JOHN M. DICKEY

John M. Dickey

Professor of Astronomy

Office : School of Maths and Physics 413

phone : 6226-2447 (overseas dial +613 first, North Island dial 03 first)

mailing address :

     School of Maths and Physics 
     Private Bag 37  
     Hobart, TAS  7001  
     Australia

E-mail: John.Dickey (-at-) utas.edu.au

Vita : go to my CV

Bibliography :

list of papers published in journals

list of papers in conference proceedings

If you recently heard a talk or saw a poster by me and want another look, you can get a copy of any of my recent presentations (in powerpoint format) from : my local ftp site

Here are direct links to specific talks :

18 February 2008 Nagoya Winter School on the ISM, Ise-Shima Lecture 1: Emission and Absorption by the 21-cm line click here
19 February 2008 Nagoya Winter School on the ISM, Ise-Shima Lecture 2: Thermodynamic Equilibrium and the Phases of the Diffuse Neutral Medium click here
20 February 2008 Nagoya Winter School on the ISM, Ise-Shima Lecture 3: Turbulence and Structure in the Diffuse ISM click here
21 February 2008 Nagoya Winter School on the ISM, Ise-Shima Lecture 4: Magnetic Fields, Polarization, and Faraday TomographyFields, Polarization, and Faraday Tomography click here
27 September 2007 Australian Institute of Physics, Tasmania Why Do We Need Cosmology? click here
23 October 2006 ATNF eVLB conference, Epping The AuScope VLBI Array click here
21 September 2006 Colloquium at Mt. Stromlo Observatory

Observations of Turbulence in the Diffuse ISM of the Milky Way click here

12 September 2006 ATNF Synthesis Imaging Winter School

Fourier Transforms and Applications click here

11 September 2006 ATNF Synthesis Imaging Winter School

Principles of Interferometry: Practical Applications click here

14 September 2006 Colloquium at Swinburne University of Technology

Observations of Turbulence in the Diffuse ISM of the Milky Way click here

14 August 2006 IAU Symposium 237, Prague, CZ Observations of Turbulence in the Diffuse ISM of the Milky Way click here
13 December 2005 Vision Quest - Graduation Address, University of Tasmania click here
8 December 2005 Applications of FPGAs in Radio Astronomy (Grote Reber Memorial Conference on Low Frequency Astronomy, Hobart) click here
23 November 2005 FPGA-Based Dedispersion for Fast Transient Search (Orange Conference on Signal Processing Technology, Orange-NSW) click here
1 November 2005 SKA-SWG Mag Question 6 - The Case for High Filling Factor at High Frequencies (Square Kilometer Array International Conference, Pune, India) click here
4 May 2005 Big Unanswered Questions in Physics 2005 (Australian Institute of Physics, Tasmania Branch) click here
19 May 2004 Tracing the Star Formation Cycle through the Diffuse Interstellar Medium (IMF at 50 Conference, Spineto, Italy) click here
10 May 2003 Progress on the SGPS (IGPS Meeting 2003, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada) : SGPSprogress.ppt click here
17 April 2003 What Are We Learning from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey? (Colloquium at the Swinburne University) see March 13, 2003 below...
17 April 2003 What Are We Learning from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey? (Colloquium at the University of Melbourne) see March 13, 2003 below...
March 13, 2003 What Are We Learning from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey? (Colloquium at the RSAA, Mt. Stromlo Observatory) : MSSSO-mar03.ppt click here
Feb 19, 2003 Why Aren't Galaxies Brighter at 21-cm ?(ATNF Colloquium, CSIRO Marsfield) : atnf-feb03.ppt click here
Jan 30, 2003 LOFAR Looks at the Milky Way(LOFAR Science Workshop, Sydney University) : LOFAR-milky_way.ppt click here
October 17, 2002 invited talk to COSPAR session D1.2, To the Edge of the Solar System and Beyond : cospar2.ppt click here
August 20, 2002 URSI General Assembly, Maastricht, session J3 no. 1844, Beyond the IGPS, Future Radio Surveys of the Galactic Plane : ursi2.ppt click here
June 21, 2002 talk to RARE-CATS (Green Bank Science Teachers Program) : GreenBankTeachers.ppt click here
June 4, 2002 poster 42.06 at AAS meeting #200 : AASjune2002.pptclick here
May 17, 2002 talk at the IGPS Workshop, Edmonton, AL : Kappa_of_R.ppt click here
May 13, 2002 talk at the CASCA meeting, Penticton, BC: casca2002a.pptclick here
March 14, 2002 talk to Astronomy journal club: Halo-JC.pptclick here
January 17, 2002 talk to Cosmology lunch journal club: EoR-physicslunch.pptclick here
November 7, 2001 talk to the Univ. of Mn. School of Physics and Astronomy on the SKA: UofMn-Nov01.pptclick here
October 24, 2001 talk at the HI-50 Conference, Penticton, BC: Penticton-01.pptclick here
July 11, 2001 talk at the SKA science workshop, Berkeley, CA: BerkeleySKA.pptclick here
June 13, 2001 talk at the NAIC-NRAO Single Dish summer school: AOsummersch.pptclick here

Research Interests : Radio Spectroscopy of the Milky Way and other galaxies

Polarization of the Galactic non-thermal background : VLA results here ! (manuscript in postscript format)
Polarization of the Galactic non-thermal background : ATNF results here (includes quicktime movie!).
Preliminary Results from a 21-cm Survey of the Southern Milky Way using the ATNF
21-cm absorption through the Magellanic Clouds
21-cm emission survey of the Hercules Cluster

Member of IAU Commission 5, Task Group on Designations . Click here for guidelines for assigning scientific working names to celestial objects outside the solar system.