Orange Meeting

21 - 23 November

When and where?

Start: 10:30 am Monday 21 November
Finish: Lunchtime Wednesday 23 November

The conference will be located at Turner's Vineyard, a 5 minute drive east of Orange, NSW.

Travel

Rex Regional Express flies to Orange from Sydney. On Monday 21st Nov the flight leaves at 08.45, arriving 09.30.
Jetstar flies into Sydney from Hobart at 06.15, arriving Sydney 08.00 Monday morning. DIY Car Hire can organise car rental from Orange airport.

Countrylink also operates trains to Orange from Sydney. The trip takes about 5 hours and may require changing trains in Lithgow.
Fare is $24.20 (economy) or $33.00 (first class) each way for tickets booked more than 7 days in advance

Accommodation

If you wish to stay at Turner's Vineyard, you will need to make a private booking, making sure to mention you are
attending the CSIRO Pulsar conference so they can allocate you one of the rooms we are holding at the following prices:

Room	Cost
Single	$120, including full buffet breakfast
Twin	$140, including full buffet breakfast for 2
2-bedroom apartment	$190, including full buffet breakfast for 2

Rooms will be held for us until October 31st.

Meals: Full buffet breakfast is included in room rates.
Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided. There will be a conference dinner on the Monday night.
The Vinyard's Cafe is open Wed - Sun for lunch, the restaurant is open every night from 6.30pm.
Room sharing: If you wish to share a twin room, please email Diana.Londish AT csiro.au - we'll try to pair you with someone suitable!

Accommodation Contact details:

Turner's Vineyard (Conference Manager is Derani)
Contact number: (02) 6369 1045
Website URL: http://www.turnersvineyard.com.au

Agenda

Monday

CHAIR: R. Manchester

10.00-10.30 Tea/coffee
10.30-10.40 Welcome + announcements
10.40-11.05 Simon Johnston "Young pulsars - what do they look like and why?"
11.05-11.30 Russell Edwards "Single pulse studies of Southern millisecond pulsars"
11.30-11.55 ---
11.55-12.20 Chunglee Kim, "The Galactic merger rate of DNS systems: What is the most probable rate?"

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12.45-13.55 Lunch and room check-in
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CHAIR: S. Johnston

14.00-14.25 Matthew Bailes "Low-e binary pulsars"
14.25-14.50 Duncan Galloway "A quasi-persistent accretion-powered millisecond pulsar"
14.50-15.15 Joris Verbiest "PSR J0437-4715, from daily observations to decadal"

15.15-15.30 Short break

15.30-15.55 Matthias Vigelius "Modelling Asymmetric Pulsar Bow Shocks"
15.55-16.20 Qinghuan Luo "Mode coupling in pulsar magnetospheres"
16.20-16.35 Alpha Mastrano "Superfluid Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Pulsar Glitches"

18.30 Dinner
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Tuesday

CHAIR: M. Bailes

09.00-09.25 Andrew Melatos "Unsteady accretion flows"
09.25-09.50 Aidan Hotan "Baseband timing of 15 millisecond pulsars"
09.50-10.15 Carlos Peralta "Rotating fluid dynamics in a spherical shell and quasi-periodic oscillations."
10.15-10.40 Alex Judge "Induced scattering in pulsar plasmas"
10.40-11.05 Olaf Skjarassen "Simulating Relativistically Nonlinear Waves in Pulsar Winds"

11.05-11.30 Tea/coffee

CHAIR: D. Londish

11.30-11.55 Dick Manchester "An overview of the Parkes pulsar timing array project"
11.55-12.20 John Sarkissian "First processing of the Parkes pulsar timing array observations"
12.20-12.45 Dion Lewis "Regular timing of 140 pulsars at Parkes"

12.45-13.55 Lunch

CHAIR: G. Hobbs

14.00-14.25 Paul Watson "Scintillation of radio sources: the role of caustics"
14.25-14.50 Albert Teoh "Pulsar data archiving"
14.50-15.15 Natasa Vranesevic "The effect of the period second derivative on the pulsar current"
15.15-15.40 Xiaopeng You "Dispersion variations for several Parkes pulsar timing array pulsars"

15.40-16.00 Tea/coffee

CHAIR: R. Edwards

16.00-16.25 Ramesh Bhat "PSR J1141-6545, latest timing and polarimetry"
16.25-16.50 George Hobbs "Dealing with multiple data-sets simulataneously"
16.50-17.15 Steve Ord "timing and scintillation observations of J1600-3053"

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Wednesday

CHAIR: S. Ord

09.30-09.35 Welcome + announcements
09.35-10.00 Matthew Bailes "Computational requirements for the next generation of baseband instruments"
10.00-10.25 John Dickey "Dedispersion strategies for FPGA's"
10.25-10.50 Frank Briggs "Outline of the Digital Frontend for the LFD"
10.55-11.10 Tea/coffee

CHAIR: R. Bhat

10.10-11.35 Aidan Hotan "Programmable logic devices: the future of radio astronomy?"
11.35-12.00 Grant Hampson "The new GHz Pulsar DFB System"
12.00-12.25 Andrew Brown "Current progress of the DV4 PCB"
12.25-12.50 David Warren "Trends in Electronic Design with Applications in Radio Astronomy"
12.50-13.15 John Bunton "Digital signal processing in the xNTD"

13.15-14.15 Lunch

CHAIR R. Manchester

14.15-16.00 Hardware demonstration and discussion
- ATNF (G. Hampson/A. Brown) 30m
- Hobart (J. Dickey/A. Hotan) 30m
- The CABS/MOPS system (W. Wilson/S. Saunders) 10m
- Exchange of ideas and general discussion 30m

Enquiries

If you have any further questions or comments, please contact the following people:

Scientific:	George Hobbs	george.hobbs AT csiro.au
Conference Organisation:	Diana Londish	diana.londish AT csiro.au
Website:	Albert Teoh	albert.teoh AT csiro.au