From physics at skatelescope.ca Tue Jan 10 01:32:16 2017 From: physics at skatelescope.ca (=?utf-8?Q?Bryan=20Gaensler?=) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:32:16 +0000 Subject: [ASA] =?utf-8?q?Fundamental_Physics_with_the_SKA=3A_Abstract_dead?= =?utf-8?q?line_20th_January?= Message-ID: <1012fe6c196afc61b4a9655d0.ad08f36210.20170109143209.eb8f948c65.eb96e14f@mail3.atl31.mcdlv.net> ** FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS WITH THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY ------------------------------------------------------------ ** ABSTRACT AND FINAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 20TH JANUARY, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ 1st-5th May 2017, La Pirogue Resort (http://utoronto.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1012fe6c196afc61b4a9655d0&id=6b6f25fedb&e=ad08f36210) , Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius SUMMARY: - A conference on the SKA as a tool to probe fundamental physics - Abstract and final registration deadline: 20th January, 2017 - WWW site: skatelescope.ca/physics - Click here (http://utoronto.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1012fe6c196afc61b4a9655d0&id=36a3b020b9&e=ad08f36210) to register and book accommodation - Email abstracts to physics at skatelescope.ca (mailto:physics at skatelescope.ca) RATIONALE: The Square Kilometre Array (http://utoronto.us13.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=1012fe6c196afc61b4a9655d0&id=a8d28b0a6e&e=ad08f36210) (SKA) will be the world?s largest and most powerful radio telescope. When the SKA begins operations early in the next decade, it will deliver spectacular new data sets that are expected to transform our understanding of physics, astronomy and cosmology. To fully realise the potential of the SKA as a machine for fundamental physics, the SKA organisation seeks to engage the theoretical physics community in the science case and design considerations for the full array. To initiate this discussion, we will be holding a focused workshop in May 2017, in which we aim to bring together radio astronomers and theorists to jointly consider ways in which the SKA can test and explore fundamental physics. Topics to be covered will include: ? Cosmology and Dark Energy ? Cosmic Dawn and Reionisation ? Dark Matter and Astroparticle Physics ? Gravity and gravitational radiation Within each topic, we will have a series of invited presentations setting out the outstanding problems that the SKA can potentially address (with the first of these talks also including an explanation of the SKA?s capabilities in this area). This will be followed by shorter presentations and extensive discussion, through which we hope to establish preliminary feasibility of SKA experiments and measurements in each area. The intended outcomes of this meeting will be: ? an overall matrix that matches physics problems to SKA capabilities; ? a discussion paper based on this matrix (to be posted on arXiv.org and submitted as an SKA memo), which will summarise the prospects and priorities for fundamental physics with the SKA; ? identification of new collaborative research projects in which astronomers and physicists can work together to perform the required simulations, calculations and forecasts. The workshop will be held in Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius. Mauritius has a long history in radio astronomy, and is one of the African partner countries that will co-host components of the full SKA. Mauritius? capital city, Port Louis, is served by frequent direct flights from many countries (including Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, South Africa and the United Kingdom), with one-stop connections from most other major international gateways. Flic-en-Flac is a 1-hour drive from SSR Airport in Port Louis. We aim to make this a productive and welcoming meeting for all. This will be a family friendly event, with childcare and family accommodation provided. All attendees must agree to adhere to the SKA Organisation?s meeting code of conduct (http://utoronto.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1012fe6c196afc61b4a9655d0&id=f621761c59&e=ad08f36210) upon registering. INVITED SPEAKERS (initial list, all confirmed): David Bacon (UK) Rennan Barkana (Israel) Celine Boehm (UK) Phillip Bull (USA) Tzu-Ching Chang (Taiwan) Tamara Davis (Australia) Michael Kramer (Germany) Julien Larena (South Africa) Samaya Nissanke (Netherlands) Frans Pretorius (USA) Jonathan Pritchard (UK) Joe Silk (UK) Scientific Organising Committee: Jenni Adams (New Zealand) John Beacom (USA) Luc Blanchet (France) Carlo Burigana (Italy) Heino Falcke (Netherlands / Germany) Pedro Ferreira (UK) Bryan Gaensler (Canada, co-chair) Leon Koopmans (Netherlands) Roy Maartens (South Africa) Edvard M?rtsell (Sweden) Tirthankar Roy (India) Eva Silverstein (USA) Ingrid Stairs (Canada) Cathryn Trott (Australia) Amanda Weltman (South Africa, co-chair) Renxin Xu (China) Local Organising Committee: Girish Beeharry (University of Mauritius) Mono Bunwaree (University of Mauritius) Bryan Gaensler (University of Toronto) Nalini Heeralall-Issur (University of Mauritius) Zo? Jaremus (University of Toronto) Satish Ramchurn (University of Mauritius) Radhakhrishna Somanah (University of Mauritius) Amanda Weltman (University of Cape Town) First Announcement : June, 2016 Registration and Abstracts Open : 3rd October, 2016 Early Registration Deadline : 15th December, 2016 Abstract Deadline : 20th January, 2017 Final Registration Deadline : 20th January, 2017 Final Program : 28th February, 2017 We acknowledge generous support and sponsorship from the following organisations: * ? Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (http://utoronto.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1012fe6c196afc61b4a9655d0&id=2e5073f003&e=ad08f36210) * ? Square Kilometre Array Organisation (http://utoronto.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1012fe6c196afc61b4a9655d0&id=95b95e5b9b&e=ad08f36210) * ? ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) (http://utoronto.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1012fe6c196afc61b4a9655d0&id=e48bf1c503&e=ad08f36210) * ? 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URL: From vkilborn at swin.edu.au Wed Jan 11 16:40:43 2017 From: vkilborn at swin.edu.au (Virginia Kilborn) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 05:40:43 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Science meets Parliament 2017 Message-ID: Dear ASA members, The yearly Science meets Parliament (SmP) event will be held from 21-22 March 2017, and the ASA has 2 places made available to us from Science and Technology Australia (see http://scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/science-meets-parliament-2017/ for details). Feedback from previous years has been extremely positive, and we are calling on members who might be interested to attend the event - in particular ECRs with an interest in future leadership and policy development. If you'd like to attend SmP this year, please email me with a brief 1-paragraph justification, by Friday, 13th January. ASA council will review the applications and select 2 applicants to attend the event. The ASA will be able to cover reasonable travel costs, plus the registration fee for the 2 supported attendees. cheers Virginia Prof. Virginia Kilborn Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology Swinburne University of Technology Ph (w) +61 (0)3 9214 4380 WWW: http://bit.ly/24vsqSR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carole.jackson at curtin.edu.au Wed Jan 11 19:21:30 2017 From: carole.jackson at curtin.edu.au (Carole Jackson) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:21:30 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Second announcement & registration open for Realising SKA-Low: lessons for SKA, new technologies and techniques Message-ID: Second Announcement - full registration is now open REALISING SKA?_LOW: NEW TECHNOLOGIES & TECHNIQUES FOR IMAGING AND CALIBRATION OF LOW FREQUENCY ARRAYS CONFERENCE http://www.icrar.org/conferences/realising-ska-low/ 29 March - 31 March 2017 Perth, WA Australia Dear Colleagues, As co-chairs* we are pleased to invite you to register for this conference to share expertise gained from imaging and calibrating today?s low-frequency radio interferometers to inform SKA1-Low. The program will be a mix of invited and contributed papers. A draft program is now available: http://www.icrar.org/conferences/realising-ska-low/programme/ This Conference takes place in the same week and location as an AADC Consortium and SKA Board meetings: The sessions of day 1 will be programmed to encourage overlap between the engineering and science communities, and seek to identify how the collective expertise can be harnessed to best benefit SKA-Low. The conference will be held at the ARRC Building (Australian Resources Research Centre), adjacent to Curtin University in Perth, WA Australia, 29-31 March 2017. There will be a joint AADC Consortium and conference dinner on Wednesday 29 March 2017 to which all are invited (separate payment will be required). All are welcome to attend the conference although please note that the AADC Consortium and SKAO Board meetings themselves remain invite-only: Registration is now open and will close on 13 March 2017. The meeting is generously sponsored by ICRAR, SKAO, CSIRO and CAASTRO. Key dates: Second announcement (draft program, local logistical information) - this email Third and final announcement (confirmed program) - 28 February 2017 Registration closes - 13 March 2017 SOC: Cath Trott (ICRAR-Curtin) Carole Jackson (ICRAR-Curtin) Ravi Subrahmanyan (RRI) Jason Hessels (ASTRON) Huub Rottgering (Leiden) David Kaplan (UWisc) Jeff Wagg (SKA Office) George Heald (CSIRO - CASS) Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate (ASTRON) Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON) ??. Please feel free to distribute this pre-announcement to all interested colleagues. * Co-Chairs Dr Cath Trott & Prof. Carole Jackson Carole Professor Carole Jackson MA, PhD FRAS FASA MAICD WA Premier?s Fellow Director, Science | Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy Director, Science | ICRAR Curtin Street Address Building 610, Room 102, Brodie-Hall Building 1 Turner Avenue Bentley Technology Park Bentley WA 6102 Post: GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845 Australia Curtin University Tel | +61 8 9266 4908 Mobile | 0401 103 500 Email | carole.jackson at curtin.edu.au www.icrar.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tara at physics.usyd.edu.au Fri Jan 13 16:22:50 2017 From: tara at physics.usyd.edu.au (Tara Murphy) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:22:50 +1100 Subject: [ASA] =?utf-8?q?Anne_Green=E2=80=99s_retirement_celebration_-_Feb?= =?utf-8?q?ruary_17th?= Message-ID: Hi everyone, as some of you may know, Professor Anne Green is retiring in February. To celebrate her long and successful career, we are having a small celebration on Friday, February 17th at the University of Sydney. We will have a series of talks by Anne?s current and past students and colleagues, from 1:30pm to 5pm, followed by drinks and nibbles from 5-7pm. The event will be held at the Sydney Nanoscience Hub, on the main campus. Anne has had a broad impact on Australian astronomy, both scientifically and through her mentoring and leadership. Everyone is welcome to attend the event, but please let me know (via email) for catering purposes. If you can?t attend, but would like to send a written or record message, please email me. Feel free to pass this invitation on to colleagues who are not on the ASA exploder, Tara -- A/PROF TARA MURPHY | ARC Future Fellow Sydney Institute for Astronomy | School of Physics | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Room 358, Physics Building A28 The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 3041 E tara at physics.usyd.edu.au http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~tara -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: