RASNZ Conference Schedule

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Session:

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Friday 4PM

Affiliated Societies Meeting

Delegates from the 20+ affiliated societies meet in-person at the conference, discussing various action points and voting on council representatives every second year

Friday 7PM

Welcome

Official opening of the conference by various dignitaries and the local society; the 2023 Fellows lecture, followed by socialising.

Saturday Programme

Time	Speaker	Subject
9:00		Welcome and Housekeeping
9:10	Mark Conway	The JANZOS Project: A Critical Evaluation of an International Collaboration in Gamma Ray Astronomy
9:30	Yvette Perrott	What is dark matter? From MOA to galaxy clusters.
9:50	Chris Gordon	Dissecting the Destruction of Axion Miniclusters by Stars: An Analytical Approach
10:10		MORNING TEA
10:40	Charlie Lineweaver	KEYNOTE
11:20	Chris Benton	Countering long-duration spaceflight bone-loss.
11:40	Quin Aicken Davies UC Postgrad	An Analysis of Chemically Peculiar Stars
11:50	Jason Alexander UC Postgrad	Mass-ratio distribution and frequency of binaries in young clusters
12:00		GROUP PHOTO
12:20		LUNCH

Stream 1 - Cole Theatre

Time	Speaker	Subject
13:20	Glenn Urquhart	History of the Auckland Astronomical Society 1967-1991.
13:40	Grant Christie	Gravitational Microlensing from Stardome over Two Decades
14:00	John Drummond	Kiwis Who Caught Comets - Let's Look at Murray Geddes
14:20	Warwick Kissling	(594913) Aylo'chaxnim - a kilometre-sized asteroid inside Venus
14:40		AFTERNOON TEA
15:20	Tony Cooper	Scientific CMOS sensors in Astronomy: QHY600M
15:40	Stuart Weston	Two Decades of Celestial Reference Frame VLBI in the Deep South

Stream 2 - Carbine Room

Time	Speaker	Subject
13:20	Karen Pollard	Recent Research at the University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory
13:40	William Dimery-Knight SWAPA	My piece of the puzzle
13:45	Alan Viles SWAPA	Astronomy guiding
13:50	Alysha Wilson SWAPA	I live in the space between the stars and the sky.
13:55	Jethro Ware SWAPA	My Experience at EPS Astronomy School 2023
14:00	Nikau Dymond SWAPA	I want to learn about the universe with physics
14:05	Jan Eldridge	What's JWST done so far...?
14:25	Brayden Leicester ASTRONZ	Galaxy Morphology vs Colour
14:35	Andrew Moore UC Postgrad	Determining the age of galactic clusters via probabilistic generative modeling
14:45		AFTERNOON TEA
15:20	Ethan Bull UC Postgrad	Mode Identification of Beta Cephei Variable Stars
15:30	Zachary Lane UC Postgrad	Type Ia Supernova Tests of Average Cosmic Evolution with Pantheon+
15:40	Jesse Satherly UC Postgrad	The Effect of General Relativity on Axion-Photon Conversion

16:00

RASNZ 2023 Annual General Meeting

Sunday Programme

Time	Speaker	Subject
9:00	Rolf Olsen	Seeing the Cosmic Web from Suburban Auckland
9:20	John Hearnshaw	A Parliamentary petition for dark sky protection
9:40	Adrien Vilquin Barrajon	Weather & environmental limitations to stargazing
10:00		MORNING TEA
10:40	Chris Lintott	KEYNOTE
11:20	Tom Love	Finding ways to support amateur astronomical research
11:40	Rhia Hewett UC Postgrad	Modelling Molecular Clouds with Potential Cosmic Ray Accelerators
11:50	Setaita Siufanga ASTRONZ	Astrophysics of the gaseous nebula, Omega Nebula.
12:00		LUNCH
13:00	Richard Easther	Big science from a little country
13:20	James Scott UO Fireballs Aotearoa	New Zealand's community meteor camera network
13:40	Tingting Wang UO Fireballs Aotearoa	from fireball capture to meteorite hunt
14:00	Victoria Travers	Stardome redevelopment - reconnecting our manuhiri/visitors to the cosmos
14:20	Leah Albrow	Exoplanet Watch and Eyes on Exoplanets
14:40	Euan Mason	In the footsteps of Tycho Brahe: A pilgrimage to Hven
15:00	Wayne Orchiston & John Hearnshaw	From Bickerton to Bateson: The Challenge to Establish Astrophysics in Aotearoa / New Zealand
15:20		Nelson Society Conference 2024
15:25	RASNZ Awards	prizes and conference close
15:35		Springer Book launch

Monday

Workshop: Historical Section

The 2023 RASNZ conference runs from 2nd-5th June.