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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
  • Education and Outreach
  • Events
    • OzFink workshop 2023
    • 2022 OzGrav ECR Workshop and Annual Retreat
    • Upcoming and Past Events
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • How to write a research brief
  • Contact Us

2022 OzGrav WINTER SCHOOL ​

2022 OzGrav WINTER SCHOOL 

Date: 20-22 July 2022
Location: Adelaide University 
The first ever OzGrav Early Career Researcher (ECR) Winter School will be held on the 20th-22nd of July in Adelaide. The Winter School is open to OzGrav students and postdocs, and is an opportunity to learn about the instrumentation and astrophysics of gravitational wave science. You will also have the chance to network and get to know your fellow OzGrav students and postdocs!

TRAVEL SUPPORT: Accommodation, main meals, and a social activity will be organised and paid for by the Centre. The Centre will also contribute up to $600 per person for travel, which should be booked by the attendee’s home institution and then invoiced to Swinburne. Attendees are welcome to arrive in Adelaide on Tuesday 19/07 and depart on Saturday 23/07.

REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED

CONTACTS: If you have any questions, please contact the organisers Zac Holmes (zachary.holmes@adelaide.edu.au) and Daniel Brown (daniel.d.brown@adelaide.edu.au)

ACCOMODATION
Accommodation has been booked for everyone that has requested at the Ibis Adelaide hotel (122 Grenfell St, Adelaide SA 5000). Accomodation details will be emailed to you. Please email Zac Holmes (zachary.holmes@adelaide.edu.au) or Daniel Brown (daniel.d.brown@adelaide.edu.au) for any questions you have about the room bookings.

TRAVEL
Adelaide airport is about 20 minutes from the CBD area. 

Taxi or ride share: Outside of the arrivals section you'll find both a taxi rank and a rideshare area. Rideshares will only pick up at the designated areas. The ride share area is signed, you leave the terminal on the ground floor and walk towards the car park. You cross the road and go into the ground floor of the car park to get to the rideshare pick up point.

Bus: There are four public buses that pass through the Adelaide Airport, two of which go via the city. They will stop on Grenfell street, near to the Ibis Hotel. They are collectively called the JetBus:
  • J1: Elizabeth to Glenelg via city
  • J2: Greenwith to Harbour Town via city
To get to the bus from Adelaide Airport to City, you will need to catch either the J1 or J2 – and you will be looking for the ones travelling to Elizabeth & Greenwith, not Glenelg nor Harbour Town as they are going in the opposite directions. In the city, the buses run from one side to the other along Currie & Grenfell Streets, so choose the stop that is nearest your accommodation. You can see a map of the routes here. The trip into the city on the bus will take 25-30 minutes.

The bus stop can be found a short walk from the airport exit. Make your way diagonally left across the plaza until you meet the road, then turn to your left. The bus stop is around 50m along the road on the same side.

These buses run on the Adelaide public transport system, so if you have a MetroCard you can use that to catch the bus. If you don’t have a card, there is a yellow ticket machine located at the bus stop where you can purchase a single ticket to get you into the city centre. An adult ticket is currently $5.80 (August 2021) but depending on the time of day (between 9am & 3pm weekdays, all day Sundays and public holidays), you may be able to get an off-peak ticket for $3.90. To catch the bus to Adelaide Airport on your way home, there will be a bus stop approximately opposite the road where you got off. This time you are looking for the buses going to Glenelg and Harbour Town.


PROGRAM

Google directions from hotel to workshop

The workshop will be held in Ingkarni Wardli room 218. You can use the elevator or the stairs outside near the Nourish Cafe.

​Tuesday 19 July 2022
  • 18:00 onwards  : Pizza + Meet and greet (Ibis Hotel "Engine Room" on Level 1) Adelaide people welcome to join.

​Wednesday 20 July 2022
  • 9:00 - 9:30  : Introduction
  • 9:30 - 10:30 : Intro to GW Astrophysics : Simon Stevenson
  • 10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 : Bayesian inference (Lecture) : Rory Smith
  • 12:00 - 13:00 : Lunch
  • 13:00 - 16:30 : Bayesian inference (Workshop): Rory Smith
  • 16:30 - 17:00 : Parameter Estimation of Gravitational Wave Sources Using Deep Learning and variational Inference: Chayan Chatterjee
  • 1800 : Plant 4
  • 20:00 : Light Cycles at Illuminate Adelaide  www.illuminateadelaide.com/program/season-2022/light-cycles This is an outdoors event. Tickets are booked for the 8pm session. Allow 60 to 90 minutes to walk through.

Thursday 21 July 2022:
  • 9:00 - 10:00 : GW instrumentation intro : Daniel Brown
  • 10:00 - 10:30 : Design a detector workshop with pygwinc : Daniel Brown
  • 10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 : Squeezing lecture : Nutsinee Kijbunchoo
  • 12:00 - 13:00 : Lunch
  • 13:00 - 14:00 : Lab tour and talks
  • 14:00 - 14:30 : The making of SAMs - from prototypes to LIGO lab : Huy Tuong Cao
  • 14:30 - 15:00 : Team building
  • 15:00 - 17:00 : Design a detector workshop : Daniel Brown
  • 17:30 : Make your way to Coopers Alehouse at 316 Pulteney Street, Adelaide (Thomas Cooper room booked, order your meals and 1 drink on the tab) then night activities (walk to Holey Moley at Level 1 162-170  Pulteney Street for 7:40pm and Electric Playground at the Moa Tent at Victoria Square for 8pm session)
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Friday 22 July 2022:
  • 9:00 - 10:30 : Delivering OzGrav outreach: demonstration and hands on activities with Lisa, Jackie, Kyla and Maddy.
  • 10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 : Population studies of compact binaries (Lecture): Shanika Galaudage
  • 12:00 - 13:00 : Lunch
  • 13:00 - 14:00 : Pulsar lecture : Matthew Bailes 
  • 14:00 - 16:30 : Population studies of compact binaries (Workshop): Shanika Galaudage and Simon Stevenson
  • 16:30 - 17:00 : Wrap up
  • Evening: 17:30pm Pizza Dinner delivered to Uni + Free evening to explore Adelaide
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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

​© 2022   The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational  Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
Banner images: An artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars.  Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL
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