Cherenkov Telescope Array Australia :
Consortium Workshop 3

University of Adelaide, 14 - 15 April 2016

Preliminary Programme - Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre (Physics Building - for location see link)

Invited speakers: Yasuo Fukui, John Dickey, Ray Norris, Stefan Wagner, Mark McAuley

Thursday 14 April:

09:00 Coffee/tea (rm 121 seminar room first floor western end of Physics Building)
09:20 Welcome, CTA overview and Australia's engagement - G. Rowell (U.Adelaide) slides
09:30 CTA Status - S. Wagner (Landessternwarte, Heidelberg)

10:00 Morning tea (rm 121 seminar room)

10:30 Searching for PeVatrons (incl. HESS update) - G. Rowell (U.Adelaide) slides
11:00 Dark Molecular Gas - M. Burton (UNSW)
11:30 GASKAP & Distribution of Gas in the Milky Way Disk - J. Dickey (UTas)
12:00 Mopra CO Survey - C. Braiding (UNSW)

12:30 Lunch (rm 121 seminar room)

13:15 CTA and our radio telescopes (MWA, ASKAP..) - M. Filipovic (WSU)
13:45 Shock-cloud interaction toward the Magellanic SNRs - H. Sano (Nagoya)
14:15 LMC SNR 0509-67.5 - Q. Roper (WSU)

14:45 Afternoon tea (rm 121 seminar room)

15:15 National research infrastructure funding - AAL update - M. McAuley (AAL)
15:45 Nanten2/HESS? - Y. Fukui (Nagoya)
16:15 TeV Gamma Rays and AGN Physics - G. Bicknell (ANU)
16:45 Short break & skype setup

17:00 CTA-GCT sub project - T. Greenshaw (Liverpool - via skype) slides

17:30 Discussion
- CTA-Australia, Key Science Topics & Tokyo Meeting - G. Rowell++
- + topics see list below

18:30 approx - Head off for dinner somewhere (booking for ~7pm)

Friday 15 April:

09:00 Coffee/tea (rm 121 seminar room Physics Building)
09:15 The Global And Modular BSM Inference Tool (GAMBIT) - M. White (U.Adelaide)
09:45 UTMOST - A. Green (USyd - via skype)?

10:15 Morning tea (rm 121 seminar room)

10:30 The Galactic Centre: VHE Sources and Diffuse CO Gas - R. Blackwell (U.Adelaide)
11:00 EMU: Evolutionary Map of the Universe - R. Norris (WSU)
11:30 HESS J1745-303: An example of the sources CTA will help shed light on - P. deWilt (U.Adelaide)

12:00 Lunch (rm 121 seminar room) - Kerr Grant Theatre used for Physics Seminar

13:00 Discussion
- for topics see list below

13:30 ISM study of several Pulsar Wind Nebulae - F. Voisin (U.Adelaide) slides
14:00 ISM of the Carina Region - G. Wong (WSU)
14:30 Icecube GenII upgrade and links with gamma-rays - B. Whelan (U.Adelaide)

15:00 Afternoon tea (rm 121 seminar room)

15:15 Discussion
- for topics see list below

15:45 Mopra Observing Session - C. Braiding (UNSW)
16:30 approx Close