Continuum and Polarisation Science from SKA Precursors
Monday July 17 - Friday July 21 2017
August 11 – most Presentation PDFs now available.
July 19 – Conference photo
July 7 – Programme updated
June 22 – Registered participants list released.
The GLEAM view of the centre of the Milky Way, in radio colour. Red indicates the lowest frequencies, green indicates the middle frequencies, and blue indicates the highest frequencies. Each dot is a galaxy, with around 300,000 radio galaxies observed as part of the GLEAM survey: Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin / ICRAR) and the GLEAM Team
The annual SPARCS meeting will be held in Perth, Australia, in 2017 to gather together researchers from the SKA precursors in radio continuum and polarisation science.
This will be the seventh such meeting and SPARCS was setup to share knowledge, techniques and experience on continuum science from the SKA precursors.
This year the meeting will include synergy with polarised surveys, a day of breakouts for planning SKA Key Science Projects and the ASKAP/EMU collaboration meeting.
Scientific Organising Committee
- Nick Seymour (ICRAR/Curtin chair)
- Claire Chandler (NRAO)
- Yashwant Gupta (NCRA)
- George Heald (CASS)
- Minh Huynh (CASS, ICRAR/UWA)
- Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON)
- Tom Muxlow (Manchester)
- Ray Norris (CASS, WSU)
- Russ Taylor (UWC)
- Randall Wayth (ICRAR/Curtin)
Invited Speakers include
- Bjorn Adebahr (ASTRON) on APERTIF
- Rob Beswick (Manchester) on eMERLIN
- Bradley Frank (UCT/IDIA) on MeerKAT
- Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) on MWA
- Amy Kimball (NRAO) on JVLA
- Josh Marvil (CSIRO) on ASKAP/EMU
- Cormac Purcell (Macquarie) ASKAP/POSSUM
- Dharam Vir Lal (NCRA) on uGMRT
- Jess Broderick (Astron) on LOFAR
VENUE: ARRC Building in Perth, WA
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington (see map below)