From daniel.price at monash.edu Mon Dec 12 08:58:32 2016 From: daniel.price at monash.edu (Daniel Price) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:58:32 +1100 Subject: [ASA] registrations now open for ANITA2017 + astroinformatics school Message-ID: <5776671F-D8E2-4A7D-B8B9-A73287C49509@monash.edu> ------------------------------ ANITA2017 and Astroinformatics school *** registrations now open *** https://asa-anita.github.io/workshop2017/ The 11th Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) annual theory workshop and astroinformatics school will be held 6th-10th February 2017 at University of Tasmania, Hobart The ANITA workshop will run Thu-Fri 9th-10th Feb, covering all aspects of theoretical and computational astrophysics The Astroinformatics summer school will be held Mon-Wed 6th-8th Feb, covering: ? A whole day of Python! Including introduction, numpy, scipy, plotting and interactive python notebooks ? Introduction to sql databases and mysql ? Usage of git, github and source control ? Introduction to cloud computing, deep learning, high performance computing using MPI and GPUs ? Visualisation techniques Registration is free* Contact: Stanislav.Shabala at utas.edu.au ------------------------------ *a $250 registration fee is requested from non-students wishing to attend the school to help cover costs From ivy.wong at uwa.edu.au Tue Dec 13 01:20:22 2016 From: ivy.wong at uwa.edu.au (Ivy Wong) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:20:22 +0800 Subject: [ASA] FIRST WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT: From field to clusters--HI as a tracer of galaxy evolution Message-ID: <0A00353A76B989429F1096315CFD1021032B2A9264B6@IS-WIN-417.staffad.uwa.edu.au> Dear ASA member, This is the first announcement for the "From Field to clusters--HI as a tracer of galaxy evolution" workshop. This workshop is a 3 days workshop to be held at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia on the 8th-10th of March 2017. The main idea is to discuss the latest research on the impact of environment in galaxy evolution. We look forward to bringing together experts from across all observational wavelengths as well as theoretical simulations. We aim to identify the open questions that the next-generation surveys such as WALLABY can help answer. The registration for this workshop is free. However places are limited and we encourage everyone to register early. More information about this meeting and registration can be found from our website: https://sites.google.com/site/swg3workshop/ Confirmed invited speakers: Barbara Catinella (ICRAR/UWA) Aeree Chung (Yonsei University) Claudia Lagos (ICRAR/UWA) Karen Lee-Waddell (CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science) Attila Popping (ICRAR/UWA) Chris Wolf (ANU) Regards, Ivy Wong (on behalf of the SOC committee) SOC: Virginia Kilborn, Ivy Wong, Katinka Gereb, Tobias Westmeier, Angel Lopez-Sanchez & Juan Madrid ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr O. Ivy Wong ICRAR-M468, University of Western Australia Crawley, Western Australia 6009, AUSTRALIA Phone: +61-8-6488-7761 Email: ivy.wong at uwa.edu.au ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From claudia.lagos at uwa.edu.au Wed Dec 14 03:00:14 2016 From: claudia.lagos at uwa.edu.au (Claudia Lagos Urbina) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:14 +0800 Subject: [ASA] First announcement: "Mock Perth: Challenges for Simulations in the Era of SKA and Large IFU Surveys" Message-ID: <9B15CE8091F0AE409D47EB1B290CA3D901DD95245686@IS-WIN-386.staffad.uwa.edu.au> Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the workshop "Mock Perth: Challenges for Simulations in the Era of SKA and Large IFU Surveys" to be held in Perth, Australia, from the 20th to the 22nd March 2017 (rationale below). Deadline for registration is 30th of January 2017. Please find the webpage here: http://www.caastro.org/event/2017-mockperth We will be receiving contributing talks, so please submit your title and abstract if you wish to give a talk. Please share this information with your colleagues. Rationale: We are entering an exciting era in the study of galaxy formation and evolution. Over the last decade or so, precision experiments have derived stringent limits on the key cosmological parameters, while large galaxy surveys (e.g. 2dF, SDSS, GAMA) have provided compelling insights into galaxy evolution in the nearby Universe using statistical samples of galaxies. Over the coming decade, next generation galaxy surveys (e.g. on ELTs, SKA, etc...) will probe in great detail the complex physical mechanisms that drive galaxy formation and evolution over a wide range of galaxy masses and over a much longer baseline in cosmic time, from the Epoch of Reionization to the present day. In particular, our understanding of the low-mass regime will be transformed, as multi-object spectrographs and radio telescopes will survey galaxies with stellar masses below 100 million solar masses, and in some cases (e.g. 4MOST WAVES, ASKAP WALLABY/DINGO, SKA) will probe systems as low as a million solar masses. Modelling the properties of low-mass galaxies represents an exciting yet challenging opportunity for galaxy formation simulators. The success or failure of a model is judged typically against its ability to reproduce ? broadly ? the properties of populations of more massive galaxies. However, low-mass galaxies provide (arguably) the most stringent limits of the models, offering tests of the influence of formation time, gas accretion, feedback, environment, etc? The aim of this workshop is to bring together world-leading simulators and observers in the field to identify and discuss how the models must be improved to provide robust predictions across the range of galaxy masses, from dwarf-scale upwards. We will focus on developments in modelling star formation, feedback and environmental processing, and what we have learned from small scale simulations and modelling that can be applied to cosmological simulations and semi-analytic models. We will also review the current observational status of dwarf galaxies and determine which observables are the key ones one would want to obtain if we are to apply our simulations to the next generation of surveys. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Luca Cortese - ICRAR Elisabete Da Cunha - ANU Violeta Gonzalez-Perez - Portsmouth Brent Groves - ANU Mark Krumholz - ANU Naomi McLure-Griffiths - ANU Simon Mutch - Melbourne University Nelson Padilla - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Matthieu Schaller - Durham Jing Wang - CSIRO Best regards, Claudia Lagos on behalf of the SOC (Ivy Wong, Charlotte Welker, Chris Power) -- ARC Research Fellow Tel:(+61 8) 6488 3677 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research web:www.clagos.com University of Western Australia 7 Fairway, Crawley, Perth, Australia From jbryant at physics.usyd.edu.au Thu Dec 15 20:50:16 2016 From: jbryant at physics.usyd.edu.au (Julia Bryant) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:50:16 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Hector Workshop - 14 Feb 2017 Message-ID: <22270346-B29C-4CA8-BFA9-A18BE2FAE08C@physics.usyd.edu.au> Dear astronomers, Attached is an invitation to the upcoming Hector science workshop in February, which is important for anyone who may want to use Hector. Feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested. Apologies if you receive this twice. __________________________________________________________________________ Dr Julia Bryant | Senior Research Fellow ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA) | School of Physics | Faculty of Science Australian Astronomical Observatory THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Physics Building A28 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 | AUSTRALIA T 0432951638 T International +61 432951638 Usyd Email julia.bryant at sydney.edu.au or jbryant at physics.usyd.edu.au Web http://sydney.edu.au/science/physics AAO Email julia.bryant at aao.gov.au 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... 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