Programme
Preliminary Scientific and Social Programme
Sunday
Evening:
6.00-7.30: Registration and Welcome Reception
A welcome reception for conference attendees, will be held at the Rydges on Swanston (701 Swanston St) between 6:00-7:30pm on Sunday July 5th.
Meeting registration will be available. Drinks and finger food will be provided.
Monday
Morning:
9.00-9.15: Welcome
9.15-9.20: Ellery Lecture presentation
9.20-10.20: Ellery Lecture:
Measuring the Hubble Constant with the Hubble Space Telescope
Jeremy Mould, University of Melbourne
10.20-10.35: Morning tea
M1) Science with ASKAP:
10.35-11.15: Invited review:
Simulations for SKA and its pathfinders
Steve Rawlings, Oxford University
11.15-11.55: Invited review:
Deep polarization surveys with ASKAP and SKA
Russ Taylor, University of Calgary
11.55-12.10: The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)
David DeBoer, CSIRO
12.10-12.25: Pipelines and simulations for the Australian SKA Pathfinder
Matthew Whiting, CSIRO ATNF
12.25-2.00: Lunch
Includes an SKA information session. A light lunch will be provided courtesy of CSIRO.
Afternoon:
M2) 8-meter science:
2.00-2.30: Invited talk:
Magellan instrumentation capabilities present and near-future
David Osip, Carnegie Institution for Science (Magellan Telescopes)
2.30-2.45: Finding Hidden Supernovae with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics on Gemini
Stuart Ryder, Australian Gemini Office
2.45-3.00: The Magellan survey for molecular hydrogen in high-redshift galaxies
Michael Murphy, Swinburne University of Technology
3.00-3.15: The accretion disc in the quasar SDSS J0924+0219
Rachel Webster, University of Melbourne
3.15-3.30: Chemodynamics of the Sagittarius Dwarf
Stefan Keller, RSAA, ANU
3.30-3.45: Afternoon tea
M3) New Developments in Optical/IR Instrumentation
3.45-4.25: Invited review:
Hermes
Ken Freeman, RSAA, ANU
4.25-4.40: HERMES: The High Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph for the AAT
Samuel Bardeen, Anglo-Australian Observatory
4.40-4.55: Stellar Streams and Substructure in the Galactic Halo with HERMES
Daniel Zucker, AAO/Macquarie University
4.55-5.10: Developments in Astrophotonics
John O'Byrne, University of Sydney
5.10-5.25: PLT: project status
Jon Lawrence, Macquarie /AAO/UNSW
8.00-9.30: Harley-Wood lecture:
Elizabeth Murdoch Theater, University of Melbourne
Australian Indigenous Astronomy
Professor Ray Norris
Tuesday
Morning:
Tu1) Gravitational Waves, Pulsars and Transients
9.00-9.40: Invited Review:
Audio band Gravitational Wave Astronomy – Present and Future
Dave McCleland, ANU
9.40-9.55: The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project
George Hobbs, Australia Telescope National Facility
9.55-10.10: Population synthesis of binary pulsars:
Stefan Oslowski, Swinburne University (student)
10.10-10.25: Gravitational wave bursts from vortex avalanches in pulsar glitches
Lila Warszawski, The University of Melbourne (Student)
Morning tea: 10.25-10.40
Tu2) Solar Talks
10.40-11.20: Invited review:
Towards Magnetohelioseismology
Paul Cally, Monash University
11.20-11.35: Full-disk, vector magnetic field observations of the Sun
Aimee A. Norton, James Cook University
11.35-11.50: Nonlinear Evolution of Magnetic Fields in the Solar Tachocline
Rainer Hollerbach, Monash University
11.50-12.30: Sparkler session 1
12.30-2.00: Lunch
Includes a Town Hall meeting in the Elizabeth Murdoch theatre from 1pm, on the subject of “Australian membership of ESO”. A light lunch will be provided courtesy of Astronomy Australia Ltd.
Afternoon:
2.00-2.45: Sparkler session 2
2.45-3.30: Afternoon tea including poster viewing
Tu3) High Energy Astrophysics and AGN:
3.30-4.10:Invited review
Ground Based Gamma Ray Astronomy
Felix Aharonian
4.10-4.25: Gamma-ray absorption in the environment of a binary supermassive black hole system
Alina Donea, Monash University
4.25-4.40: Massive stellar clusters at TeV gamma-ray energies with H.E.S.S.
Gavin Rowell, University of Adelaide
4.40-4.55: Spitzer Space Telescope observations of radio-loud AGN
Hermine Landt, University of Melbourne
4.55-5.10: The distribution of Eddington ratios in AGN
Christopher Onken, RSAA
5.10-5.25: New Perspectives on AGN Narrow-Line Regions with NIFS:
Peter McGregor, ANU
5.25-5.40: Probing the neutron star interiors via helium-rich bursts
Zdenka Misanovic, Monash University
6.00-10.30:HoD and NCA meeting, University House, University of Melbourne
Wednesday
Morning:
W1) Planets and low-mass stars
9.00-9.30: Invited talk:
Doughuts, Whirlygigs and Splats: The bizzare denizens of the high-resolution sky
Peter Tutill
9.30-10.00: Invited talk:
What extrasolar planets have taught us so far
Rosemary Mardling
10.00-10.15: Detecting the reflected light of extra-solar planets with high resolution spectroscopy.
Sally Langford, University of Melbourne (Student)
W2) Starformation and evolution of gas in the Universe
10.15-10.45: Invited talk:
Intergalactic metals and star formation on the approach to cosmic reionization
Emma Ryan-Webber
10.45-11.05:Morning tea
11.05-11.35: Invited talk:
Starformation in HI galaxies
Gerhardt Meurer
11.35-11.50: Masers as evolutionary tracers of high mass star formation
Shari Breen, University of Tasmania (Student)
11.50-12.05: Using Simulations of Galaxy Formation/Evolution to Interpret Quasar Absorption Lines through Galaxy Halos.
Glenn Kacprzak, Swinburne University
12.05-12.20: The evolution of galaxies in the group environment
Virginia Kilborn, Swinburne University of Technology
12.20-12.35: Magnetic fields and star formation
Raquel Salmeron, The Australian National University
12.35-2.00:Lunch
A light lunch will be provided courtesy of the ASA
1.00-2.00:ANITA town hall meeting, Elizabeth Murdoch Theater
Afternoon:
2.00-3.30: Australian Astronomical Society Annual General Meeting
3.30-3.45: Afternoon tea
3.45-4.00: First results from the JCMT Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey: Warm Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Three Field Spiral Galaxies.
Bradley Warren, University of Western Australia
4.00-4.15: Terahertz astronomy
John Storey, University of New South Wales
4.15-4.30: Star formation in the open cluster Eta Chamaeleontis
Simon Murphy, RSAA, ANU (Student)
4.30-4.45: Looking for the smoking gun - Progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae
Wolfgang Kerzendorf, RSAA (Student)
W3) ASA Prize Presentations
4.45-5.00: Bok Prize:
Colour Gradients in Intermediate X-ray Luminosity Galaxy Clusters
Peter Jensen, Swinburne University
5.00-5.30: Early Career Prize:
Latest Cosmological Constraints on Fundamental Physics
Tamara Davis, University of Queensland / University of Copenhagen
7:00-11:30: Conference Dinner:
The ASM conference dinner will be held on the evening of Wednesday July 8th at the Pumping Station at Museum Victorias Scienceworks.
After dinner, the attendees will have the opportunity to view a show at the Melbourne Planetarium.
Thursday
Morning:
Th1) History and Education
9.00-9.30: Invited talk:
Galileo's invention of the astronomical telescope: the discovery of moons, stars and a new planet
David Jamieson, University of Melbourne
9.30-10.00: Invited talk:
From Science to Screen: Inside the world of 3D astronomy moviemaking
Chris Fluke, Swinburne University
Th2) Stars
10.00-10.15: Neutron-Capture Elements in Metal-Poor Stars
Maria Lugaro, Monash University
10.15-10.30: Evolution of the abundances of light elements in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
Richard Stancliffe, Monash University
10.30-10.45: Toward a comprehensive picture of white dwarfs in our Galaxy.
Adela Kawka, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
10.45-11.00:Morning tea
Th2) Galaxy Evolution & Cosmology
11.00-11.30: Invited talk:
How to model the universe in N easy steps (N>>1)
Darren Croton, Swinburne University
11.30-12.00: Invited talk:
AGN Feedback in Giant Elliptical Galaxies
Paul Nulsen, CfA
12.00-12.15:The environments of Distant Radio galaxies
Julia Bryant, University of Sydney
12.15-12.30:Galaxy evolution, across environment and look-back time
Warrick Couch, Swinburne University
12.30-2.00: Lunch
Afternoon:
2.00-2.30: Invited talk:
Growth of galaxies
Michael Brown, Monash University
2.30-2.45: The Rise of Red Galaxies
Ned Taylor, Leiden (Student)
2.45-3.00: The SFI++ and 2MASS Tully-Fisher Surveys: Cosmology and Cosmography in the Local Universe
Christopher Springob, Anglo-Australian Observatory
3.00-3.15: Maximum likelihood method for fitting the Fundamental Plane with the 6dF Galaxy Survey:
Christina Magoulas, Univeristy of Melbourne (Student)
3.15-3.30: Afternoon tea
3.30-3.45: Large Scale Structure in WiggleZ
Greg Poole, Swinburne University
3.45-3.55: Measuring the Cosmic Growth Rate in the WiggleZ Survey
Carlos Contreras, Swinburne University (Student)
3.55-4.05: The WiggleZ Power-Spectrum
Chris Blake, Swinburne University
4.05-4.10: Close
List of invited speakers
Steve Rawlings (Oxford, UK)
Gerhardt Meurer (Johns Hopkins, USA)
Felix Aharonian (MPIK-Heidelberg, Germany)
Russ Taylor (Calgary, Canada)
Emma Ryan-Webber (Swinburne)
Michael Brown (Monash)
Chris Fluke (Swinburne)
Darren Croton (Swinburne)
Ken Freeman (ANU)
Rosemary Mardling (Monash)
Paul Nulsen (CfA, USA)
David Osip (Las Campanas Observatory, Chile)
Peter Tuthill (Sydney)
David Jamieson (Melbourne)
David McClelland (ANU)
Members of SOC
Stuart Wyithe (Chair, Melbourne)
Rachel Webster (Melbourne)
Andrew Melatos (Melbourne)
Chris Blake (Swinburne)
Alina Donea (Monash)
Chris Tinney (UNSW)
Gavin Rowell (Adelaide)
Lister Stavely-Smith (UWA)
Steve Tingay (Curtin)
Andrew Hopkins (AAO)
Members of LOC
Stuart Wyithe (Chair)
Rachel Webster
Catherine Buchanan
Hermine Landt
Bart Pindor
Chris Fluke (Swinburne)