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Colloquia and Talks at Epping.

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Colloquia and Talks at the AAO/ATNF Epping.

The AAO organises frequent colloquia at our Epping headquarters. These are usually held on a Thursday afternoon, normally at 3:30pm, though other dates are occasionally scheduled. We welcome talks from visiting astronomers - if you are passing through Sydney and would like to tell us about your work, please contact Quentin Parker (qap@ics.mq.edu.au)

The ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility) also organises colloquia at their Epping offices. A schedule for these talks can be found here.

The AAO and ATNF also occasionally organise Joint Colloquia when the speaker is likely to be of interest to both radio and optical communities. These talks will be found in both the list below, and the ATNF schedule.

A list of past speakers can be found here.

Informal Seminars

As well as the more formal colloquia described above, there are a number of informal discussion groups which meet regularly on the ATNF/Radiophysics/AAO grounds. All are welcome to these discussions.

Forthcoming AAO colloquia....

AAO Colloquia

Thursday 5th June 2008 3:00pm

Macquarie/AAO joint presentation: MQ lecture theatre E7A100

The PILOT Roadshow: A discussion of PILOT's scientific capabilities and industry opportunities.

Prof John Storey & Dr Will Saunders

Abstract:
PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.4m optical/infrared telescope for Dome C on the Antarctic plateau, where the median seeing is 0.3" and the thermal backgrounds 1 - 2 orders of magnitude below temperate sites. It would be a joint European/Australian facility, with target first light in 2012. The proposed design accommodates both diffraction-limited and wide-field seeing-limited observations, from 0.4 to 20 microns. Key science drivers include Galactic ecology, the oldest galaxies, the most distant gamma-ray bursters, and the equation of state of the Universe.

The PILOT Roadshow is intended to spread awareness and initiate creative thought about the unique possibilities of the project. We are also inviting feedback on our strawman design, to ensure that we best meet the science requirements of the community. We will present technical, scientific and political overviews of the project, with plenty of time for feedback and discussion.

There will be a 60 minute presentation, followed by an extended discussion session. This will be the last PILOT Roadshow, and we extend a particularly warm invitation to representatives from industry.


 

2008: Recent and Future AAO Colloquia

2008: Recent and Future AAO Colloquia
Date Venue & Time  Speaker Title
6th December 2007 AAO Conference Room  4:00 p.m. John Huchra, CfA, Harvard IR Properties of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe.
13th December 2007 AAO Conference Room  3:30 p.m. Marian Martinez Gonzalez, Paris Spectro-polarimetry in Astrophysics
14th January 2008 AAO Conference Room  3:30 p.m. Chiaki Kobayashi, NOAO, Japan High-redshift galaxies in cosmological simulations
8th February 2008 AAO Conference Room  3:30 p.m. Tom Shanks, Durham, UK Prospects for the NG1dF facility on the AAT
28th February 2008 AAO Conference Room  3:30 p.m. Avril Day-Jones, Herts, UK The hunt for benchmark brown dwarfs
4th March 2008 AAO Conference Room  3:30 p.m. Eelco van Kampen, Innsbruck, Austria How not to form too many stars
18th March 2008 AAO Conference Room  3:30 p.m. Jon Loveday, Sussex, UK Properties of galaxies in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey
20th March 2008 AAO Conference Room  3:30 p.m. Ram Sagar, ARIES, India A modern 3.6-meter Optical telescope in India.
8th April 2008 AAO Conference Room  4:00 p.m. Matt Jarvis, Herts, UK Multi-wavelength studies of galaxy evolution.
11th April 2008 AAO Conference Room  3:30 p.m. Martin Cohen, UC Berkely AKARI - Japan's current Infrared Observatory in space.
6th May 2008 ATNF lecture theatre  3:30 p.m. Jamie Lloyd, Cornell, USA Exploring Low Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets with Adaptive Optics and Precision Radial Velocities
5th June 2008 AAO/MQ joint presentation. MQ lecture E7B100   3:00 p.m. John Storey, Will Saunders & Jon Lawrence The PILOT Roadshow: A discussion of PILOT's scientific capabilities and industry opportunities.

AAO Conferences

Current and Past meetings


The 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting and General Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia was hosted by the Astronomy Group within the Department of Physics at Macquarie University, the Anglo-Australian Observatory and the Australia Telescope National Facility from Sunday, July 1st, to the afternoon of Thursday, July 5th, 2007.

Galaxies in the Local Volume Sydney, 8 to 13 July 2007 The conference was held in 2007, July 8 to 13, at the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) in Darling Harbour, Sydney.

Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference on the Magellanic System Sydney, 16 to 17 July 2007 This meeting was held at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) headquarters in Epping, located about 10 km from the city centre.

The AAO Observational Techniques Workshop Held 17 - 20th April 2001, Macquarie University, Sydney
Copies of the talks given at the workshop are available. A similar workshop is planned.


Quentin Parker, AAO/Macquarie Unviversity - last updated 2/07/08