From cher7851 at uni.sydney.edu.au Tue Mar 29 10:13:44 2016 From: cher7851 at uni.sydney.edu.au (Christopher Herron) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 23:13:44 +0000 Subject: [ASA] HWSA 2016 Travel Assistance Applications Close Friday Message-ID: Dear ASA student members, (Please pass this on to students who may not be ASA members) Applications for travel assistance for the 2016 Harley Wood School of Astronomy (HWSA) will close on Friday, the 1st of April. To apply for travel assistance, please fill out the following form: http://goo.gl/forms/9vZseqpPfY All students interested in attending the HWSA are encouraged to apply for travel assistance, although students travelling from further away will be given preference, in the event there are not enough funds for all applicants. Please note that applications for travel assistance must provide an estimate of your travel costs. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by the 15th of April. For more information on the HWSA, please visit the HWSA webpage at http://www.asa2016.org/hwsahome/. If you have any questions about the 2016 HWSA or travel assistance applications, please contact Chris Herron via email: C.Herron at physics.usyd.edu.au Kind regards, Chris Herron, on behalf of the 2016 HWSA LOC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Tue Mar 29 11:32:39 2016 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:32:39 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASA's new Peter McGregor Prize Message-ID: <517682EC-EC6D-4658-A3DA-4886BFAC5A5A@sydney.edu.au> The ASA is pleased to announce the creation of the Peter McGregor Prize in recognition of exceptional achievement or innovation in astronomical instrumentation. See http://asa.astronomy.org.au/pmp.php The award is to be made to an individual or team for the design, invention or improvement of astronomical instrumentation and associated software techniques that have enabled significant advances in any areas of astronomy, without restriction to wavelength or space/ground-based observations. To be eligible for the Prize the nominee or leader of a nominated team must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident at the nomination deadline OR the nominated work must have been primarily carried out for or by an Australian institution. The Prize consists of a plaque together with an award of $5,000. Nominations are now open for the initial award of the Peter McGregor Prize, with a closing date of Tuesday 3 May. The prize will be presented at the ASA Conference dinner in Sydney on Thursday 7 July. The prize has been suggested by some of Peter?s colleagues and they are contributing funds to seed the prize. However, making the prize sustainable in the long term requires further funds. As with the other ASA prizes, the Peter McGregor Prize funds will be held in the ASA?s tax deductible Foundation for the Advancement of Astronomy (FAA). If you would like to support the prize in memory Peter and his work, tax deductible donations can be made to the FAA, specifying a preference for the Peter McGregor Prize. See the FAA web site at http://asa.astronomy.org.au/FAA/index.php or the prize web site at http://asa.astronomy.org.au/pmp.php John ????????????????????????? "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept? ????????????????????????? ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O?BYRNE Associate Head (Teaching & Learning), School of Physics Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching), Faculty of Science Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. Sydney Institute for Astronomy School of Physics | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm 205, Physics Building A28 Postal address: School of Physics | The University of Sydney | NSW | Australia | 2006 T +61 2 9351 3184 | F +61 2 9351 7726 E john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/john.obyrne CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Tue Mar 29 11:32:39 2016 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:32:39 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASA's new Peter McGregor Prize Message-ID: The ASA is pleased to announce the creation of the Peter McGregor Prize in recognition of exceptional achievement or innovation in astronomical instrumentation. See http://asa.astronomy.org.au/pmp.php The award is to be made to an individual or team for the design, invention or improvement of astronomical instrumentation and associated software techniques that have enabled significant advances in any areas of astronomy, without restriction to wavelength or space/ground-based observations. To be eligible for the Prize the nominee or leader of a nominated team must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident at the nomination deadline OR the nominated work must have been primarily carried out for or by an Australian institution. The Prize consists of a plaque together with an award of $5,000. Nominations are now open for the initial award of the Peter McGregor Prize, with a closing date of Tuesday 3 May. The prize will be presented at the ASA Conference dinner in Sydney on Thursday 7 July. The prize has been suggested by some of Peter?s colleagues and they are contributing funds to seed the prize. However, making the prize sustainable in the long term requires further funds. As with the other ASA prizes, the Peter McGregor Prize funds will be held in the ASA?s tax deductible Foundation for the Advancement of Astronomy (FAA). If you would like to support the prize in memory Peter and his work, tax deductible donations can be made to the FAA, specifying a preference for the Peter McGregor Prize. See the FAA web site at http://asa.astronomy.org.au/FAA/index.php or the prize web site at http://asa.astronomy.org.au/pmp.php John ????????????????????????? "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept? ????????????????????????? ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O?BYRNE Associate Head (Teaching & Learning), School of Physics Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching), Faculty of Science Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. Sydney Institute for Astronomy School of Physics | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm 205, Physics Building A28 Postal address: School of Physics | The University of Sydney | NSW | Australia | 2006 T +61 2 9351 3184 | F +61 2 9351 7726 E john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/john.obyrne CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From growell at physics.adelaide.edu.au Tue Mar 29 16:35:13 2016 From: growell at physics.adelaide.edu.au (Gavin Rowell) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:05:13 +1030 (ACDT) Subject: [ASA] CTA Australia Workshop 14-15th April Adelaide In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The CTA-Australia consortium will hold its annual workshop in Adelaide, 14-15th April. CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation TeV gamma-ray facility to follow on from HESS and others. It is expect to greatly expand our knowledge of the high energy sky from about 2021, when construction of CTA expected to be largely completed. The CTA sites have been chosen (South - Paranal Chile; North - La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain). The first prototype telescopes of CTA are now being constructed and CTA's pre-production phase (first 10 or so telescopes on-sites) has now commenced. The workshop website is here: http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/astrophysics/CTA/adelaideApr2016/ The workshop is open to everyone and there are still opportunities to submit a talk presentation via the registration link. hope to see you in Adelaide! 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You don't need to register for the conference in order to submit the abstract. For more information on the abstract submission and the registration process please visit our website: *http://www.asa2016.org/registration-1/ * The 2016 Astronomical Society of Australia's Annual Scientific Meeting is the special meeting as we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Astronomical Society of Australia. To celebrate this anniversary we will have a number of special events, including a Time Capsule and a special session dedicated to the history of the ASA. The *Annual Scientific Meeting will be held on 3-8 July 2016*, at The University of Sydney, while the preceding *Harley Wood School will be held on 30 June - 3 July 2016*, at the Tops Conference Centre, Stanwell Tops. The Key Dates are: 29 February: Registration opens 1 April: Abstract submission closes 3 May: Program release 6 May: Early Bird closes 12 May: Speakers registration closes 10 June: Registration closes 30 June - 3 July: Harley Wood School 3 July - 8 July: Annual Scientific Meeting Follow us on Twitter @the2016asa to stay tuned for further announcements. For additional information please email the Local Organising Committee at info at asa2016.org Best regards, Krzysztof Bolejko (Chair of the LOC), on behalf of the LOC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.tucker at anu.edu.au Thu Mar 31 11:25:43 2016 From: brad.tucker at anu.edu.au (Brad E. Tucker) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:25:43 +1100 Subject: [ASA] 2016 RSAA Winter School Message-ID: <5757BC6C-41FA-4B4E-B5E0-82819EA4E7D1@anu.edu.au> Applications are now open for the 2016 RSAA Winter School for undergraduate students, which runs from 27 June - 3 July. 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URL: From Paul.Francis at anu.edu.au Fri Apr 1 16:52:04 2016 From: Paul.Francis at anu.edu.au (Paul Francis) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 05:52:04 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Call for SkyMapper Open and Discretionary Time Message-ID: Call for Proposals for non-survey time on the SkyMapper Telescope: Semester 2016B Application deadline: 23:59 30th April 2016 Nights available: --------------------- 20.0 for ANU-led proposals (116 hours dome-open time given average weather statistics) 5.0 for other Australian-led proposals(29 hours dome-open time given average weather statistics). All proposals MUST specify how their time is to be broken down between ANU and other Australian time. By default we will split the time proportional to the number of proposers from ANU and non-ANU institutions. Period 01 July to 31 December 2016; these nights will need to be distributed over different lunar phases in the long term, but not necessarily in any given semester. We also announce the availability of SkyMapper Discretionary Time of up to 3 nights per semester in total. Requests for this time can be sent at short notice during the observing semester by email to christian.wolf at anu.edu.au, but will only be granted for urgent and potential high-impact observations that exploit the uniqueness of SkyMapper under circumstances, where a regular proposal could not have been anticipated. How to apply -------------- For instructions for proposals and information on SkyMapper please refer to https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~skymap/instructions_SMprop.html You can only apply for images that will not replicate the observations of the public SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey (all-sky dec < +2, 100 sec images in uv (6 visits) and griz (4 visits), operating until 2019). The SkyMapper team can prioritise public survey fields to a limited extent in any given semester. If you'd like a field to be observed with priority, please do not submit a proposal, but contact the SkyMapper team (skymapper at anu.edu.au) who will help on a best-effort basis. Proposals should not directly compete with SkyMapper legacy science projects, which are listed at https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~skymap/TDR/SkyMapperSouthernSkySurveyScienceProjects.html Proposals should include a two-page scientific and technical justification. Please email to paul.francis at anu.edu.au before the deadline. If you do not receive confirmation that we've received your e-mail within 24 hours, please contact us again. Joint proposals with proposers from both ANU and the Australian Community should specify how they want the time broken down between ANU and other Australian time. Your proposal will be ranked by the ANU-TAC and, if successful, forwarded to the SkyMapper team for scheduling and robotic observation. All images will receive basic processing by the SkyMapper Science Data Pipeline alongside survey observations (and thus will be done in temporal order). Telescope Summary ----------------- SkyMapper is a 1.3m telescope with a 5.7 sq. deg. FoV and a 268 Megapixel camera. There are six primary filters (uvgriz), plus an H-alpha filter subject to strong scheduling constraints. If you have any questions not answered in the documentation, Chris Onken and Chris Wolf are able to help. (skymapper at anu.edu.au) ============================= A/Prof. Paul Francis Astrophysicist Mt Stromlo Observatory, and the Physics Education Centre College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Building 38a, Tel 02 6125 2824 or 8031 The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601 Australia paul.francis at anu.edu.au http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~pfrancis/ CRICOS Provider #00120C -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To celebrate this anniversary we will have a number of special events, including a Time Capsule and a special session dedicated to the history of the ASA. The *Annual Scientific Meeting will be held on 3-8 July 2016*, at The University of Sydney, while the preceding *Harley Wood School will be held on 30 June - 3 July 2016*, at the Tops Conference Centre, Stanwell Tops. The Key Dates are: 29 February: Registration opens *8 April: Abstract submission closes* 3 May: Program release 6 May: Early Bird closes 12 May: Speakers registration closes 10 June: Registration closes 30 June - 3 July: Harley Wood School 3 July - 8 July: Annual Scientific Meeting Follow us on Twitter @the2016asa to stay tuned for further announcements. For additional information please visit our website *www.asa2016.org * or email the Local Organising Committee at info at asa2016.org. 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