From michael.albrow at canterbury.ac.nz Wed Sep 30 11:18:40 2015 From: michael.albrow at canterbury.ac.nz (Michael Albrow) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:18:40 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Lecturer position at the University of Canterbury Message-ID: Lecturer in Astronomy University of Canterbury Applications are invited for the continuing position of Lecturer in Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. To be successful in this role you will hold a PhD or an appropriate equivalent qualification in Astronomy and have demonstrated potential for research in observational optical astronomy that complements existing interests in Astronomy and Astrophysics and takes advantage of our research facilities. Observational facilities available include the 10-m Southern African Large Telescope and the 1-m McLellan Telescope with fibre-fed echelle spectrograph at the University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory. 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URL: From Lisa.Harvey-Smith at csiro.au Wed Sep 30 15:14:36 2015 From: Lisa.Harvey-Smith at csiro.au (Lisa.Harvey-Smith at csiro.au) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 05:14:36 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Register Now: ASKAP Early Science Workshop In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder to please register for a one-day ASKAP Early Science Workshop to be held on October 8th at CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science headquarters in Marsfield. ASKAP Early Science is a program of observations designed to explore new scientific parameters with ASKAP before the construction of the array is complete, and to produce scientifically useful data. It will start when an array of twelve ASKAP antennas fitted with CSIRO's Mk II phased array feeds (the instrument known as ASKAP-12) has been commissioned and scientifically verified. Early science observations will be carried out in parallel with the deployment of the Mk II phased array feeds on further ASKAP antennas. The workshop website is available here: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/workshops/2015/ASKAPEarlyScience/ Please register by this Friday, October 2nd if you plan to attend. Attendance is free of charge and a videoconference link will be available (please register and note that you will be dialling in). The program will feature invited presentations from science teams who are engaged with ASKAP early science planning. There will also be updates from CSIRO about the scope and delivery of the ASKAP early science program. I look forward to welcoming you to Marsfield next week. Regards, Lisa Dr. Lisa Harvey-Smith ASKAP Project Scientist | Research Astronomer Acting Team Leader, ATNF Science Operations Support Astronomy and Space Science CSIRO E lisa.harvey-smith at csiro.au T +61 2 9372 4653 M +61 (0)467 732 738 PO Box 76, Epping, NSW, 1710 | Cnr Vimiera & Pembroke Rd, Marsfield, NSW, 2122 www.lisaharveysmith.com | @lisaharveysmith -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Wed Sep 30 20:30:46 2015 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:30:46 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Workshop announcement Mopra + JCMT Message-ID: <8BB2C9D3-ED29-424B-9AE5-134C6DE59ABE@sydney.edu.au> You are invited to two workshops to be held in the School of Physics at UNSW: The JCMT and the East Asia Observatory December 9, 2-4pm Celebrating Mopra: Looking to the Future December 10-11 (10-5:30pm and 9-4pm) There will also be a workshop dinner on December 10. Further details at http://science-media.org/cid/mopra_unsw_2015 Registration Deadline 25 November. Michael Burton (m.burton at unsw.edu.au) Jonty Marshall (jonty.marshall at unsw.edu.au) From Melanie.Johnston-Hollitt at vuw.ac.nz Fri Oct 2 10:04:01 2015 From: Melanie.Johnston-Hollitt at vuw.ac.nz (Melanie Johnston-Hollitt) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 00:04:01 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Seeking test users for astronomical software visualisation study Message-ID: Dear ASA members, We have been running a collaboration between astrophysics and software engineering to develop new astronomical visualisation tools to address capability missing in existing FITS visualisation software. Two of our honours students in the School of Engineering & Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington have developed tools to do this which they are seeking feedback on the current implementation from professional astronomers. The first of these tools, developed by Chris Hawkins, is an interactive 3D FITS viewer capable overlaying multiple spectral data cubes that allows a range display and extraction options. The second tool, developed by Pragya Mohan, allows interactive masking of fits files of arbitrary shapes. We are seeking members of the astronomical community who might be interested in testing the software and then completing an anonymous survey on their experience which may be used for the final honours report in computer science. No identifying information will be collected or reported. The collection of these data and the associated methodology have been assessed and cleared by the Human Ethics Committee of Victoria University of Wellington. For any enquiries about the ethics of this user test please contact Human Ethics Committee Convener, Susan Corbett (susan.corbett at vuw.ac.nz, +64 4 463 5480). Details of where to obtain the two programs and their associated software can be found in the following places: 1. The interactive 3D FITS viewer installation details and questionnaire here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pw43ersffm1y832/UserStudyInformation.pdf?dl=0 2. The interactive masking of fits masking tool is here: https://github.com/PragyaM/FITS2D/releases and the associated questionnaire here: http://vuw.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_aWY0KHVrZ1buafH Any questions on the software should be directed towards the developers (Chris & Pragya) and contact information is in the files. Any questions about the collaborative efforts, comments on the overall direction of this work or requests to collaborate are welcome and may be directed to me. We will be publishing papers to describe these programs over the next couple months and the work will be presented at ADASS in Sydney in a few weeks. Best regards, Melanie ________________________________________ A/Prof. Melanie Johnston-Hollitt Director Astronomy & Astrophysics, School of Chemical & Physical Sciences Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington, 6140 New Zealand Melanie.Johnston-Hollitt at vuw.ac.nz +64 4 463 6543 Assistant: Ms Claire O'Connor Claire.OConnor at vuw.ac.nz +64 (04)463 4730 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: