From ahassan at swin.edu.au Mon Apr 13 19:26:37 2015 From: ahassan at swin.edu.au (Amr Hassan) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:26:37 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee - Call for Proposals Q3-Q4 2015 Message-ID: Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee Call for Proposals ? NCI Primergy, Green II (gSTAR/swinSTAR) and Pawsey Galaxy Facilities ** Call closes at 5pm (AEST) Friday 15th May, 2015** Attached is a call for proposals for time on the following facilities (Q3-Q4 2015): 1. NCI Astronomy Flagship Program: up to 1,000 kSUs 2. gSTAR and swinSTAR: up to 1,700 kSUs 3. Pawsey Galaxy supercomputer: up to 2,000 kSU For assistance with the proposal form, or for more information on the resources available, please contact Luke Hodkinson (lhodkins at astro.swin.edu.au), or Amr Hassan (ahassan at swin.edu.au). Note that Luke and Amr may also be contacted for enquiries related to the suitability of code for use on GPUs. Pawsey specific enquiries can also be directed to the Pawsey Helpdesk (help at ivec.org). On behalf of the ASTAC Committee Dr. Amr H. Hassan gSTAR Projects and Engagement Support Leader Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology H29, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia Phone: +61-3-9214-8546 Fax: +61-3-9214-8797 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ASTAC-call.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 263608 bytes Desc: ASTAC-call.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ASTAC-form.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 39411 bytes Desc: ASTAC-form.docx URL: From angel.lopez-sanchez at aao.gov.au Wed Apr 15 14:26:07 2015 From: angel.lopez-sanchez at aao.gov.au (Angel Lopez-Sanchez) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:26:07 +1000 Subject: [ASA] 4th ANNOUNCEMENT "Multiwavelength dissection of galaxies" Conference, Sydney 24-29 May 2015: Extended deadlines, Updated Program, Public Event Message-ID: <44bc-552de880-7-4335ed00@20891391> Please circulate this email within your own institution. FOURTH ANNOUNCEMENT ?Multiwavelength Dissection of Galaxies? 24 - 29th May 2015 Sydney, Australia We are pleased to announce that the list of contributed talks and posters and the Program for the Conference "Multiwavelength dissection of galaxies", which will be held in Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia, between 24 - 29 May 2015, are already available in our website, https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/multiwavelength-dissection-of-galaxies/ We have extended the deadline for Posters and Registration till? *** Wednesday, 6th May 2015 ***. This Conference is the eighth meeting in the Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference series, which are jointly supported by the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS). The Conference will focus on galaxy evolution, combining resolved optical/near-infrared integral field spectroscopy (IFS) data with other multiwavelength (from radio to X-rays) properties of nearby galaxies, and bringing these together with what is known in our Milky Way. This Conference expects to combine observations and the best available theoretical models to create a more complete picture of how galaxies, and in particular our Milky Way, formed and evolved. The Conference Venue is located at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the famous Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia. Crowne Plaza Hotel offers us special prices for each double room. The special rates are only valid for bookings between Saturday 23rd and Sunday 31st May 2015, both dates included. Registered participants will receive instructions of how to proceed with the hotel booking getting the special rates. We are also pleased to announce the Public Event "The Story of Light", which we are hosting in conjunction with the "VIVID Sydney 2015 Ideas" festival and the "International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies 2015". A panel of professional astronomers (Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Amanda Bauer and Fred Watson) tell ?The Story of Light? following Astronomy. This event will be on Sunday 24th May 2015, 2:00 - 3:30 pm at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. For more details, please see the Conference website: https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/multiwavelength-dissection-of-galaxies For general information on the conference, please email: dissection15 at aao.gov.au Important dates: ?? - May 6th, 2015: Registration closes. Call for Posters closes. Deadline payment registration fee. Deadline payment for any extras. ?? - May 18th, 2015: Final Announcement. ?? - May 24th, 2015 - 2:00pm Public Event at the PowerHouse Museum during VIVID Sydney Festival. ?? - May 24th, 2015 - 5:15pm Harbour Cruise Cocktail during VIVID Sydney Festival. ?? - May 25th - 29th, 2015: Conference dates. See Program Schedule. ????? - Tuesday, May 26th - 6:00pm: Wine Tasting & Wood-fired Pizza. ????? - Wednesday, May 27th - 6:15pm: Visit to Sydney Observatory and Stargazing. ????? - Thursday, May 28th - 7:00pm: Conference Dinner. Invited speakers: ?? - Martin Asplund: The Gaia-ESO Survey ?? - Joss Bland-Hawthorn: Near-field cosmology (R) ?? - Alessandro Bosselli: Dust in galaxies: the Herschel view (R) ?? - Julia Bryant: HECTOR: a high-multiplex survey instrument for spatially-resolved galaxy spectroscopy ?? - Rob Crain: EAGLE simulations and links between simulations and observations ?? - C?sar Esteban: The physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way (R) ?? - Lisa Fogarty: Kinematics of galaxies using the SAMI Galaxy Survey ?? - Rosa Gonz?lez Delgado: Stellar populations in nearby galaxies using the CALIFA survey ?? - Andrew Hopkins: TAIPAN and the future of IFU studies in the era of panchromatic sky surveys ?? - Lisa Kewley: Scientific highlights of the SAMI Galaxy Survey ?? - Baerbel Koribalski: Diffuse gas around galaxies and current HI surveys (R) ?? - Claudia Lagos: Evolution of molecular and atomic gas and stars in galaxies and scaling relations ?? - Sarah Martell: An introduction to the GALAH (Galactic Archaeology with HERMES) survey ?? - Naomi McClure-Griffiths: Neutral gas within and around the Milky Way (R) ?? - Richard McDermid: A review of extragalactic IFS surveys (ATLAS-3D, CALIFA, SAMI, MANGA) (R) ?? - Martin Meyer: Future Galactic and extragalactic HI surveys ?? - Mercedes Moll?: Chemical evolution models of galaxies including the Milky Way ?? - Molly Peeples: The circumgalactic medium ?? - Jill Rathborne: Star formation in the Milky Way and implications for other galaxies ?? - Sebasti?n S?nchez: Properties of HII regions of galaxies using the CALIFA survey ?? - Evan Skillman: The physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium of nearby galaxies (R) ?? - Christy Tremonti: Exploring chemical evolution of galaxies with the MANGA survey ?? - Rosemary Wyse: The Structure of the Milky Way (R) In case this is also of your interest, The AAO's International Telescopes Support Office (ITSO) and Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) are organizing the "2015 Australian Gemini, Magellan, and Keck Science Symposium" the week before the "Multiwavelength Dissection of Galaxies" Conference starts, on? 21 & 22 May 2015. It will be held at the AAO Headquarters in North Ryde, Sydney. There will be no registration fee, and lunch, morning and afternoon teas will be provided. For more details about this Symposium please see http://www.aao.gov.au/conference/itso-symposium-2015 Kind Regards, Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez (SOC & LOC chair) ==================================================================================== Dr. Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez Australian Astronomical Observatory and Macquarie University Research Fellow -- 2dF/AAOmega Deputy Instrument Scientist -- AAT Scheduler P.O. Box 915, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia Phone: +61 2 9372 4898, FAX: +61 2 9372 4880 http://oldweb.aao.gov.au/local/www/alopez/ Outreach: http://angelrls.wordpress.com/ @El_Lobo_Rayado ==================================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Chris.Phillips at csiro.au Fri Apr 17 15:45:03 2015 From: Chris.Phillips at csiro.au (Chris.Phillips at csiro.au) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:45:03 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ATUC Science Day and Open Meeting: June 2015 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1368D737-BF59-44A9-8951-35E6F96EAE91@csiro.au> Dear Users of the Australia Telescope National Facility, The Australia Telescope Users Committee (ATUC) meet regularly to discuss issues that affect users of the ATNF. The next ATUC meeting is to be held at the ATNF headquarters in Marsfield on the 2nd and 3rd June, 2015, and will be preceded on the 1st June by an ATUC Science Meeting entitled "The future of ATCA and Parkes in the ASKAP/SKA era?. Exact meeting times will be posted on the ATUC webpages a week or two before the meeting. ATUC invites the Australian radio telescope user community to participate in the science day to discuss the future of current Australian radio facilities and in particular, their synergy with ASKAP. There will be a number of invited talks, and we welcome contributed talks from the user community. There will be ample time for discussion scheduled. More details are available at: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/management/atuc/2015jun/science_meeting/index.html For catering purposes please register for the science meeting on the link above, which also allows you you to indicate if you wish to give a contributed talk. Please register by 8 May if you wish to give a talk and 27 May if will just be participting. On the morning of the 2nd June, an Open Session will be held that consists of reports and updates on the various aspects of ATNF operations. All users are welcome to attend the Open Session which usually goes till mid afternoon. An agenda for the Open Session will be made available on the ATUC web page. In the afternoon of the 2nd and on the 3rd June, the ATUC committee hold a Closed Session, during which a report to the ATNF Director is drafted. If you, as a user (or potential user) of the ATNF, are aware of any issues that need to be raised at the next ATUC meeting, would like to present a short topic for discussion, or would like to offer praise for the many ATNF achievements, please contact any member of ATUC over the next few weeks. Information on ATUC and how to contact its members can be found at: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/management/atuc (ATUC reports, responses, online feedback form) Regular ATUC summaries are in the ATNF newsletter http://www.atnf.csiro.au/news/newsletter Regards, Chris Phillips (for) Virginia Kilborn ATUC Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ryan.Shannon at csiro.au Sat Apr 18 00:04:13 2015 From: Ryan.Shannon at csiro.au (Ryan.Shannon at csiro.au) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:04:13 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Supermassive black hole workshop, 2015 IPTA meeting, and 2015 IPTA student workshop Message-ID: <5ACB70A82A46D649A8013E0065991DE01B0C56DB@exmbx03-cdc.nexus.csiro.au> Dear all, We would like to let you know about three exciting workshops we are hosting this July in Australia, addressing gravitational-wave detection with pulsar timing arrays and supermassive black hole growth and evolution. 1. International Pulsar Timing student workshop: to be held at the Parkes Observatory July 20-24. 2. A workshop on supermassive black hole growth and evolution: to be held July 27 in Leura, New South Wales, Australia, at the Fairmont Blue Mountains resort. 3. International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) meeting: to be held July 28-31 in Leura, New South Wales, Australia, at the Fairmont Blue Mountains resort. 1. International Pulsar Timing Array student workshop (20-24 July): This annual workshop is intended for undergraduate students, postgraduate (Ph.D.) students, and people new to the field that are interested in developing skills in observation, data analysis, and theory for detecting gravitational waves with pulsars. This year?s workshop will be held at the Parkes observatory and will emphasize pulsar observation. Students will get hands-on experience with the 64-metre telescope as part of project work. 2. Supermassive black hole growth and evolution workshop (Monday 27 July): As part of the IPTA meeting, we will be holding a one-day workshop investigating the growth, evolution, and merger history of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Limits on the gravitational-wave background from supermassive black hole binaries are now in tension with models of SMBH evolution, and being used to constrain dynamics in the inner parsec of galaxies. In the workshop, we will investigate ways to reconcile the tension and develop a more complete picture for the growth and evolution of SMBHs. 3. International Pulsar Timing Array meeting (28-31 July): The annual meeting of the International Pulsar Timing Array will bring together observers, data analysts and theoreticians interested in the detection of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves through pulsar timing. Invited and contributed presentations will highlight recent progress and challenges facing in the field. Discussion sessions will be used to develop a roadmap, scientific goals, and other plans for the community for the coming years. Plenty of time will be set aside for informal collaboration. Details about the meeting can be found at ipta.phys.wvu.edu. In order to help us gauge interest in the meetings, pre-registration is open and can be found at http://goo.gl/forms/8YCzbXtiOZ Formal registration and registration fees will be announced by May 1. Student workshop fees, and perhaps some science meeting fees, will be subsidized through a PIRE award from the NSF, and CSIRO. We look forward to seeing you in the Blue Mountains and Parkes. For more information, please contact Ryan Shannon (ryan.shannon at csiro.au, SOC chair) or Matthew Kerr (matthew.kerr at csiro.au, LOC chair) On behalf of the scientific and local organising committees: Scientific organising committee: Kejia Lee (PKU) Lindley Lentati (Cambridge) Chiara Mingarelli (JPL/Caltech) Scott Ransom (NRAO) Alberto Sesana (AEI) Ryan Shannon (Chair, ATNF) Linqing Wen (UWA) Local organising committee: Nate Garver-Daniels (WVU) George Hobbs (ATNF) Matthew Kerr (Chair, ATNF) Maura McLaughlin (WVU) Daniel Reardon (Monash)