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Day
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Time
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Subject
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Speaker
|
Length (min) |
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Tuesday
|
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17th April
|
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10:30am
|
Registration
|
|
3hr
|
|
1:30pm
|
Welcome - Astronomers of the Future
|
B. Boyle (AAO)
|
30
|
|
2:00pm
|
Introduction to Observational Astronomy
|
D. Hunstead (USyd)
|
60
|
| |
3:00pm
|
Coffee/Tea
|
|
30
|
|
3:30pm
|
Basics of a Telescope
|
P Gillingham (AAO)
|
60
|
| |
4:30pm
|
Finish
|
|
|
| |
4:30pm
|
Registration
|
|
|
| |
7:00pm
|
Practical Session
|
|
180
|
| |
10:00pm
|
End
|
|
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| |
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Wednesday
|
|
|
|
|
| 18th April |
9:00am
|
Detectors
|
P. McGregor (RSAA)
|
60
|
| |
10:00am
|
Coffee/Tea
|
|
30
|
| |
10:30am
|
Basics of Imaging
|
M.Bessell (RSAA)
|
60
|
| |
11:30am
|
Narrowband Imaging
|
S. Cianci
(USyd & AAO)
|
30
|
|
12:00pm
|
Wide-Field Imaging
|
G DaCosta (RSAA)
|
30
|
| |
12:30pm
|
Lunch
|
|
90
|
| |
2:00pm
|
Surveys
|
M.Colless (RSAA)
|
30
|
| |
2:30pm
|
Near Infrared Astronomy
|
C. Tinney (AAO/TBC)
|
40
|
| |
3:10pm
|
Coffee/Tea
|
|
30
|
| |
3:40pm
|
Far Infrared Astronomy
|
C. Wright (ADFA)
|
30
|
|
4:10pm
|
Polarimetry
|
E. Corbett (AAO)
|
30
|
| |
4:40pm
|
Finish
|
|
|
|
7:30pm
|
Conference Dinner
|
Lachlan's Restaurant |
Macquarie University |
|
| |
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|
Thursday
|
|
|
|
|
| 19th April |
|
|
|
|
| |
9:00am
|
Proposal writing
|
C. Tinney (AAO)
|
30
|
| |
9:30am
|
Proposal Role-Playing
|
P. Francis (RSAA)
|
90
|
| |
11:00am
|
Coffee/Tea
|
|
30
|
|
11:30am
|
Basics of Spectroscopy
|
G. Robertson
(USyd)
|
60
|
| |
12:30pm
|
Echelle Spectroscopy
|
R. Stathakis (AAO)
|
30
|
| |
1:00pm
|
Lunch
|
|
60
|
| |
2:00pm
|
Multi-Object Spectroscopy
|
F. Watson (AAO)
|
60
|
| |
3:00pm
|
Integral-Field Spectroscopy
|
R. Haynes (AAO)
|
30
|
| |
3:30pm
|
Coffee/Tea
|
|
30
|
| |
4:00pm
|
Infrared Spectroscopy
|
S. Ryder (AAO)
|
30
|
|
4:30pm
|
Archives
|
R. Webster
(U. Melbourne)
|
30
|
| |
5:00pm
|
Finish
|
|
|
| |
7:00pm
|
Practical Session
|
|
180
|
| |
10:00pm
|
End
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
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Friday
|
|
|
|
|
| 20th April |
| |
10:00am
|
Coffee/Tea
|
|
30
|
| |
10:30am
|
Gamma-ray Astronomy
|
R. Clay (U.Adelaide)
|
30
|
| |
11:00am
|
X-Ray Astronomy
|
P. Nulsen (U.Wollongong)
|
30
|
|
11:30am
|
Adaptive Optics
|
J. O'Bryne (USyd)
|
30
|
|
12:00pm
|
Optical Interferometry
|
B. Tango (USyd)
|
30
|
| |
12:30pm
|
Lunch
|
|
90
|
| |
2:00pm
|
HST/NGST
|
D. Forbes (Swinburne)
|
30
|
| |
2:30pm
|
Gemini
|
W. Couch (UNSW)
|
30
|
| |
3:00pm
|
Coffee/Tea
|
|
30
|
|
3:30pm
|
VLT
|
T. Bridges (AAO)
|
30
|
|
4:00pm
|
SIRTF/Sofia
|
J. Storey (UNSW)
|
30
|
| |
4:30pm
|
End
|
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