From cher7851 at uni.sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 4 13:02:30 2014 From: cher7851 at uni.sydney.edu.au (Christopher Herron) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 03:02:30 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Outline of an SKA Student Network Message-ID: <1407121394776.807@uni.sydney.edu.au> Dear ASA members, Several important issues were raised during the SKA Town Hall meeting held at the ASA Annual Scientific Meeting, such as the need to inform students about the science that can be conducted with the SKA, and the need to foster collaboration between SKA member nations. To address these issues, I have come up with the idea of an SKA Student Network. In short, this will be an international network whose members are students interested in the science possible with the SKA and SKA precursors. The primary goals of the network are to inform students about SKA science and project opportunities, to facilitate international collaboration, and public outreach. For more information, please read the full outline, which can be accessed here: http://ozska.pbworks.com/w/page/83402899/Conceptual%20Outline%20for%20an%20SKA%20Student%20Network. I would greatly appreciate comments on this outline, from any ASA members (not just students). You can either comment at the bottom of the webpage mentioned above, or email me directly. Best regards, Chris Herron -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au Tue Aug 5 09:56:29 2014 From: bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au (Bryan Gaensler) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:56:29 +1000 Subject: [ASA] ANZ SKA Science Advisory Committee Message-ID: <97B68E22-9A84-4C02-AE97-5E0E6096AA6B@sydney.edu.au> Dear colleagues, At the ASA meeting earlier this month, it became apparent that some people are not familiar with the internal structure of the Australian / New Zealand Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. As part of our efforts to bring you all up to speed, I'm thus writing in my capacity as Chair of the Aus/NZ SKA Science Advisory Committee (SAC) to tell you about our role and activities. The SAC was formed in July 2013, and is appointed by the Australia/ New Zealand SKA Coordination Committee (ANZSCC). Our charge is to advise the ANZSCC on SKA issues relating to: site delivery and protection; project design, delivery and implementation; accrued benefits to Aust/WA/NZ from their investments in the SKA; emerging scientific opportunities and risks; and benefits or impacts to the international SKA resulting from Aus/NZ activities. The SAC meets approximately every six months, and is provided with administrative and logistical support by the Australian Department of Industry. The current membership of the SAC is: Dr Brian Boyle (Department of Industry) Dr Robert Braun (SKA Organisation) Prof Bryan Gaensler (Chair; U. Sydney) Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith (CSIRO) Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths (CSIRO) Mr Tim Natusch (AUT) Prof Lister Staveley-Smith (ICRAR UWA) Prof Steven Tingay (ICRAR Curtin U.) Prof Stuart Wyithe (U. Melbourne) The next SAC meeting is expected to be in Sep/Oct 2014. Please contact any SAC member to submit concerns, questions or topics that you would like addressed by the SAC at this meeting. In conjunction with the Australian and NZ SKA Offices, the SAC will also seek to begin providing summaries of our meetings to the community. regards, Bryan Gaensler SAC Chair PROFESSOR BRYAN GAENSLER | Australian Laureate Fellow Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) Sydney Institute for Astronomy | School of Physics | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Room 216, 44 Rosehill Street, Redfern, NSW 2016, Australia T +61 2 9351 6053 | F +61 2 9036 7843 | M +61 430 129 997 E bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au | W http://caastro.org/director From Stuart.Ryder at aao.gov.au Tue Aug 5 11:34:54 2014 From: Stuart.Ryder at aao.gov.au (Stuart Ryder) Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:34:54 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Australian Gemini Undergraduate Summer Studentships 2014/15 Message-ID: <53E034BE.4000601@aao.gov.au> Australian Gemini Undergraduate Summer Studentships --------------------------------------------------- The Australian Gemini Office at the Australian Astronomical Observatory is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2014/15 Australian Gemini Undergraduate Summer Studentships (AGUSS) program. AGUSS provides an exciting research opportunity for students who have completed at least two years of an undergraduate degree in Physics, Maths, Astronomy or Engineering. Students will spend 10 weeks in the period Dec 2014 - Feb 2015 based in La Serena, Chile carrying out a research project under the supervision of Gemini Observatory staff, and visit both the Gemini South 8m telescope and the Magellan 6.5m telescopes. We would be grateful if ASA members could bring this to the attention of any suitably experienced undergraduates they may be teaching or supervising, and encourage them to apply. A poster promoting this opportunity is available for download at http://ausgo.aao.gov.au/new_aaosf_aguss_poster2.pdf AGUSS applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents enrolled at an Australian university. The Australian Gemini office will pay the return airfare from the student's home city in Australia to the town of La Serena, Chile, and provide a stipend of approximately A$700 per week. Full details on how to apply, together with the experiences of past AGUSS recipients, are available at: http://www.aao.gov.au/science/research/students/gemini The closing date for applications is *Friday 29 August 2014*. Please contact Stuart Ryder (sdr at aao.gov.au) with any queries about the AGUSS program. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au Wed Aug 6 09:19:34 2014 From: bryan.gaensler at sydney.edu.au (Bryan Gaensler) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:19:34 +1000 Subject: [ASA] LSST town-halls in Sydney/Canberra/Melbourne/Perth, 27-31 October 2014 Message-ID: <955647FA-89E8-4B0C-A694-7901BE6ECBE2@sydney.edu.au> Dear colleagues, SUMMARY: Town-hall meetings on possible Australian participation in LSST will take place over 27-31 October 2014. Register at http://caastro.org/event/2014-lsst. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8.4-m optical and infrared telescope about to commence construction on Cerro Pach?n, Chile. Over the 10-year period 2022 to 2032, LSST will image 18,000 deg^2 of the sky in six bands, visiting every position about 800 times to reach a final co-added magnitude limit r = 27.5. LSST will be transformational for a wide range of topics in astronomy, including weak lensing, BAOs, supernovae, NEOs, stellar astronomy, galaxy evolution, Galactic structure and transients. LSST will also explore new frontiers in astronomy data management, producing 30 TB of data and approximately one million transient alerts per night. Extensive further information on LSST can be found at www.lsst.org. LSST offers many scientific opportunities and synergies for Australian astronomers. To update the community on LSST and to initiate discussion about possible Australian participation in LSST, we will be holding a national series of town-hall meetings on LSST over the week of 27-31 October 2014. Our special guests for these events will be Professor Steven Kahn (LSST Director) and Professor ?eljko Ivezi? (LSST Project Scientist). The town-halls will be as follows: Mon 27 Oct: Sydney (AAO) Tue 28 Oct: Canberra (RSAA) Wed 29 Oct: Melbourne (Swinburne) Fri 31 Oct: Perth (ICRAR UWA) Each workshop will run over approximately 9.30am-3.30pm (tbc), and will feature overviews from Profs Kahn and Ivezi?, contributed talks from Australian astronomers on proposed LSST science, and ample time for discussion about LSST and Australian participation. We invite you to register your attendance at one of these meetings, and to consider making a presentation on your science plans for LSST. To sign up for your local LSST town-hall, submit an abstract and for all logistical details, please visit : http://caastro.org/event/2014-lsst. The deadline for registration and for abstracts is 1 October. There is no fee for attendance. We thank CAASTRO, AAO, RSAA, Swinburne, ICRAR and the LSST Corporation for their generous sponsorship of this activity. Bryan Gaensler CAASTRO Director From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Wed Aug 6 13:15:39 2014 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:15:39 +1000 Subject: [ASA] SpaceUp Australia Message-ID: The following email is from Rodrigo Rodrigues, a mechanical and aerospace engineering student at the University of Adelaide. He is part of the organising committee for an event called SpaceUp Australia, which appears to be a relatively informal meeting aiming to create opportunities for the general public to network with professionals from the space industry. While this may not be of immediate interest to many ASA members, you may have students or friends who may be interested. If so, please pass this information along. John Dear Astronomical Society of Australia members, We are proud to extend you an invitation to attend SpaceUp Australia! SpaceUp Australia is an event focused on space-related topics. It will feature talks from guest speakers whose backgrounds range from engineering and science, to medicine and law. However, it will also feature time-slots dedicated to attendee-led sessions, which will allow attendees to select discussion topics of their interest and to lead their own sessions if they wish. The idea behind this event is to promote a casual environment where issues related to the space sector can be discussed between the attendees with more ease than at a normal conference, and to create opportunities for students and the general public to network with professionals from the space industry. SpaceUp Australia will occur on the 28th of September 2014, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, at Flinders University Victoria Square Campus, in Adelaide. Applications for registration are now open, and will remain so until the 18th of August. The admission price is 50 dollars, and it includes access to all sessions and lunch. Apart from an interest in space, there are no requirements to participate, hence everyone is welcome to attend! To register for SpaceUp Australia, please follow the link below: http://www.spaceupaustralia.org/register.html Thank you for your attention, we look forward to meeting you at the event! Kind regards, The SpaceUp Australia Committee Contact us at info at spaceupaustralia.org Like our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/spaceupaustralia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A Summer Research Scholarship at RSAA includes full accommodation and board on the ANU campus, a weekly allowance, and return travel to Canberra. There will be a lecture series on contemporary topics in astrophysics, and scholars will also be given the opportunity to visit the telescopes and facilities at Siding Spring Observatory, Parkes and Narrabri. The program is open to suitably qualified undergraduate students in the third or final year of their degrees who are currently enrolled at an Australian or New Zealand university. Outstanding second-year students may also be considered. For more details, including a list of available research projects, please visit: http://rsaa.anu.edu.au/study/undergraduate-research/summer-research To apply, follow the instructions at: http://www.anu.edu.au/sas/scholarships/srs/apply.php Enquiries are welcome and may be directed to: * Dr Dougal Mackey (dougal at mso.anu.edu.au) - RSAA summer scholar coordinator * Ms Karen Nulty (rsaa.sa at anu.edu.au) - ANU student administration coordinator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The school will cover a diverse range of topics across all areas of radio astronomy, with a focus on interferometric observations. Registration is open and positions are filling fast. Numbers are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The registration fee will be $250 for students (and $300 for non-students) and will cover lunches and teas/coffees. Also included are two evening meals. Participants will be encouraged to present posters highlighting their research. We are also organising a Friday afternoon excursion to Sawn Rocks, situated in the Mount Kaputar National Park. A bus will depart shortly after the conclusion of the school (~2pm) and return participants to the town in the late afternoon/early evening. For more information, please see the school webpage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/radio-school/2014/index.html Regards, Shari On behalf of the organising committee ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Shari Breen ARC DECRA Fellow CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710, Australia Phone: +61 2 9372 4325 Fax: +61 2 9372 4310 ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ahassan at swin.edu.au Thu Aug 7 13:50:11 2014 From: ahassan at swin.edu.au (Amr Hassan) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 03:50:11 +0000 Subject: [ASA] HPC and GPU Webinar Series - Webinar 2 : GPU Programming for Beginners Message-ID: <5F8F5C66F7178541A3DB09532740A590010F657141@gsp-ex01.ds.swin.edu.au> Dear ASA members, The HPC and GPU Webinar Series aims to provide researchers with a range of High Performance Computing, e-Research, and coding skills. These webinars are free and open to any Australian-based researcher. While our examples and demos will be tightly coupled to the gSTAR architecture and software modules, researchers who do not use gSTAR are still welcome to attend. The Second Webinar of this series will be: GPU Programming for Beginners By: Amr H. Hassan- Swinburne University of Technology On Monday 18th August 2014 - 2:30 PM (AEST) Topics to be covered: * Introduction to Shared Memory Architectures * Why use GPUs? * Introduction to CUDA C * Using CUDA on gSTAR * Programming with CUDA C (Examples) This webinar targets C/C++ Developers. This session is designed for users with NO CUDA experience, however good C/C++ experience is a prerequisite. Please register on: http://goo.gl/hXjAk3 (Please use your Academic Email in registration) This series of webinars is sponsored by Swinburne University of Technology, Australian Government (via NCRIS Fund), and Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL). Best Regards, Dr. Amr H. 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Among the wide range of research on offer is the opportunity to work with astrophysicists in the Sydney Institute for Astrophysics (SIfA) - see http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/sifa/ . The maximum duration is 6 weeks within the summer vacation period of December 2014 to February 2015. Summer Scholars will be paid at the current Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) rate, which in 2014 is $488 per week. If a recipient lives outside the Sydney Metropolitan Area, they may also be offered additional funds of up to $250 per week to cover accommodation costs. All students are encouraged to apply, but preference will be given to undergraduate students in their senior years and those with prior research experience such as special project work. Summer Scholars will be required to provide a short written report and/or a 15-minute talk at the conclusion of their project. 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URL: From carterb at usq.edu.au Thu Aug 7 16:30:26 2014 From: carterb at usq.edu.au (Brad Carter) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:30:26 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Date Claimer: Fourth Australian Exoplanet Workshop - 25 and 26 Nov 2014, USQ Message-ID: Dear ASA Member This is early advice that the Fourth Australian Exoplanet Workshop will be held Tue 25 and Wed 26 November 2014. The venue will be the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba and the workshop will be hosted by the USQ Computational Engineering and Science Research Centre. Further information will be provided at a later date. Sincerely, Brad Carter Astrophysics Group, CESRC USQ Toowoomba campus Brad.Carter at usq.edu.au From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au Fri Aug 8 14:48:55 2014 From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:48:55 +1000 Subject: [ASA] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_Invitation=3A_Making_more_with_less?= =?windows-1252?q?_=96_how_do_we_feed_the_world_as_the_population_soars=3F?= In-Reply-To: <1D1C592C-5D7D-489E-BD0D-C18A3B5CD6B4@sta.org.au> References: <1D1C592C-5D7D-489E-BD0D-C18A3B5CD6B4@sta.org.au> Message-ID: <53E456B7.7000006@aao.gov.au> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Invitation: Making more with less ? how do we feed the world as the population soars? Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:42:05 +1000 From: Catriona Jackson To: Catriona Jackson Science & Technology Australia *Public forum* *Making more with less ? how do we feed the world as the population soars?* with panellists The Hon John Kerin AM, Professor Catherine Bertini and Dr Elizabeth Finkel, hosted by Genevieve Jacobs to be held on Thursday 28 August 12?1.30pm Theatre, lower ground floor, National Library of Australia Parkes Place, Canberra Register to attend here . Enquiries E info at sta.org.au T 6257 2891 The Crawford Fund Inspiring Australia /This Inspiring Australia initiative is supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Industry, in partnership with Science & Technology Australia, The Crawford Fund and Research Training at The Australian National University./ -- A.Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of Research and Outreach Australian Astronomical Observatory P.O. 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