[ASA] Second Announcement: 2013 ASA Annual Scientific Meeting

[Duncan Galloway]

Second Announcement: 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting

The early registration and abstract submission deadline for the 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia's Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) is fast approaching. The ASM will be held from the 7th to 12th of July, hosted by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA) at Monash University's Clayton campus in south-east Melbourne, Victoria. 

The deadline for abstract submission for an oral presentation (and also the last chance for registration at the lower price) is

** 5pm AEDT April 19th **

The program for 2013 is already looking very exciting. Confirmed speakers will include Amanda Karakas (ANU), Markus Kissler-Patig (Gemini), Chris Power (UWA), Alex Heger (Monash), Stas Shabala (UTas) and Samantha Penny (Monash). Speakers for the special session "A New Era in Australian Radio Astronomy: MWA, ASKAP and SKA" will include Phil Diamond (CASS), Lister Stavely-Smith (UWA), Steven Tingay (Curtin), Lisa Harvey-Smith (CASS), and Rachel Webster (U. Melbourne).

The 2013 Ellery lecture will be given by Rachel Webster (U. Melbourne). Career and community sessions will include "Speed Meet a Mentor" and "Science Communication in the 21st Century", as well as meetings of the ASA Women in Astronomy, ANITA and EPOC chapters of the ASA. For those attending with children, the talks will be streamed live to the poster room where kids can run amok while the adults keep one eye on the science.

The Harley Wood Winter School will be held from the 4th to 7th July, immediately preceding the ASM, at The Island Accommodation, Phillip Island. The theme for this year's Harley Wood Winter School is "Supersize me - Extremely large telescopes, datasets and careers". The presentations will explore what the past, current and future telescopes have to offer for a successful (and even supersized!) career. Confirmed speakers include Tracy Hill (CEA Saclay/ESO), Jill Rathbone (CASS), Michael Murphy (Swinburne), Andrew Melatos (U. Melbourne) and Kevin Pimbblet (Monash).

For further information on the meeting, as well as links to the registration and abstract submission system, visit the meeting website at

http://asa2013.monash.edu

Twitter users are invited to follow the official meeting twitter account @ASAu2013 for up-to-date information about the meeting. Use hashtag #ASAu2013 at http://twitter.com

KEY DATES - MARK YOUR DIARY!
Annual Scientific Meeting:
Early bird registration deadline: Friday 19th April 2013 Abstract submission deadline (for oral presentation): Friday 19th April 2013 Program release: Monday 13th May 2013 Poster submission deadline: Friday 31st May 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting: 7th - 12th July 2013

Harley Wood Winter School:
Early bird registration deadline: Friday 19th April 2013 Harley Wood Winter School: 4th - 7th July 2013

Follow the link to download the meeting flyer for circulation:

http://asa2013.monash.edu/assets/Uploads/Flyer4.pdf

Duncan Galloway
on behalf of the 2013 ASA ASM local organising committee

Email contact: asa2013 at monash.edu

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Duncan Galloway
ARC Future Fellow
Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA),
  School of Physics & School of Mathematical Sciences
http://users.monash.edu.au/~dgallow
duncan.galloway at monash.edu