From mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au Mon May 29 13:42:22 2017 From: mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au (Mita Brierley) Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:42:22 +1000 Subject: [ASA] AAL job advertisement: Program Manager Message-ID: Dear ASA Members, AAL is looking for a Program Manager to join our team in overseeing research infrastructure projects. Details can be found on our advertisement page (http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/advertisments/247-advertisements) and in the attached position description. Applications close at 9am AEST 13th June 2017. AAL is committed to equity and diversity, and endeavours to create an environment in which every individual is treated with dignity and respect. AAL is located alongside the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn. We offer a relaxed, flexible, family-friendly environment, close to public transport, approximately 6km east of Melbourne?s CBD. Please feel free to forward this email to potential applicants. Kind Regards, Mita ________________________________________ Dr Mita Brierley Senior Program Manager Astronomy Australia Ltd *Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri *T: 03 9214 8012 E: *mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au * W: *http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/ *P: P.O. Box 2100 Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ProgramManager_May2017.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 27953 bytes Desc: not available URL: From tara at physics.usyd.edu.au Mon May 29 15:58:30 2017 From: tara at physics.usyd.edu.au (Tara Murphy) Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 15:58:30 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Science at Low Frequencies IV - Registration Open Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the ?Science at Low Frequencies IV? meeting that will be held at the University of Sydney in December. SCIENCE AT LOW FREQUENCIES IV UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/salf_iv Main Conference: December 13th - 15th 2017 Optional Workshops: December 12th *Registration is now open, please see the website to register and/or submit an abstract.* A slew of new radio telescopes, as well as substantial upgrades to existing facilities, has led to an explosive growth in capability at low radio frequencies. This increase in capability is driving exciting progress over a range of fields, including high redshift 21-cm signatures of cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization, pulsars and transients, planetary and exoplanetary magnetospheres, sky surveys, space weather and the Sun, cosmic rays and the ionosphere. We are happy to welcome you to the fourth edition of Science at Low Frequencies, to be held in Sydney in December 2017. This meeting will provide a forum to share and discuss early science results and techniques, as well as to plan a coordinated path forward to next generation facilities. *Scientific Organising Committee* Tara Murphy ? University of Sydney (Chair) Emma Chapman ? Imperial College London Tracy Clarke ? NRL Bryan Gaensler ? University of Toronto Gregg Hallinan ? Caltech David Kaplan ? University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Greg Taylor - University of New Mexico Cathryn Trott ? Curtin University Rene Vermeulen ? ASTRON Rachel Webster ? 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URL: From David.Luchetti at industry.gov.au Tue May 30 12:38:49 2017 From: David.Luchetti at industry.gov.au (Luchetti, David) Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 02:38:49 +0000 Subject: [ASA] SKA Project Director's Update [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Message-ID: <50fd4096a40c47389ac3c96e640730e6@PPAC01EXC008.PROD.PROTECTED.IND> Dear SKA stakeholders, For your information, my latest Project Director?s Update is now available on the SKA Australia website (www.ska.gov.au). The update is also pasted below and summarises recent SKA-related activities and developments in Australia and internationally. Also, I would like to take this opportunity to express my condolences to the family of SKA Organisation Board Chair Giovanni Bignami who passed away suddenly last week. Professor Bignami had a distinguished scientific career and his guiding hand will be missed by the SKA Project. Best regards David Luchetti Australian SKA Project Director May 2017 I recently attended the OzSKA 3 meeting in Sydney, a two-day update to Australia?s astronomical community on progress towards the SKA. I left the meeting impressed by the breadth of Australia?s SKA effort and inspired by the major scientific breakthroughs the SKA will make possible. Significant activity continues in Australia and around the world to prepare for SKA construction, and we?re making headway on a number of fronts. Australian organisations will continue to be active in the pre-construction design process with the support of $7.6 million in Australian Government funding awarded to six organisations this week. The grants build on an initial $18.8 million provided to Australian organisations in 2013. In March, Australia welcomed the board of the SKA Organisation to Perth for its twenty-third meeting. The board continues to focus on cost control measures, particularly those that build on technology from precursor telescopes like MWA and ASKAP, which are already located on Australia?s SKA site. While in Australia, board members travelled to our SKA site to observe the antennas developed for the SKA low frequency array. The board was able to talk with site staff about ASKAP and MWA, and the challenges associated with operating telescopes in such a remote location. Members of the board and I also had the pleasure of touring Perth?s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre that will house the supercomputer that will process SKA data. In February and April of this year, I participated in negotiations for an Indigenous Land Use Agreement with representatives of the Wajarri Yamaji, the traditional custodians of the land where the SKA will be located. The April negotiations also included a visit to the future SKA site and the ASKAP and MWA telescopes, this time to see firsthand how radio telescopes can exist harmoniously with the land. The SKA has featured prominently in the news so far this year, with major articles in the Australian Financial Review and Cosmos Magazine. We also saw the ABC Radio National?s show ?off track? feature the SKA during a recent episode. Our first two research fellows: Natasha Hurley-Walker and Warren Bax have returned from the SKA head office in the United Kingdom. Their experiences will be invaluable to future design and development of the SKA. New Fellows, Attila Popping and Martin Myer, are currently in the UK this month. Over the next few months, the Australian SKA Office will focus towards greater engagement with industry, as we prepare for SKA contracts to be issued over the next few years. I look forward to providing further updates about this and other important matters in due course. 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Women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) On behalf of the UNSW Astrophysics faculty, I would like to encourage early- and mid-career astronomy and astrophysics researchers to take advantage of this new tenure-track Fellowship scheme, and come join our growing group at UNSW. Please feel free to distribute this opportunity to colleagues, collaborators, former students etc who may be residing overseas ad looking to move to Australia. FAQs, scheme Guidelines and applications links can be found at http://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply Applications must be submitted before 10 July 2017. Chris Tinney Michael Ashley Jeremy Bailey Sarah Brough Maria Cunningham Sarah Martell Dennis Stello Kim Vy Tran John Webb ______________________________________________________________________________ Professor Chris Tinney | +61 2 9385 5168 | skype:cgtinney | www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~cgt Associate Dean (Research), UNSW Science | adr.science at unsw.edu.au Exoplanetary Science at UNSW. School of Physics | c.tinney at unsw.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From luca.cortese at uwa.edu.au Thu Jun 1 20:04:34 2017 From: luca.cortese at uwa.edu.au (Luca Cortese) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 18:04:34 +0800 Subject: [ASA] AAO Users' Committee meeting - 27th June 2017 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Australian Astronomical Observatory Users' Committee (AAOUC) meet every six months to discuss issues that affect users of AAO- and ITSO-supported facilities. The next AAOUC meeting is to be held at the AAO headquarters in North Ryde on June 27th, 2017. If you would like to raise any issues and/or offer feedback on AAO activities, please contact me or any other member of AAOUC over the next few weeks. More Information on AAOUC can be found at: https://www.aao.gov.au/about-us/AAOUC Regards, Luca Cortese (for the AAOUC) ---------------------- Dr. Luca Cortese Senior Research Fellow International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research ICRAR-M468 University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009 Australia +61(0)8 6488 3663 luca.cortese at uwa.edu.au https://corteseluca.wordpress.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fiona.audcent-ross at uwa.edu.au Fri Jun 2 17:57:48 2017 From: fiona.audcent-ross at uwa.edu.au (Fiona Audcent-Ross) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 15:57:48 +0800 Subject: [ASA] Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Astronomy (IDEA) Chapter of the ASA - Steering Committee Elections Message-ID: <0A00353A76B989429F1096315CFD1021033B9B49082B@IS-WIN-417.staffad.uwa.edu.au> The IDEA Chapter of the ASA aims to promote and assist the career development of minority groups in the Australian astronomy community.?The Chapter represents minority groups working in astronomy in?Australia, raises awareness of issues faced by these groups and undertakes to?establish best practice guidelines for?supporting the inclusion of these?groups in our community. The IDEA Chapter has been active for over seven years, and has organised activities that have been beneficial to both women and men working in astronomy, including: - Organised highly successful national workshops (Women in Astronomy/Diversity in Astronomy) - Conducted special sessions at the ASA Annual Science Meetings - Organised ?Speed-Meet-a-Mentor? sessions at the ASA Annual Science Meetings - Organised Rainbow Allies Dinners at the ASA Annual Science Meetings - Collated statistics on women in Australian astronomy - Lobbied for best practice for organisations in STEM, and - Organised the Pleiades Award initiative with 9 Bronze and 4 Silver and 1 Gold levels awarded to organisations over the past 2 years ASA members are welcome to join the Chapter by registering at?the ASA?s new membership site (https://asa.wildapricot.org - click on the CHAPTERS tab to do this). The IDEA Chapter is run by a steering committee that plays a leading role in devising and implementing initiatives to fulfil the Chapter?s goals.?The committee consists of a Chair, six steering committee members, a student representative, an ASA Council representative and an Early Career Researcher Chapter representative.?Terms are held for two years (full representatives) and one year (student representative). We are now inviting nominations for?the committee Chair, three?full committee members and?one?student representative by 19 June. These positions are open to all Chapter members and we particularly encourage members from diverse backgrounds to consider nominating for one of these positions.? Existing steering committee members can renominate if they wish. If there are more nominations than positions we will then ask the chapter members to vote online in due course. The election schedule is: - call for nominations: 5 - 19 June - election period: 23 June ? 7 July - results announced: 11 July (at ASA ASM IDEA Chapter Lunch) - new positions commence: 17 July Please email your nomination to the Returning Officer for this election (Sarah Martell: s.martell at unsw.edu.au),?as my committee position is also up for re-election. Each nomination must include a brief paragraph summarising your interest in the position and how you envisage contributing to the broad goals of the Chapter.? Please note that this information will be made available to voters. At this stage on behalf of the IDEA committee I would like to thank Sarah Brough, Katie Mack, Celine d?Orgeville, and Jill Rathborne for their contributions. I have also reached the end of my one-year term and am stepping down. Kind regards, Fiona Audcent-Ross - IDEA Secretary (and student representative) Sarah Martell - Returning Officer (email: s.martell at unsw.edu.au) From renu.sharma at uwa.edu.au Fri Jun 2 23:35:13 2017 From: renu.sharma at uwa.edu.au (Renu Sharma) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 21:35:13 +0800 Subject: [ASA] Inviting Applications for ICRAR Visiting Fellowship for Senior Women in Astronomy Message-ID: <7B93E3ABF1E62946899AF9374F443D9002395A641366@IS-WIN-383.staffad.uwa.edu.au> Dear ASA Members, ICRAR is committed to supporting women in astronomical sciences and technology and we are pleased to invite applications for the " ICRAR Visiting Fellowship for Senior Women in Astronomy" for 2017-18. Please see detailed information on: http://www.icrar.org/about/visiting-fellowship/ Please also find attached the fellowship poster. The main objectives of the fellowship are to: * Create opportunities for young researchers, particularly women to learn career development and work-life balance strategies from potential senior role models. * Enable scientific interaction between early career researchers and graduate students, particularly women, with senior academic visitors. * Explore opportunities for developing mentoring relations. * Enrich the research environment at ICRAR. * Create opportunities to foster national and international collaborations. The Fellow is expected to take part in a range of mutually discussed and agreed activities in line with the objectives of the Fellowship and spend time at both the ICRAR Nodes. What the Fellowship provides ICRAR will offer one fellowship per calendar year and will provide: * $5,000 per month for two to three months for living and accommodation expenses. * Travel assistance of up to $5,000. * Needs-based additional support of up to $4,000 may be provided for childcare or other required support. Please see application procedure on link above or in the attached document. Applications close on 30 June 2017. Applications should be submitted via info at icrar.org. We look forward to receiving applications from interested candidates. Kind regards Renu Dr Renu Sharma GAICD, FLWA Associate Director and COO International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) Web: http://www.icrar.org/ 7 Fairway, The University of Western Australia Crawley WA 6009 Phone: +618 6488 7871 ICRAR is a Joint Venture of Curtin University and The University of Western Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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