From mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au Mon May 27 13:36:36 2013 From: mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au (Mita Brierley) Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 13:36:36 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Reminder: Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee: Call for Proposals - NCI, Green II. Message-ID: <001d01ce5a8b$63c26000$2b472000$@astronomyaustralia.org.au> Reminder: ** Call closes at 9am (AEST) Monday 3rd June, 2013 ** Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee (ASTAC): Call for Proposals - NCI, Green II. Attached is a call for proposals for time on two Australian Supercomputer Facilities for Q3-Q4 in 2013. The same information is available on the Astronomy Australia Limited website at http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/commitees/astac We would like to draw your attention to the following key points: 1. ASTAC encourages potential applicants to contact us should you require any technical or scientific advice. 2. The time available for computational astrophysics on internationally competitive facilities has increased markedly over the last year. This is a good time to be working in this area. 3. The GPU facility gSTAR, part of the Swinburne University of Technology Green II machine, offers users an opportunity for very high performance computational power for appropriately written code. 4. The deadline for this current round of proposals is 9am (AEST), Monday 3rd June, 2013 so that there is adequate time to prepare a good proposal. 5. ASTAC is particularly keen to encourage graduate students and early career researchers to become involved in this rapidly developing field, which offers the capacity to perform simulations of numerous astrophysical situations at high resolution and in three dimensions. Advisers are available to assist people in getting started in this area. 6. For this call, ASTAC is allowing applications to be led (Lead Chief Investigator) by PhD students, with their thesis supervisor as a Chief Investigator. PhD students who would like to lead their application, please contact Mita Brierley (mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au) by Wednesday 29th May, 2013. ASTAC would like to highlight the benefits of showing leadership on successful time allocation applications to a student's CV. 7. Along with this call for proposals, ASTAC is circulating a Supercomputer Resource document to outline and clarify for users the high-performance computing facilities and access avenues available to Australian astronomers. ASTAC Mark George Beckett (iVEC representative; ex-officio), Geoff Bicknell (Australian National University), Ben Evans (NCI representative; ex-officio), Luke Hodkinson (Swinburne supercomputer user consultant), Jarrod Hurley (Swinburne Supercomputer Manager; ex-officio), John Lattanzio (Monash University), Geraint Lewis (Chair, University of Sydney), Katherine Mack (University of Melbourne), Steve Ord (Curtin University), Jon Smillie (NCI user consultant). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ASTAC Call for Proposals Q3-Q4 2013.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 454018 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Supercomputer Resources.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 91163 bytes Desc: not available URL: From duncan.galloway at monash.edu Thu May 30 10:30:04 2013 From: duncan.galloway at monash.edu (Duncan Galloway) Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:30:04 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Fourth Announcement: 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting Message-ID: <13C35BDA-1871-494B-8000-4306AFA50FA7@monash.edu> Fourth Announcement: 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting The 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia's Annual Scientific Meeting (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 poster presentation abstracts is this **Friday 31st May**. The program has been finalised and is now available on the conference website - http://asa2013.monash.edu/program-4/ All abstract submitters have been notified if they have received an oral presentation or a poster presentation. The conference dinner location has been confirmed and will be held in Melbourne?s Chinatown precinct. The conference dinner will take place on Thursday 11th July at Dragon Boat Palace (149 Lonsdale St. Melbourne). A banquet dinner will be provided with some drinks and bus transfers to and from Melbourne. Partners are most welcome and the cost for a partner ticket is $65.00 per person. Tickets are included for registered delegates but must be selected whilst registering to secure your place. The ASA also wish to collect demographic information on delegates attending the Annual Scientific Meetings. There is now a compulsory field in your registration profile to select if you are male or female. Please return to your registration profile to answer this question. There are limited places available at this year?s Harley Wood Winter School in Phillip Island, which is preceding the ASM and will run from the 4th ? 7th July. The theme for this year's Harley Wood Winter School is "Supersize me - Extremely large telescopes, datasets and careers" and the program is now confirmed and available on the conference website http://asa2013.monash.edu/hwws/program/ Register now to secure your place! 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: Poster abstract submission deadline: Friday 31st May 2013 Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting: 7th - 12th July 2013 Harley Wood Winter School: 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 -- 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