<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:small">Dear colleagues,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:small">Following the "save the date" announcement previously distributed, </span><span id="gmail-m_4639904654005648088docs-internal-guid-031e2286-7fff-5823-6134-3768851f2b85"><font size="2">i</font></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">t<font size="2"> </font>is our pleasure to announce “Baracchi III: The third Pietro Baracchi conference”, to be held on </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">November 3-4, 2021</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, online.</span></div><div><span id="gmail-m_4639904654005648088docs-internal-guid-031e2286-7fff-5823-6134-3768851f2b85"><font size="2"><br>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The first two Pietro Baracchi conferences have highlighted many areas of common interest and activity between </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Australian and Italian astronomy, and have led to new connections. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> We wish to continue this positive engagement, even though the world continues to be disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. </span></div></font></span><span id="gmail-m_4639904654005648088docs-internal-guid-031e2286-7fff-5823-6134-3768851f2b85"><font size="2">
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Given the breadth of collaboration in astronomy and associated engineering and technology between the two countries, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Baracchi III will adopt a broad rationale.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There will be </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">invited talks</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> from across all areas of astrophysics and engineering, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">on </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">four main themes</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with high common activity (two talks per each country per theme): </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the Square</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Kilometre Array (SKA) project; </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the European Southern Observatory (ESO);</span>
</div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the Cherenkov</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO);</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gravitational </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">waves and multi messenger astronomy.</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In addition, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">two special featured talks</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will open each day of the meeting:</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Astronomical </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Science, Astronomical Challenges at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.”, Ugo Varetto (Pawsey Supercomputing Centre)</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span>;
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Overview on</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Exoplanets science (from space)”, Giovanna Tinetti (UCL)</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span>
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<div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To take into account time zone differences between Australia and Italy, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the conference is scheduled on both days </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7:00-11:00 UTC </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(i.e.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">8:00-12:00 CET / 15:00-19:00 AWST / 18:00-22:00 AEDT).</span></div></font></span><span id="gmail-m_4639904654005648088docs-internal-guid-031e2286-7fff-5823-6134-3768851f2b85"><font size="2">
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<div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The preliminary schedule can be found here: </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/daGaCGv0oyC1N9YVVfK7CPd?domain=indico.ict.inaf.it" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/1582/timetable/#20211103</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(click on detailed view to see the contributions within sessions).</span></div></font></span><span id="gmail-m_4639904654005648088docs-internal-guid-031e2286-7fff-5823-6134-3768851f2b85"><font size="2">
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<div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The list of titles and abstracts is available at this link: </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bzLJCJyBrGfqWor77tGkr6a?domain=indico.ict.inaf.it/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/1582/contributions/</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We plan to have talks recorded, so you can also peruse the presentations afterwards. </span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There will also be a Slack channel dedicated to the conference, both to allow for offline questions and to encourage offline discussion on selected topics. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To facilitate us organising the attendees connections, the deadline for registration is:</span></div></font></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span id="gmail-m_4639904654005648088docs-internal-guid-031e2286-7fff-5823-6134-3768851f2b85"><font size="2"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> November 1, 2021, 11:00 UTC</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You can register at the direct link: </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TL5JCK1DvKT2ykEjjs35b4-?domain=indico.ict.inaf.it/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://indico.ict.inaf.it/event/1582/registrations/571/</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The final program and all the connection details will be provided soon and posted on the web page. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Looking forward to a lively conference!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Giulia Macario and Steven Tingay, on behalf of the SOC.</span></div></font></span></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">***************************************************************************************</div><div>It is often convenient for me to send emails outside business hours. <br></div><div>But I have no expectation of responses outside business hours.<br></div><div dir="ltr">***************************************************************************************</div><div>If you receive a one line (or even a one word) email from me, please don't <br></div><div>read anything into it. I may be busy. I may be on my phone.<br></div><div><div dir="ltr">***************************************************************************************</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Professor Steven Tingay (He/Him/His)<br></div><div>John Curtin Distinguished Professor<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Executive Director<br>Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy<br>Curtin University<br>Bentley, Western Australia<br>Australia<br><br></div><div>Deputy Executive Director<br></div><div>International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research</div><div><br></div><div>Director</div><div>Murchison Widefield Array<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Street address:<br>Brodie Hall building<br>1 Turner Ave<br>Technology Park<br>Bentley 6102<br>Western Australia<br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:s.tingay@curtin.edu.au" target="_blank">S.Tingay@curtin.edu.au</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>WWW: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gdMuCL7EwMfRD2jJJumFJiA?domain=astronomy.curtin.edu.au" target="_blank">http://astronomy.curtin.edu.au</a><br></div><div> <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xNyICMwGxOtqyYOQQtQdXuD?domain=icrar.org" target="_blank">http://www.icrar.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Phone: +61 (0)8 9266 4908<br><br>Mobile: +61 (0)401 103635<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(47,84,150)">I acknowledge and pay
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