Monday, 8th July Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting including HWWS 2013

8:45 AM              Duncan Galloway, Conference Chair

                       Conference Introduction

8:50 AM              Dr Alan Finkel, Chancellor of Monash University

                      Opening of Conference

9:05 AM              Kate Brooks, President of Astronomical Society of Australia   

                            Ellery Lecture Introduction

• What can a gravitationally-lensed quasar teach us? - Rachel Webster
• SAMI and the SAMI galaxy Survey - Julia Bryant

• The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey: Data Release and Early Science - Julie Banfield
• Deep 21-cm HI Observations with the Arecibo Telescope - Laura Hoppmann
• The role of the cluster environment on the star formation cycle of galaxies - Luca Cortese
• Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Testing galaxy formation models through the most massive objects in the universe - Paola Oliva-Altamirano
• The Evolution of Galaxies in Compact Groups.  - Iraklis Konstantopoulos

1^st Eromanga Adermann, Searching for Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Early Type Galaxies Featuring Prominent Dust Lanes [201]

2^nd Richard Beare, New Measurements of the Evolving Growth Rates of Galaxies     [205]

3^rdGeorgios Bekiaris, Investigating Kinematic Modelling of Disk Galaxies Using GPUs     [206]

4^thSarah Bruzzese, Is the initial mass function universal? The case of NGC 2915     [210]

5^th Pierluigi Cerulo, Morphological Transformation of Red Sequence Galaxies in High Redshift Galaxy Clusters     [211]

The Astronomical Society of Australia's Education and Public Outreach Chapter

 Women In Astronomy Chapter

 Early Career Researcher Chapter

 Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Chapter

Some lunch will be provided in the West Wing Cellar for those attending the lunchtime session.

• Small worlds, big puzzles: insights from the Solar System's outer frontiers - Michele Bannister
• First results from the AAT search for Habitable-Zone Exoplanets orbiting Late M-dwarfs - Duncan Wright
• Dynamical Constraints on Multi-Planet Exoplanet Systems - Jonathan Horner
• Unveiling the 2D Chemistry of Protoplanetary Discs - Francesco Pignatale

1^st Kate Chow, The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey: The composite properties of young AGN     [212]

2^ndJordan Collier, Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer Observations of Infrared Faint Radio Sources     [213]

3^rdDimitri Douchin, Estimating the fraction of binary central stars of planetary nebulae using the IR-excess method     [217]

4^th Tobias Feger, A stable wavelength comb for precise radial velocity measurements     [219]

5^th Bi-Qing For, The twisted Magellanic Stream and its Leading Arm(s)     [221]

6^thGregory Goldstein, A Catalogue of Radio AGN behind the LMC     [223]

7^th Elise Hampton, The search for TeV particle accelerators in the star forming HII complex G5.89-0.39 using Chandra     [225]

8^th Sreeja S Kartha, Wide-field imaging studies of globular cluster systems in three intermediate mass early-type galaxies     [236]

9^thChamplain Kenyi, Spectroscopic Fitting of the Terrestrial Atmosphere for Improved Planetary Atmosphere Observations and Greenhouse Gas Monitoring     [237]

10^th Rebecca Lange, GAMA: The local mass-size relationship revisited     [239]

11^th Sarah Leslie, The Energy Source and Dynamics of Infared Luminous Galaxy ESO148-IG02     [241]

12^th Belinda Nicholson, Is The Fundamental Plane Fundamental?     [252]

13^th Andrew Prentice, Mercury, Titan and Ganymede: new theoretical models for bulk chemical composition, internal physical structure and origin which match the latest spacecraft data     [260]

• HI properties of massive galaxies - Barbara Catinella
• Louise Webster Prize  - The connection between star formation and turbulence - Andy Green
• A search for intervening HI absorption in nearby, gas-rich galaxies - Sarah Reeves
• The giant lobes of Centaurus A observed with the Murchison Widefield Array - Benjamin McKinley

Refreshments will be provided.

• Searching for Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Early Type Galaxies Featuring Prominent Dust Lanes - Eromanga Adermann
• Title: Clustering of dense molecular gas in the Milky Way Galaxy - Shaila Akhter
• Interaction of Hydra A jets with the Intracluster medium.  - Mohammad Ali Nawaz
• Using Scaling Relations to Examine the Effects of Environment on High Redshift Galaxy Evolution - Rebecca Allen
• New Measurements of the Evolving Growth Rates of Galaxies - Richard Beare
• Investigating Kinematic Modelling of Disk Galaxies Using GPUs - Georgios Bekiaris
• Testing a Velocity Dispersion Model of the Milky Way Halo's Stars - Sarah Bird
• Māori Astronomical Traditions of Meteors - Tui Britton
• Galaxy spectral energy distributions from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared - Michael Brown
• Is the initial mass function universal? The case of NGC 2915. - Sarah Bruzzese
• Morphological Transformation of Red Sequence Galaxies in High Redshift Galaxy Clusters - Pierluigi Cerulo
• The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey: The composite properties of young AGN - Kate E Chow
• Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer Observations of Infrared Faint Radio Sources - Jordan D Collier
• Mass assembly history of main sequence galaxy halos. - Camila Correa
• Lithium abundances in the globular cluster NGC 6218 (M12) - Valentina D'Orazi
• Evolution of planetary nebulae with hydrogen-deficient central stars - Ashkbiz Danehkar
• Estimating the fraction of binary central stars of planetary nebulae using the IR-excess method - Dimitri Douchin
• NGC2110 – Young Star Clusters in the Circumnuclear Torus - Mark Durre
• A stable wavelength comb for precise radial velocity measurements - Tobias Feger
• A Review of High School Astronomy Student Research Projects over the last two decades. - Michael T Fitzgerald
• The twisted Magellanic Stream and its Leading Arm(s) - Bi-Qing For
• Outer triaxiality of a ‘Fast Rotator’ - Caroline Foster
• A Catalogue of Radio AGN behind the LMC - Gregory Goldstein
• Starbugs enabling technologies and applications - Michael Goodwin
• The search for TeV particle accelerators in the star forming HII complex G5.89-0.39 using Chandra - Elise Hampton
• Radio Faint Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows - Paul J Hancock
• Magnetic fields in the Smith Cloud - Alex S Hill
• Discovery of the oldest stars in the Galactic bulge - Louise M Howes
• How accurate is SuperCOSMOS astrometry? - Richard W. Hunstead
• The ATLAS 5.5 GHz survey of the extended Chandra Deep Field South: catalogue, source counts and spectral indices - Minh Huynh
• Galactic Structure from the MALT 90 Survey:  High-Mass Star-Formation in Distant Spiral Arms - James Jackson
• The Fall and Rise of Sydney Observatory - Andrew Jacob
• Making visible the women who measured stars in Australia - Andrew Jacob
• Clumping factors of H and He from EoR simulations - Akila Jeeson-Daniel
• First results for MALT-45: A 7mm survey of the southern Galaxy - Christopher H Jordan
• Wide-field imaging studies of globular cluster systems in three intermediate mass early-type galaxies - Sreeja Kartha
• Spectroscopic Fitting of the Terrestrial Atmosphere for Improved Planetary Atmosphere Observations and Greenhouse Gas Monitoring - Champlain Kenyi
• A test for galaxy pre-processing using large-scale structure in the local Universe  - Dane Kleiner
• GAMA: The local mass-size relationship revisited - Rebecca Lange
• Magnetic Fields in Relativistic Neutron Stars - Paul Lasky
• The Energy Source and Dynamics of Infared Luminous Galaxy ESO148-IG02 - Sarah K Leslie
• Decoding the Message from Silicon in Stardust Mainstream Silicon Carbide Grains - Karen M Lewis
• Molecular Gas Dynamics near Sagittarius A* - John AP Lopez
• Variations between star formation environments - Vicki Lowe
• Bcool Australia - Stephen Marsden
• Dense gas towards the supernova remnants RX J1713.7-3946 and W28 - Nigel Maxted
• Do tiled display walls improve feature recognition in large astronomical images? - Bernard Meade
• HI stacking can be used to measure edge-on rotation velocities for use in the Tully-Fisher relation - Scott A Meyer
• Stars on the run: escaping from stellar clusters - Guido Moyano Loyola
• Colour bimodality of galaxies at high redshift - Themiya Nanayakkara
• Is The Fundamental Plane Fundamental?  - Belinda A Nicholson
• Properties of coronal rains in the Sun - Robert Nilsson
• Pulsar Studies with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) - Samuel S. I. Oronsaye
• The clustering of GAMA galaxies: dependence on color, luminosity, mass and redshift. - David Palamara
• GLOBULAR CLUSTER AND STELLAR METALLICITY RADIAL PROFILES IN EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES - Nicola Pastorello
• The GAMA void galaxy sample - Samantha Penny
• The role of stellar mass and environment for cluster blue fraction, AGN, and star formation - Kevin Pimbblet
• The Halo Mass Function & Future Galaxy Surveys - Chris Power
• Mercury, Titan and Ganymede: new theoretical models for bulk chemical composition, internal physical structure and origin which match the latest spacecraft data - Andrew J. R. Prentice
• Multi-Epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometric Observations of the Nuclear Starburst Region of NGC~253: Improved modeling of the supernova and star-formation rates - Hayden Rampadarath
• The radio properties of mass selected IR Galaxies out to Z=3. - Glen Rees
• The First Supernova Discovered with GeMS/GSAOI - Stuart Ryder
• Direct Imaging Of Long Period Radial Velocity Exoplanet Systems With NICI - Graeme S. Salter
• The supermassive black hole mass - Sérsic index (and other) relation(s) for bulges and elliptical galaxies. - Giulia Savorgnan
• Type Ia Supernova Bolometric Light Curves and Ejected Mass Estimates from the Nearby Supernova Factory - Richard Scalzo
• The relationship between lobe luminosity and kinetic power of AGN jets - Stas Shabala
• Measuring the environments of proto-clusters in the high redshift universe - Genevieve Shattow
• The Chemical Evolution of Heavy Elements in Globular Clusters - Luke J. Shingles
• Integrated photonic lanterns with gratings: miniature spectral filters for near-infrared spectroscopy - Izabela Spaleniak
• A DEBRIS disk around the planet hosting M-star GJ 581 spatially resolved with Herschel - Elodie Thilliez
• Adventures in the microlensing cloud: eResearch tools for zooming into the heart of quasars - Georgios Vernardos
• High spatial resolution observations of water masers in HOPS - Andrew Walsh
• Exploring the Ursa Major region - Kathrin Wolfinger
• The physical conditions of the Lupus molecular clouds - Graeme F Wong
• Giants in Vela: The high energy tail of Vela's pulsed radio emission - Tim Young
• Photometric Redshifts: Template-based vs. Empirical - Christian Wolf

Chair: David Parkinson