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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The 2024 Annual Science Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia will include a “hub day” on Wednesday June 26th. The agenda of this day will be tailored to maximise
in-person interaction locally - to meet other astronomers, network, and talk science!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We have expressions of interest so far for hosting in Brisbane and Hobart, and a Perth hub is being organised to include busses to/from major institutes to the venue, full catering,
afternoon activities, and of course - a dinner! However, our aim is to have Wednesday hub-day activities in each of the major Australian cities to allow as many astronomically-minded individuals as possible to participate.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are thus calling on expressions of interest for hosting a local hub day in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney. In our experience, a hub requires a small committee
of 2-3 interested people per city - we’re happy to talk over what organising a hub involves with anybody considering it.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So if you are interested in getting involved, please contact
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:clancy.james@curtin.edu.au" id="OWA5c3c3b68-5ecd-064d-d331-89bbc6fda8af" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">clancy.james@curtin.edu.au</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> by
Friday Feb 2nd 2024, so that we can finalise hub-day locations. And we’d love a friendly competition for who can organise the best hub-day experience! </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Clancy James,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On behalf of the 2024 ASA ASM NOC</span></p>
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