2023 July Hybrid Project Meeting: 10 Year Anniversary

2023 July Hybrid Project Meeting: 10 Year Anniversary

 

Information & Schedule

Dates: July 25-28, 2023

Location: Technology Park, Bentley, Western Australia

LOC: Mia Walker, Emmaline Yearsley, Aoife Stapleton, Carley Tillett

SOC: Steven Tingay (Chair), Jonathan Pober, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Keitaro Takahashi, Cathie Zheng, Divya Oberoi, Rachel Webster

Participants: 145 registered, predominately in-person attendance. Hosted by Curtin University

Meeting website: https://indico.mwatelescope.org/event/10/

Schedule:

Book of Abstracts:

 

Prize Winners

Judged by Principal Scientists Chris Riseley and Stefan Duchesne.

Best talk: Michael Wilensky; honourable mention: Mengyao Xue

Best poster: Macon Magno; honourable mention: Aman Chokshi

 

News and Media

Curtin media release: https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/historic-mwa-milestone-reached-as-we-go-back-to-the-future-in-the-cosmos/

Twitter/X (see posts from July-August 2023): https://twitter.com/mwatelescope

TV news:

Newspaper articles: ,

 

Interviews

Available on the MWA YouTube Channel, on the project meeting interview playlist:

 

Recorded Talks

Available on the MWA YouTube Channel, on the project meeting playlist:

 

Presentation Slides

Speaker (in order of schedule)

Presentation

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Speaker (in order of schedule)

Presentation

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Steven Tingay

Director’s Overview

Mark Gray

MWA and Pawsey: together for 47 petabytes and counting

Sarah Pearce

MWA importance as an SKA precursor

Randall Wayth, Chris Riseley

MWA Phase III Science and Engineering

Chenoa Tremblay

10 Years of Galactic and Extra-Galactic (GEG) Astronomy

Stefan Duchesne

Abell 194 and getting the most out of archival datasets

Sean Paterson

A Deep Imaging Pipeline to Simplify Processing and Mosaicking of Survey Data

Linhui Wu

Diffuse Radio Emission in the Radio Lobes of M87

Kathryn Ross

GLEAM-X IDRII: What's available and what's next!

Christopher Riseley

A decade of MWA magnetism: where did we come from and where are we going?

Ramesh Bhat

10 years of Pulsars and Fast Transients with the MWA

Mengyao Xue

Probing the ISM towards the Gum Nebula using Pulsar Measurements

Bradley Meyers

The SMART pulsar survey: past, present, and future

Garvit Grover

Discovery and follow-up of a new long-period, nulling pulsar from the SMART survey

Roni Kerley

The MWA’s connections to the Indigenous community

Emma Tolley

Switzerland's motivation to join the MWA

Cathryn Trott

The MWA Epoch of Reionisation Project: the 10-year search for the 13 billion-year old signal

Stuart Wyithe

Constraining Reionization with MWA and beyond

Michael Wilensky

Evidence of Ultra-faint RFI in Deep 21~cm EoR Power Spectra with the MWA

Nichole Barry

Towards a New Upper Limit on the EoR 21-cm Measurement using FHD -- A Celebration and a Lament

Takumi Ito

Foreground Removal with Gaussian Process Regression

Katherine Elder

Effect of radiative mutual coupling on beam pattern

Divya Oberoi

Ten years of solar, heliospheric and ionospheric science with the MWA

John Morgan

Probing the high-resolution sky with Interplanetary Scintillation

Rohit Sharma

Detection and simulation of the weak radio bursts

Chris Brayton

Acknowledgement of country - CSIRO ARRC 

Jiajun Zhang

Chinese Performance

Robert Goeke

Building the MWA

No slides

Murray Hadley

MWA connections to industry: Science meets construction

Andrew
Williams

How to submit an MWA observing proposal

Greg Sleap

MWA Archive Update and Retrospective

Dev Null

Showcasing a Decade of Advancements in MWA Calibration Techniques

Ron Ekers

Lessons from the history of discoveries made (and missed) using radio frequency interferometers and arrays on our path to the MWA

Danny Price

Overview of SETI and the MWA: Technosignature and FRB searches with the MWA

Gemma Anderson

Celebrating 10 years of transient science with the MWA

Clancy James

Plans for the MWA Particle Detector Array

Jun Tian

MWA rapid follow-up of gravitational wave transients: prospects for detecting prompt radio counterparts

Marcin Sokolowski

All-sky high-time resolution monitoring of transient sky with SKA-Low stations

Natasha Hurley-Walker

Long-period radio transients

GIF: The MWA tile beam pattern as a function of frequency. Credit: Maria Kovaleva, Curtin University

Each in-person meeting participant received a small 3D-printed beam pattern (at Channel 125, or ~160MHz).

 

Photos

Image credit: Curtin University. Photographer: Michael Goh