[ASA] First Announcement: Surveying the Cosmos (5-9 June 2017, Sydney, Australia)

[Jeffrey Simpson]

First Announcement

Surveying the Cosmos: The Science From Massively Multiplexed Surveys

5 - 9 June 2017 

Sydney, Australia

https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/2017SouthernCross <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
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Jeffrey Simpson
LOC & SOC Chair
Research Fellow
Australian Astronomical Observatory
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