From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au Mon May 11 17:08:24 2015 From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 17:08:24 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Earthquake in Kathmandu In-Reply-To: <38AA5F1A-AD32-4FDB-9E1B-3FD9F0EF7B91@dunlap.utoronto.ca> References: <38AA5F1A-AD32-4FDB-9E1B-3FD9F0EF7B91@dunlap.utoronto.ca> Message-ID: <55505568.9070702@aao.gov.au> Dear ASA members, The suggestion has been made that there may be some advantage in a coordinated response to the request (below) by Prof. Aryal for donations to support the astronomy group at Tribhuvan University following the earthquake in Kathmandu. I would like to call for a volunteer from each major metropolitan area who is prepared to coordinate the efforts of those in that area in providing donations of both funds and hardware. Please let me know by Wednesday this week (13 May) if you are able to take on such a role. Please also feel free to circulate this request to your contacts outside the ASA in order that the pool of potential volunteers is as large as possible. There are several motivations for this, not least that it will be more cost effective to manage a single large shipment, or funds transfer, than many small ones. I leave it up to the individual volunteers to manage that process including arrangements for the cost sharing amongst donors. If I have multiple volunteers from a given area, I'll ask them to work together, or to nominate one to manage donations from that region. I'll follow up on Thursday this week with a notification to the community of who will be coordinating activities in each locale. Of course you are welcome to respond to Prof. Aryal's request independently of this effort too, and I'm sure all contributions will be gratefully received. Andrew Hopkins President, ASA On 7/05/2015 3:41 am, Bryan Gaensler wrote: > Dear all, > > Below is a request from Prof Binil Aryal, a professor of astronomy at > Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. Binil is an active research > astronomer, has hosted some excellent international conferences, and > has supervised many smart Nepali students who have gone onto > graduate/postgraduate studies at universities around the world. His > department and lab were badly damaged by the earthquake: he needs help > from the worldwide astronomy community to replace his equipment and to > keep astronomy research going in Nepal. > > regards, > > Bryan Gaensler > > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Binil Aryal > >> Subject: Humble Request From Binil, Kathamdu, Nepal >> Date: 6 May 2015 03:00:24 GMT-4 >> >> Dear friends, >> >> I am Binil, actively working Astrophysicists of Nepal. Right now I am >> Head of my the Central Department of Physics. If you remember, me and >> my students had put lots of efforts to make Kathmandu Black >> Hole Conference successful. >> >> Personally me and my family is OK, trying to be normal after facing a >> very strong Earth Quake (my home is almost damaged, my institute is >> partially cracked/ our computation lab have almost gone). >> >> My computation lab (particularly for astrophysics group) and solar >> energy back-up facility at the department have almost gone because of >> the massive fall of the walls of the building due to Earth Quake. >> >> I had worked hard to build that computation facility in my department >> since last 7 years. I supervised more than 90 M.Sc. students in that >> laboratory for their masters' dissertation and now 18 MSC students >> are working. In addition, 4 Ph.D. students were working under my >> supervision in that laboratory. Almost 85% CPUs were crashed because >> of the fall of the wall/selves/windows in my department. Yesterday we >> tried hard to check all CPUs, Power Storage Battery, Solar panel, >> projectors and monitors. Country's situation is very bad. Government >> can not support research stuff, immediately. We badly need support >> from friends and wishers. >> >> I request you to circulate this disaster-news to as many as people in >> your University so that we can get support to immediate make-up the >> following (so that research activities in Nepal can not be stopped): >> >> (1) Few used/old laptops (at least 20 / because we have about 90 >> graduate students including 18 dissertation and 4 Ph.D. students) >> (2) 3KW power Solar Panel + Battery (It will cost about 5000 US Dollar) >> (3) 1KW Inverter + Battery (It will cost about 1300 US Dollar) >> (3) Two used projectors / Two Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes / Dizital >> Oscilloscopes >> >> I can send bank account of my department if you are interested to >> donate. Your small contribution will be a GREAT for me and my >> students. If I could not manage support I will be helpless/jobless >> and can not do more for my students. >> >> Regards >> Binil >> >> -- >> ------------------------------ >> Prof. Dr. Binil Aryal >> Head >> Central Department of Physics >> Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, NEPAL >> Tel. 00977 9803221911 (mobile) >> 00977 14912801 (home) >> 00977 14331054 (office) >> Web: http://astronepal.webs.com >> ------------------------------ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ASA mailing list > ASA at physics.usyd.edu.au > Change membership status or contact information via ASA's Edit Membership page > http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~asamail/asa_membership/asa_members_user_edit.php -- Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of Research and Outreach Australian Astronomical Observatory P.O. Box 915, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia ph: +61 2 9372 4849 fax: +61 2 9372 4880 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In the next few days further details will emerge and we will keep you up to date, but for now here are the central items of interest, as well as links to all the statements and documents if you wish to investigate further. Any feedback or further intelligence is as always gratefully received. Regards, Catriona Jackson Chief Executive Officer Science & Technology Australia T: 02 6257 2891| M: 0417 142 238| F: 02 6257 2897 PO Box 259, Canberra City ACT 2601 Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube -- Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of Research and Outreach Australian Astronomical Observatory P.O. Box 915, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia ph: +61 2 9372 4849 fax: +61 2 9372 4880 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This year we have expanded the scope to cover a broad range of topics reflecting the challenges facing our community. We hope the entire workshop will be of interest to both female and male astronomers, and we encourage community members from both genders to attend. The two days will consist of a mixture of invited talks, including Professor Meg Urry and Professor Judy Raper, as well as interactive sessions on Critical Conversations and Presenting your Voice. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ? Register here The registration for the workshop is free. However registrations in advance are greatly appreciated to ensure the workshop is appropriately catered. There will be a conference dinner held the evening of 22 July at the Women's College. This dinner is optional and self-funded. The cost of the dinner is $55.00. Travel Assistance Travel assistance will be available for participants up to attend the conference. 20 grants will be available with a value up to $500 depending on circumstances. To be considered for travel support please complete the application prior to 30 June 2015 and we will notify you of the outcome on 3 July 2015. Please circulate this email throughout your department, and encourage all students, postdocs and colleagues to attend. The workshop poster can be found here <> Childcare Childcare will be available for infants and pre-schoolers (0-5 years) in a mini-cr?che with an experienced childcare worker. Older children are most welcome to attend the sessions, however please ensure they have a quiet activity to keep them occupied. Accommodation We have a limited number of rooms held at the Women's College for delegates. Rooms range in price from $80 with share facilities to $99 with an ensuite. Men are welcome to stay at the Women?s College. For more information please contact Kylie Williams. To book this accommodation please use the Women's College Booking Form. Some other local hotels in Brisbane are: * Benson Court * The Jephson * Rydges South Bank * Hotel Mecure Local Organising Committee * Kate Brooks, CSIRO * Sarah Brough, AAO * Tamara Davis, UQ, Co-Chair * Kate Gunn, CAASTRO Co-Chair * Lisa Harvey-Smith, CSIRO * Jonathan Horner, USQ * Sarah Pearce, CSIRO * Aaron Robotham, ICRAR * Kylie Williams, CAASTRO KYLIE WILLIAMS | Events and Communications CAASTRO | School of Physics | Faculty of Science | ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics Rm 217 Building H90 | 44-70 Rosehill Street, Redfern | NSW |2016| The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9114 2183 | F +61 2 9114 2195| M +61 478 404 619 Email k.williams at physics.usyd.edu.au W http:// www.caastro.org Please note: I am in the office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au Thu May 14 11:25:14 2015 From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 11:25:14 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Earthquake in Kathmandu In-Reply-To: <55505568.9070702@aao.gov.au> References: <38AA5F1A-AD32-4FDB-9E1B-3FD9F0EF7B91@dunlap.utoronto.ca> <55505568.9070702@aao.gov.au> Message-ID: <5553F97A.8070107@aao.gov.au> Dear ASA members, Thanks to those who have responded. We have two key points of contact, one on the east-coast, one on the west-coast. For those wishing to make or coordinate donations of hardware or funding, please contact: East coast: Rajan Chhetri (rchhetri at phys.unsw.edu.au) and Maria Cunningham West coast: Peter Quinn (peter.quinn at uwa.edu.au) and Prajwal Kafle If you wish to proceed independently, please feel free to do so. In that case Prajwal has provided the following update for transferring funds: Binil's official local, in Kathmandu, bank account detail is as follows: --------------------------------------------------------- Account Holder's Name : BinilAryal Official Address: Head, Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Account Number : 062741S Branch Code: 005 Bank : Nepal Bangladesh Bank Ltd Bank Address : Corporate office & Main branch, PO Box No. 9062 Bijuli Bajar, New Baneswor, Kathmandu , Nepal Tel : +977-1-4783972 / +977-1-4783975 fax : 977-01-4780169 Email : nbblho at nbbl.com.np SWIFT code : NPBBNPKA ------------------------------------------- The local banks have started operating so there should not be an issue with fund transfer. Regarding the goods I guess they are still going to Austrian address. Binil has provided the following information for shipping of laptops: Here I am sending address for sending Laptops (please send used laptops (with charger/battery) only): --------------------- Ram Biswakarma General Keyes Str. 14 5020 Salzburg Austria. --------------------- After the collection of laptops, I will officially request humanitarian organization for the free-air-ncargo so that our department can receive it in a good shape. I would encourage you to notify Binil (aryalbinil at gmail.com) if you send funds or hardware, so that he knows to expect it and can track things down. Many thanks to all of you for the support from our community to help those in need in Kathmandu. Andrew Hopkins President, ASA On 11/05/2015 5:08 pm, Andrew Hopkins wrote: > Dear ASA members, > > The suggestion has been made that there may be some advantage in > a coordinated response to the request (below) by Prof. Aryal for donations > to support the astronomy group at Tribhuvan University following the > earthquake in Kathmandu. > > I would like to call for a volunteer from each major metropolitan area who > is prepared to coordinate the efforts of those in that area in providing > donations of both funds and hardware. Please let me know by Wednesday > this week (13 May) if you are able to take on such a role. Please also > feel free to circulate this request to your contacts outside the ASA in > order that the pool of potential volunteers is as large as possible. > > There are several motivations for this, not least that it will be more > cost > effective to manage a single large shipment, or funds transfer, than > many small ones. I leave it up to the individual volunteers to manage > that process including arrangements for the cost sharing amongst donors. > > If I have multiple volunteers from a given area, I'll ask them to > work together, or to nominate one to manage donations from that > region. I'll follow up on Thursday this week with a notification to > the community of who will be coordinating activities in each locale. > > Of course you are welcome to respond to Prof. Aryal's request > independently of this effort too, and I'm sure all contributions will > be gratefully received. > > Andrew Hopkins > President, ASA > > On 7/05/2015 3:41 am, Bryan Gaensler wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Below is a request from Prof Binil Aryal, a professor of astronomy at >> Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. Binil is an active research >> astronomer, has hosted some excellent international conferences, and >> has supervised many smart Nepali students who have gone onto >> graduate/postgraduate studies at universities around the world. His >> department and lab were badly damaged by the earthquake: he needs >> help from the worldwide astronomy community to replace his equipment >> and to keep astronomy research going in Nepal. >> >> regards, >> >> Bryan Gaensler >> >> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>> From: Binil Aryal > >>> Subject: Humble Request From Binil, Kathamdu, Nepal >>> Date: 6 May 2015 03:00:24 GMT-4 >>> >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> I am Binil, actively working Astrophysicists of Nepal. Right now I >>> am Head of my the Central Department of Physics. If you remember, me >>> and my students had put lots of efforts to make Kathmandu Black >>> Hole Conference successful. >>> >>> Personally me and my family is OK, trying to be normal after facing >>> a very strong Earth Quake (my home is almost damaged, my institute >>> is partially cracked/ our computation lab have almost gone). >>> >>> My computation lab (particularly for astrophysics group) and solar >>> energy back-up facility at the department have almost gone because >>> of the massive fall of the walls of the building due to Earth Quake. >>> >>> I had worked hard to build that computation facility in my >>> department since last 7 years. I supervised more than 90 M.Sc. >>> students in that laboratory for their masters' dissertation and now >>> 18 MSC students are working. In addition, 4 Ph.D. students were >>> working under my supervision in that laboratory. Almost 85% CPUs >>> were crashed because of the fall of the wall/selves/windows in my >>> department. Yesterday we tried hard to check all CPUs, Power Storage >>> Battery, Solar panel, projectors and monitors. Country's >>> situation is very bad. Government can not support research stuff, >>> immediately. We badly need support from friends and wishers. >>> >>> I request you to circulate this disaster-news to as many as people >>> in your University so that we can get support to immediate make-up >>> the following (so that research activities in Nepal can not be stopped): >>> >>> (1) Few used/old laptops (at least 20 / because we have about 90 >>> graduate students including 18 dissertation and 4 Ph.D. students) >>> (2) 3KW power Solar Panel + Battery (It will cost about 5000 US Dollar) >>> (3) 1KW Inverter + Battery (It will cost about 1300 US Dollar) >>> (3) Two used projectors / Two Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes / Dizital >>> Oscilloscopes >>> >>> I can send bank account of my department if you are interested to >>> donate. Your small contribution will be a GREAT for me and my >>> students. If I could not manage support I will be helpless/jobless >>> and can not do more for my students. >>> >>> Regards >>> Binil >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------ >>> Prof. Dr. Binil Aryal >>> Head >>> Central Department of Physics >>> Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, NEPAL >>> Tel. 00977 9803221911 (mobile) >>> 00977 14912801 (home) >>> 00977 14331054 (office) >>> Web: http://astronepal.webs.com >>> ------------------------------ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ASA mailing list >> ASA at physics.usyd.edu.au >> Change membership status or contact information via ASA's Edit Membership page >> http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~asamail/asa_membership/asa_members_user_edit.php > > -- > Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of Research and Outreach > Australian Astronomical Observatory > P.O. 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URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Fri May 15 07:52:11 2015 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 07:52:11 +1000 Subject: [ASA] =?utf-8?q?Summer_School_on_Sub-mm_Astronomy=2C_Moscow_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_Dolgoprudny=2C_12=E2=80=9324_July_2015?= In-Reply-To: <730AA8B751CEBD4481658B56A4ADBECE04CFFD7DE2DF@MAIN.asc.rssi.ru> References: <730AA8B751CEBD4481658B56A4ADBECE04CFFD811723@MAIN.asc.rssi.ru> <730AA8B751CEBD4481658B56A4ADBECE04CFFD7DE2DE@MAIN.asc.rssi.ru> <730AA8B751CEBD4481658B56A4ADBECE04CFFD811727@MAIN.asc.rssi.ru> <730AA8B751CEBD4481658B56A4ADBECE04CFFD7DE2DF@MAIN.asc.rssi.ru> Message-ID: <1E0F0768-7994-4C37-9D13-FF1AAB95E428@sydney.edu.au> The following meeting announcement is from ASA member Gregory Tsarevsky : Summer School on Submillimeter Astronomy The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Astro Space Centre of the P. Lebedev Physical Institute (ASC LPI RAS) organise the International School - the Eleventh Summer School of Modern Astrophysics dedicated to the Sub-mm Astronomy The School takes place on 12-24 July 2015 at the MIPT Campus in the Dolgoprudny Town near Moscow. It primarily aimed at graduate students and postdocs working in the field of astronomy and astrophysics and will be limited to about 50 participants. The working language is English. Objectives: Observations in the Far-Infrared and submillimeter wavelengths (Terahertz frequencies) are one of the most technically demanding, thus this field of astronomy has been pushed forward only recently. A great progress has been made by the Herschel space telescope, and extraordinary results are now being obtained by the ALMA observatory. Unfortunately Russia was outside of these developments due to the economical reforms of 1990-s. But now it is going to enter this field with an ambitious Millimetron Project (http://millimetron.ru). The goal of the school is to encourage young scientists in submillimeter astronomy, and to train them to use Herschel, ALMA etc. data and, also, to help them contact colleagues from different countries in the friendly environment of the School. Plan: Duration of the School is two weeks. During the first week an introduction to the field will be given in the form of lectures covering a wide range of topics, including the basics of star formation, the theory of various processes in the interstellar medium, the principles of observations in the sub-mm range by single dish telescopes and interferometers, the applications to cosmology, etc. The second week will be devoted to the practical work with observational data. Confirmed lecturers: Thijs de Graauw (Lebedev Physical Institute) Andrey Baryshev (Netherlands Institute for Space Research) Paul Hartogh (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) Alexander Men'shchikov (Service d'Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay) Carina Persson (Onsala Space Observatory) Sergey Pilipenko (Lebedev Physical Institute) Andrey Sobolev (Ural Federal University) Dmitry Wiebe (Institute of Astronomy RAS) Eva Wirstr?m (Onsala Space Observatory) Igor Zinchenko (Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhnii Novgorod State University) Anaelle Maury (Service d'Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay) Registration is opened from 16 March 2015 till 22 May 2015. Corresponding Web site is: http://school2015-millimetron.ru Venue: The school will be held at the Dolgoprudny Campus of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The Dolgoprudny Town is located about 1 hour by public transport (metro and train) from the Moscow City centre (the Kremlin). MIPT has all the facilities: modern lecture halls and classrooms, etc. All participants will be conveniently accommodated in the on-campus student housing. For map and address see: http://mipt.ru/en/about/general/contacts/way.php Financial support including living and traveling expenses will be available for the SOC approved participants. Scientific organizing committee: A.V. Gurevich (Chair), D.A. Varshalovich, V.V. Zheleznyakov, L.M. Zeleny, N.S. Kardashev, A.M. Cherepashchuk, V.S. Beskin, V.A. Dogiel, V.N. Lukash, V.V. Kocharovsky, D.I. Nagirner, D.G. Yakovlev Local organizing committee: Prof. Vasily Beskin (Chair), Sergey Pilipenko, Tanya Morozova ============================================= I expect your further support of the School by encouraging young Australian astronomers of your Institutions interested in its definitely progressive topic. On behalf of the LOC - Gregory Tsarevsky _____________________________________ Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow and Astronomical Society of Australia, Sydney - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tel: 61 2 8040 4460 [Sydney] Tel: 7 495 333 2523 [Moscow] Skype: ===> greg.tsar <=== http://lukash.asc.rssi.ru/people/Gregory.Tsarevsky ============================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From George.Hobbs at csiro.au Fri May 15 09:10:40 2015 From: George.Hobbs at csiro.au (George.Hobbs at csiro.au) Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 23:10:40 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Workshop on black hole and galaxy evolution: Monday 27th July Message-ID: Dear all, The 2015 meeting of the International Pulsar Timing Array will contain a one-day workshop on black hole and galaxy evolution. This workshop will aim to join the gravitational wave and pulsar communities with experts in galaxies and black holes. This meeting has been arranged as constraints on the gravitational wave background are now in tension with the predictions based on black hole coalescence. The meeting will be held in Leura, Blue Mountains on Monday, July 27th. Registration for the one-day workshop is 64 USD and includes lunch. Information is available from http://ipta.phys.wvu.edu and please visit http://ipta.phys.wvu.edu/registration/ to register. Registration closes on the 1st of June. Please contact Matthew Kerr (matthew.kerr at gmail.com) for more information. 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