Powerhouse Museum
Sunday 15 June 2008
2pm session in Coles Theatre; all other sessions in Target Theatre

9:30 Registration

Session 1: Chair Geoff Wyatt
10.00am Welcome
10.05am Ray Norris: Aboriginal Australians: the world’s first astronomers?
11.05am Alan Vaughan: modern research with historic plates from the Sydney Zone of the Astrographic Catalogue
11.35am Nick Lomb: Early years of Sydney Observatory

12.05-1.05pm: LUNCH – Own arrangements – suggest the Level 1 Café in the courtyard

Session 2: Chair Nick Lomb
1.05pm Fred Watson: More than a big white dome - the past, present and future of the Anglo-Australian Observatory
2.00pm John Sarkissian: Dishing up the data: Parkes and space missions [Coles Theatre]

3.00-3.30pm: TEA

Session 3: Chair Julian Holland
3.30pm Phil Edwards: The Adelaide Observatory
4.10pm Wayne Orchiston: A new perspective on the universe: early radio astronomy in Australia

4.50pm Close of seminar