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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space"><div class="">Dear Australian astronomers, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m writing as your ESO Users Committee (UC) representative, to bring two items to your attention. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="">Australian ESO Proposal Workshop 2022</b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As previously advertised, AAL’s Stuart Ryder, Australia’s ESO Scientific Technical Committee representative Michael Murphy, and I as Users Committee representative are holding an on-line ESO proposal writing workshop<b class=""> this Thursday 8 Sep</b> from noon-2:30pm AEST (10am-12:30pm AWST). </div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Topics to be covered include:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• The Observing Programmes Committee Process<br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Summary of current and imminent ESO instrumentation<br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• The Dual-Anonymous Proposal & Distributed Peer Review processes<br class=""></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">followed by a round-table discussion involving a panel of major users of ESO and past OPC members about what makes a compelling</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">proposal, and common mistakes to avoid.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Participants will have the opportunity to pitch ideas for proposals to the panel for helpful</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">feedback.</span></div><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please register in advance by going to:</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ry4MCk81N9tnML7BxI27THU?domain=us02web.zoom.us" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoceygrz0vHdJYUNUWQ42lLsgP4EvCkkSj</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">We hope to see you there!</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Observing Proposal Committee (OPC)</b></div>
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</div><div class="">ESO is now calling for nominations for candidates to serve on the OPC and Expert Panels, to assess normal proposals requesting 16 or more hours, and special proposals (Target of Opportunity, calibration or Director’s Discretionary Time). We have a good number of Australian astronomers who have previously nominated; if you nominated since November 2017 and have not yet been called upon, your name is still in the system. Still, as a community we could do better in diversity, so please consider nominating yourself or a colleague (with their approval) by contacting me, regardless of demographic (other than the ESO requirement for nominees to be on their second postdoc or beyond). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will send another message with the outcomes of the 46th UC meeting,<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">in the coming weeks </span>when they are published. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please do not hesitate to contact me with any ESO-related queries or feedback, and for technical help please contact the ESO User Support Department at <a href="mailto:usd-help@eso.org" class="">usd-help@eso.org</a>. </div><div class=""><p class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">Best wishes,</p></div></div></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Sarah<br class=""><br class="">---<br class=""><br class="">Dr Sarah Sweet<br class="">Lecturer in Astrophysics<br class="">ARC DECRA Fellow</div><div>School of Mathematics and Physics<br class="">University of Queensland<br class="">Mobile: +61 402 089 803<br class=""><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0Fg0Clx1NjioB9yEQt9zKwh?domain=sarahsweet.com.au" class="">sarahsweet.com.au</a><br class="">sarah@sarahsweet.com.au<br class=""><br class="">---</div><div><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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