[ASA] Surveying the Cosmos (5-9 June 2017): ANNOUNCENEMT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

[Jeffrey Simpson]

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Southern Cross 2017: Surveying the Cosmos, The Science From Massively Multiplexed Surveys

5 - 9 June 2017

Luna Park, Sydney, Australia

https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/2017SouthernCross <https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/2017SouthernCross>
SUMMARY
Registration and abstract submission OPEN. To register and submit your abstract please go to the registration tab at https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/2017SouthernCross <https://www.aao.gov.au/conference/2017SouthernCross>

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 current surveys underway, and also a look forward to the future.

REGISTRATION FEES AND DEADLINES

The conference fees will be confirmed in early January 2017.
The registration deadline will be 28 February 2017.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Sven Buder (MPIA): The GALAH survey
Keith Hawkins (Columbia University): The Galactic Halo in APOGEE/Kepler/Gaia-ESO
Sarah Jane Schmidt (Potsdam, AIP): Surveying the coolest stars in the Milky Way
Yuan-Sen Ting (Harvard University): Chemical tagging of stars in large surveys
Vivienne Wild (University of St Andrews): Galaxy evolution with IFU surveys
Caroline Foster (Australian Astronomical Observatory): SLUGGS
Luca Cortese (Internation Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Australia): IFU/radio synergies
Julia Bryant (University of Sydney): HECTOR
Matthew Colless (Australian National University): The MANIFEST instrument and other multiplexed spectrographs on ELTs
Alessia Moretti: IFU surveys (MUSE, VIMOS, GMOS)
Benedetta Vulcani (University of Melbourne): The HST grism survey GLASS
Luke Davies (Internation Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Australia): Future results from WAVES

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Jeffrey Simpson (Chair)
Amanda Bauer
Andrew Hopkins
Elaina Hyde
Karen Lee-Waddell
Chris Lidman
Angel Lopez-Sanchez
Duncan Wright
Tayyaba Zafar 

SCIENTIFIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Jeffrey Simpson (Chair)
Andrew Hopkins
Minh Huynh
Sarah Martell
Bianca Poggianti
Matt Owers
Nicholas Seymour
Jennifer Sobeck
Lister Staveley-Smith
Scott Trager
Martin Zwaan


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Jeffrey Simpson
Research Fellow & AAT Scheduler
Australian Astronomical Observatory

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