1. ATUC, Marsfield Phil Diamond, Chief of Division 28 June 2011 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science ATNF: Director’s Update

2. CASS Mission To operate and develop the Australia Telescope as a national research facility for use by Australian and international researchers To exploit the facility’s unique southern location and technological advantages to maintain its position as a world-class radio astronomy observatory To meet NASA’s needs for continuous communication with its fleet of spacecraft throughout our solar system, and thereby contribute to humankind’s understanding of space To further the advancement of knowledge

3. CASS Divisional Sites MRO Radiophysics Laboratory Geraldton Pawsey HPC Centre Geraldton Parkes Narrabri Mopra Tidbinbilla

4. ATNF Steering Committee Met in Parkes on 9-11 May Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA: Chairman) Brian Schmidt (ANU) Rachel Webster (UMelb) Jackie Hewitt (MIT) Michael Kramer (MPIfR) Nan Rendong (NAOC) Alan Brien (Scitech) Jim Noble (ex-Defence) Ex-officio: Matthew Colless (AAO) Ian Opperman (CSIRO ICTC) Alex Zelinsky (CSIRO IS Group Exec)

5. Organizational structure

6. National Facilities: Assessments of Quality Australia Telescope National Facility: ATNF is second most productive radio astronomy facility in the world (by papers published) ATCA #2 in citations/paper Parkes #3 in citations/paper Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex: NASA’s best-performing DSN station Mission Critical support for 45 spacecraft exploring the solar system, fleet valued at ~US$17B Data integrity >99.75%

7. Future of ATNF operations CSIRO budget is finalised tomorrow. It will take us a little while to finalise the CASS budget. Hoping to make announcement on 13 th July

9. Some statistics: Publication numbers

10. Some statistics: Publications by facility

11. Some statistics: PhD students

12. Recent statistics: publications by CASS staff

13. Parkes 50 th Anniversary Oct 31, 2011 marks 50 th anniversary of the first science observations with Parkes.

14. Parkes 50 th Anniversary

15. SKA Activities Founding Board created in April 2011 9 countries signed initially (UK, NL, DE, FR, IT, CN, AU, NZ, RSA) On-going activities to establish full legal entity with Governing Council (a la ESO Council); won’t quite be able to sign at SKA Forum Jodrell Bank, UK announced as HQ of new SKA Project Office Project Execution Plan (PEP) developed, requires 90 Meuro to resource Aus Govt will provide $40.2M for PEP and related activities, only if site decision goes our way Meetings already held in Aus to decide how best we will participate in PEP RQZ report for site decision submitted 30 June Full submission document submitted on 15 th September Documents reviewed by independent committee of experts, decision on 29 th February 2012 by SKA Governing Council

16. Contact Us Phone: 1300 363 400 or +61 3 9545 2176 Email: Enquiries@csiro.au Web: www.csiro.au Thank you CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Philip Diamond Chief Phone: +61 2 9372 4300 Email: phil.diamond@csiro.auphil.diamond@csiro.au Web: www.csiro.au/org/CASSwww.csiro.au/org/CASS