From k.williams at sydney.edu.au Thu Sep 1 16:16:00 2016 From: k.williams at sydney.edu.au (Kylie Williams) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 06:16:00 +0000 Subject: [ASA] 2nd Australia-China Workshop on Astrophysics 5-7 December 2016 - Workshop Announcement and call for abstracts Message-ID: Dear Colleagues Registrations are now open for the 2nd Australia-China Workshop on Astrophysics being held in The Sydney Suzhou Centre, Suzhou Higher Education Park, Suzhou, China from 5-7 December 2016. The workshop will be a chance to continue the ACAMAR partnership and build stronger ties with our Chinese partners. Topics will include radio astronomy, SKA, Antarctic astronomy, big data challenges, and large optical/IR facilities and science. The Workshop details are as follows: * Title: 2nd Australia-China Workshop on Astrophysics * Website and registration: http://www.caastro.org/event/2016-2ndacamar * Registration Fee: Free (delegates to pay their own travel and accommodation costs) * Dates: 5-7 December 2016 * Location: The Sydney Suzhou Centre, Suzhou Higher Education Park, Suzhou, China * Abstract deadline for contributed talks and posters: 23 September 2016 Accommodation We recommend delegates stay at the Sheraton Four Points (No.8 Moon Bay Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, China 215123), which is directly next door to the Suzhou Centre. Visa Information Foreign citizens must obtain a Chinese visa before entry into China, with the exception of visa-free entry based on relevant agreements with other countries or Chinese regulations. The Chinese Embassy and Consulates General in Australia do not accept visa applications of ordinary passport holders. Applicants holding ordinary passport are required to submit their visa applications to the Chinese Visa Application Service Centers located in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth or Brisbane according to their services areas. For more informaiton please contact the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Australia or visit their website. Scientific Organising Committee * Michael Ashley(UNSW) * George Hobbs (CSIRO) * Linhua Jiang (PKU) * Di Li, (NAOC, CAS) * Bo Peng (NAOC, CAS) * Elaine Sadler (Sydney) * Zhiqiang Shen (SHAO, CAS) * Lister Staveley-Smith (ICRAR) * Michele Trenti (Melbourne) * Lifan Wang (PMO, CAS Co-Chair) * Jing Wang (CSIRO) * Ji Yang (PMO, CAS) * Jilin Zhou (Nanjing University) Local Organising Committee * Kate Gunn (chair) * Judy Deng * Syed Uddin * Kylie Williams If you have any questions or for more information please contact Kate Gunn (kate.gunn at sydney.edu.au). This event is sponsored by: Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, AAL, CAASTRO, NAOC, and Purple Mountain Observatory KYLIE WILLIAMS | Events and Communications CAASTRO | School of Physics | Faculty of Science | ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics Rm 352 Building A28 | School of Physics The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9114 2183 | F +61 2 9114 2195| M +61 478 404 619 Email k.williams at physics.usyd.edu.au W http:// www.caastro.org Please note: I am in the office Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (9:00am - 5:30pm) and Wednesday (9:00am - 2:00pm) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Lisa's finalist video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd7n8yWoxP8&feature=youtu.be [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qd7n8yWoxP8/maxresdefault.jpg] Harvey-Smith, finalist 2016 Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research www.youtube.com 2016 Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research http://australianmuseum.net.au/eu... Two further members of the ASA community were finalists in the Eureka prizes this year - Dr Alan Duffy was also a finalist in the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Scientific Research, and the Murchison Widefield Array was a finalist in the Scopus Eureka prize for Excellence in International Scientific Collaboration. Congratulations! Virginia President, ASA Virginia Kilborn Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology Swinburne University of Technology Ph (w) +61 (0)3 9214 4380 WWW: http://bit.ly/24vsqSR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From celine.dorgeville at anu.edu.au Fri Sep 2 12:11:58 2016 From: celine.dorgeville at anu.edu.au (=?utf-8?Q?C=C3=A9line_d=27Orgeville?=) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 12:11:58 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Summer Internship Opportunities at the ANU AITC References: Message-ID: <4C6BD731-1665-472F-8B82-D04E30C26DF7@anu.edu.au> Dear all, The Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC), at the Australian National University Mount Stromlo Observatory, is pleased to partner with the Northrop Grumman Externship Program to offer 9 summer internship positions for undergraduate students studying engineering, science, computer science or mathematics. Interns will complete a defined research project and participate in activities that develop technical skills and help prepare them for professional employment. They will be supervised and mentored by AITC scientists and engineers and will be required to work as a team in completing set tasks. For more Information about the projects and the Internship Program please visit:http://rsaa.anu.edu.au/study/undergraduate-research# (choose the tab ?AITC internships? at the top of the page) or have a look at the flyer attached to this mail. Best regards, The Organizing Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Student Intern Flyer 2016-17.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 700830 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All members of the astronomical research community are welcome to attend and submit presentations. This year, the symposium will be held in Perth WA, in the lecture theatre of the Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC). The ARRC building is located in the suburb of Kensington next to the Curtin University campus, and is only a short trip via public transport from the Perth CBD. The event will be held during the week prior to the 2016 CAASTRO retreat (also in WA), which will enable out-of-state participants to attend both events in a single trip. Please consider organising your flights with this in mind! Moreover, we encourage all participants to view this trip as an excellent opportunity to visit and interact with your West-Australian colleagues based at CSIRO, Curtin, and UWA. We encourage all participants to register as soon as possible, and to submit an abstract for a talk. You can do this at the event website, located at: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/conferences/2016/boltonsymp/index.html ? As with last year, we will be adopting a short-talk format: 3 minutes / one slide, plus 2 minutes for questions. You should aim to use this time to interest other attendees in some particular aspect of your work. You could do this by simply describing your current project. But feel free to take a different approach if you?d prefer to: Perhaps you?d rather talk about an idea for a project, a problem that you are facing, an unusual result, or some other interesting detail that has come up in the course of your investigations. We?d like attendees to view the presentations as a means to initiate further stimulating discussions during the break periods (and beyond). I look forward to seeing many of you in attendance. Further details will be provided at a later date. 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