblet - Threads from the Cosmic Tapestry (20)
Sarah Brough - A Super-Group in the 6dFGS? (10)
Laura Dunn - Surface Brightness Fluctuations and the Luminosity Function in clusters (10)
Tom Mauch - Radio sources in the local universe (10)
Michael Pierce - The Leo Group Elliptical NGC 3379: GMOS spectra of some globular clusters (10)
Jamie Stevens - The HIPASS Loose Galaxy Groups (10)
Artem Tuntsov - Compact dark matter in galaxy clusters via microlensing (10)
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 |
10. Mapping the Universe
Michael Brown - The NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (15)
Stuart Wyithe - Reionization and the Mileura Widefield Array (15)
Marianne Doyle - HOPCAT, Dark Galaxies & Star Formation (10)
Matthew Francis - The Influence of Evolving Dark Energy on Cosmology (10)
Heath Jones - Southern Vistas of the Local Universe: A 6dF Galaxy Survey Update (10)
Ilana Klamer - Steep spectrum radio galaxies at high redshift (10)
Enno Middelberg - The AT Deep Field: current status and first results (10)
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Afternoon Tea & Posters |
| 16:00-17:30 |
11. A Mixed Bag
Alex Judge - Polarized Maser Growth (10)
Jasmina Lazendic - The Central Compact Object in SNR G347.3-0.5 (10)
Debora Menezes - Strange stars equations of state revisited (10)
James Murray - Astrophysical Pringles: Generating a warp in an accretion disk by irradiation (10)
Chris Phillips - VLBI tracking of the Huygens probe (10)
Joshua Rich - Chasing Gamma-Ray Bursts (10)
Paul Watson - Scintillations and the method of stationary phase (10)
Mary Williams - Galactic Disk Substructure with RAVE (10)
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| 19:00-10:30 |
Conference Dinner & Presentation of Prizes |
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| Thu.7 July |
| 09:00-10:30 |
12. Extragalactic Astrophysics & Cosmology
Giuseppe Cimo - Australian LBA Observations of Intraday Variable Radio Galaxies (20)
Julia Bryant - The quest for the most distant galaxies (10)
Scott Croom - The evolution of quasars (10)
Warrick Couch - ELT's and Australian involvement: an update
Victor Flambaum - Effects of cosmological variation fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks (10)
Matthew O'Dowd - Reverberation mapping of ~350 quasars with AAOmega (10)
Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez - Spectroscopic Gradients in Elliptical Galaxies (10)
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Morning tea & Posters |
| 11:00-13:00 |
Decadal Plan - Discussion of Draft Report |
| 13:00 |
Conference Close |
