From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Mon Jan 26 12:27:21 2015 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:27:21 +1100 Subject: [ASA] ANITA Workshop and Astroinformatiocs School - **Registrations close Friday January 30** Message-ID: <146B28DF-FC9A-457A-9313-0C01F42F5373@sydney.edu.au> Reminder: **Registrations close Friday January 30** > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ANITA 2015 WORKSHOP AND ASTROINFORMATICS SUMMER SCHOOL > 9th-13th February 2015 > > Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, > Australian National University (ANU) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > We invite you to the 9th Workshop of the Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA), to be held on the 9th and 10th of February 2015, followed by the Astroinformatics Summer School from the 11th to 13th of February 2015. Both events will be hosted by the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. > > For details and registration information please go to the workshop website: > > http://anita.edu.au/workshop2015/ > > Registration for the Summer School is limited to 55 participants. We will accept registrations until all spaces are filled. There will be a $A120 fee to attend the School, but this will be waived for students at Australian institutes. A limited number of travel grants to assist in the attendance of students will be available. Students can indicate their interest in applying for a grant when registering. > Note that the meeting is open to everyone, you do not need to be a member of ANITA or the ASA to attend (though we encourage you to join!), and we especially invite students to attend and contribute talks. > Looking forward to seeing you in Canberra! > 2015 Organising Committee: Geoff Bicknell, Amanda Karakas, Ivo Seitenzahl, Ashley Ruiter, Aaron Dotter, Remo Collet, Dipanjan Mukherjee, Alexander Heger, Krzysztof Bolejko & Camila Correa > ANITA Steering Committee: Cathryn Trott, Darren Croton, Sarah Maddison, Orsola De Marco, Chris Power, Daniel Price, Alexander Heger, Krzysztof Bolejko & Camila Correa > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Cathryn Trott ARC DECRA Fellow ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics Curtin University Bentley WA, Australia cathryn.trott at curtin.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dburlon at physics.usyd.edu.au Tue Jan 27 12:48:24 2015 From: dburlon at physics.usyd.edu.au (dburlon at physics.usyd.edu.au) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 12:48:24 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Multiwavelength emission from accreting black holes: second announcement Message-ID: <20150127124824.20266e34kd58l2zs@silliac.physics.usyd.edu.au> [apologies if you receive this more than once] Workshop -Second- Announcement Multi-wavelength emission from accreting black holes http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~dburlon/mwe2015 11th and 12th of February, 2015 Sydney Institute for Astronomy The University of Sydney To register please fill in this form http://goo.gl/fVs8ao Note: registration has been EXTENDED TO 4TH of Feb., 2015 Join us in a two-day meeting that will address the topic of correlated emission from accreting black holes at different frequencies.We ask what is the future of quasi-coeval observations, in an era in which new satellites and wide-field telescopes are being commissioned. In the high-energy sky the NuSTAR and Fermi satellites are relatively new missions with unprecedented sensitivity in the high energy sky. In the radio sky, on the road to the multibillion dollar SKA project, already operational precursors and pathfinders such as MWA and ASKAP are opening a new space of parameters to exploration. What can we learn from observing accreting black hole at different frequencies? How does variability affect this behaviour? Topics include AGN, GRBs, accreting binaries, and other transients. The workshop will be a series of seminars followed by a round table to discuss how to tackle specific projects. For a PRELIMINARY PROGRAM with confirmed attendees, follow this link http://goo.gl/RLwTPX Everyone is welcome to attend. REGISTRATION IS FREE, and morning tea/coffee, lunch and afternoon tea/coffee are included. 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Invited Review Talks The meeting will feature longer invited review talks and discussions. Invited speakers include Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Shardha Jogee, Karen Masters, Pierluigi Monaco, Gerg? Popping, Ned Taylor and Emily Wisnioski. Invited talks will be 30+10 mins. Scientific Rationale The aim of this conference is to bring together theorists and observers to discuss the many pathways that lead to, and restrict, galaxy growth. While there have been very significant advances in our understanding of galaxy growth since the start of the 21st century, key details have yet to been understood. What are the relative roles of galaxy mergers and secular evolution in galaxy growth? What mechanisms are enhancing and regulating star formation within galaxies? How do these mechanisms for enhancing and regulating galaxy growth vary with both galaxy mass and redshift? Topics to be discussed at the conference include (but are not limited to), the most massive galaxies, disks across the Universe, the challenge of dwarf galaxies, galaxy growth at the highest redshifts, the importance of secular evolution, gas and the fuelling of star formation, the importance of mergers, the role of environment, and feedback. Location The conference will be held at the Monash University Prato Centre, in beautiful Tuscany. The historic town of Prato lies a short distance north of Florence. The facilities enable a conference of ~100 attendees. Format The conference will consist of 4.5 days of talks (and posters), including contributed talks and longer invited review talks. To encourage the exchange of ideas, there will be ample time for questions after each talk and appropriate time for informal discussions during coffee breaks and lunches. We also encourage speakers to discuss new research (including unpublished research) or to present reviews of important aspects of the field. Registration Fee The conference registration fee is AUD 530 (AUD 370 for students). The fee includes lunch and tea/coffee breaks each day and the conference dinner. The conference webpage has been updated to accept registration fee payments. Important Dates 20th February 2015 Talk and Poster abstracts due 6th March 2015 Selected Talks and Posters announced 20th March 2015 Registration Fee due 22th - 26th June 2015 Conference SOC Michael Brown (Chair) Samantha Penny (Deputy Chair) Eric Bell Alessandro Boselli Luca Cortese Gabriella De Lucia Jennifer Lotz Rachel Somerville Please circulate this email within your own institution. Sincerely Michael Brown, on behalf of the SOC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au Fri Jan 30 11:03:50 2015 From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:03:50 +1100 Subject: [ASA] ASA Annual Subscriptions Message-ID: <54CACA66.5090608@aao.gov.au> Dear ASA Members, You should expect to see notification of your annual subscription dues for ASA membership shortly. The notices are being sent out a little later this year than normal. Because of this delay, the ASA Executive has agreed that the early payment deadline (normally set as the end of February) will instead be extended to the end of March. I encourage you, as always, to pay your dues promptly and to take advantage of the savings available by early payment. Andrew Hopkins President, ASA -- A. Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of Research and Outreach Australian Astronomical Observatory P.O. Box 915, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia ph: +61 2 9372 4849 fax: +61 2 9372 4880