[spacezebra (Petra)]

Hi all

We have an impressive lineup of speakers for Border Stargaze 2009.

Dr Sarah Maddison
Sarah is a computational astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University, and the Coordinator of Swinburne Astronomy Online. Sarah’s main areas of interest are star and planet formation, particularly the formation, evolution and dynamics of protoplanetary disks.

Dr John Wilkinson
John is a science educator and former lecturer in science education at Latrobe University, Bendigo. He has research interests in science education, physics and astronomy. John has written a number of science textbooks and is author of the newly released CSIRO book "Probing the new Solar System".

Scott Williams
Scott is an indigenous research student at the University of Technology Sydney. His research currently involves using data from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument onboard the Mars Express spacecraft to identify and interpret geological structures of the surface and subsurface of Phobos, moon of Mars

John Sarkissian
John is an Operations Scientist at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory. John’s main responsibilities are the operation and systems development at the radio telescope, and supports visiting astronomers with their observations. In addition, he is involved in Pulsar research - an exciting field of radio astronomy.

Cheers Petra d.