Final Program

Here is the final program for WARS 2008. Click on links to see abstracts.

	Sunday 10^th February
18:30	Dinner
20:30	NCRS meeting

	Monday 11^th February
9:00	Keynote Talk 1: Alex Grant, University of South Australia: Cognitive Radio
9:45	Keynote Talk 2:Frank Briggs, ANU: The Mileura Widefield Array
10:30	Morning tea
10:45	Poster introductions
11:00	Poster session 1
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Keynote Talk 3: David de Boer Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP)
14:00	Special Talks: Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Phased Array Feeds for ASKAP – Doug Hayman The ASKAP Antenna Concept – Ross Forsyth The ASKAP Digital Concept – John Bunton
15:00	Afternoon tea
15:15	Poster introductions
15:30	Poster session 2
17:00	Free time
18:00	Drinks
18:30	Dinner
	Entertainment: Ray Norris Aboriginal Astronomy

	Tuesday 12th February
9:00	Keynote Talk 4: Peter Corke, CSIRO: Wireless sensor networks
9:45	Keynote Talk 5: Roman Makarevitch, La Trobe Uni: HF radar studies of ionospheric irregularities and plasma convection
10:30	Morning tea
10:45	Poster introductions
11:00	Poster session 3
12:30	BBQ lunch
14:00	Industry panel session Speakers include: Jim Harvey (Mimix), Peter Martin (RFShop), John Ness (EM Solutions), Richard Taylor (Microwave & Materials Designs),
15:00	Conference close

Poster Sessions

Poster Session 1:

Christophe Granet and Trevor Bird	Dual-polarized high-efficiency spline-profile square horns for satellite array applications
Anthony Parker and James Rathmell	Comprehensive model of microwave FET electro-thermal and trapping dynamics
Yuehe Ge and Karu Esselle	A class of high-gain low-profile resonant cavity antennas based on a single layer metamaterial superstrate
Peter Vun, Simon Mahon and Anthony Parker	Modelling strategy for accurate HEMT circuit design
Venkata Gutta et al.	Millimeterwave mixers for high capacity digital radio links
Stephen Hanham, Trevor Bird, Benjamin Johnston and Robert Minasian	Dielectric rods for terahertz antenna arrays
Keith Kikkert and Owen Kenny	The design of a Ka band satellite beacon receiver
Robert Gardiner-Garden, et al.	A new hi-fidelity oblique HF receiving system
Andrew Heitmann & Robert Gardiner-Garden	Feature extraction and mode identification in oblique incidence soundings
David Netherway and Robert Gardiner-Garden	On interpretation of BSS leading edges
J.M. Le Floch et al.	Room temperature filters and oscillators with Bragg effect dielectric resonators
Carol Wilson and Hajime Suzuki	Anomalies in the application of the multiple knife-edge diffraction model
Elena Vinogradova	Wave scattering by 2-D arbitrary cavities: rigorous analysis

Poster Session 2:

David Barnes and Grenville Armitage	Realtime monitoring for the next generation of radiotelescopes
John Bunton et al.	ASKAP beamformer development
Douglas Hayman et al.	The NTD interferometer: a phased array feed test bed
John Bennett	Quasi-optics using tensor components of vectors
Christophe Granet, Ian Davis and Trevor Bird	A compact, prime-focus, dual-band coaxial horn for the giant meter-wave radio telescope (GMRT, India)
Christophe Granet, John Kot, Stuart Hay and John O’Sullivan	A study of optimized dual-reflector systems with phased array feeds for “ASKAP”
Graham Moorey et al.	Cryogenically cooled 30 – 50 GHz receiver systems for the Australia Telescope
Paul Smith et al.	A regularised approach to diffraction from arbitrarily shaped screens of revolution
Paul Roberts	Ionospheric dispersion compensation using a novel microwave de-dispersion filter
John Hartnett et al.	Application of ultra-high stability cryogenic sapphire oscillators to Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Diana Londish et al	The Australian SKA Pathfinder Instrument (ASKAP)

Poster Session 3:

Bridget Lally and Haley Jones	Protection of fortuitous reception C-band television receive-only earth stations from wireless access service signals
Richard Hawkes	Radiolocation using differential Doppler
Greg Hislop, Li Li and Andrew Hellicar	Microwave tomographic imaging of logs
Ghaffer Kiani et al.	Transmission improvement of useful signals through energy saving glass windows using frequency selective surfaces
Andrew Kerans and Bridget Lally	Evolution of spectrum management to enable the entry of cognitive radio
Graham Woods	Wireless sensor networks on the great barrier reef
Joel Younger, Iain Reid and Robert Vincent	On observations of meteor trail diffusion using VHF radar
Andrew Hellicar, Li Li and Juan Tello	First measurements of a multi-spectral imaging demonstrator
Robert Gardiner-Garden	Comparing synthesised & observed oblique ionograms
Andrew Heitmann & Robert Gardiner-Garden	The behaviour and modelling of sporadic-E heights in the JORN surveillance region
Pasha Ponomarenko, Colin Waters and Fred Menk	Propagation mode separation in SuperDARN data
Michael K. Maggs, Steven G. O’Keefe and David V. Thiel	Decentralised clock synchronisation in large scale wireless sensor networks using neighbourhood statistics
B. A. Carter and R. A. Makarevich	HF radar echoes from the E region: Occurrence and generation mechanisms
A. C. Kellerman and R. A. Makarevich	Electric field and conductance control of electrojet currents in the auroral region
Carol Wilson	Frequency bands for Wireless Sensor Networks