[ASA] ATCA Science day: April 8th 2025

[Mahony, Elizabeth (S&A, Marsfield)]

Dear colleagues,

We’d like to bring the following workshop to your attention to be held on Tuesday, 8th of April:

ATCA Science Day: Exploring new opportunities and highlighting ATCA’s unique capabilities in the SKA era

The Australia Telescope Compact Array has been a cornerstone of the Australian radio astronomy landscape for close to 40 years. The BIGCAT upgrade, currently underway, will replace the entire backend of the telescope, doubling the instantaneous bandwidth while also making ATCA more flexible, adaptable and responsive.

In order for the ATNF to maintain its suite of radio facilities offered to the community, ATCA likely needs to transition to a self-sustaining funding model over the next few years. The focus of this science day is to bring us together to identify additional funding avenues, explore new opportunities for collaborations, and highlight the unique capabilities of ATCA required by the community.

The format for this meeting will include a mixture of talks and discussion sessions. If you would like to present a short (~10min) talk highlighting how ATCA and its unique capabilities can support and advance your science please send a short title and abstract to organisers Elizabeth Mahony (elizabeth.mahony at csiro.au) and Josh Pritchard (joshua.pritchard at csiro.au) by Friday March 21.

More details, including the agenda, will be posted over the coming weeks: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/E3paCGv0oyCLRlQDMuKf2UBNh7E?domain=atnf.csiro.au

The meeting will be held at the ATNF Marsfield site, with online access via MS Teams, please register here<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/aofnCJyBrGfQvzD6YCGh2UymPxD?domain=forms.office.com> by March 28. Note that this form allows you to register for both the ATCA Science day (April 8) and the Australia Telescope Users Committee Open session to be held on April 9.

We hope you can join us in April.

Kind regards,
Elizabeth + Josh

ATCA Science day co-chairs
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