From caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au Tue Nov 28 08:38:14 2017 From: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au (Caroline Foster) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:38:14 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Would you like remote attendance for ESO Workshop: La Silla Paranal Users Workshop? Message-ID: <110780A8-8335-4927-A15E-216616FACC9B@sydney.edu.au> Good morning everyone, Please forward this email to all interested parties. I would like to follow-up on Stuart Ryder?s email of 7 November, which advertised an ESO workshop that may be of interest to many of you. Full details and registration information can be found at: (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/K410BnUK2EoxiR?domain=eso.org). The first part of the workshop ?will provide an overview of the available instruments for their science, as well as the processes at work at ESO, from proposal submission to data reduction, through collection of astronomical observations as well as use of the Science Archive.? This workshop is in Germany, which may be a bit prohibitive for Australians on a tight budget and/or schedule. I have suggested to ESO that they make the workshop available to Australians through Zoom, which they will only do if there is a (as yet unspecified, but) sufficient number of users requesting so. The workshop will run on 12-14 March. In Australia, the program would run on: Monday 12 March, 10:30pm-4am Tuesday 13 March, 8pm-4am Wednesday 14 March, 8pm-3am If you would like to attend parts or all of the workshop remotely, please fill in the registration form at your earliest convenience and email lpousers at eso.org (and, if you don?t mind, cc me caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au pls) to request remote attendance. You will find other ESO updates and can sign up to their newsletter here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/e4MrBZUODGawHM?domain=eso.org. Clear Skies! 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URL: From aaron.robotham at uwa.edu.au Wed Nov 29 12:11:34 2017 From: aaron.robotham at uwa.edu.au (Aaron Robotham) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 01:11:34 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Reminder for the ANITA school and workshop Message-ID: <8582A4ED-521E-4BD6-85BF-870FCEBA5384@uwa.edu.au> Dear All, ** REMINDER TO REGISTER ** Registration forms and meeting information is available at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xMnXB1UKZ48auD?domain=asa-anita.github.io The 12th annual ANITA theory workshop will be held on 8th-9th February 2018 at the ARRC building at Curtin University, Perth (WA). It will be preceded by the ANITA science school on 5th-7th February 2018, at the ICRAR Fairway building at UWA, Perth (WA). The ANITA workshop covers all topics of theoretical and computational astrophysics and is open to all. The ANITA science school will be focussed on gravitational wave astronomy / science. This includes instrumentation, real time analysis, astrophysical follow-up, and all topics in between. On the third day of the school we will be going to Gingin to see the research activities going on there (this is the Wednesday of that week). The school programme is taking shape nicely, and we have some very interesting sessions lined up by Paul Lasky: * Kendall Ackley (Monash): Multimessenger Astronomy * Jade Powell (Swinburne): Astrophysics of LIGO sources * Stefan Oslowski (Swinburne): Pulsar Timing Arrays * Rory Smith (Caltech): LIGO Data Analysis and Parameter Inference * Rob Ward (TBC): How LIGO works (instrumentation) The programme is still finalising for the school, but you are already able to submit abstracts for the workshop. There are limited numbers for both the school (~30), Ginger trip (~40) and the workshop (~50), so please register soon to avoid disappointment. We will be closing registration on the 24 December (last day of term for most Universities), or when all the spaces are filled. 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The consultation process within Australia prior to a meeting of the international SKA Board generally begins with a meeting of the Science Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Australian-New Zealand SKA Coordination Committee (ANZSCC) to seek advice from the science community. The Chair of the SAC then reports the outcomes at a meeting of the ANZSCC itself, which includes representatives from the Australian, New Zealand and Western Australian Governments, CSIRO, and ICRAR, as well as a range of expert members. The SKA Board meeting was led by new Chair, Dr Catherine Cesarsky, following her recent appointment to the Board. Although Dr Cesarsky is new to the project, her distinguished background in astronomy governance provides a very useful perspective to the deliberations and governance of the Board. Over the two days of the meeting, the Board discussed several issues including further development of the operational plan for the telescopes and planning to bridge from pre-construction to construction. The operational plan is a significant priority for the Board, including further examination of the proposed operations costs for the project. The Board moved to establish an external review panel to assist the SKA Office in benchmarking its model for operations. The Board was also supportive of the SKA Organisation's proposal for bridging from pre-construction to construction, or in more concrete terms, moving from the design to the construction phase. The SKA Office will be presenting detailed plans at the next Board meeting in April 2018 on these and other issues and I look forward to updating you on those developments. Other good news from the meeting is that Spain has now indicated its intention to apply for membership of the SKA Organisation in coming months, initially as an associate member but with a view to full membership. In other news, it was a great privilege to be at Wooleen Station in the Mid West on 19 October to witness the formal recognition of the Wajarri Yamaji's claim over their country, which includes the future site of Australia's SKA Low antennas. Over 300 people attended the ceremony, and we were treated to moving performances by Traditional Owners as part of the celebrations. I'd like to congratulate the Wajarri people on this excellent outcome. Last month the design of the synchronisation systems for both SKA Low and SKA Mid were selected by the SKA Organisation. The SKA Low system was designed by Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Perth-based International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has been successful in developing the system chosen for SKA Mid. ICRAR researchers designed the optical fibre-based synchronisation system to achieve a precision level greater than five parts in a trillion. Congratulations to everyone involved in this achievement. Since my last Director's Update we had an eventful week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, from 25-29 September. The SKA and its Australian-based precursor telescopes were showcased throughout the IAC, at the Australian Government and CSIRO booths and in a number of technical presentations. The Australian SKA Office also organised a panel of highly-regarded Australian Astronomers, chaired by the well-known astrophysicist Alan Duffy. Shared Sky is back on Australian shores, launched in mid-September to coincide with the IAC. This collaborative exhibition features art by indigenous and local artists from Australia and South Africa in the areas around the SKA telescope sites. 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The key themes of the workshop will be: * Understanding FRB progenitors and their host environments. This requires: * Real-time detection and localisation with interferometers. Can we achieve these goals more effectively via: * Synergies between current facilities and/or identifying opportunities for existing facility upgrades? Leading FRB researchers from FRB collaborations world-wide have been invited to present recent results and future directions, offering an opportunity to build and extend collaborations. Registration is now open. Details are available at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/aYDOBJik48e2H2?domain=caastro.org, and the key dates and registration fees are as follows. Key Dates * First Announcement: September 2017 * Second Announcement: October 2017 * Abstract Submission closes: 8 December 2017 * Registration Closes: 26 January 2018 Registration Fees * General Registration: AU$200 * Student: AU$100 * Please do not hesitate to contact Adam Deller (adeller at astro.swin.edu.au) if you have any questions. KYLIE WILLIAMS | Events and Communications CAASTRO | School of Physics | Faculty of Science | ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics Rm 352 Building A28 | School of Physics The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9114 2183 | F +61 2 9114 2195| M +61 478 404 619 Email k.williams at sydney.edu.au W http:// www.caastro.org Please note: I am in the office Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (9:00am - 5:30pm) and Wednesday (9:00am - 2:00pm) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: