Note all talks are 25min +5min for questions/discussion.
Monday 6th November 2017
8:30-9:00 – Registration – ICRAR seminar room, Level 0, Ken & Julie Michael Building
9:00-9:05 – Luke Davies – Welcome and Housekeeping
Session 1 [9:05 – 10:35] GAMA Survey Overview and Recent Results
9:05-9:35 – Simon Driver – The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) Survey
9:35-10:05 – Maciej Bilicki – GAMA as THE calibration sample for photometric redshifts
10:05-10:35 – Ned Taylor – The scatter matters: measuring the dispersion in the stellar-to-halo mass relation
Morning Coffee – 10:35 – 11:00
Session 2 [11:00 – 12:30] GAMA Recent Results
11:00 -11:30 – Stefania Barsanti – GAMA: impact of group environment on galaxy star formation
11:30 – 12:00 – Meiert Grootes – Constraining the baryon cycle and its environmental dependencies with GAMA – and beyond
12:00 – 12:30 – Sarah Casura – Progress on bulge-disk decomposition of GAMA galaxies
Lunch – 12:30 – 13:30
Session 3 [13:30 – 15:30] Current and Future Imaging Surveys
13:30 – 14:00 – Paul Price – The Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program
14:00 – 14:30 – Sarah Brough – The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
14:30 – 15:00 – Peder Norberg – Science with PAUS
15:00 – 15:30 – Konrad Kuijken – KiDS
Afternoon Tea – 15:30 – 16:00
Session 4 [16:00 – 17:00] Discussion on GAMA and Future Imaging Surveys
- Using future imaging surveys as input for spectroscopic surveys
- How do we maximise spectroscopic/imaging synergy?
- How do we robustly/easily combine datasets?
- Is there key science from GAMA we are missing?
Tuesday 7th November 2017
Session 5 [9:00 – 10:30] Current and Upcoming Radio Surveys I
9:00 -9:30 – Minh Huyhn – The GAMA Legacy ATCA Southern Survey
9:30-10:00 – Lister Staveley-Smith – WALLABY: An All-Sky HI Survey
10:00-10:30 – George Heald -The ASKAP POSSUM Survey: the role of magnetic fields in galaxy evolution
Morning Coffee – 10:30 – 11:00
Session 6 [11:00 – 13:00] Current and Upcoming Radio Surveys II
11:00 -11:30 – Natasha Hurley-Walker – GAMA synergies with low-frequency radio continuum surveys
11:30 – 12:00 – Natasha Maddox – The MeerKAT MIGHTEE survey
12:00 – 12:30 – Martin Meyer – Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins
12:30 – 13:00 – Andrew Hopkins – Evolutionary Map of the Universe
Lunch – 13:00 – 14:00
Session 7 – [14:00 – 15:30] Radio Observations and Simulations
14:00 – 14:30 – Qingxiang Chen – Measuring the Cosmic HI Density via Stacking
14:30 – 15:00 – Chris Power – Seeking the signatures of dark matter in future galaxy formation surveys
15:00 – 15:30 – Claudia Lagos – Current and future simulations for multi-wavelength galaxy surveys
Afternoon Tea – 15:30 – 16:00
Session 8 [16:00 – 17:00] Discussion on Synergy with Radio Surveys and Simulations
- Linking up radio surveys with next generation spectroscopic surveys
- How do we maximise scientific return?
- How do we robustly/easily combine datasets?
- How do we link these to simulated observations?
GAMA SSAC Meeting [17:30 – 18:30]
Wednesday 8th November 2017
Session 9 [9:00 – 10:30]Multi-Wavelength Synergies
9:00 -9:30 – Ghazaleh Erfanianfar – Xray selected galaxy groups in the major deep fields and the synergy between x-ray and multi-wavelength spectroscopic surveys
9:30-10:00 – Michelle Cluver – WISE Synergies: From GAMA to WAVES
10:00-10:30 – Michael Brown – Calibrations of star formation rate indicators for new surveys
10:30-11:00 – Tom Jarret – WISE-GAMA Survey of the Extragalactic Population in G23
Morning Coffee – 11:00 – 11:30
Session 10 [11:30 – 13:00] IFU Studies of Galaxies
11:30 – 12:00 – Scott Croom – The SAMI Galaxy Survey
12:00 – 12:30 – Dan Taranu – Dissecting disks – galaxy modelling synergies with deep imaging, SAMI and simulations
12:30 – 13:00 – Andrew Hopkins – Taipan galaxy survey
Lunch – 13:00 – 14:00
Afternoon Free OR Captain Cook River Cruise
Conference Dinner, Matilda Bay Restaurant 19:30 – 22:00
Thursday 9th November 2017
Session 11 [9:00 – 11:00] Future Spectroscopic Facilities</>
9:00-9:30 – Poster Presenters – Poster Sparkler Session (5min each)
9:30-10:00 – Joe Liske – 4MOST
10:00-10:30 – Aaron Robotham – Building the future of MOS: The Science and Status of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer
10:30-11:00 – Luca Pasquini – ESO’s Wide Field Spectroscopic Facility
Morning Coffee – 11:00 – 11:30
Session 12 [11:30 – 13:30] Future Multi-wavelength Spectroscopic Surveys
11:30 – 12:00 – Luke Davies – The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS)
12:00 – 12:30 – Luke Davies – The Wide Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES)
12:30 – 13:00 – Julia Bryant – HECTOR: A massive new Integral field spectroscopic instrument for the AAT
Lunch – 13:00 – 14:00
Session 13 [14:30 – 15:30] Tools for Astronomy
14:00 – 14:30 – Liz Mannering – AAO Data Central and Future Data Archives
14:30 – 15:00 – Aaron Robotham – ProFound and ProFit (prep for worked examples on Friday)
15:00 – 15:30 – Daniel Prole – DeepScan: Automated mapping of the LSB Universe
Afternoon Tea – 15:30 – 16:00
Session 14 [16:00 – 17:00] Open Discussion on Future Surveys and Tools
- Discussion around future surveys
- Synergy between these surveys
- How do we maximise scientific return of these surveys?
- The implementation of new astronomy tools for next generation surveys
- Data archives for these surveys
Friday 10th November 2017
Session 15 [9:00 – 10:30] Hands-on Workshop of New Astronomy Tools
Split into groups to discuss worked examples of:
- ProFound and DeepScan (Aaron, Sarah, Luke and Dan)
- ProFit (Aaron, Sarah, Robin, Hosein)
Morning Coffee – 10:30 – 11:00
Session 16 [11:00 – 13:00] General Open Discussion and Planning
– Planning for future synergy between surveys Potential discussion points:.
- Establishing working groups/planning.
- Ways to maximise science
- Additional observations that would benefit survey
- Plans for scientific papers
Lunch – 13:00 – 14:00
Session 17 [14:00 – 15:30] Team Meetings
14:00 -14:45 – Open WAVES team meeting
14:45 – 15:30 – Open DEVILS team meeting
Afternoon Tea – 15:30 – 16:00