From amanda.bauer at aao.gov.au Mon Jun 22 09:49:54 2015 From: amanda.bauer at aao.gov.au (Amanda Bauer) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:49:54 +1000 Subject: [ASA] 2nd Announcement: .Astronomy 7 in Sydney - sign up by FRIDAY Message-ID: <4ddf-55874d80-2f-17154240@43646614> The first ever .Astronomy in the Southern Hemisphere will take place November 3-6th, 2015 in Sydney. I'd like to encourage *everyone* with any interest or curiosity in the event to fill out the interest form! Signing up does not obligate you, but gives us the opportunity to select a good mix of participants using your information and feedback. We *want* a mixture of levels of experience, expertise, range of skill sets and backgrounds. So please don't worry that you are "not qualified." Let me assure you that there is no such thing at this stage. Everyone has something to contribute to and gain from .Astronomy! The sign up form is available here until THIS FRIDAY 26th JUNE 2015: http://tinyurl.com/dotastro7 More information: http://dotastronomy.com/seven/ The event will include a series of talks, multiple open unconference sessions, a full day hacking on unique, innovative projects, and for the first time, we will offer an optional .Astronomy Day 0 - an opportunity for people to hear about previous Hack Day projects and the tools most frequently used to make them. Potential topics for the Day 0 training day (depending on your sign up forms!) will include HTML & CSS, Javascript and D3js data visualisation, version control with Git, simple cloud hosting, CartoDB and LeafletJS, IPython Notebooks, SQL essentials, etc. You never know if you don't try - so sign up! Thanks, amanda From s.tingay at curtin.edu.au Tue Jun 23 08:59:58 2015 From: s.tingay at curtin.edu.au (Steven Tingay) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 06:59:58 +0800 Subject: [ASA] Public release of Murchison Widefield Array data Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is one of three Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursor telescopes and is the only SKA precursor for the low frequency SKA to be built in Western Australia. The MWA is a 128 element interferometer operating between 80 and 300 MHz, with superb imaging characteristics (especially for very low surface brightness radio emission) and an angular resolution of ~2 arcminutes. The MWA has operated for two years thus far and has collected almost 6 petabytes of data over a wide range of science programs. The data are stored at the Pawsey Centre in Perth. Thus far, approximately 40 publications have been produced from MWA data, accessible from the MWA ADS library: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?library&libname=MWA&libid=4dfe953c00 Under the MWA Data Access policy ( http://mwatelescope.org/images/documents/2012.08.15_MWA_data_access_policy_approved.pdf), MWA data collected under Open Access, Guaranteed Time, and Director's Discretionary allocations become public after proprietary periods elapse. MWA data thus started to become publicly available earlier this year. Following preparatory work by the MWA Operations Team and management, we are now in a position to systematically advertise the publicly available data to the world. A statement on the MWA website describes the data that are public and the methods that can be used to discover and retrieve available MWA datasets of interest. The statement resides at: http://mwatelescope.org/astronomers/public-data-release This page also contains links to information referred to in the statement. The public release of MWA data represents a significant milestone for the MWA project and for the community in the lead-up to the final design and construction of the low frequency SKA. The public availability of MWA data gives astronomers from around the world easy access to data from an SKA precursor, for the purposes of student and postdoctoral training, extraction of astrophysics (especially as a complement to data from other instruments/wavebands), and for gaining familiarity with data from a next generation low frequency interferometer. If there are any questions regarding the public release of MWA data, they can be directed to the MWA Director, Steven Tingay (s.tingay at curtin.edu.au). 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URL: From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au Wed Jun 24 10:36:15 2015 From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:36:15 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Congratulations to our new ARC Laureate Fellows Message-ID: <5589FB7F.8040204@aao.gov.au> Dear all, It is pleasing and exciting to see the success of two in our national astronomy community with the awards yesterday of ARC Laureate Fellowships: Professor Matthew Bailes for the project: " Exascale astronomy: real-time analysis of the transient radio universe" and Professor Lisa Kewley for the project: " The building blocks of life over 12 billion years" The ARC media release with further details is available here: http://arc.gov.au/media/releases/Minister_FL23June15.htm With only 15 Laureate Fellowships awarded in this round, it is fantastic to see two of them in the area of astronomy and astrophysics. Please join with me in congratulating Matthew and Lisa on this excellent outcome! 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We are looking forward to seeing you all there. Cheers, Sarah On behalf of the Women in Astronomer Chapter Steering Committee -- Sarah Brough Future Fellow PH: 02 9372 4848 Office Days: Mon-Thurs ---------------------- From andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au Wed Jun 24 13:32:50 2015 From: andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:32:50 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Congratulations to Brian Schmidt: Incoming ANU VC Message-ID: <558A24E2.2010808@aao.gov.au> Dear all, And closely following on the heels of the previous email, I would like to extend the congratulations of the Society to our Honorary Fellow, Professor Brian Schmidt, on the announcement that he has been named as the next Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-24/nobel-laureate-brian-schmidt-named-new-anu-vice-chancellor/6569428 Congratulations Brian! Andrew Hopkins President, ASA -- 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 From yeshe.fenner at astronomyaustralia.org.au Fri Jun 26 09:53:36 2015 From: yeshe.fenner at astronomyaustralia.org.au (Yeshe Fenner) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:53:36 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Astronomy Governance Options Paper Message-ID: Dear ASA members, Please find below a message from Ann Bray (General Manager, Science Agencies Governance branch, Department of Industry & Science) regarding the *attached *Options Paper developed by the astronomy governance working group. Kind regards, Yeshe Dr Yeshe Fenner, PhD, PMP Executive Officer Astronomy Australia Ltd T: 03 9214 5520 M: 0430 708 995 P: P.O. Box 2100 Hawthorn VIC 3122 The working group on astronomy governance arrangements, established by the Department of Industry and Science in October 2014, has concluded its work and developed an Options Paper, ?Positioning to meet future opportunities in astronomy?. A copy of the paper is attached. The Options Paper builds on the Discussion Paper released in December 2014 and consultations with the astronomy community in early 2015. Community input has greatly assisted the working group in its consideration of potential governance options. Ms Ann Bray, the General Manager of the Science Agencies Governance branch in the department, and the members of the working group (listed on page 2 of the paper), welcome your views on the Options Paper and will be happy to receive written feedback. Ms Bray will attend the Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting including HWWS 2015 on Tuesday 7 July 2015. 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Kind regards, Yeshe On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Yeshe Fenner < yeshe.fenner at astronomyaustralia.org.au> wrote: > Dear ASA members, > > Please find below a message from Ann Bray (General Manager, Science > Agencies Governance branch, Department of Industry & Science) regarding the *attached > *Options Paper developed by the astronomy governance working group. > > Kind regards, > Yeshe > > > Dr Yeshe Fenner, PhD, PMP > Executive Officer > Astronomy Australia Ltd > T: 03 9214 5520 > M: 0430 708 995 > P: P.O. Box 2100 Hawthorn VIC 3122 > > > > > > The working group on astronomy governance arrangements, established by the > Department of Industry and Science in October 2014, has concluded its work > and developed an Options Paper, ?Positioning to meet future opportunities > in astronomy?. A copy of the paper is attached. > > > > The Options Paper builds on the Discussion Paper released in December 2014 > and consultations with the astronomy community in early 2015. Community > input has greatly assisted the working group in its consideration of > potential governance options. > > > > Ms Ann Bray, the General Manager of the Science Agencies Governance branch > in the department, and the members of the working group (listed on page 2 > of the paper), welcome your views on the Options Paper and will be happy to > receive written feedback. > > > > Ms Bray will attend the Astronomical Society of Australia Annual > Scientific Meeting including HWWS 2015 on Tuesday 7 July 2015. To make a > time to meet with Ms Bray, please contact Damian Doyle on *02 6102 9180* > <02%206276%209180> or Damian.Doyle at industry.gov.au. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: