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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Dear all,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">We are delighted to open the call for abstracts associated with the 2024 ASA Annual Science Meeting (ASM), jointly co-hosted and sponsored by CSIRO and ICRAR. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">This year’s meeting is being hosted primarily online using a decentralised approach designed to maximise accessibility and sustainability. We will be building on our collective
experiences with virtual meetings to design a program that is engaging, informative and collaborative, demonstrating that online meetings can be a valuable and enjoyable addition to the astronomer’s toolkit. We will circulate more information about the format
and associated platforms in the coming weeks, and we encourage you to reach out if you have any questions about this in the meantime.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Find out more on the ASA2024 website (including how to submit abstracts):</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">To maximise the benefits of this meeting, we rely on you, our community members, to share your ideas via one or more of the selected formats below. Abstracts can now be submitted
for the following categories:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700;">Sparkler Talk [~1 min]:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> A short pre-recorded video designed
to quickly highlight a topic of interest and spark new collaborations. Can optionally be accompanied by a digital poster.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700;">Research Talk [~10 min]:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> A short-form talk designed to cover
a specific research topic in a relevant way to the broader community.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700;">Review Talk [~ 30 min]:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> A broad overview of a research topic
or field designed to introduce the topic and update everyone on the current state of the art. These will be given the longest time allocation.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700;">International Connections [~60 min]:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> A proposed focus session
that leverages the unique advantage of global access to an online meeting, extending the ASM’s reach to other interest groups that may not normally be involved. These sessions can be interactive in nature.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700;">Other:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> We are open to other creative ideas that may not fit
neatly into the above categories, and we welcome suggestions from the community to be considered by the SOC and NOC.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">We encourage everyone to submit an abstract in whatever format interests them most. Early career researchers having recently completed a literature survey may wish to submit
a review talk that shares the benefits of their reading, while time-constrained research staff may wish to submit a sparkler to share their ideas and start conversations with minimum effort. It's up to you! While there will be limited places for reviews and
research talks, our online format means we can make any number of sparkler presentations available, so we encourage everyone to submit in that category to connect with the ASA community.
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">will also be open to all (no need for an abstract), with more information about format requirements to be circulated in future.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Registrations will open later in the year, so you do not need to be registered for the meeting in order to submit an abstract. Both pre-recorded and live presentation modes
will be available for talks, but you do not need to choose between them at this stage (except for sparklers, which are all pre-recorded).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700;">Submit an abstract here:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The deadline for abstract submission is
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700;">17:00 AWST on April 19th 2024</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">, while the meeting itself
will take place during the 24th-28th of June 2024.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">If you have any questions, you can reach the entire NOC at the ASA Slack channel:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/5zJZCWLVXkUzg5z3RTKowcm?domain=app.slack.com" id="OWAabc63c52-66bc-fa99-b9b2-c7b3a5ef88dc" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">#asm-help</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">,
or alternatively get in contact with the ASM co-chairs Vanessa and Clancy (cc:ed on this email).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Thanks, and we look forward to your submissions,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Vanessa and Clancy</span></p>
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