[ASA] Decadal Plan draft and roadshow

[Stuart Wyithe]

Dear colleagues,

The National Committee for Astronomy is pleased to present an exposure draft of the Decadal Plan for Australian Astronomy 2016-2025.

This exposure draft represents a synthesis of recommendations from eleven working groups across areas of astronomical science, facilities and instrumentation, education, and industry engagement.  The Decadal Plan provides a vision for the future of Australian astronomy, and sets priorities and strategies for how that vision will be implemented. The NCA would like to acknowledge the hard work of all members of the working groups and their Chairs, and of the Editorial Board in producing this draft.

The exposure draft of the Decadal Plan for Australian Astronomy 2016-2025 can be downloaded from AustralianAstronomyDecadalPlan.org/decadal-plan-exposure-draft/<http://AustralianAstronomyDecadalPlan.org/decadal-plan-exposure-draft/>

To publicise the Decadal Plan as widely as possible and to seek feedback and community endorsement for its recommendations, a series of community meetings will be held during February. These meetings will include an overview of the Decadal Plan presented by the NCA chair Stuart Wyithe and community discussion. Details of the dates and times for these meetings are listed below.

The series of Decadal Plan meetings also provide an opportunity for broad community discussion of future Australian astronomy governance. As communicated by Brian Boyle in November, the Department of Industry established a working group to examine and provide advice on the future governance arrangements for Australia’s facility-class astronomy infrastructure. This working group plans to release a draft paper prior to the Decadal Plan meetings. In anticipation of this, discussions of future astronomy infrastructure governance arrangements have been scheduled to follow each discussion of the Decadal Plan.


Decadal Plan presentations and discussions:

Sydney:
11:00am - 12.30pm, Monday February 16, University of Sydney (location TBA)
To be followed by a discussion of Astronomy Infrastructure Governance 1:30pm-2:30pm

Canberra:
11:00am - 12.30pm, Tuesday February 17, Australian National University, Duffield Theater Mt Stromlo
To be followed by a discussion of Astronomy Infrastructure Governance  1:30pm-2:30pm
Lunch will be provided for those attending the meeting

Perth:
11:00am - 12.30pm, Wednesday February 18, Curtin University,  Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy Seminar room
To be followed by a discussion of Astronomy Infrastructure Governance  1:30pm-2:30pm
For catering purposes please RSVP to Angela.Dunleavy at curtin.edu.au<mailto:Angela.Dunleavy at curtin.edu.au>

Melbourne:
11:30am - 1.00pm, Thursday February 19, Swinburne University, (location TBA)
To be followed by a discussion of Astronomy Infrastructure Governance  2:00pm-3:00pm
Please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/157J9JAHce-M0SAtoP7fq-_Yt-_CO4tTz9dwVkhyat1U/viewform

Hobart:
11:00am - 12.30pm, Monday February 23, University of Tasmania School of Physics
To be followed by a discussion of Astronomy Infrastructure Governance  1:30pm-2:30pm

Adelaide:
11:00am - 12.30pm, Wednesday February 25, University of Adelaide School of Physics
To be followed by a discussion of  Astronomy Infrastructure Governance  1:30pm-2:30pm


Best regards,

Stuart
(on behalf of the NCA)


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Professor Stuart Wyithe
Australian Laureate Fellow
Chair, National Committee for Astronomy
School of Physics
University of Melbourne
Vic, Australia  3010

Phone:  +61 3 8344 5083
Fax:  +61 3 9347 4783
Email: swyithe at unimelb.edu.au<https://evserver2.unimelb.edu.au/EnterpriseVault/swyithe@unimelb.edu.au>

https://www.science.org.au/committee/astronomy
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