Harley Wood Winter School 2011

Harley Wood Winter School 2011

Critical Problems in Astrophysics

1-3 July 2011



Program


Thursday:

Afternoon: Registration

18:30: Dinner


Friday:

08:00 – 09:00: Breakfast

09:00 – 10:00: Phil Edwards The Most Critical Problem of All: How do I make a career in Astronomy

10:00 – 10:30: Morning Tea

10:30 – 11:30: Elaine Sadler Gas and Galaxy Evolution

11:30 – 12:30: Andrew Walsh Unsolved Mysteries in High Mass Star Formation

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 15:00: Panel Discussion Session Working In Large Collaborations: Pros & Cons

15:00 – 15:30: Afternoon Tea

15:30 – 16:30: Hayley Bignall Challenges for High Angular Resolution Radio Astronomy

16:30 – 17:30: Jose Bellido Origin of Cosmic Rays

18:00 – 19:00: Dinner

19:00 – 23:00: Quiz Night


Saturday:

08:00 – 09:00: Breakfast

09:00 – 10:00:

10:00 – 10:30: Morning Tea

10:30 – 11:30: Paul Francis How to teach people astrophysics so that they remember it more than a week after the end of their last exam

11:30 – 12:30: Baerbel Koribalski Nearby Galaxies

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 15:00: Panel Discussion Session Life After PhD: What are my options?

15:00 – 15:30: Afternoon Tea

15:30 – 16:30: Sarah Brough Proposal Writing: Tips for popping the research case of your dreams

16:30 – 17:30: Cormac Reynolds

18:00 – 19:00: Penguin Tour

19:30 – 20:30: Dinner


Sunday:

08:00 – 09:00: Breakfast

09:00 – 10:00: Ron Ekers Strategies for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence

10:00 – 10:30: Morning Tea

10:30 – 11:30: Brian Schmidt The Big Cosmology Questions of the Decade

11:30 – 12:30: Conclusion & Packing Up

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30: Depart for Adelaide






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