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Annual retreat program

Date:  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 
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​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) 
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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