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THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA INC. |
Annual Scientific Meeting 1st to 5th July, 2007 |
Scientific Program
The main conference sessions will be held in the Mason Theatre within building E7B at Macquarie University. Morning and afternoon tea and coffee, and poster sessions will be in the Courtyard in the same building. There will be an opening reception held on the evening of Sunday July 1st, at MGSM, and registration on the monday morning (and afterwards) will be held in E7B 163. A large campus map showing the location of building E7B is available here.
Speakers are advised that PowerPoint or PDF presentations will be made using the computer installed in the lecture theatre, or on an apple laptop provided, unless specific software is required. Further details about software options are provided below. The lecture theatre also has an overhead projector.
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.
| Sunday, July 1st | 13:00-17:00 | ASA Council Meeting |
| 17:00-18:00 | Registration / Reception | |
| 18:00-19:30 | Reception | |
| 19:30-22:30 | ASA Council Dinner | |
| Monday, July 2nd | 08:00-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome and Official Opening | |
| 09:15-10:30 | Session 1. | |
| 09:15-10:15 | Ellery Lecture - Mike Bessell | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea & Posters | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 2. Cosmology | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch - SKA Discussion Session and Discussion meeting on future science operations of ASKAP and ATNF | |
| 13:45-15:30 | Session 3. Cosmology | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Tea & Posters | |
| 16:00-17:45 | Session 4. Galaxies: Clustering, Formation and Evolution | |
| 19:00-20:30 | Harley Wood Public Lecture - Matthew Bailes | |
| Tuesday, July 3rd | 09:00-10:30 | Session 5. Galaxies: Evolution and Local Galaxies |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea & Posters | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 6. The Magellanic Clouds and the Local Group | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch - Giant Magellan Telescope Update | |
| 13:45-15:30 | Session 7. Galactic Science | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Tea & Posters | |
| 16:00-18:00 | Session 8. Galactic Science and Surveys | |
| 18:30-20:30 | Meeting of Observatory and Department Heads - E7B163 | |
| Wednesday, July 4th | 09:00-10:30 | Session 9. Stellar Astronomy |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea & Posters | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 10. Extra-solar Planets | |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45-14:30 | Session 11. Solar System | |
| 14:30-15:30 | ASA AGM | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Tea & Posters | |
| 16:00-17:45 | Session 12. Antarctic Astronomy | |
| 19:00-23:30 | Conference Dinner & Presentation of Prizes | |
| Thursday, July 5th | 09:00-10:30 | Session 13. Facilities and Instrumentation |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea & Posters | |
| 11:00-12:45 | Session 14. Facilities, Instrumentation and Astronomy Education | |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch - EPOC Education Meeting | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 15. Late Additions | |
| 15:00 | Conference Close | |
Detailed Programs
The detailed program is now available:
| Program |  All Days |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Posters |
| Abstracts | Posters A-K |
Posters L-Z |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Lunch Meetings |
Contributing Talks
All conference attendees are invited to contribute talks. Note that non-members of the ASA are welcome to present, but the ASA expects presenters to be members if this is not their first ASM.
All talks have been allocated 15 minutes, taking the form of 12 minutes + 3 minutes of questions. It is unlikely that any further talks will be accepted at this date.
If you wish to contribute a talk please indicate this on the registration form, giving the name of the talk and a brief abstract. We will try to accommodate all requests for talks, but if there are insufficient timeslots, some requests for talks may be assigned to poster sessions.
Available Software
Two computers (one PC and a Mac) will be available for presentations, and only in special circumstances (eg. a specific piece of software is to be demonstrated) will a presenter be allowed to use their own laptop. This will hopefully cut down on delays between presentations and prevent most of the problems associated with switching laptops at conferences.
Talks may be transferred to either computer using CD-ROM or USB memory sticks.
The resident PC is running Windows, has a fast internet connection and has the following software installed:
- Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Project 2003
- Adobe Reader 6.0
- Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape 7.1
- Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player 6.5 and RealPlayer 10.0
- Shockwave plugin
- Novell NetWare Client and Sophos Virus Software
- SPSS v 12.1, SAS v 8.2, Shazan v 9, MYOB v 13, AMOS 5 and Minitab
The mac is an iBook G4 running Mac OS 10.3.9 (Panther), will have access to the internet, and has the following software installed:
- Microsoft Office 2004
- Adobe Reader 7.09, Preview
- Safari 1.3, Firefox 2.0, and Internet Explorer
- VLC, Quicktime, Real Player, and Windows Media Player
Should you require other software or hardware, please send an email to cathieb @ physics.mq.edu.au and we will discuss the options available.
Papers
All speakers are encouraged to submit papers to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA).
Prizes
Prizes, sponsored by the ATNF, will be awarded at the conference dinner for first and second places for the best student talks and posters.
For further information (and additions or corrections), contact: alanv@physics.mq.edu.au