[ASA] 4th ANNOUNCEMENT "Multiwavelength dissection of galaxies" Conference, Sydney 24-29 May 2015: Extended deadlines, Updated Program, Public Event

Wed Apr 15 14:26:07 AEST 2015

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FOURTH ANNOUNCEMENT

“Multiwavelength Dissection of Galaxies”
24 - 29th May 2015
Sydney, Australia

We are pleased to announce that the list of contributed talks and posters and the Program for the Conference "Multiwavelength dissection of galaxies", which will be held in Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia, between 24 - 29 May 2015, are already available in our website,

https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/multiwavelength-dissection-of-galaxies/

We have extended the deadline for Posters and Registration till  *** Wednesday, 6th May 2015 ***.

This Conference is the eighth meeting in the Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference series, which are jointly supported by the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS). The Conference will focus on galaxy evolution, combining resolved optical/near-infrared integral field spectroscopy (IFS) data with other multiwavelength (from radio to X-rays) properties of nearby galaxies, and bringing these together with what is known in our Milky Way. This Conference expects to combine observations and the best available theoretical models to create a more complete picture of how galaxies, and in particular our Milky Way, formed and evolved.

The Conference Venue is located at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the famous Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia. Crowne Plaza Hotel offers us special prices for each double room. The special rates are only valid for bookings between Saturday 23rd and Sunday 31st May 2015, both dates included. Registered participants will receive instructions of how to proceed with the hotel booking getting the special rates.

We are also pleased to announce the Public Event "The Story of Light", which we are hosting in conjunction with the "VIVID Sydney 2015 Ideas" festival and the "International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies 2015". A panel of professional astronomers (Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Amanda Bauer and Fred Watson) tell “The Story of Light” following Astronomy. This event will be on Sunday 24th May 2015, 2:00 - 3:30 pm at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

For more details, please see the Conference website:

https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/multiwavelength-dissection-of-galaxies

For general information on the conference, please email:

dissection15 at aao.gov.au

Important dates:

   - May 6th, 2015: Registration closes. Call for Posters closes. Deadline payment registration fee. Deadline payment for any extras.
   - May 18th, 2015: Final Announcement.
   - May 24th, 2015 - 2:00pm Public Event at the PowerHouse Museum during VIVID Sydney Festival.
   - May 24th, 2015 - 5:15pm Harbour Cruise Cocktail during VIVID Sydney Festival.
   - May 25th - 29th, 2015: Conference dates. See Program Schedule.
      - Tuesday, May 26th - 6:00pm: Wine Tasting & Wood-fired Pizza.
      - Wednesday, May 27th - 6:15pm: Visit to Sydney Observatory and Stargazing.
      - Thursday, May 28th - 7:00pm: Conference Dinner.

Invited speakers:

   - Martin Asplund: The Gaia-ESO Survey
   - Joss Bland-Hawthorn: Near-field cosmology (R)
   - Alessandro Bosselli: Dust in galaxies: the Herschel view (R)
   - Julia Bryant: HECTOR: a high-multiplex survey instrument for spatially-resolved galaxy spectroscopy
   - Rob Crain: EAGLE simulations and links between simulations and observations
   - César Esteban: The physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way (R)
   - Lisa Fogarty: Kinematics of galaxies using the SAMI Galaxy Survey
   - Rosa González Delgado: Stellar populations in nearby galaxies using the CALIFA survey
   - Andrew Hopkins: TAIPAN and the future of IFU studies in the era of panchromatic sky surveys
   - Lisa Kewley: Scientific highlights of the SAMI Galaxy Survey
   - Baerbel Koribalski: Diffuse gas around galaxies and current HI surveys (R)
   - Claudia Lagos: Evolution of molecular and atomic gas and stars in galaxies and scaling relations
   - Sarah Martell: An introduction to the GALAH (Galactic Archaeology with HERMES) survey
   - Naomi McClure-Griffiths: Neutral gas within and around the Milky Way (R)
   - Richard McDermid: A review of extragalactic IFS surveys (ATLAS-3D, CALIFA, SAMI, MANGA) (R)
   - Martin Meyer: Future Galactic and extragalactic HI surveys
   - Mercedes Mollá: Chemical evolution models of galaxies including the Milky Way
   - Molly Peeples: The circumgalactic medium
   - Jill Rathborne: Star formation in the Milky Way and implications for other galaxies
   - Sebastián Sánchez: Properties of HII regions of galaxies using the CALIFA survey
   - Evan Skillman: The physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium of nearby galaxies (R)
   - Christy Tremonti: Exploring chemical evolution of galaxies with the MANGA survey
   - Rosemary Wyse: The Structure of the Milky Way (R)

In case this is also of your interest, The AAO's International Telescopes Support Office (ITSO) and Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) are organizing the "2015 Australian Gemini, Magellan, and Keck Science Symposium" the week before the "Multiwavelength Dissection of Galaxies" Conference starts, on  21 & 22 May 2015. It will be held at the AAO Headquarters in North Ryde, Sydney. There will be no registration fee, and lunch, morning and afternoon teas will be provided. For more details about this Symposium please see

http://www.aao.gov.au/conference/itso-symposium-2015

Kind Regards,

Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez (SOC & LOC chair)

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