From daniel.price at monash.edu Tue Oct 18 15:49:55 2016 From: daniel.price at monash.edu (Daniel Price) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:49:55 +1100 Subject: [ASA] 6th Australian Exoplanets Workshop @Monash 29th-30th November 2016 Message-ID: *** first announcement *** 6th Australian Exoplanets Workshop Tue 29th- Wed 30th November 2016 - Monash University, Melbourne http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/planets/SixthWorkshop2016/ Followed by a half-day workshop on the ?Twinkle? space mission on Thurs 1st Dec 2016 http://www.twinkle-spacemission.co.uk/ The 6th Australian Exoplanet Workshop will be held at the Clayton Campus of Monash University from 29-30th December 2016. Hosted by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics, this meeting aims to bring together Australian researchers working on exoplanets and related topics from both observational and theoretical perspectives. The workshop will cover all areas in planetary science such as exoplanet surveys, planetary atmospheres, orbital dynamics, protoplanetary discs, theoretical modeling of planet formation and evolution, host star characterisations, and solar system science. Participants are encouraged to give a short presentation on a specific research issue or to brief the workshop on the current research capabilities in exoplanet science or related topics in their departments. There will also be an opportunity to discuss strategies for increasing linkages and collaborations to expand this critical research area in the future. There is no registration fee to attend the workshop. However, please indicate your attendance via the registration page, which includes the option to submit a title and abstract of the talk. Registration deadline is 17th November 2016. Contact/queries: daniel.price at monash.edu From R.Wayth at curtin.edu.au Fri Oct 21 12:53:05 2016 From: R.Wayth at curtin.edu.au (Randall Wayth) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:53:05 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Murchison Widefield Array call for proposals 2017-A Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) call for proposals has now been released for the 2017-A observing semester (Jan-June 2017 inclusive). Relevant materials can be found on the MWA website: http://mwatelescope.org/astronomers/community-announcements In 2017-A, up to 1600 hours of observing time are available for allocation in the Guaranteed Time (GT) and Open Access (OA) categories. Due to the ongoing MWA Phase II upgrade, the configuration of the array is expected to change mid semester. See the call for proposals for details. Best regards, Randall Wayth. From nuwanthika.fernando at sydney.edu.au Fri Oct 21 13:20:46 2016 From: nuwanthika.fernando at sydney.edu.au (Sembukuttige Fernando) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 02:20:46 +0000 Subject: [ASA] 2016 SIfA ECR Workshop Registrations Open Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, SIfA's 2nd ECR Workshop will be held on Wednesday 23rd November 2016, at the Charles Perkins Center, University of Sydney. We've got a line up of new panelists for 2016, from software engineers at Google to curators at the Powerhouse Museums to HR recruiters for universities. This free half-day event will give the opportunity for students and early-career researchers to ask panelists about changing careers and how to showcase your academic talents to the industry, over a panel discussion and networking lunch. Please register on or before the 1st Nov at - http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/sifa/emcr/public/registration.php Further details are available on the event website: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/sifa/emcr/ Best regards, The SIfA EMCR organising committee: Nuwanthika Fernando (chair) Elizabeth Mahony Kate Gunn Magda Guglielmo Luke Barnes Thorsten Tepper Garcia Tara Murphy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeffrey.simpson at aao.gov.au Sat Oct 22 06:55:39 2016 From: jeffrey.simpson at aao.gov.au (Jeffrey Simpson) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 06:55:39 +1100 Subject: [ASA] First Announcement: Surveying the Cosmos (5-9 June 2017, Sydney, Australia) Message-ID: <9325B269-BAAF-4216-AA76-172234173EC0@aao.gov.au> First Announcement Surveying the Cosmos: The Science From Massively Multiplexed Surveys 5 - 9 June 2017 Sydney, Australia https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/2017SouthernCross Summary The 2017 edition of the Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference A conference on the scientific returns of massively multiplexed surveys Registration will open November 2016 Topics to be covered: Galactic archaeology, star formation and structure Galaxy evolution and kinematics Cosmology and dark energy The Southern Cross Astrophysics Conferences, which are jointly supported by the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS), are held annually in Australia with the aim of attracting international experts with wide ranging skills to discuss a particular astrophysical topic. The 2017 conference will be on the results of massively multiplexed surveys across the electromagnetic spectrum and at all scales of the cosmos. Large astronomical surveys have been key to many of the major advances in our understanding of the cosmos at all scales over the last two decades. This conference will focus on the scientific returns from massively multiplexed surveys: in terms of the number of targets that are observed simultaneously, and massive in the number of objects observed in totality. Australia has often been at the forefront of these types of surveys, with a key development being the start of regular scientific observations with the Two-Degree Field instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope in 1997. The 2017 Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference will include a retrospective on such surveys. The next decade will see an explosion in the output from these surveys across all astronomical facilities and scales. Highlighting just a few: APOGEE, GALAH and Gaia-ESO will have observed nearly two million Milky Way stars to help to understand the fossil record of the assembly of our Galaxy; OzDES and DESI will chart the role of dark energy in the expansion history of the universe by observing over 30 million galaxies and quasars; WEAVE and 4MOST will map the kinematic and chemical substructure in the Milky Way, enhancing the scientific legacy of Gaia's census of our galaxy, study the detailed properties of intermediate-redshift galaxies, and characterise the objects found in the next-generation radio surveys; WALLABY will map HI across the entire sky measure the HI properties of about 600000 galaxies and derive their distances, HI masses, total masses and dark matter content; and EMU will increase the number of known radio sources by a factor of about 30. This conference will bring together a wide cross-section of the international astronomical community with the aim of facilitating discussion of the scientific achievements of massively multiplexed surveys. It will also offer an opportunity to summarize the lessons that have been learnt in the past to help maximize the scientific return in the future. LOC Jeffrey Simpson (Chair) Amanda Bauer Andrew Hopkins Elaina Hyde Karen Lee-Waddell Chris Lidman Angel Lopez-Sanchez Duncan Wright Tayyaba Zafar SOC Jeffrey Simpson (Chair) Andrew Hopkins Minh Huynh Sarah Martell Bianca Poggianti Matt Owers Nicholas Seymour Jennifer Sobeck Lister Staveley-Smith Scott Trager Martin Zwaan Timeline First Announcement : October 2016 Registration and Abstracts Open: November 2016 Abstract Deadline: January 2017 Final Registration Deadline: February, 2017 Final Program: March 2017 ________________________________ Jeffrey Simpson LOC & SOC Chair Research Fellow Australian Astronomical Observatory -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: