From brad at mso.anu.edu.au Mon Mar 17 14:43:17 2014 From: brad at mso.anu.edu.au (Brad E. Tucker) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:43:17 +1100 Subject: [ASA] WG 3.2 Canberra Town Hall Meeting Tomorrow, Tuesday 18 March Message-ID: <44048_1395027799_s2H3hI6e040823_168E3B64-2075-4025-BF49-6DF36663AB44@mso.anu.edu.au> We will be having our next Town Hall meeting for WG 3.2 - Education, Outreach and Careers, tomorrow, Tuesday 18 March, from 2-4pm at Mt. Stromlo Observatory, ANU. For this Town Hall Meeting, we'll focus on how we can engage each audience and what is needed to be successful. - Are more programs needed to engage a specific audience? - Since our available time is limited, what programs should we focus on and what provide the most benefit? - How can we increase our support of existing programs? - How do we obtain funding for key activities? - How do we advertise these programs? - Primary School Groups - What outreach and education activities should we be engaging in? - School visits / talks - Star gazing - Educational materials - High School / Secondary Groups - How do we keep students engaged in Astronomy and encourage them for University study and Astronomy careers? - Work Experience - After school / extension programs - Supporting the Australian curriculum - University and Graduate Students - What do we need to provide for both scientific and practical knowledge? - Summer programs and research opportunities - PhD and job applications support - Careers outside of academia - General Public - How do we increase an awareness and support of Astronomy? - Public events (star-gazing, lectures, Open Day's) - Engaging the public in astronomy research (e.g. Radio Galaxy Zoo) - Politicians (e.g. Science meets Parliament) - Social / online media - A National Astronomy Week (akin to National Science Week?) Please let me know if you'll be attending in person. For those connecting via phone/video conferencing facilities, details are available. The facilities will be available starting at 1:30 pm so you can test / set-up the connection beforehand. To join by video: via IP dial 202.158.195.138 via SIP dial 61262112667 at aarnet.edu.au via ISDN dial +61262112667 Conference Selection: To select and enter your conference use your far end camera button and enter the conference ID of: 2667 followed by a hash # To join by phone: dial +61262112667 (International Format) or: For dialing within Australia subtract the +61 and add a 0 ie (02) 6211xxxx If you'd like to stream from your laptop, please visit http://video.aarnet.edu.au. Please note viewing the live steam will only allow you to see the meeting (i.e. not participate). The meeting will be recorded and also available via the link above. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Tue Mar 18 13:30:28 2014 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:30:28 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Second MWA Announcement of Opportunity and Third MWA Call for Proposals Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The third Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Call for Proposals is now open, from March 18 to April 18, 2014. The proposal template is available from http://mwatelescope.org (under the news and update section on the front page of the site) and should be read in conjunction with the second MWA Announcement of Opportunity (AO), available from the same URL. This third Call covers the observing period designated 2014-B (July - December 2014). A total of 1600 hours of observing time is available during this period, as detailed in the AO documentation (in the Guaranteed Time and Open Access allocations). Regards, Steven -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Professor Steven Tingay Premier's Fellow Deputy Director ICRAR Deputy Director Western Australian Radio Astronomy Centre of Excellence Director, Science and Operations Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy Department of Imaging and Applied Physics Curtin University of Technology Bentley, Western Australia Australia Street address: Brodie Hall building 1 Turner Ave Technology Park Bentley 6102 Western Australia Email: s.tingay at ivec.org OR s.tingay at curtin.edu.au WWW: http://astronomy.curtin.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)8 9266 3516 Mobile: +61 (0)425 771 856 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Tue Mar 18 15:12:58 2014 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:12:58 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Decadal Review WG3.3 Summary paper on Industry Engagement In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The ASA exploder is working harder than usual with notices about meetings for the Decadal Plan. I apologise for the extra email, but informing the community about these meetings is surely an important use of the exploder. John Dear ASA Members, As Chair of the Decadal Plan WG 3.3 (Industry) I would like to share the attached summary paper prepared by the WG3.3 Executive reviewing the issues pertaining to Industry engagement. I encourage everyone to read the summary on page 1 and prepare their thoughts for the discussion sessions at the upcoming Town Halls. The Town Halls combining discussions for National & International Facilities, Industry, eScience and Research Funding will be held Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth on Mar 25,26,27 and Apr 3 respectively as set out at http://australianastronomydecadalplan.org Streaming information will be available shortly. As well as participating at the Town Halls we would welcome any comments to assist our review of the future successful Industry engagement. Please email your comments to me by 30 April. Best regards Carole Carole Jackson Professor, Radio Astronomy & Premier's Fellow Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA) Faculty of Science & Engineering Curtin University Western Australia Tel +61 (0) 8 9266 4908 Mob +61 (0) 401 103 500 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: WG3.3 Town Hall brief industry.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 167621 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dcroton at astro.swin.edu.au Fri Mar 21 09:03:29 2014 From: dcroton at astro.swin.edu.au (Darren Croton) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:03:29 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Decadal Plan joint town hall meetings final info Message-ID: <6245E3FD-2C64-4EDF-B3B8-D52FDDBBEDB1@astro.swin.edu.au> Dear ASA member. We would like to offer a final announcement and information for the joint town hall meetings happening around the country in the next two weeks for the following working groups: WG 2.1 International Facilities (https://sites.google.com/site/australiandecadalplanwg21/) WG 2.2 National Facilities WG 2.3 eScience (https://sites.google.com/site/escienceworkinggroup/) WG 3.3 Industry WG 3.4 Research Funding If you are at all interested in the future of data collection and access, funding for astronomy, and/or our industry connections, please attend and voice your opinion. It matters! Dates & Locations: Date 25 March 26 March 27 March 3 April Venue / Contact / Times Sydney, CASS [*] Sarah.Pearce at csiro.au 9:30am - 4:30pm Melbourne, Swinburne kglazebrook at swin.edu.au 9:20am - 5pm (w. extended lunch) Canberra, RSAA/ANU martin at mso.anu.edu.au 9:30pm - 4:30pm Perth, UWA lister.staveley-smith at uwa.edu.au 9:30pm - 4:30pm Presentations - National ATNF (Lewis Ball) AAO (Andrew Hopkins) ATNF (Simon Johnston) AAO (Warrick Couch) ATNF (Naomi McClure-Griffiths) AAO (Andrew Hopkins) ATNF (Douglas Bock) AAO (TBC) Presentations - Institutional ANU (Kate Brooks) Antarctica(Michael Burton) AAL (TBC) Virtual Observatory (TBC) ANU (Kate Brooks) Antarctica (Jeremy Mould) AAL (TBC) Virtual Observatory(TBC) ANU (Matthew Colless) National Computer Infrastructure (Lindsay Botten) Antarctica (Michael Ashley) AAL (TBC) Virtual Observatory(TBC) ANU (Kate Brooks) MWA (Steve Tingay) AAL (TBC) Virtual Observatory (TBC) LSST (TBC) We have the option to stream any of the above events. Please contact dcroton at astro.swin.edu.au ASAP if you would like to join this way. General Decadal Plan information can be found at http://australianastronomydecadalplan.org. Thanks, Darren [*] http://www.atnf.csiro.au/news/news.php?action=show_item&item_id=1303 -- Darren Croton Associate Professor & QEII Research Fellow Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia Phone: 61-3-9214-5537; Fax: 61-3-9214-8797 http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~dcroton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad at mso.anu.edu.au Sun Mar 23 10:45:47 2014 From: brad at mso.anu.edu.au (Brad E. Tucker) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:45:47 +1100 Subject: [ASA] 2014 RSAA Winter School Message-ID: <37230_1395531948_s2MNjli7012981_F85CD69D-22F9-47E5-85A0-37B7D54EDC4D@mso.anu.edu.au> Applications are now open for the 2014 RSAA Winter School. Travel bursaries are available to students at all Australian and New Zealand universities. Please distribute to 3rd year (and exceptional 2nd year) undergraduate Astronomy students. See the attached ad for more details. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: RSAA Winter School 2014.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 387336 bytes Desc: not available URL: