Annual retreat program
Date: 20, 21 & 22 November 2019
Venue: Mantra Lorne - Click here for venue map/floorplan 35 Mountjoy Parade, Lorne VIC 3232 NB: Breakfast served in Larder Restaurant each day 7-10am (unless otherwise specified) TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER
From 16:00 Arrival, check in, poster set-up (Convention room 2+3 and Foyer) 18:30 Self-organised dinner in Lorne DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER Location: Convention room 2+3 (unless otherwise specified) 7:30 - 8.30 Optional yoga (Seagrass lawns) 8:30 - 9:30 Arrival, check in, registration, poster set-up 9:30 - 9:50 Welcome & objectives for retreat (Matthew Bailes) 9:50 – 10:35 Science theme overviews (Eric Thrane, Susan Scott, David McClelland ) 10:35 - 11:00 Morning Tea 11:00 – 11:40 Keynote talk: Patrick Brady - key results from O3 (Patrick Brady, LSC Spokesperson ) 11:40 - 12:20 Future Detectors (3G, OzHF, LISA) (David Ottaway, David McClelland, Eric Thrane, Kirk McKenzie) 12:20 - 13:30 Lunch & group photo (Seagrass lawns - TBC) 13:30 – 14:40 Program Highlights #1 Low-freq - Bram Slagmolen, ANU - 20 mins Inference & Relativistic Astro - Isobel Romero-Shaw, Monash - 30 mins Space - Kirk McKenzie, ANU - 20 mins 14:40 - 15:00 Poster sparkler talks (1 min each) 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea 15:30 - 16:40 Program Highlights #2 Quantum - Vaishali Adya, ANU - 20 mins Grav wave analysis - Hannah Middleton, UoM - 20 mins Pulsars overview - Boris Goncharov, Monash - 15 mins Pulsars MeerTime science - Daniel Reardon, Swin - 15 mins 16:40 - 17:30 Communicating your science to different audiences (Joe Milton, AusSMC) 17:30 - 18:30 Parallel sessions: 1. Future detectors and implications for OzGrav part B and OzGrav 2 (Convention 2+3) 2. Drop-in session to practice communicating your science (Heritage Room 3) Optional recording of 30-second videos talking about your research 19:00 Welcome dinner (Heritage Ballroom) DAY 2 - THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER Location: Convention room 2+3 (unless otherwise specified) 7:30 - 8:30 Optional pilates (Seagrass lawns) 8:00 - 8:50 Diversity Breakfast - Greg Ashton et al 9:00 – 9:20 Research Translation - Jong Chow 9:20 - 10:40 Program Highlights #3 Multi-Messenger Astronomy - Bruce Gendre, UWA & Sara Webb, Swin - 20 mins Commissioning - Dan Brown, UAdelaide - 20 mins Population Modelling - Simon Stevenson, Swinburne - 20 mins Distortions and Instabilities - Carl Blair, UWA - 20 mins 10:40 - 11:10 Morning Tea 11:10 - 12:00 Diversity & Inclusion - Lucy Strang, Hannah Middleton, Matthew Bailes 12:00 – 12:20 Poster sparkler talks (1 min each) 12:20 - 13:20 Lunch & Poster Session 13:20 – 14:00 ARC: what to expect at the Centre's Mid-Term Review - Liz Visher, ARC 14:00 – 15:00 Parallel Sessions: 1. O3 science for LSC members only (Convention room 2+3) 2. Pulsars & MeerKAT (Convention room 1) 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea 15:30 - 15:45 Highlights from the SPIIR low latency pipeline - Manoj Kovalam, UWA 15:45 – 16:15 Gravitational Wave Data Centre - Paul Lasky, Jarrod Hurley 16:15 – 17:15 Parallel sessions: 1. Instrumentation (Convention room 2+3) 2. Gravitational Wave Data Centre projects (Convention room 1) 18:30 Conference dinner at Lorne Beach Pavillion Tickets for additional guests can be purchased here. DAY 3 - FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER Location: Convention room 2+3 (unless otherwise specified) 7:30 - 8:30 Optional yoga (Seagrass lawns) 8:00 - 8:50 Chief Investigator's meeting (CIs only) (Heritage Room 3) 9:00 - 10:00 Parallel sessions: 1. Instrumentation (Convention room 2+3) 2. Multi-Messenger Astronomy & online detections (Convention room 1) 3. Population Modelling (Heritage Room 3) 10:00 – 10:40 Education and Outreach - Jackie Bondell 10:40 - 11:10 Morning Tea 11:10 – 11:30 Career Development & Mentoring - Susan Scott, Duncan Galloway 11:30 - 12:15 Parallel sessions: 1. Instrumentation (Conference Room 2+3) 2. Inference (including pulsar inference) (Conference Room 1) 3. Continuous Waves (Heritage Room 3) 12:15 - 12:30 Wrap-up - Matthew Bailes 12:30 Meeting close and takeaway lunch provided 12:30 – 17:00 Optional Erskine Falls Hike / Buses to airport and Southern Cross Station See bus schedule here. More info about hikes in Lorne. 14:00 - 16:00 Bus available from Erskine Falls carpark to Southern Cross Station only (4pm approximate arrival) |