[ASA] FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Southern Cross 2017: Surveying the Cosmos

[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>

REGISTRATION FEES AND DEADLINES

***The registration deadline is extended to 10 March 2017***

The conference fees are $430 for the five days including lunches, and morning & afternoon teas. For students the fee will be $215. The conference dinner will be $120 and is on the Thursday evening.

Registration and abstract submission are 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>

Please forward this to potentially interested people and groups.

SUMMARY

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.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Julia Bryant (University of Sydney): HECTOR
Sven Buder (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy): The GALAH survey
Matthew Colless (Australian National University): The MANIFEST instrument and other multiplexed spectrographs on ELTs
Luca Cortese (Internation Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Australia): IFU/radio synergies
Scott Croom (University of Sydney): The SAMI Survey
Luke Davies (Internation Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Australia): Future results from WAVES
Caroline Foster (Australian Astronomical Observatory): SLUGGS
Keith Hawkins (Columbia University): The Galactic Halo in APOGEE/Kepler/Gaia-ESO
Natasha Maddox (University of Cape Town): Surveying the coolest stars in the Milky Way
Alessia Moretti: IFU surveys (MUSE, VIMOS, GMOS)
Aaron Robotham (University of Western Australia): The GAMA survey
Elaine Sadler (University of Sydney): The connections between past, current and future radio surveys
Sarah Jane Schmidt (Potsdam, AIP): Surveying the coolest stars in the Milky Way
Brooke Simmons (UC San Diego): Galaxy Zoo
Edward Taylor (Swinburne University): The GAMA survey and galaxy evolution
Yuan-Sen Ting (Australian National University): Chemical tagging of stars in large surveys
Sarah Tuttle (University of Washington): VIRUS and HETDEX
Benedetta Vulcani (University of Melbourne): The HST grism survey GLASS
Vivienne Wild (University of St Andrews): Galaxy evolution with IFU surveys

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Jeffrey Simpson (Chair)
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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