Program

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Thursday 30th June
4:30 - 6:30		Registration
7:00 -		Reception
Friday 1st July
Session 1 (Chair: Katherine Newton-McGee)
9:30 - 10:20		Roopesh Ojha (Spark Plugs and Strong Field Gravity: A Ramble Through Extragalactic Radio Astronomy )
10:20 - 11:10		Juergen Ott (My Astronomy)
11:10 - 11:40		Morning Tea
Session 2 (Chair: Catherine Braiding)
11:40 - 12:30		Michael Burton (IR astronomy)
12:30 - 1:20		Tim Bedding (Stellar Oscillations: pushing the limits of optical astronomy)
1:20 - 3:20		Lunch + break
3:20 - 3:40		Afternoon Tea
Session 3 (Chair: Alyson Ford)
3:40 - 4:30		Mark Wardle (Sgr A*: 100 to 10-18m in 3000 seconds)
4:30 - 5:30		Chris Tinney (Proposal Writing for Fun and Profit)
7:30		Conference Dinner
Saturday 2nd July
Session 1 (Chair: Cliff Senkbeil)
9:30 - 10:20		Simon Driver (The Optical Properties of Galaxies)
10:20 - 11:10		Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (Astrophysics and the radio renaissance, the present & future roles of radio astronomy)
11:10 - 11:40		Morning Tea
Session 2 (Chair: Marianne Doyle)
11:40 - 12:30		Brian Schmidt (Potent Photons: A Review of Gamma Ray Astronomy)
12:30 - 1:20		Bryan Gaensler (Viewing the universe with X-ray vision)
1:20 - 3:20		Lunch + Break
3:20 - 3:40		Afternoon Tea
Session 3 (Chair: Jessie Christiansen)
3:40 - 4:30		Ron Ekers (Out of the Box Astronomy - Astro particles and radio astronomy)
4:30 - 5:30		Debate
*Free Evening*
Sunday 3rd July
Morning		Depart for Sydney and the ASA meeting