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THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA INC. |
Annual Scientific Meeting 1st to 5th July, 2007 |
| Program |  All Days |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Posters |
| Abstracts | Posters A-K |
Posters L-Z |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Lunch Meetings |
Scientific Program
The main conference sessions will be held in the Mason Theatre within building E7B at Macquarie University. Registration, morning and afternoon tea and coffee, and poster sessions will be in the Courtyard in the same building. A large campus map showing the location of building E7B is available here.
All speakers are required to set up their talks during the break prior to their presentation so that we can test each presentation and ensure there are no problems. Student talks are marked with an asterisk.
Sunday
| 13:00-17:00 | ASA Council Meeting - E7B161 | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Registration - Macquarie Room, MGSM | |
| 18:00-19:30 | Reception - Macquarie Room, MGSM | |
| 19:30-22:30 | ASA Council Dinner | |
Monday
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration - E7B163 | |
| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome and Official Opening | |
| 09:15-10:30 | Session One | |
| 09:15-10:15 | Mike Bessell | Ellery Lecture: The Photometric Revolution - the past and the future |
| 10:15-10:30 | Paul Jones | The Central Molecular Zone around Sagittarius B2 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea and Poster Session | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session Two - Cosmology | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Kenji Bekki | Globular Cluster - Galaxy connections in early-type galaxies |
| 11:15-11:30 | Matt Owers * | X-ray "Cold Fronts" - a novel method for detection of a recent major cluster merger |
| 11:30-11:45 | Matthew Bailes | A 30 Jy radio burst of extragalactic origin |
| 11:45-12:00 | Jhan Srbinovsky * | Physical contributions to the observed variance in the Lyman-alpha opacity of the IGM at high redshift |
| 12:00-12:15 | Matthew Francis * | Rapid matter power spectrum estimation for dark energy cosmologies |
| 12:15-12:30 | Stephen Fine * | The host mass vs. black hole mass relation |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch | |
| 12:30-13:45 | ATNF | SKA Discussion Session and Discussion meeting on future science operations of ASKAP and ATNF |
| 13:45-15:30 | Session Three - Cosmology | |
| 13:45-14:00 | Rob Sharp | Black hole masses in quasar host galaxies from IFU spectroscopy |
| 14:00-14:15 | Geoffrey Bicknell | Black Hole Accretion Disks and Relativistic Jets in Blazars |
| 14:15-14:30 | Scott Croom | The evolution of AGN and their hosts |
| 14:30-14:45 | David Floyd | A colour bimodality in quasar host galaxies |
| 14:45-15:00 | Paul Geil * | Redshifted 21cm Emission from Quasar HII regions in a Percolating IGM |
| 15:00-15:15 | Leith Godfrey * | A Multi-wavelength Study of the Extremely Luminous VLBI Scale Hotspot of PKS 1421-490 |
| 15:15-15:30 | Rajan Chhetri * | Search for Gravitational lenses in the Southern Hemisphere using the ATCA |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Tea and Poster Session | |
| 16:00-17:45 | Session Four - Galaxies: Clustering, Formation and Evolution | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Melanie Johnston-Hollitt | Dynamics of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster |
| 16:15-16:30 | Jason Moore * | Morphology and Star Formation in the Supercluster Environment |
| 16:30-16:45 | Russell Jurek * | WiggleZ Survey: Small-scale clustering of emission line galaxies |
| 16:45-17:00 | Chris Power | The Evolution of Cosmic Neutral Hydrogen with Time |
| 17:00-17:15 | Eduard Westra * | Star formation density and H-alpha luminosity function of an emission line selected galaxy sample at z~0.24 |
| 17:15-17:30 | Craig Harrison* | The Influence of Mass and Star-Formation Timescale on the Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxies |
| 17:30-17:45 | Marianne Doyle | HI Galaxies and the SFR-Density Relation |
| 19:00-20:30 | Matthew Bailes | Harley Wood Lecture - Millisecond Pulsars and Einstein's Universe |
Tuesday
| 09:00-10:30 | Session Five - Galaxies: Evolution and Local Galaxies | |
| 09:00-09:15 | Michael Pracy | Spectroscopic dissection of E+A galaxies |
| 09:15-09:30 | Kevin Pimbblet | Galloping Galaxies! |
| 09:30-09:45 | Julia Bryant | Massive galaxies at z=2-3.5 - evolution and environment |
| 09:45-10:00 | Robert Braun | Galaxy Accretion and Feedback @ Red-shift Zero (GAF@RZ) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Ayesha Begum | FIGGS: Faint Irregular Galaxies GMRT Survey |
| 10:15-10:30 | Emma Kirby * | Deepest Near-IR Surface Photometry of Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea and Poster Session | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session Six - The Magellanic Clouds and the Local Group | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Joss Hawthorn | The Magellanic Stream: a mystery resolved |
| 11:15-11:30 | Erik Muller | Zooming into the ISM of the SMC |
| 11:30-11:45 | Warren Reid * | Spectral diagnostics and abundances based on a new population of planetary nebulae discovered in the LMC |
| 11:45-12:00 | Sui Ann Mao * | An Optical and Radio Polarization Study of the Magnetic Field in the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| 12:00-12:15 | Shane Walsh * | The Stromlo Missing Satellites Survey |
| 12:15-12:30 | Richard Lane * | The Monoceros Ring and Canis Major Stream: Warp and Flare or Dwarf Remnant? |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch | |
| 12:30-13:45 | AAO | Giant Magellan Telescope Update |
| 13:45-15:30 | Session Seven - Galactic Science | |
| 13:45-14:00 | Peter Barnes | Mopra and Galactic Star Formation: at the Spectral Forefront |
| 14:00-14:15 | Korinne McDonnell * | A search for OH 6 GHz maser emission towards southern supernova remnants |
| 14:15-14:30 | Gemma Anderson * | ChIcAGO: Chasing the Identification of ASCA Galactic Objects |
| 14:30-14:45 | Maria Cunningham | The Mopra G333 Survey |
| 14:45-15:00 | Sean Farrell | Serendipity and the 2XMM catalogue |
| 15:00-15:15 | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | Kinematics of HI in the inner Milky Way |
| 15:15-15:30 | Greg Madsen | Careless Whispers from High-Velocity Clouds: A Look at Ionised Gas in the Galactic Halo with WHAM |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Tea and Poster Session | |
| 16:00-18:00 | Session Eight - Galactic Science and Surveys | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Michael Albrow | High Resolution Spectral Models for Globular Clusters |
| 16:15-16:30 | Quentin Parker | MASH-II Planetary nebulae from the AAO/UKST H-alpha Survey |
| 16:30-16:45 | Nadia Lo * | Detection of silicon monoxide from a massive dense cold core |
| 16:45-17:00 | Hiroyuki Nakanishi | Three dimensional distributions of HI and H2 gases in the Galaxy |
| 17:00-17:15 | Andrew Walsh | HOPS: A Mopra survey of the southern Galactic plane |
| 17:15-17:30 | Michael Burton | Cold, Cold Cores in the Delta Quadrant Survey (DQS) |
| 17:30-17:45 | Stefan Keller | The Southern Sky Survey: a New View of the Galactic Halo |
| 17:45-18:00 | Tara Murphy | A blind search for Ultra-Compact HII regions at 20 GHz |
| 18:30-20:30 | Meeting of Observatory and Department Heads | |
Wednesday
| 09:00-10:30 | Session Nine - Stellar Astronomy | |
| 09:00-09:15 | Don Melrose | Particle acceleration associated with magnetic reconnection |
| 09:15-09:30 | Julian North * | Asteroseismology and Interferometry of solar-like stars |
| 09:30-09:45 | Matthew Verdon * | Radio emission and polarization in an oscillating model for pulsar electrodynamics |
| 09:45-10:00 | Joris Verbiest * | Pulsar Timing and the Astronomical Distance Scale |
| 10:00-10:15 | Duncan Galloway | Thermonuclear (type-I) X-ray bursts: progress and problems |
| 10:15-10:30 | Christine Chung * | Gravitational waves from freely precessing, accreting millisecond pulsars |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea and Poster Session | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session Ten - Extra-solar planets | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Jessie Christiansen * | The University of NSW Extrasolar Planet Search: Updates and candidates |
| 11:15-11:30 | Antonio García Muñoz | Physical and chemical aeronomy of HD 209458b |
| 11:30-11:45 | Tui Britton * | High dynamic range direct imaging of extrasolar planets with LAPCAT |
| 11:45-12:00 | Sally Langford * | Earth: A Prototype Extrasolar Planet? |
| 12:00-12:15 | Simon O'Toole | Understanding Anglo-Australian Planet Search observations |
| 12:15-12:30 | Chris Tinney | The Anglo-Australian Planet Search - An update |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45-14:30 | Session Eleven - The Solar System, and Astrophysics | |
| 13:45-14:00 | Matthew Chamberlain | Thermal Radiation from Large Asteroids |
| 14:00-14:15 | Andrew Smith * | Lucky imaging |
| 14:15-14:30 | Brendon Brewer* | Regularisation, Resolution and Revolutions: Bayesian Inference in Astrophysics |
| 14:30-15:30 | ASA AGM | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Tea and Poster Session | |
| 16:00-17:45 | Session Twelve - Antarctic Astronomy | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Michael Ashley | Ground-layer atmospheric turbulence in Antarctica |
| 16:15-16:30 | Jon Lawrence | Can adaptive optics in Chile compete with an Antarctic telescope? |
| 16:30-16:45 | Tim Leslie * | Sky brightness, photometry and cloud statistics for Dome C, Antarctica |
| 16:45-17:00 | Balthasar Indermuehle * | Water vapour radiometry for millimetre phase correction - from Antarctica to Narrabri |
| 17:00-17:15 | John Storey | PILOT and the future of Dome C astronomy |
| 17:15-17:30 | Will Saunders | The functional requirements and design for PILOT |
| 17:30-17:45 | Shane Hengst * | PLATO and the 2007/8 site testing expedition to Dome A |
| 19:00-23:30 | Conference Dinner and Presentation of Prizes | |
Thursday
| 09:00-10:30 | Session Thirteen - Facilities and Instrumentation | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Dennis Crabtree | Gemini Science Operations |
| 09:30-09:45 | Roger Clay | Recent Results from the Pierre Auger High Energy Observatory |
| 09:45-10:00 | Matthew Colless | The evolving AAO - a snapshot |
| 10:00-10:15 | Sam Barden | Overview of the Instrumentation Program at the Anglo-Australian Observatory |
| 10:15-10:30 | Warrick Couch | GMT: An update |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea and Poster Session | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session Fourteen - Facilities, Instrumentation and Astronomy Education | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Simon Johnston | Science with MIRANdA |
| 11:15-11:30 | David Blair | AIGO enables world GW array to uniquely identify source host galaxies |
| 11:30-11:45 | Fred Watson | RAVE: status and progress |
| 11:45-12:00 | Tanya Hill | Come see the stars! The modern world of Planetaria |
| 12:00-12:15 | Nick Lomb | Boosting astronomy's profile with social media: the Sydney Observatory blog |
| 12:15-12:30 | Stephen Hughes | Using astronomy to inspire students into careers in science |
| 12:30-12:40 | Helen Sim | Year of Astronomy |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 12:45-14:00 | Nick Lomb | EPOC Education meeting |
| 14:00-15:00 | Session Fifteen - Late Additions | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Laszlo Kiss | An AAOmega survey of Galactic globular clusters |
| 14:15-14:30 | Ray Norris | Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS): Deep observations of seven square degrees of sky |
| 14:30-14:45 | ||
| 14:45-15:00 | ||
| 15:00 | Conference Close | |
| Program | All Days |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Posters |
| Abstracts | Posters A-K |
Posters L-Z |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Lunch Meetings |