From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Wed May 8 10:16:26 2013 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 10:16:26 +1000 Subject: [ASA] EPOC Update: Membership and Steering Committee Elections In-Reply-To: <594D49AC4FAFE940BECC55018F70C5C7350215@EX01.phm.gov.au> Message-ID: <71F5D7DA-5A72-4D3F-8F9A-2882224BCEEC@sydney.edu.au> Dear ASA Members, With an upcoming annular/partial solar eclipse [see below] putting astronomy in the public eye again, I would like to take this opportunity to update you on the ASA's Education and Public Outreach Chapter (EPOC). 1. Membership If you are not already a member of EPOC, I would like to invite you to consider joining. All it takes is an e-mail to asaepoc at gmail.com Membership in EPOC is open to all current ASA members. As a member, you might then consider taking part in the... 2. Steering Committee Election On behalf of the Steering Committee, I would like to thank Michael Burton, Andrew Jacob, Jonathon Kocz and Jacinta Delhaize (student representative) for their valuable contributions as members of the inaugural EPOC Steering Committee. EPOC is now calling for nominations from amongst its members for: - Three 2-year positions (open to all categories of ASA membership except student members) - One 1-year position for a student representative Nominations will close on Tuesday 14 May at 9am AEST, to be followed immediately by a one-week voting period. To nominate, please send an e-mail to asaepoc at gmail.com with: A. Your name. B. Position you are nominating for (2-year position or student position). C. An appropriate photograph (head-shot) plus a brief biographical statement summarising your main interests or involvement in education and public outreach, which will be presented to ASA members during the voting period. Finally, to current and new EPOC members, I would like to invite you to send me any: 3. Member reports Please send an e-mail to asaepoc at gmail.com with a summary of your education and outreach activities during the first 4 months of 2013. These reports will be summarised and presented at the next Steering Committee meeting (early June). Reports can contain highlights, lessons learnt, challenges faced, or anything else you feel is important to report on. Please provide the following with your report: A. Your name B. Institution/organisation you are reporting on behalf of. C. Nature of the activities, including approximate number of participants. D. Whether you are happy for your report to be shared with EPOC Members. For more information on EPOC see: http://asaepoc.wordpress.com/ For EPOC Factsheets, see: http://astronomy.org.au/education/factsheets/ Annular/partial Solar Eclipse - Friday, 10 May: http://australianastronomy.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/factsheet_25x.pdf Thanks for your attention, Chris Fluke Chair, Steering Committee ASA Education & Public Outreach Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From duncan.wright at unsw.edu.au Thu May 9 15:18:08 2013 From: duncan.wright at unsw.edu.au (Duncan Wright) Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 05:18:08 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Science with Veloce Workshop at UNSW Message-ID: <45C13523BAA669409FA426412C07D09A15FA755E@INFPWXM012.ad.unsw.edu.au> Hi colleagues Following the discussions at the 2012 ASA Annual Scientific Meeting, and the 1st and 2nd Australian Exoplanet Workshops last year, it is now time to ramp up the development of the science case, and the science requirements, for the proposed Veloce spectrograph for the AAT. To help reignite this process, UNSW would like to host a 1-day workshop on Science with Veloce one of the following dates: Thursday 13th, Friday 14th or Wednesday 19th of June (i.e. next month). The aims of this workshop will be to: - discuss and compile a list of the Science Cases for the instrument - discuss and compile a list of Science Requirements - i.e. what design choices are driven by the instrument's science needs (fibre-feed size, resolution, wavelength coverage, etc) - these will then drive the conceptual design the AAO will carry out, to derive a cost model. In case you want to know the current state of plans for Veloce here is a link to the most recent Veloce position paper which is also available on the Veloce website: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~cgt/cgt/Veloce.html Please let us know by return email (reply to this email i.e. duncan.wright at unsw.edu.au) o If you would like to attend such a workshop o Which date you can't make o The title for a talk if you would like to speak on Veloce science at the meeting. We hope to set the date for the meeting within the next week. Organisers Prof. Chris Tinney (UNSW) and Duncan Wright (UNSW) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: