Program & Talk Resources

Friday 14 August
	Welcome drinks and refreshments on Friday evening
Saturday 15 August
9:15-9:30	Welcome to AstroFest!
9:30-10:00	Dan Birchall: Eleven Years on Mauna Kea
10:00-10:30	Glen Mackie: [screencast] From Dusty Emus to Dark Energy (and back)
10:30-11:00	Morning tea
11:00-12:30	Lynn van Rooijen-McCullough: Demo – PIRATE Robotic Facility in Mallorca
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Pamela Gay: Visualising your Data
2:30-3:00	Richard West: Raven MOA on Subaru
3:00-3:00	Phil Evans: Variable Stars South – who we are and what we do
3:30 -4:00	Afternoon tea
4:00-4:30	Chris Flynn: [skype] Pulsars@Molonglo
4:30-6:00	Sarah Maddison & Pamela Gay: Demo – Citizen Science projects, CosmosQuest & Zooniverse
Evening	Stargazing on the beach!

Sunday 16 August
9:15-9:45	Lynn van Rooijen-McCullough: Reach for the stars
9:45-10:00	Glen Mackie: [screencast] A brief history of astronomy in Hawai’i
10:00-10:30	Dan Birchall: The TMT controversy
10:30-11:00	Morning tea
11:00-12:30	Pamela Gay: Demo – Colouring your Images
12:30-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Sarah Maddison: New views of our Solar System
2:30-3:30	Thayne Currie: Imaging Extrasolar Planets from Maunakea
3:30-4:00	Afternoon Tea
4:00-4:30	Jeff Cooke: [skype] Pu-pu platter of Swinburne science at the Keck telescopes
4:30-5:45	Sarah Maddison: Demo – Exploring Planetary Dynamics
5:50-6:00	Sarah Maddison: Closing remarks
7pm	AstroFest Dinner

Monday 17 August
	Optional Mauna Kea summit tour of the W.M. Keck Observatory or Subaru Observatory