From Kate.Brooks at csiro.au Wed Jan 9 12:53:51 2013 From: Kate.Brooks at csiro.au (Kate Brooks) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:53:51 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Call for proposals to host the 2014 ASA Harley Wood Winter School and Annual Science Meeting Message-ID: <95BD91FE-20F0-4870-8C4A-B24E91CCAD67@csiro.au> Dear colleagues, This is a call for proposals to host the 2014 ASA Harley Wood Winter School and Annual Science Meeting over the period 18 - 25 July 2014. The deadline for proposals is 1 March 2013. For more information on what to include in the proposal see the following website: http://asa.astronomy.org.au/meetings/ASM_instructions.html#Future An Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) has been held since the ASA's formation in 1966. The event has now grown to include more than 200 participants and several auxiliary meetings and talks as well as the Harley Wood Winter School for students, which is held over the preceding weekend. It is now a major event on the Australian Astronomy calendar and is a fantastic opportunity for the host institute to showcase their staff, students, facilities and research. In recent years the ASM has been held at the hosting university. However, there is no hard-and-fast rule and commercial conference venues may be considered as well. A complete list of previous host institutions is available at: http://asa.astronomy.org.au/asm.html Please contact me if you have any queries. Kind regards, Kate Brooks President, ASA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.lattanzio at monash.edu Wed Jan 9 09:43:38 2013 From: john.lattanzio at monash.edu (John Lattanzio) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:43:38 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Five Year Faculty Position at Monash University Message-ID: FIVE YEAR FACULTY POSITION IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS -------------------------------------------------- MONASH UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTROPHYSICS ----------------------------------------- The Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA) is seeking to fill a 5 year fixed-term Faculty position in the field of stellar astrophysics. MoCA contains researchers from both the School of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Physics. This position is housed within the School of Mathematical Sciences, although it is expected that all of the teaching will be within the undergraduate astronomy program. The appointment will be at the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level, according to experience. The salary will be within the range of $AU 96,184 - 135,862, which includes a contribution to superannuation of 17% of the base salary. The applicant will work with the Stellar Interiors and NucleoSynthesis (SINS) group within MoCA, whose staff include John Lattanzio, Alexander Heger, Maria Lugaro, Simon Campbell and many graduate students. Preference will be give to stellar astrophysics, including (but not limited to) stellar interiors, stellar evolution (including supernovae), nucleosynthesis, multi-dimensional numerical stellar hydrodynamics, and chemical and dynamical evolution of stellar systems. Teaching is likely to be at the level of one course per semester, comprising 3 lectures per week of 50 minutes duration each. There will likely be some support classes and co-ordination also. Teaching could cover any area of astrophysics, in line with experience, and could include a first year astro-biology course. Closing date is Mar 15 Further information: contact john.lattanzio at monash.edu MoCA website: http://moca.monash.edu/ School of Mathematical Sciences: http://monash.edu/science/about/schools/mathematical-sciences/ Monash Job Info and Applications: http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=507626&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=&lCategoryID=641%2C+64 0%2C+636&lBrandID=&stp=AW&sLanguage=en -- Professor John Lattanzio Monash Centre for Astrophysics School of Mathematical Sciences Building 28, Monash University Victoria 3800 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 (0)3 9905-4428 Fax: +61 (0)3 9905-4403 WWW: www.maths.monash.edu.au/~johnl/ "Smoke some hash....sing like Johnny Cash....cry like Johnny Ray....." Perry Keyes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris.power at uwa.edu.au Wed Jan 9 14:55:09 2013 From: chris.power at uwa.edu.au (Chris Power) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 11:55:09 +0800 Subject: [ASA] Workshop Announcement: Synthetic Universes for Future Surveys (21/22 March 2013) References: <69C9A7CF-9556-416B-A505-BFD4DBB14781@astro.swin.edu.au> Message-ID: <03304078-7073-42FB-8E6A-3ED794052057@icrar.org> Hi, Could you circulate this announcement for a March workshop on galaxy formation modelling and future galaxy surveys to the ASA mailing list? Many thanks, Chris Workshop Announcement: Synthetic Universes for Future Surveys (21/22 March 2013) =================================================================== We're organising a workshop on the topic of "Synthetic Universes for Future Surveys" to be held at the University Club of the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia on 21/22 March 2013. This workshop, sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), will bring together simulators, modellers and observers from around the world to assess how fit-for-purpose the state-of-the-art in galaxy formation modelling is in the coming era of large galaxy surveys on next generation telescopes such as ALMA, the SKA and its pathfinders, the ELTs, etc... If you'd like to attend this workshop, please register at our website http://www.caastro.org/event/synthetic-universes-for-future-surveys please note that (i) there will be a small fee of A$100 per person, (ii) attendance is limited to ~45 participants, and (ii) registration will close on 21 February 2013. If you have any comments or queries, please contact A/Prof. Chris Power by e-mail (chris.power at icrar.org) or office phone (+61 8 6488 7630). Hope to see you in Perth in March 2013! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For further information or to lodge an expression of interest please visit the conference website: http://aca.unsw.edu.au/aa-meeting On behalf of the Scientific Organising Committee: Chris Tinney, Martin Van Kranendonk and Malcolm Walter. Dr Ian S. Morrison Australian Centre for Astrobiology University of New South Wales ian.s.morrison at unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agreen at aao.gov.au Thu Jan 10 03:54:22 2013 From: agreen at aao.gov.au (Andy Green) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:54:22 +1100 Subject: [ASA] AAT Service Observing - Call for Proposals Message-ID: AAT SERVICE OBSERVING - CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) operates a service observing programme at the 4-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) for proposals requiring less than 6 hours of observing time. The next deadline is *** Friday, 1 February 2013, at 23:59 *** (Australian Eastern Summer Time, i.e. UTC + 11 hrs) Applications are welcomed from all astronomers, worldwide. The following instruments are available for service observations: AAOmega, IRIS2, UCLES/UHRF, SPIRAL. AAOmega users should note that dark and grey service time for the next semester is already heavily subscribed, and proposals for bright time are strongly encouraged. Service Programmes expire after 18 months. Current programmes submitted before 1 Aug 2011 will be purged from the queue. If you have an existing programme in this category, you are invited to resubmit this round. Please see http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/service/service.html for more information about the AAT Service Programme and application forms. Andy Green AAT Service Coordinator service at aao.gov.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: