Name: Annual Scientific Meeting & Harley Wood School
Start: 2025-07-03T00:00:00+09:30
End: 2025-07-11T19:00:00+09:30
Location: University of Adelaide

Annual Scientific Meeting & Harley Wood School

from Thursday 3 July 2025 (00:00) to Friday 11 July 2025 (19:00)

Monday 30 June 2025
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Thursday 3 July 2025
Friday 4 July 2025
Saturday 5 July 2025
Sunday 6 July 2025

18:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Function Room 1

Monday 7 July 2025

09:00 Registration
Registration
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Foyer
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Darling West
Contributions

10:00 Probing AGN Accretion Discs through their Variability - Ashley Hai Tung Tan (Australian National University)

10:15 Seeing the full picture: measuring AGN feedback with next-generation radio jet models - Samuel Hansen

10:30 Disentangling AGNs from Stellar contributions to the Cosmic Spectral Energy Distribution - Kavin Kumar Nagarajan Rajkumar (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - University of Western Australia)

10:45 Jet Outbursts, Non-thermal Pressure and the AGN Duty Cycle - Andrew Sullivan (The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (UWA))
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

10:00 Revised Open Cluster Membership Probabilities in GALAH DR4 and their Abundances and Kinematics - Shourya Mukherjee (University of New South Wales)

10:15 An Unbroken View of the Milky Way: Continuous Maps of Faint Emission Lines at Sub-Parsec Scales with the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper - Thomas Hilder (School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University)

10:30 Tessellating the Stars with Jewel Aperture Masking - Grace Piroscia (University of Sydney)

10:45 SPICE: Differentiable Synthetic Spectra Modeling for Stars with Surface Inhomogeneities - Maja Jablonska (Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University)
11:00 Morning Break
Morning Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Function Room 1
11:30 Welcome
Welcome
11:30 - 11:45
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

11:30 Welcome - Gavin Rowell (University of Adelaide)
11:45
11:45 - 12:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

11:45 Ten things you didn't know about astronomy in South Australia - Philip Edwards (CSIRO Space and Astronomy)
12:00 Sparkler Talks
Sparkler Talks
12:00 - 12:15
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

12:00 Identifying muons with IACTs - Lydia Castellucci

12:01 Numerical Solutions for Cosmic Ray Transport - Edmund McKennall (University of Adelaide)

12:02 Follow up of ASKAP-discovered fast scintillating quasars - Hayley Bignall (Manly Astrophysics)

12:03 Towards a catalogue of southern hemisphere Compact Symmetric Objects - Hayley Bignall (Manly Astrophysics)

12:04 Twinkle twinkle compact AGN: modelling interplanetary scintillation of young radio galaxies - Sophie Young (University of Tasmania)

12:05 SN2019vxm: A Shocking Coincidence between Fermi and TESS - Zachary Lane (University of Canterbury)

12:06 KAKAPO: A Kepler and K2 Transient detection Pipeline - Zachary Lane (University of Canterbury)

12:07 Type 1 and Type 2 AGN Catalogue from 6dFGS in the Southern Sky - Sruthi Suresh (University of Melbourne)

12:08 Beaming in Fast Radio Bursts - Clarinda Montilla (University of Canterbury)

12:09 Continuum Reverberation Mapping in ATLAS Quasars: A Precursor to LSST - Zachary Steyn (Australian National University)

12:10 xenomorph: the fastest way to model the colliding winds of massive binary stars - Ryan White (Macquarie University)

12:11 The Sun’s open-closed magnetic flux boundary and the origin of slow solar wind - Hannah Schunker (University of Newcastle)

12:12 OzSDO: the first database for the Solar Dynamics Observatory in the Southern hemisphere - Hannah Schunker (University of Newcastle)

12:13 Modelling Joy’s Law: Coriolis Effects on Rising Magnetic Flux Tubes in the Sun - Hannah Schunker (University of Newcastle)

12:14 How many neutrino sources are there in the Universe? - Caleb Lotstra (The University of Adelaide)
12:15 Louise Webster Prize Talk
Louise Webster Prize Talk
12:15 - 12:45
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

12:15 A new probe of cool gas outflows from distant galaxies - Rebecca Davies (Swinburne University of Technology)
12:45 Sparkler Talks
Sparkler Talks
12:45 - 13:01
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

12:45 Radio GAGA?! Complementing Radio Data from GASKAP with Optical Data from GALAH to study the Interstellar Medium (ISM) - Sven Buder (Australian National University)

12:46 Follow the Dust: Modelling Grain Dynamics in Dusty Discs - Shane Hengst (Centre for Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland)

12:47 A star formation-driven outflow caught in the act of quenching a satellite galaxy - Amy Attwater (University of Western Australia)

12:48 The search for cold outflows in nearby galaxies: challenges and promises from high-resolution panchromatic studies - Luca Cortese

12:49 Unveiling Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources using Supernova Remnants and Molecular Clouds - Ryan Burley (University of Adelaide)

12:50 Clustering the Interstellar Medium for Gamma-ray Modelling of Galactic Objects - Imogen Barnsley (University of Adelaide)

12:51 Detection of Circular Features using the Hough Transform - Georgia McLeod (The University of Adelaide)

12:52 Unveiling 3-D HI Structures in M31 and local dwarfs Using FMG - xuanyi Lyu (macquarie university)

12:53 The study of diffuse radio emissions in galaxy groups - Sai Wagh (International Centre for Radio Astronomy and Research)

12:54 Exploring the Assumptions and Limitations of Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting in Galaxies - Sabine Bellstedt (UWA)

12:55 Giant of the LMC: A multi-frequency view of the largest LMC SNR, J0450-7050 - Zachary Smeaton (Western Sydney University)

12:56 Investigations in continuum-removed nebular imaging - Padric McGee (University of Adelaide)

12:57 TESSreduce: Extracting high quality calibrated PSF photometry from TESS - Ryan Ridden (University of Canterbury)

12:58 Rotation properties of asteroids as seen by TESS - Brayden Leicester (University of Canterbury)

12:59 Photometric core-collapse supernova classification: first results and opportunities. - Lukas Steinwender

13:00 SN2024iss: the nearby Type IIb SN with high velocity H-alpha and shock break out features - Sara Romagnoli (University of Melbourne)
13:01 Lunch
Lunch
13:01 - 13:50
Room: Function Room 1

13:50 IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity in Astronomy)
IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity in Astronomy)
13:50 - 14:30
Room: Scott Theatre
14:30 Sparkler talks
Sparkler talks
14:30 - 14:45
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

14:30 Searching for New Physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Hayden James (The University of Adelaide)

14:31 Determining Ideal Fields For Epoch of Reionisation Science Using the 21 cm Line - Eric Jong (ICRAR - Curtin)

14:32 The baryonic Tully-Fisher relation from WALLABY - Shinna Kim (ICRAR / UWA)

14:33 Analysing feedback in low redshift galaxies via emission line kinematics with GAMA and KOALA - José Luis Carrillo Martinez (Macquarie University)

14:34 Uncovering Mass Distributions through Gravitational Time Delays - nada salama (The University of Sydney)

14:35 Kinematic analysis of a large sample of interacting galaxies at cosmic noon - Isaac Kanowski (Australian National University)

14:36 Testing general relativity with EMU: Simulation and analysis pipeline - Albany Asher (Western Sydney University / CSIRO Space & Astronomy)

14:37 New robust merger rates at intermediate redshifts using DEVILS - Melissa Fuentealba Fuentes (The University of Western Australia)

14:38 Tuning in to black holes: is it a bird, is it a plane, or is it just a calibration error? - Mallika Sinha (Monash University)

14:39 Using Kinematic Asymmetries to Understand Galaxy Dynamical Evolution - Ryan Bagge (UNSW)

14:42 Correcting Black Hole Masses Biased by Size Inertia in Broad Line Regions - Neelesh Amrutha (The Australian National University)

14:43 Assessing photometric redshift accuracy and parameter estimation with limited photometric coverage using CIGALE - Vanessa Porchet (Queensland University of Technology)

14:44 Advancing Halo Mass Estimation for Galaxy Groups: Group Therapy for Halos - Wesley Van Kempen (Swinburne University of Technology)
14:45 Exoplanet Review
Exoplanet Review
14:45 - 15:15
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

14:45 Exoplanets in the Era of JWST - Benjamin Pope (Macquarie University)
15:15
15:15 - 15:30
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

15:15 LSST: first data release - Rachel Webster (University of Melbourne)
15:30 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Function Room 1
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

16:00 Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube at the South Pole - Gary Hill (University of Adelaide)

16:15 Searching for escaped cosmic rays from supernova remnants using Fermi-LAT data - Jemma Pilossof (University of Adelaide)

16:30 Using SOFIA ionised carbon data as a probe for sub-GeV cosmic rays in young Supernova Remnants - Adnaan Thakur (The University of Adelaide)

16:45 The hidden population of pulsars in Terzan 5 - Ryan Urquhart (Michigan State University)

17:00 Binary Population Synthesis of Pulsars with COMPAS - Yuzhe Song (Swinburne University of Technology)

17:15 Beyond kicks: Revisiting rocket-like neutron star acceleration in binaries - Ryosuke Hirai (RIKEN / Monash University)

17:30 The formation of merging compact binaries from massive binary stars - Simon Stevenson (Swinburne University of Technology)

17:45 The role of triple evolution and dynamics in massive stellar and gravitational wave mergers - Evgeni Grishin (Monash University)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Darling West
Contributions

16:00 Putting on Spectroscopic Lenses: How to Constrain Dark Matter Haloes - Lydia Haacke (Swinburne University of Technology)

16:15 Unveiling Massive Quiescent Galaxies: Halo mass evolution with simulations and JWST - Amrita Banerjee (Swinburne University of Technology)

16:30 Host galaxy influence on Type Ia Supernovae: First insights into the mass step with ZTF DR2 - Olivia Vidal Velazquez (Swinburne University of Technology)

16:45 DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey - DR1 Fundamental Plane - Caitlin Ross (The University of Queensland)

17:00 From Reionization to Cosmic Noon: Tracing galaxy evolution and gas kinematics with Lyman Alpha Emitters - Tamal Mukherjee (Macquarie University)

17:15 Probing Omega Centauri for an Accreting IMBH: Stringent constraints from radio observations - Angiraben Mahida (PhD candidate)

17:30 Anisotropy and Inhomogeneity of the luminosity function in the local universe - Aryan Bansal (Swinburne University of Technology)

17:45 When did the initial mass function become bottom heavy? - Tania Barone (Swinburne University of Technology)
Tuesday 8 July 2025
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Darling West
Contributions

10:00 Hints of binary-enhanced dust production for AGB stars - Taissa Danilovich (Monash University)

10:15 The Disk Strikes Back: Accretion and Depletion in Evolving Post-giant Binaries - Kayla Martin (Macquarie University)

10:30 Post-AGB postcards: Revealing evolved star disc substructure through optical interferometry. - Toon De Prins (Macquarie University)

10:45 GALAH in Concert: An observational and theoretical mixtape - Sven Buder (Australian National University)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

10:00 Fast radio bursts: ASKAP and beyond - Ryan Shannon (Swinburne University of Technology)

10:15 Finding High Redshift FRBs with Galaxy Clusters - Mawson Sammons (Trottier Space Institute, McGill University)

10:30 ASKAP Discovery of a Long-Lived Synchrotron Transient: Intermediate-Mass TDE or Orphan Afterglow? - Ashna Gulati (The University of Sydney)

10:45 The Long-term Evolution of a Rare Nuclear Transient - ASASSN-14ko - Jennifer Shi
11:00 Morning Break
Morning Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Function Room 1
11:30 Sparkler Talks
Sparkler Talks
11:30 - 11:45
Contributions

11:30 Deepest Upper Limits on the 21 cm Power Spectrum from the Murchison Widefield Array - Cathryn M Trott (Curtin University)

11:31 Opportunities with the SKAO - Jimi Green (SKAO)

11:32 Imaging with SKA-Low: current and future capability - George Heald (SKA Observatory)

11:33 Scale Up of SKAO Science Operations - Lucy Grigoroff (CSIRO/SKA)

11:34 Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, Australia’s radio quiet site: enabling world-class radio astronomy - Kate Chow (CSIRO)

11:35 ASKAP Pipeline processing - Matthew Whiting (CSIRO)

11:36 Mt Kent Observatory: Astronomy meets Space in regjonal Queensland - Brad Carter (University of Southern Queensland)

11:37 Identification methods for poor-quality radio images - Surabhi Chandra (The University of Sydney)

11:38 PyKOALA: A Multi-Instrument Data Reduction Pipeline for IFS Data - Miguel Gonzalez Bolivar (Australian Astronomical Optics - Macquarie University)

11:39 EMUSE: Evolutionary Map of the Universe Search Engine - Nikhel Gupta (CSIRO Space & Astronomy)

11:40 Lens 3.0: A flexible modern telescope time scheduling and proposal management system built using modern web frameworks - James Coulson (Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University)

11:41 Bringing Observational Archives and Data Reduction Pipelines Together: Automating the pyWiFeS pipeline inside Data Central - James Coulson (Australian Astronomical Optics - Macquarie University)

11:42 Fully automated near-infrared spectrophotometry with the robotic ANU 2.3m telescope - Rob Sharp (Australian National University)

11:43 Powering your science with Data Central - James Tocknell (AAO, Macquarie University)

11:44 Utilizing Photonic Lanterns for Pre-Compensation Adaptive Optics - Teodor Malendevych (University of Sydney)
11:45
11:45 - 12:45
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

11:45 Extreme Astrophysics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Sabrina Einecke (University of Adelaide)

12:15 Preparing for science with the SKAO - Jane Kaczmarek (SKAO)
12:45 Sparkler Talks
Sparkler Talks
12:45 - 13:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

12:45 Dependence of stellar populations on local and global galaxy structure - Udit Kumar Tyagi (UNSW Sydney)

12:46 Galaxy spin and the bar - Robin Joshi (University of Sydney)

12:47 N-body models of the old open cluster M67 - Jasmine Anderson-Baldwin (Swinburne University of Technology)

12:48 Alpha-rich dSph galaxy stellar streams - Aldo Andres Mura Guzman (Macquarie University)

12:50 Characterising Stellar Streams and Shells using AstroLink - Smrithi Gireesh (University of Sydney)

12:51 How atomic hydrogen fuels star formation: new results from the WALLABY survey - Barbara Catinella (ICRAR/UWA)

12:52 Evolutionary Map of the Universe: Detections of the well-known Wolf-Rayet stars WR16 and WR40 and their shells - Aaron Bradley (Western Sydney University)

12:53 Studying lithium-rich stars through population synthesis - Han Shen (UNSW)

12:54 Interquadrant Cross-talk Correction from Veloce Data. - Priyashkumar Bhupendrabhai Mistry (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

12:55 The identification of ram-pressure-affected galaxies with SAMI/Hector - OGUZHAN CAKIR (Macquarie University)

12:56 Spectropolarimetry in the Southern skies with VelocePol - Belinda Nicholson (University of Southern Queensland)

12:57 PICSARR - High-Perfomance Low-Cost Astronomical Polarimeters - Jeremy Bailey (UNSW)

12:58 A Complete Polarization Survey of Southern Bright Stars - Jeremy Bailey (UNSW)

12:59 CTA-Pol: An optical polarimeter to support gamma-ray transient science - Gavin Rowell (University of Adelaide)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 13:50
Room: Function Room 1

13:50 AAT (Anglo-Australian Telescope)
AAT (Anglo-Australian Telescope)
13:50 - 14:20
Room: Scott Theatre

14:20 SKAO
SKAO
14:20 - 14:50
Room: Scott Theatre
14:50 ESO
ESO
14:50 - 15:30
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

14:50 ESO Update and Progress towards Full Membership - Sarah Brough (UNSW)

15:00 The Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope: ESO’s next big telescope? - Tony Travouillon (Australian National University)

15:10 MAVIS - A new facility instrument for the ESO VLT Adaptive Optics Facility - Richard McDermid (Macquarie University)

15:20 Q&A
15:30 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Function Room 1
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Darling West
Contributions

16:00 Understanding the origins and properties of the solar wind - David Pontin (University of Newcastle)

16:15 The formation of Magnetically Active Regions on the Sun - Hannah Schunker (University of Newcastle)

16:30 Stellar Cartography: High-Precision Astrometry for Surface Mapping of Nearby Stars - Conaire Deagan (University of New South Wales)

16:45 The many ways to assemble low-mass stellar systems - Sarah Martell (University of New South Wales)

17:00 A Tale of Two streams - Adithya Gudalur Balasubramaniam (Macquarie University)

17:15 We Can See Your Halo: Deciphering the Milky Way’s Accretion History with the S5 and OzArch Surveys - Daniel Zucker (Macquarie University)

17:30 Breaking the assumption of action conservation: Limits on stellar orbit reconstruction in Milky Way disk - Arunima Arunima (RSAA)

17:45 Tracing Globular Cluster Escapees in the Galactic Halo with GALAH DR4 - Siddhartha Saikia (UNSW Sydney)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

16:00 Gamma-ray View of the Transient Sky - Simon Lee

16:15 Milliseconds, Minutes, and Mysteries: The New Era of Radio Transients - Manisha Caleb (The University of Sydney)

16:30 Ramping Up the Search for Fast Transients with JWST - Jaime Luisi (University of Canterbury)

16:45 Cataloging the dynamic sky with the TESSELLATE Sky Survey - Ryan Ridden (University of Canterbury)

17:00 The enigmatic long-period radio transients - Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University / International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research)

17:15 Long-period radio transients and where to find them - Yu Wing Joshua Lee (University of Sydney)

17:30 A Geometric Model for LPTs - Csanad Horvath (Curtin University)

17:45 Relativistic Electron Cyclotron Maser as an Engine for Long Period Transients Associated with White Dwarfs - Kovi Rose (University of Sydney)
19:00 PUBLIC HARLEY WOOD LECTURE - Per Aspera Ad Astra: The future of astronomy is here! Discovering ORC’s and many other new wonders of the Universe - Miroslav Filipovic
PUBLIC HARLEY WOOD LECTURE - Per Aspera Ad Astra: The future of astronomy is here! Discovering ORC’s and many other new wonders of the Universe
- Miroslav Filipovic
19:00 - 20:00
Room: Scott Theatre This is an exciting time for the discovery of new astronomical objects through various multi-messengers. New-generation surveys across the entire waveband present a significant opportunity to study different objects and processes in the elemental enrichment of the interstellar medium (ISM). We reflect on our cosmic past, present, and future. SKA pathfinders' observations in the radio spectrum, with high sensitivity, detect new objects in our Galaxy and other galaxies. Neutrino and gamma-ray studies provide answers to the long-standing question in high-energy astrophysics: Where do cosmic rays and ultra-high-energy particles come from? The gamma-ray emission observed from some middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) is now understood to originate from distant populations of cosmic rays (likely accelerated locally) interacting with gas, but there is still much work to be done to account for the Galactic cosmic-ray flux. Young PeV gamma-ray supernova remnants require different techniques to address the question of cosmic-ray acceleration. Among others, the Cherenkov Telescope Array will enable us to achieve this. I will review the latest scientific outcomes from various new and sensitive surveys, such as ASKA and MeerKAT (radio). This is in addition to large multi-messenger surveys from XMM-Newton and eROSITA (X-rays), Herschel and Spitzer (IR), MCELS (optical), KM3NeT and HESS (gamma rays). These are the golden days for Astronomy. …and, maybe, the Earth deserves to be called a Galactic National Park?
Wednesday 9 July 2025
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

10:00 Ultraviolet Extinction Sky Survey (UVESS): A mission concept to study the interstellar medium in the Milky Way and Local Group galaxies - Andrew Battisti (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia)

10:15 MAUVE: Tracking the influence of the environment on the gas-star formation cycle of cluster galaxies during infall. - Luca Cortese (ICRAR-UWA)

10:30 Hot Gas, Cold Gas, and Stars: Mapping the Halo Baryon Budget in the Local Universe - Ajay Dev (ICRAR - UWA)

10:45 The WALLABY view of the gas cycle in galaxies - Barbara Catinella (ICRAR/UWA)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Darling West
Contributions

10:00 Point source inference using Parametric Cataloguing - Gabriel Collin

10:15 Detecting and analyzing LEO satellite streaks with MUSE - Brayden Leicester (University of Canterbury)

10:30 Enhanced astrometry of the rapid ASKAP continuum survey for precise localisation of fast radio bursts - Akhil Jaini (Swinburne University of Technology)

10:45 Unveiling Gravitational Lenses in Colour: Multi-band Reconstruction of Sixteen Lensed Systems with PISCO - Huimin Qu (The University of Sydney)
11:00 Viewing
Viewing
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Rumours (Level 6)

11:30 Morning Break
Morning Break
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Function Room 1
12:00
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

12:00 GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array survey eXtended (GLEAM-X) III: Galactic Plane - Silvia Mantovanini (Curtin University)

12:30 The Dynamic Radio Sky: Wide-field Transient Surveys on the Path to the Square Kilometre Array - Tara Murphy (University of Sydney)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 13:50
Room: Function Room 1

13:50 EPOC (Education and Public Outreach Chapter)
EPOC (Education and Public Outreach Chapter)
13:50 - 14:30
Room: Darling West

ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility)
ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility)
13:50 - 14:30
Room: Scott Theatre

14:30

14:30 - 15:30
Room: Scott Theatre

15:30 Decadal Plan
Decadal Plan
15:30 - 15:45
Room: Scott Theatre

15:45 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Function Room 1
16:15
16:15 - 17:45
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

16:15 The Fate of Globular Cluster Substructure: From Accretion to Diffusion in Galaxy Halos - Finn Pal (University Of New South Wales)

16:30 The Dynamical and Morphological Transformation of Galaxies through Cosmic Time - Caroline Foster (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

16:45 The intracluster light fraction across redshift and cluster environment - Louisa Canepa

17:00 Exploring the Spatially Resolved Initial Mass Function in SAMI Star-Forming Galaxies - Diego Salvador Campe (Macquarie University)

17:15 Abundance Differences of Dwarf Galaxy Streams and Fully Accreted Systems - Miles Pearson (University of New South Wales)

17:30 Disentangling the effects of ram pressure on cluster galaxies using multi-component Gaussian fitting. - Gabriella Quattropani
16:15 - 17:45
Room: Darling West
Contributions

16:15 Orbital Decay of the Shortest-Period Hot Jupiter, TOI-2109b: Tidal Constraints and Transit-Timing Analysis - Jaime A. Alvarado Montes (Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO), Macquarie University)

16:30 A Metal- and Volatile-Rich Comet-Like Tail from the Ultra-Hot Jupiter KELT-9b - Nicholas Borsato (Macquarie University)

16:45 The K2 & TESS Synergy: Uniting NASA’s Planet Hunters - Erica Thygesen (University of Tasmania, Michigan State University)

17:00 The GLINT Instrument: Finding the glimmer of alien worlds - Stephanie Rossini-Bryson (University of Sydney)

17:15 TASSIE: a TASmanian Search for Inclined Exoplanets - Thomas Plunkett (University of Tasmania)

17:30 Gravitational Instability in Post-AGB Disks: Limits on Second-Generation Planet Formation - Ali Pourmand (Macquarie University)
18:30 Rainbow Dinner
Rainbow Dinner
18:30 - 20:30
Thursday 10 July 2025

09:00 LSST Live Demo
LSST Live Demo
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

10:00 Quantifying Radio Source Morphology - Lachlan Barnes (Macquarie University)

10:15 More Precise Galaxy Distances using Machine Learning - Melissa Campbell (Australian National University)

10:30 Novel, Independent Approach to VLBI Black Hole Imaging - Samuel Lai (CSIRO)

10:45 Image Reconstruction with the James Webb Interferometer - Max Charles (University of Sydney)
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Darling West
Contributions

10:00 Colouring High Cadence Lightcurves of Fast Transients - Clarinda Montilla (University of Canterbury)

10:15 Stellar parameters and abundances for 800,000 Gaia RVS spectra using GALAH DR4 and The Cannon - Pradosh Barun Das (Macquarie University)

10:30 Preparing SKA-Low for Science: Commissioning a Next-Generation Low-Frequency Array - Shivani Bhandari

10:45 From AAVSs to AA0.5: observational highlights on the path to SKA-Low science commissioning - Giulia Macario (SKAO/INAF)
11:00 Viewing
Viewing
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Rumours (Level 6)

11:30 Morning Break
Morning Break
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Function Room 1
12:00
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

12:00 WAVES: The Wide Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey - Sabine Bellstedt (UWA)

12:30 First Results from DEBASS and the Importance of Low-z Supernova Samples in Validating Thawing Dark Energy - Bailey Martin (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 13:50
Room: Function Room 1

13:50 Data Central
Data Central
13:50 - 14:40
Room: Scott Theatre
14:40 Funding, Professions & Industry
Funding, Professions & Industry
14:40 - 15:30
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

14:40 Astronomy Australia Ltd - an update on our strategy and funded projects - Alexander Cooke (Astronomy Australia)

15:10 From PhD to Profession: Understanding the experiences and career outcomes of observational astronomy PhD graduates - Hugo Walsh (Swinburne University of Technology)
15:30 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Function Room 1
16:00 Bok Prize Talk
Bok Prize Talk
16:00 - 16:25
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

16:00 On the chemical and orbital origin of Hercules - Yusen Li (Australian National University)
18:00 Conference Dinner - National Wine Centre (Hickinbotham Hall + Terrace)
Conference Dinner - National Wine Centre (Hickinbotham Hall + Terrace)
18:00 - 22:00
Room: National Wine Centre
Friday 11 July 2025
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

10:00 Unveiling the Nature of High-Redshift Galaxies with JWST: Challenges and Insights from Theory and Simulations - Yuxiang Qin (Australian National University)

10:15 Hidden in plain sight: building towards finding rare, powerful radio galaxies at z>6 in the SKA era - Alexander Hedge (ICRAR/Curtin University)

10:30 How biased are JWST high-z quasar host galaxy detections? - Sabrina Berger (University of Melbourne)

10:45 The CosmoDRAGoN simulations: radio jet feedback and spectral signatures in cosmological environments - Patrick Yates-Jones
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Darling West
Contributions

10:00 First monitoring campaign of a Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitter - Barnali Das (CSIRO, Space and Astronomy)

10:15 WD40: a highly elliptically polarised radio white dwarf - Laura Driessen (University of Sydney)

10:30 Non-equilibrium chemistry in the Milky Way's nuclear wind - Karlie Noon (Australian National University)

10:45 The Driving Mode of Turbulence in Extragalactic Sources - Lewis Miller
11:00 Viewing
Viewing
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Rumours (Level 6)

11:30 Morning Break
Morning Break
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Function Room 1
12:00 Anne Green Prize Talk
Anne Green Prize Talk
12:00 - 12:30
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

12:00 A Journey Through Cosmic Time: Advancing Galaxy Evolution with the Shark Semi-Analytic Model - Claudia Lagos (University of Western Australia)
12:30 Heisler Prize Talk
Heisler Prize Talk
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

12:30 The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: A Southern Hemisphere Gravitational Wave Detector - Matthew Miles (Vanderbilt University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 13:50
Room: Function Room 1

13:50 Early-Career Researcher (ECR)
Early-Career Researcher (ECR)
13:50 - 14:30
Room: Scott Theatre
14:30 Harley Wood School Debrief
Harley Wood School Debrief
14:30 - 14:45
Room: Scott Theatre
Contributions

14:30 Harley Wood School Debrief - Imogen Barnsley (University of Adelaide) Jemma Pilossof (University of Adelaide)
14:45 Student Prizes & Closing
Student Prizes & Closing
14:45 - 15:00
Room: Scott Theatre

15:00 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Function Room 1

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