School of Physics, University of Sydney

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PROGRAM

Next-Generation Astronomical Surveys:
Opportunities and Science Drivers

A workshop to discuss future large-scale programs and their goals

University of Sydney, 3-4 December 2001

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Monday 3 December 2001
Session 1: New facilities and future plans (I)
    Chair: Gordon Robertson
09:30 Elaine Sadler (Sydney) Welcome and introduction
09:35-09:55 Matthew Colless (ANU) Large galaxy surveys
09:55-10:25 Peter Hall (ATNF) New and Future Facilities: SKA
10:25-10:45 Brian Boyle (AAO) Next-generation multi-object spectroscopic surveys
10:45-11:05 Eric Hooper (Texas) The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP), a next-generation X-ray serendipitous survey
11:05-11:30 Morning tea/coffee
Session 2: Sky surveys and galaxy evolution
    Chair: Fred Watson
11:30-11:50 Will Saunders (AAO) Next-generation all-sky spectroscopic surveys
11:50-12:10 Duncan Forbes (Swinburne) GEMS: Group Evolution Multi-wavelength Survey
12:10-12:30 James Rose (UNC, Chapel Hill) Large surveys of galaxy age/metallicity
12:30-12:50 Carlos DeBreuck (IAP, Paris) A search for the highest-redshift radio galaxies with SUMSS
12:50-13:10 Carole Jackson (ANU) Multiwavelength studies of the HDF-South
13:10-14:00 Lunch (provided for registered participants)
Session 3: The distant universe
    Chair: Elaine Sadler
14:00-14:20 Brian Schmidt (ANU) The Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope
14:20-14:40 Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (Adelaide) Polarimetric Surveys of the Future
14:40-15:00 Jasper Wall (Oxford) Measuring large-scale structure from wide-area radio surveys
15:00-15:20 Helen Buttery (Cambridge) Searching for distant clusters with SUMSS
15:20-15:30 David Crawford (Sydney) A blast from the past: The Molonglo Cross survey 1976-1978
15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea/coffee
Session 4: Galactic science
    Chair: Russell Cannon
16:00-16:20 Brad Gibson (Swinburne) Surveying the Galactic Halo with 6dF
16:20-16:40 Naomi McClure-Griffiths (ATNF) The Southern Galactic Plane Survey
16:40-17:00 Jim Caswell (ATNF) Methanol multibeam survey at Parkes and Jodrell: locating the embryonic sites of massive star formation in our Galaxy
17:00-17:20 Tim Bedding (Sydney) Serendipitous monitoring of optical variable sources with the MONS satellite
17:30 End of Monday's session


Tuesday 4 December 2001 (morning)
Session 5: New facilities and future plans (II)
    Chair: Ray Norris
09:30-10:00 Warrick Couch (UNSW) New and Future Facilities: Gemini
10:00-10:20 Terry Bridges (AAO) Wide-field survey science with AAOmega, 2dF's successor
10:20-10:40 Martin Zwaan (Melbourne) Deep HI surveys
10:40-11:10 Lawrence Cram (ARC) Science from large-area deep radio surveys
   AND
Discussion on data handling and virtual observatories
11:10-11:30 Morning tea/coffee
Session 6: New facilities and future plans (III)
    Chair: Dick Hunstead
11:30-11:50 Michael Ashley (UNSW) Sky surveys in the thermal IR: protostars and protogalaxies
11:50-12:10 Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer (AAO/ATNF) All-sky multiwavelength variability monitoring
12:10-12:30 Lister Staveley-Smith (ATNF) High-frequency radio continuum surveys
12:30-13:00 Russell Cannon (AAO)
Jasper Wall (Oxford)
Conference Summary
13:00-14:00 Lunch (provided for registered participants)

Tuesday 4 December 2001 (afternoon)
(i) Open session of the Australian SKA Science Working Group
    Chair: Elaine Sadler (Chair, Australian SKA Science Working Group)
14:00-14:10 Ravi Subrahmanyan (ATNF) CMB spectral measurements with the SKA
14:10-14:20 Mark Wieringa (ATNF) SKA configurations - science constraints and current thoughts
14:20-14:30 Geraint Lewis (AAO) SKA science drivers: gravitational lensing, high-redshift gas
14:30-15:15 Presentation and discussion led by Carole Jackson (ANU)
(Carole will represent us at the next meeting of the SKA Science Advisory Committee in Bologna, Jan 2002)
SKA parameter space analysis: Matching science drivers and telescope designs in a quantitative way
15:15- 15:30 Afternoon tea/coffee
(ii) Discussion session on science goals for the Australia SKA prototypes funded under MNRF2
    Chair: Anne Green (Chair, Australia Telescope Users Committee)
15:30-16:15 Presentations and discussion on science goals for SKA prototypes at Narrabri and Molonglo
16:30 End of the meeting




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