Annual retreat programDate: 8, 9 & 10 November 2017
Venue: 8 & 10 Nov: The Hawthorn Arts Centre, 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122 (Map) 9 Nov: Level 3, AMDC building, Swinburne University of Technology, 463 Burwood Rd Hawthorn (Map) Retreat Day 1
Wednesday 8 November 2017 Venue: The Hawthorn Arts Centre, 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122 (Map) 08:30 Registration desk open 09:00 Welcome from the Director (Prof Matthew Bailes) 09:15 Progress and vision for the future (Theme leaders: McClelland, Thrane and Bailes) 10:00 Morning Tea 10:30 Keynote Lecture (Prof Sheila Rowan, University of Glasgow) 11:30 Instrumentation Theme 11:30 Georgia Mansell (ANU): 2 micron squeezing 11:45 Joshua McCann (UWA): Advanced Low Frequency Rotational Accelerometer ALFRA 12:00 Deeksha Beniwal (UAdel): Mid-IR fibre lasers for wavefront correction in 3G detectors 12:15 Dan Brown (UAdel): Impact of mode instabilities on the performance of aLIGO 12:30 Lunch & Meet the CIs and PIs 13:30 Instrumentation Theme continued 13:30 Paul Sibley (ANU): Space Interferometry: Enabling techniques and technology 13:45 Group Discussion 14:15 Data Theme 14:15 Ling Sun (UniMelb): HMM tracking of continuous gravitational waves from young supernova remnants 14:30 Letizia Sammut (Monash): Searches and estimates of the stochastic gravitational wave background 14:45 Sparkler talks about posters (15 x 1 mins each) 15:00 Afternoon Tea 15:30 Data Theme continued 15:30 Karl Wette (ANU): Searching for continuous gravitational waves and X-ray pulsars 15:45 Qi Chu (UWA): The status of the SPIIR pipeline 16:00 Simon Stevenson (Swinburne): Ultra-stripped core-collapse supernovae for double neutron star formation 16:15 Group Discussion 16:45 ARC vision for Centres of Excellence (Liz Visher, Director, Program Partnerships, ARC) 17:15 Sparkler talks about posters (15 x 1 mins each) 17:30 Close 18:00 Lawn bowls and dinner @ Auburn Bowls Club (Map) Retreat Day 2 Thursday 9 November 2017 Venue: Level 3, AMDC building, Swinburne University of Technology, 463 Burwood Rd Hawthorn (Map) 08:00 Set up posters on level 3 AMDC 08:30 Poster session with continental breakfast 10:30 Official Launch of OzGrav by the Federal Minister for Education & Training 12:00 Lunch & group photos 12:45 Multi-Messenger Astronomy Workshop 12:45 Jeff Cooke (Swinburne): Invited opening lecture 13:15 Anna Moore (AITC/ANU): DREAMS and Gattini-IR 13:30 Duncan Galloway (Monash) Status of the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Explorer 13:45 Orsola De Marco (MQ): The impact of the common envelope interaction phase on mergers’ delay times 14:00 Eric Howell (UWA) Some open questions about GRB170817 14:15 Boris Goncharov (Monash) All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves with folded data 14:30 Jose Bellido Caceres (UAdel): Detection of high energy neutrinos & photons with Pierre Auger Observatory 14:45 Afternoon Tea 15:15 Multi-Messenger Astronomy Workshop 15:15 Christian Wolf (ANU) Optical follow-up of GW events with ANU telescopes (past and future) 15:30 Roberto Iaconi (MQ) Understanding the origin of GW emitting binaries: common envelope interaction in massive stellar systems 15:45 Tara Murphy (USyd) Radio follow up of GWs 16:00 Igor Andreoni (Swinburne) Australia knows how to observe counterparts to GW events (we proved it) 16:15 Ryan Riddel-Harper (ANU) Detecting UV gravitational wave counterparts with GLUV 16:30 Kendall Ackley (Monash) Automated Transient and Variable Classification in the Era of MMA 16:45 Thomas Reichardt (MQ) How can we achieve a fully functional model of the common envelope interaction? 17:00 Linqing Wen (UWA) Cosmology with a 3G detector 17:15 Closing Summary 17:20 Close 17:30 Closed session: Scientific & Governance Advisory Committee meeting (room AMDC 801) 19:00 Conference Dinner @ Hawthorn Arts Centre Includes prizes for posters and after-dinner talk by Prof James Hough Retreat Day 3 Friday 10 November 2017 Venue: The Hawthorn Arts Centre, 360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122 (Map) 09:00 Invited Lecture: Suspension technology for gravitational wave detectors & the spin-off into MEMS gravimetry (Prof Giles Hammond, Uni of Glasgow) 09:45 Invited Lecture: Future prospects of pulsar timing arrays (Dr Chiara Mingarelli) 10:30 Morning Tea 11:00 Unconscious bias session (further details here) (Prof Robert Wood, Cognicity) 12:30 Lunch 13:15 Theme breakaway planning sessions: 1) Data/Astrophysics, 2) Instrumentation 14:30 Afternoon Tea 15:00 Reports back from planning sessions & wrap-up 16:00 Close |