From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Mon Aug 13 11:43:53 2012 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:43:53 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Operation of the Mopra Telescope Message-ID: Subject: Future of the Mopra Telescope ------- Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that funding has been secured to operate the Mopra Telescope for three years, commencing in October 2012. Mopra operations will initially be supported by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Adelaide. The model for allocating observing time is still under development. We will advise the community once it is finalised. regards Philip Diamond Director, ATNF and Chief, CASS Douglas Bock Assistant Director, Operations, ATNF Phone: +61 2 9372 4276 | Mobile: +61 457 552 777 | douglas.bock at csiro.au P.O. Box 76, Epping NSW 1710 From smaddison at swin.edu.au Wed Aug 15 16:46:42 2012 From: smaddison at swin.edu.au (Sarah Maddison) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:46:42 +1000 Subject: [ASA] ASA Women in Astronomy Workshop 2012 - first announcement Message-ID: First Announcement: *ASA Women in Astronomy Workshop 2012 10-11 October 2012* * Swinburne University, Melbourne* http://asawomeninastronomy.org/meetings/wia2012/ The second ASA Workshop in Women in Astronomy will be held *10-11 October 2012* at Swinburne University in Melbourne. This 2-day workshop will focus on how unconscious biases in our professional and personal lives affects women?s leadership and participation in the workplace. Over the two days there will be both presentations as well as workshop sessions. These will cover some of the issues and obstacles that women face during their astronomy careers, and strategies that both women and men can use in overcoming them. Descriptions of new approaches and schemes implemented over the past 18 months, by individuals and institutions, to help improve the status of women in astronomy will be examined. Guest speakers include Mary Crooks , Executive Director of the Victorian Women?s Trust. A (non-subsidised) dinner will also be organised on the 10th to provide further opportunity for discussion. There is no registration fee to attend the workshop. For catering purposes please email Sarah Brough (sb at aao.gov.au) to indicate your attendance, no later than* 10 September 2012*. All are welcome! The reduction in the percentage of women at each career step is an issue that affects everyone, as women and men are equally talented and deserve equal opportunity, and full participation of men and women will maximize excellence in the field. With that issue in mind, this workshop is open to all and everyone is strongly encouraged to attend. Please circulate this email throughout your department, and encourage all students, postdocs and colleagues to come. At the end of the workshop we will submit a report on the outcomes to the ASA council. Workshop Goals: 1. To raise awareness of general issues that impact on the decision of women to continue in a research focused career. 2. To illustrate the validity of the many career paths for astronomers. 3. To highlight how institutions can help women succeed in our field. 4. To recognize and combat unconscious biases. For more details, please see the workshop website: http://asawomeninastronomy.org/meetings/wia2012/ Kind regards, Sarah Brough (AAO) Kate Gunn (CAASTRO) Virgina Kilborn (Swinburne) Sarah Maddison (Swinburne) Steven Tingay (ICRAR) -- A/Prof Sarah Maddison Associate Professor of Astrophysics Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology PO BOX 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, AUSTRALIA t: 61-3-9214 5971 f: 61-3-9214 8797 e: smaddison at swin.edu.au w: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/maddison/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Thu Aug 16 21:13:18 2012 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:13:18 +1000 Subject: [ASA] ICRAR Summer Studentships References: <954CBB72-C0CA-4527-870B-7443D89CD43A@uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <67DBC31B-5674-47BA-941F-951C1D99AF72@sydney.edu.au> ICRAR SUMMER STUDENTSHIPS The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research is continuing our successful Summer Studentships Program for 2012. This year we?re again offering eight student fellowships, including four co-funded by iVEC for projects with computational elements. Projects will be based at either Curtin University or The University of Western Australia and cover a broad range of topics relating to astronomy, astrophysics, databases, engineering, and ICT with many projects having a particular focus on the Square Kilometre Array and related research. This opportunity is open to 3rd, 4th year and honours level students in physics, astronomy or a relevant engineering/computer science discipline. Successful applicants will join ICRAR for a 10 week period beginning on November 26th, 2012 and ending in mid February, 2013. Each participant will receive a scholarship of up to $6,000 paid over the 10 weeks. Students from interstate or New Zealand will also receive a return flight to Perth from their home city and accommodation subsidised by up to 50%. More information and the list of projects is available at www.icrar.org/studentships Please encourage any interested students to apply. 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