From Warrick.Couch at aao.gov.au Mon Jan 16 14:59:25 2017 From: Warrick.Couch at aao.gov.au (Warrick Couch) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:59:25 +1100 Subject: [ASA] vale Ann Savage Message-ID: <5179E926-1CE4-49BF-9824-2F5A6936742A@aao.gov.au> Dear Australian Astronomy colleagues, It is with much sadness that we inform you of the passing on Monday 9 January of former UKST Astronomer-in-Charge, Dr Ann Savage, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Ann began her career at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1964, and moved to Australia in 1974 to undertake her PhD studies on QSOs under John Bolton at the Parkes Radio Telescope. After a sojourn in Edinburgh, Ann became UKST Astronomer-in-Charge in the late 1980s, eventually retiring on ill-health grounds in 1995. Ann is survived by her husband Richard and sons Robert and Ross. Her funeral took place on Friday 13 January in Coonabarabran. An appreciation of Ann's life and work will appear in the next issue of the AAO Observer. Warrick Couch & Fred Watson (AAO) From d.parkinson at uq.edu.au Mon Jan 16 10:31:07 2017 From: d.parkinson at uq.edu.au (David Parkinson) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 23:31:07 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Cosmological Quests for the Next Decade, April 17 - 21 2017, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea Message-ID: <3745132C-718C-49F5-BAC4-B5E1C114C453@uq.edu.au> Dear colleagues We are happy to announce the second CosKASI cosmology conference, "Cosmological Quests for the Next Decade?, in April 2017. The workshop will cover recent progresses in observational and theoretical cosmology including the galaxies and large-scale structures, peculiar velocities, cosmic microwave background radiation, type Ia supernovae and gravitational lensing on the observational side, and the early universe, inflation, dark energy, dark matter, non-Gaussianity and numerical simulation in the theoretical side. Through close assessment of the present data and our current understanding we will be able to make plans for opening future windows in studying and describing our universe. Invited speakers include: * Andreas Albrecht (UCDAVIS) * Kyle Dawson (UTAH) * Olivier Dore (JPL) * Ruth Durrer (University of Geneva) * Pedro Ferriera (University of Oxford) * James Jee (Yonsei University) * Lloyd Knox (UCDAVIS) * Roy Maartens (Western Cape & Portsmouth) * Changbom Park (KIAS) * Roland de Putter (JPL) * Misao Sasaki (YITP) * Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA) * Shinji Tsujikawa (TUS) * Gongbo Zhao (NAOC) The workshop will take place at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, from April 17 to 21, 2017. Details and registration can be found at http://cosmology.kasi.re.kr/conf2017/home.html Registration closes on 31st March. David Parkinson d.parkinson at uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claudia.lagos at uwa.edu.au Tue Jan 17 01:40:21 2017 From: claudia.lagos at uwa.edu.au (Claudia Lagos Urbina) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:40:21 +0800 Subject: [ASA] Second announcement: "Mock Perth: Challenges for Simulations in the Era of SKA and Large IFU Surveys" In-Reply-To: <9B15CE8091F0AE409D47EB1B290CA3D901DD95245686@IS-WIN-386.staffad.uwa.edu.au> References: <9B15CE8091F0AE409D47EB1B290CA3D901DD95245686@IS-WIN-386.staffad.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <9B15CE8091F0AE409D47EB1B290CA3D901DD952456E3@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 JJ Eldridge - Auckland Violeta Gonzalez-Perez - Portsmouth Brent Groves - ANU Alex Knebe - UMadrid 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 Tue Jan 17 11:56:53 2017 From: jbryant at physics.usyd.edu.au (Julia Bryant) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:56:53 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Reminder: Hector workshop registration by 31st Jan. Message-ID: <3141AAD1-581D-4EFF-8627-A51DB1F07531@physics.usyd.edu.au> Dear astronomers, Attached is an invitation to the upcoming Hector science workshop on 14th February, which will be an important discussion forum for anyone who may want to use the new IFU instrument Hector on the AAT. Feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested. 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The program is opening up for applications for the 2018 program tomorrow January 20th 2017. https://homewardboundprojects.com.au/application/ I can thoroughly recommend this experience so please feel free to ask if you have questions prior to applying and please share broadly with your networks, Many Regards, Sarah -- Sarah Brough Future Fellow PH: 02 9372 4848 Office Days: Mon-Thurs ---------------------- From growell at physics.adelaide.edu.au Thu Jan 19 18:50:19 2017 From: growell at physics.adelaide.edu.au (Gavin Rowell) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:20:19 +1030 (CST) Subject: [ASA] Research Assoc/Postdoc in Gamma-Ray Astronomy (CTA) Message-ID: Dear all, Please find below details of a Research Assoc/Postdoc position to work on the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This is a 4 yr position, based at the Uni. of Adelaide. http://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/495611/university-research-fellowuniversity-postdoctoral-fellow Please forward to interested colleagues and/or contact me in case of any enquiries. regards Gavin.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gavin Rowell ph +6183138374 High Energy Astrophysics Group fax +6183134380 School of Physical Sciences growell at physics.adelaide.edu.au University of Adelaide 5005, AUSTRALIA web: http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/astrophysics/gpr/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From stanislav.shabala at utas.edu.au Fri Jan 20 21:23:00 2017 From: stanislav.shabala at utas.edu.au (Stas Shabala) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:23:00 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ANITA2017 + astroinformatics school -- final announcement Message-ID: <19C09D9E-9E2E-4310-8B5E-443224ED2314@utas.edu.au> ------------------------------ ANITA2017 and Astroinformatics school *** Final announcement *** https://asa-anita.github.io/workshop2017/ Registration closes 23:59 AEDT on 26th January. The 11th Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) annual theory workshop and astroinformatics school will be held 6th-10th February 2017 at the University of Tasmania, Hobart 6th - 8th Feb: Astroinformatics summer school, program online at https://asa-anita.github.io/workshop2017/school.html 9th - 10th Feb: ANITA workshop, covering all aspects of theoretical and computational astrophysics 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 University of Tasmania Electronic Communications Policy (December, 2014). This email is confidential, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone outside the intended recipient organisation is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. 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