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Tuesday, 01 October
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18:00Weclome Reception (Town Hall)
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19:30Close
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Wednesday, 02 October
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TitleChair
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8:00Buses arrive SSO
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8:15Welcome to CountryChris Lidman
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8:30Welcome (JB) and Housekeeping (CL)
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8:45Christine DemoreThe Early Years of the Anglo-Australian Telescope
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9:00Richard EllisThe Revolution in Multi-Object Spectroscopy: From AAT to WST
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9:30Devika KamathAdvancing Our Understanding of Cosmic Origins: Insights from AAT's Multi-object Spectroscopy
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9:45Warrick Couch Cluster of Galaxies: what the AAT has taught us about environmentally-driven galaxy evolution
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10:00Morning Tea
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10:30Jeremy BaileyPolarimetry with the AAT: Busting the Myth of Spherical StarsFred Watson
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11:00Lucyna ChudczerCharacterising planetary atmospheres with IRIS2 and HIPPI at the AAT
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11:15Brad Carter The past, present and future of Zeeman Doppler Imaging at the AAT
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11:30Tim Bedding Probing Inside Stars Using Asteroseismology
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11:45Ken Freeman The ARGOS survey of the galactic bulge and its ongoing legacy
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12:00Lunch
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13:30Tayyaba ZafarFrom Paranal to Siding Spring: A Support Astronomer’s PerspectiveMatthew Colless
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13:45Sarah MartellThe GALAH survey
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14:15Richard McDermidInstrumentation Legacy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory: Securing the Next 50 Years
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14:30Karl GlazebrookThe Australian WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey
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14:45Andrew HopkinsGalaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA)
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15:00Afternoon Tea
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15:30Roger DaviesGalaxy dynamics & stellar populations from IPCS to SAMIAndrew Hopkins
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16:00Madusha GanawardhanaAAT observations of the star-forming galaxies in the local Universe
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16:15Angel Lopez-SanchezKOALA IFS dwarf galaxy survey" (Hi-KIDS) as an example of science case for BlueMUSE
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16:30Rachel WebsterRed Radio Quasars: An early AAT Discovery
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17:00Close
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17:30Bus leaves SSO
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Thursday, 03 October
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8:00Buses arrive SSO
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8:20 Housekeeping (CL)
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8:30Dan ZuckerThe S5 SurveyJohn Peacock
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9:00Sarah SweetIs our Local Group of galaxies unique?
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9:15Jean Brodie The Globular Cluster - Galaxy Connection
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9:45David Malin & Fred WatsonFrom microscopes to the AAT - a photographic journey
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10:00Morning Tea
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10:30Chris Tinney Some Reflections what makes a Good Telescope a Great ObservatoryWarrick Couch
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11:00Lew WallerA Short Walk in the Warrumbungle Bush or, The AAT, My (Small) Part in its Success
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11:15Tony FarrellEvolution of the AAO Instrumentation software, from the AAT and around the world
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11:30Nuria LorenteArchives, Pipelines and Platforms: 50 Years of AAT Data
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11:45Neville LeggThe AAOs
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12:00Lunch
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13:00Tour of AAT
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13:45Tour of AAT
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14:00Tour of AAT
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14:15Tour of AAT
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14:30Tour of AAT
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14:45Afternoon Tea (50th birthday cake)
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15:30Pat Roche AAT contributions to mid-infrared astronomy, laying foundations for JWST scienceLucyna Chudczer
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16:00Stuart Ryder Near-infrared astronomy with the AAT
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16:15Dionne Haynes Optical fibre-based instrumentation at the AAT
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16:30Steve LeeThe AAT - a personal perspective
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17:00Close
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17:30Bus leaves SSO
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19:00Dinner (Town Hall)
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21:00Close
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Friday, 04 October
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8:00Buses arrive SSO
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8:20Housekeeping (CL)
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8:30Tamara DavisSupernova cosmology with the complete Dark Energy SurveyRoger Davies
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9:00Sarah BroughHow the AAT led to Australia’s membership of the Rubin Observatory’s LSST
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9:15Ned Taylor Galaxy-galaxy lensing at 30-100 kpc scales
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9:30Gary Da Costa A dwarf carbon star in the globular cluster M55
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9:45Ray StathakisThe Supernova Takeover
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10:00Morning TeaSarah Martell
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10:30Scott CroomThe SAMI Galaxy Survey
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10:45Julia BryantHector - the AATs new multi-IFS instrument and Galaxy Survey
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11:15Stefania BarsantiGalaxy angular momentum within the cosmic web
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11:30Quentin ParkerClose up to the surface – reflections on 25+ years association with the AAO
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11:45Russell Cannon The Origin and Evolution of the UK Schmidt Telescope
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12:00Lunch
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13:30Matthew CollessThe 2dF Galaxy Redshift SurveyPat Roche
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14:00Ian LewisThe legacy of 2dF
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14:15Gordon RobertsonMasked aperture interferometry at the AAT - the early days