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  • About
    • Vision & Mission
    • Join OzGrav
    • Mental Health and Wellbeing
    • Getting started in OzGrav
    • Funding Opportunities
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Code of Conduct
    • OzGrav Mentoring Program
    • Nodes & Partners
    • Facilities & Capabilities
    • Reports >
      • Annual Reports
      • Industry Success Stories
      • Strategic Plan
    • Member resources
  • Our People
    • Chief Investigators
    • Partner Investigators
    • Associate Investigators
    • Postdocs and Students >
      • Faces of OzGrav
    • Professional & Outreach staff
    • Governance Advisory Committee
    • Scientific Advisory Committee
    • Executive Committee
    • Equity & Diversity Committee
    • Early Career Researcher Committee
    • Professional Development Committee
    • Research Translation Committee
    • OzGrav Alumni
  • Research Themes
    • Instrumentation
    • Data/Astro
    • How to write a research brief
  • Education and Outreach
  • Events
    • OzFink workshop 2023
    • 2022 OzGrav ECR Workshop and Annual Retreat
    • Upcoming and Past Events
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • Binary Neutron Star Discovery
  • Contact Us

2019 annual retreat

​Overview & Registration

​Logistical Information

ECR Workshop Program

Annual Retreat Program 

Code of Conduct
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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 )                       
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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
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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.
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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)                             

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We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the land on which our six Australian nodes stand

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Banner images: An artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars.  Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL
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