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The Astronomical Society of Australia THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
OF AUSTRALIA INC.

Annual Scientific Meeting
6-10 July 2008
 



Scientific Program

The ASM 2008 conference talk sessions will be held in the Tattersall Lecture Theatre, in the UWA Crawley campus. Morning and afternoon tea and coffee, and poster sessions, will be in the main foyer of the Molecular and Chemical Sciences (MCS) building.

There will be initial registration and an Opening Reception on the evening of Sunday 6 July, in Hackett Hall on campus. Registration will continue on Monday in the MCS foyer. An annotated campus map showing the location of the MCS Building is available here (its map grid location is J15). The Tattersall Lecture Theatre is nearby. Free visitor parking during the UWA non-teaching break should be available on campus (see the Transport page for details).

Speakers are advised that only PowerPoint or PDF presentations can be made, using UWA laptop computers, unless specific software is required. Further details about software options will be provided below. The lecture theatre also has an overhead projector and 35mm slide projection facilities.

All speakers are required to set up their talks at least half an hour before the start of their assigned session. Thus, we urge all speakers to copy their presentation files onto the UWA laptops during the break prior to their talk, so that we can test each file to ensure that there will be no problems in the following session. Some LOC members will be available to help transfer your files, and solve any problems that might arise.

PRELIMINARY ASM 2008 PROGRAM

The preliminary ASA2008 progam is now available: We also have a list of ASA2008 participants available for download:

OBSERVATORIES TOUR

Following the ASM we have an optional observatories tour on Friday, 11 July
08:00am Buses leave UWA for Gingin
09:30 - 13:30 AIGO Research Laboratories,
Gingin Observatory, Zadko Observatory,
Gravity Discovery Centre (GDC),
Cosmology Gallery, Leaning Tower of Gingin,
Solar System Planet Walk
10:30 - 11:30 Morning Tea at GDC
12:30 - 13:20 Lunch at GDC
13:30 Buses leave GDC for Perth Observatory
14:30 - 15:30 Visit a Swan Valley Vineyard
16:00 - 18:30 Perth Observatory
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner Stop at Restaurant
21:30 Buses back at UWA

INVITED SPEAKERS

The following is the current list of speakers who are scheduled to give an Invited Talk at the ASM 2008 meeting:

Chris Blake (Swinburne)
Kate Brooks (ATNF)
Catherine Buchanan (Melbourne)
Roland Crocker (Monash)
Bruce Dawson (Univ. Adelaide)
Simon Driver (St. Andrews)
Alistair Edge (Durham)
Duncan Galloway (Monash)
Robert Hollow (ATNF)
George Hobbs (ATNF)
Andrew Hopkins (Sydney)
Chiaki Kobayashi (RSAA)
Jean-Pierre Macquart (Curtin)
Pat McCarthy (Carnegie Observatories)
Tara Murphy (Sydney)
Dan Shaddock (JPL)
Linqing Wen (UWA)
Stan Whitcomb (Caltech)

BOK PRIZE TALK

The 2008 Bok Prize Talk will be given by Christopher Hales (Univ. Sydney).

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.

In 2008 ASM SOC planning discussions, it has been suggested to have a variety of formats, instead of the the fixed 12 mins (talk) + 3 mins (Q&A) = 15 minutes allocated to each speaker in ASM 2007. The following gives a rough idea (as of April 2008) of what the available presentation formats for the ASM 2008 program might be, should this new proposal be agreed upon by ASM 2008 SOC members: If you wish to contribute a talk, please indicate this on the online registration form, giving the talk title and a brief abstract (no more than 300 words, no LateX symbols). We will try to accommodate all requests for talks, but if there are insufficient timeslots, some talk requests may need to be assigned to `sparkler' talk/poster-only sessions.

AVAILABLE SOFTWARE

Two laptop computers (an Intel PC and an Apple Macintosh) will be available for presentations, and only in special circumstances (e.g. 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.

PAPERS

All speakers are encouraged to submit papers to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA).

PRIZES

Prizes, sponsored by the ASA, will be awarded at the ASM 2008 conference dinner for 1st and 2nd places for the best student talks and posters.

 

For further information (and additions or corrections), contact: Andre Fletcher (abf@cyllene.uwa.edu.au)