From vkilborn at swin.edu.au Mon Jun 12 10:44:58 2017 From: vkilborn at swin.edu.au (Virginia Kilborn) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:44:58 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Congratulations to Professor Ken Freeman, AO Message-ID: Dear ASA community, This morning, we heard the wonderful news that Prof. Ken Freeman has been honoured with the Companion of the Order of Australia. The citation reads: "For eminent service to astronomy through pioneering contributions in the field of galactic archaeology, as a leading astrophysicist and researcher, to tertiary science education, to professional academies, and as a mentor of young scientists." Ken is a founding member of the ASA, and has served on council several times. In 2001 he gave the ASA Ellery lecture, and has been recognised for his scientific contribution through being admitted as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, the Prime Minister?s Science prize and the Gruber prize in cosmology to name just a few. Along with his outstanding scientific achievements, Ken has supervised more that 50 PhD students, and remains an active collaborator and mentor to the Australian astronomy community. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/queens-birthday-honours/queens-birthday-honours-2017-galactic-studies-pioneer-ken-freeman/news-story/f3670afc40ca0a8ff66ae64ccedf81e0 Congratulations Ken! cheers, Virginia President, ASA 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 fiona.audcent-ross at uwa.edu.au Tue Jun 13 11:46:29 2017 From: fiona.audcent-ross at uwa.edu.au (Fiona Audcent-Ross) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:46:29 +0800 Subject: [ASA] Reminder - Student and Full Member Nominations Needed for the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Astronomy (IDEA) Chapter of the ASA Steering Committee In-Reply-To: <0A00353A76B989429F1096315CFD1021033B9B49082B@IS-WIN-417.staffad.uwa.edu.au> References: <0A00353A76B989429F1096315CFD1021033B9B49082B@IS-WIN-417.staffad.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <0A00353A76B989429F1096315CFD1021033B9B490853@IS-WIN-417.staffad.uwa.edu.au> Wanted! Motivated student and full member diversity champions as well as committee chair to promote and assist the career development of minority groups in our astronomical community. Nominations are due by 19th June, so it's time to let our returning officer know you are interested in getting involved. Personally I have found being on the committee is very rewarding and not an onerous time commitment. The details on how to nominate yourself for one of the positions are set out below. If you have any questions please get in touch with myself or any of the other committee members (https://asa-idea.org/about/steering-committee/). Kind regards, Fiona Audcent-Ross - IDEA Secretary (and student representative) (email fiona.audcent-ross at icrar.org) Sarah Martell - Returning Officer (email: s.martell at unsw.edu.au) -------------------- The IDEA Chapter of the ASA aims to promote and assist the career development of minority groups in the Australian astronomy community. The Chapter represents minority groups working in astronomy in Australia, raises awareness of issues faced by these groups and undertakes to establish best practice guidelines for supporting the inclusion of these groups in our community. The IDEA Chapter has been active for over seven years, and has organised activities that have been beneficial to both women and men working in astronomy, including: - Organised highly successful national workshops (Women in Astronomy/Diversity in Astronomy) - Conducted special sessions at the ASA Annual Science Meetings - Organised ?Speed-Meet-a-Mentor? sessions at the ASA Annual Science Meetings - Organised Rainbow Allies Dinners at the ASA Annual Science Meetings - Collated statistics on women in Australian astronomy - Lobbied for best practice for organisations in STEM, and - Organised the Pleiades Award initiative with 9 Bronze and 4 Silver and 1 Gold levels awarded to organisations over the past 2 years ASA members are welcome to join the Chapter by registering at the ASA?s new membership site (https://asa.wildapricot.org - click on the CHAPTERS tab to do this). The IDEA Chapter is run by a steering committee that plays a leading role in devising and implementing initiatives to fulfil the Chapter?s goals. The committee consists of a Chair, six steering committee members, a student representative, an ASA Council representative and an Early Career Researcher Chapter representative. Terms are held for two years (full representatives) and one year (student representative). We are now inviting nominations for the committee Chair, three full committee members and one student representative by 19 June. These positions are open to all Chapter members and we particularly encourage members from diverse backgrounds to consider nominating for one of these positions. Existing steering committee members can renominate if they wish. If there are more nominations than positions we will then ask the chapter members to vote online in due course. The election schedule is: - call for nominations: 5 - 19 June - election period: 23 June ? 7 July - results announced: 11 July (at ASA ASM IDEA Chapter Lunch) - new positions commence: 17 July Please email your nomination to the Returning Officer for this election (Sarah Martell: s.martell at unsw.edu.au), as my committee position is also up for re-election. Each nomination must include a brief paragraph summarising your interest in the position and how you envisage contributing to the broad goals of the Chapter. Please note that this information will be made available to voters. At this stage on behalf of the IDEA committee I would like to thank Sarah Brough, Katie Mack, Celine d?Orgeville, and Jill Rathborne for their contributions. I have also reached the end of my one-year term and am stepping down. Kind regards, Fiona Audcent-Ross - IDEA Secretary (and student representative) Sarah Martell - Returning Officer (email: s.martell at unsw.edu.au) _______________________________________________ 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 From Helga.Denes at csiro.au Wed Jun 14 20:13:26 2017 From: Helga.Denes at csiro.au (Helga.Denes at csiro.au) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:13:26 +0000 Subject: [ASA] CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Radio School 2017 - First Announcement Message-ID: <1497435206397.22106@csiro.au> Dear all, This is the first announcement for the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Radio School 2017 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science is holding its 2017 Radio Astronomy School at the Australia Telescope Compact Array, NSW, Australia from the 25th to the 29th of September 2017. This school aims to provide knowledge and hands-on experience of radio astronomy to people new to the field, including PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. The format of the school will be similar to previous CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science radio schools, with a mix of lectures and practical sessions. Material will be presented by both radio astronomers and engineers. No prior experience with radio astronomy is required. The school will cover a diverse range of topics across all areas of radio-astronomy, with a focus on interferometric observations. Registration will open at the end of June. Attendance will be limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The registration fee is $260 for students (and $320 for non-students) and will cover lunches, teas/coffees and one or two evening meals. Participants will be encouraged to present posters highlighting their research. For more information, please see the school webpage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/radio-school/2017/index.html or contact the organisers directly at radio-school-2017 at atnf.csiro.au Best wishes, Helga Denes on behalf of the organising committee ? ________________________________ Dr Helga D?nes Postdoctoral researcher CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science PO Box 76 Epping NSW 1710 Australia p: +61 (02) 9372 4260 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ahassan at swin.edu.au Thu Jun 15 13:45:33 2017 From: ahassan at swin.edu.au (Amr Hassan) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 03:45:33 +0000 Subject: [ASA] =?utf-8?q?ADACS_Data_Intensive_Astronomy_Workshop_=E2=80=93?= =?utf-8?q?_Melbourne_7-9_August_2017?= Message-ID: ADACS Data Intensive Astronomy Workshop 7th-9th August 2017 Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC Abstract submission and pre-registration are now open through our website! Visit the website to pre-register and submit an abstract here (https://goo.gl/bFVLzA ) Recent and planned advances in astronomical observational and simulation facilities are moving astronomy toward a new data-intensive era where ?big data" is the norm rather than an exception. While such facilities will provide astronomers with unprecedented levels of accuracy, coverage, and resolution, the increases in dataset size and dimensionality will pose serious computational challenges for most of the current astronomy data analysis and visualization tools. This workshop will focus on the tools and platforms needed to enable discovery in the data-intensive era. We will focus this year on the following key themes: * HPC and Cloud Computing in Astronomy. * Machine learning applications in Astronomical Data Analysis and Transient Detection. * Scientific Visualization in Astronomy. * Data intensive reduction pipelines and tools. * Data intensive eResearch platforms in Astronomy. The first two days of the program will include invited talks, contributed talks and BOF sessions. The aim is to encourage communication between software experts and astronomers to meet the big-data challenges in Astronomy. The last day will focus on the All-Sky Virtual Observatory (ASVO) project and the eScience gateways. Key Dates: * 1st July 2017 ? Pre-registration and Abstract submission closes. * 14th July 2017 ? Attendees registration closes. * 17th July 2017 ? Program Release * 7th-8th August 2017 ? Data Intensive Astronomy Workshop * 9th August 2017 ? ASVO and eScience Gateways workshop This workshop is sponsored by the Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) initiative. ADACS is funded under the Astronomy National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Program via Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL). Best Regards, Dr. Amr H. 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