[ASA] Pre-announcement: The First Pietro Baracchi Conference: Italo-Australian Radio Astronomy in the Era of the SKA

[John O'Byrne]

The First Pietro Baracchi Conference: Italo-Australian Radio Astronomy in the Era of the SKA

November 1 - 4, 2016

Perth, Western Australia

Dear Colleagues,

The co-Chairs* for "The First Pietro Baracchi Conference: Italo-Australian Radio Astronomy in the Era of the SKA" invite you to "save the dates" for this event. A meeting announcement including web-based registration will follow in due course.

This conference is designed to bring together Italian and Australian researchers in radio astronomy, to discuss and explore existing and potential future areas of mutual interest.  The meeting will be open to all areas of interest in radio astronomy (science, engineering, and computing), with an emphasis on these areas playing a key role in the era of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - a project in which both Italy and Australia are founding members.

The conference will be held in the modern ARRC building in Technology Park, Perth, and will feature both invited and contributed presentations, along with plenty of time for discussion and informal exchanges, an attractive social program, and visits to local facilities of relevance (including the Pawsey Centre, CSIRO, and ICRAR).

Named in honour of Pietro Baracchi, an Italian who played a central role in Australian astronomy in the late 1800s and early 1900s, this is planned to be the first in an ongoing series of meetings, alternating between Australia and Italy, covering a range of topics over time.

A meeting website will soon be available with further information and registration.  In order to register an early expression of interest as a participant, you can email Prof. Steven Tingay (stingay at ira.inaf.it<mailto:stingay at ira.inaf.it>) to be added to a list for subsequent announcements.

Sponsorship for this meeting is being generously provided by the Embassy of Italy in Australia, CSIRO, ICRAR, and Curtin University.

* Prof. Steven Tingay (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italia)
  Dr George Heald (CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Perth)
  Dr Oscar Moze (Ambasciata d'Italia, Canberra)



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Prof. Steven Tingay*

Direttore dell'Osservatorio di Radio Astronomia (ORA)
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)

Phone: +39 51 639 9400
Mobile (Italia): +39 342 350 2688
Mobile (Australia): +61 401 103 635

* On secondment from Curtin University
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