From caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au Tue Jan 16 10:54:56 2018 From: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au (Caroline Foster) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 23:54:56 +0000 Subject: [ASA] La Silla Paranal Users Workshop - Don't miss the deadline for early registration References: <201801151537.w0FFbNEd000330@usg4.hq.eso.org> Message-ID: <22C9C59D-84F3-4CCE-B81A-E1BE439BA587@sydney.edu.au> Good morning everyone, Happy 2018! As the ESO Users Committee representative, I would like to encourage Australia-based astronomers to register for the La Silla Paranal Users Workshop (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ahzyCgZowLHwp9p0TNmLmf?domain=eso.org, see email from the organisers below). The organisers have mentioned that if sufficiently many attendees request remote attendance, they would do their best to make it happen. If you register (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/EcrwCjZrzqHGP8P5IRWPI6?domain=eso.org) and would like to attend remotely, please send an email to lpousers at eso.org (also cc me so I know the numbers) stating that you wish to do so. There is no need to pay the registration fee if you are requesting remote attendance. Furthermore, if the workshop is offered remotely (TBC by ESO), the International Telescopes Support Office (ITSO) has offered to provide a videoconferencing room at the Australian Astronomical Observatory headquarters in North Ryde, NSW for the event. Thanks to the generosity of the ITSO, complimentary catering will be provided. Australian based expert observers and past ESO users will be present at the AAO to help with the hands-on aspect of the workshop. If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity, please email me by 5 March for catering purposes. Finally, I will be circulating the ESO Users Committee Poll next month. This will be a great opportunity to give feedback on various aspects of your experience so far as ESO users. Answers will be compiled into a report in preparation for the UC meeting in April. Stay tuned! Clear skies! Caroline -- Dr Caroline Foster | ASTRO3D Fellow The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, Sydney Institute for Astrophysics 360B, A28 | The University of Sydney | NSW | +61 286 276 411 | +61 430 453 532 caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au | www.carofoster.com Office days: Monday, Tuesday (@AAO), Thursday, Friday INSPIRED ? the Campaign to support the University of Sydney sydney.edu.au/inspired CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments. Please think of our environment and only print this email if necessary. Begin forwarded message: From: > Subject: La Silla Paranal Users Workshop - Don't miss the deadline for early registration Date: 16 January 2018 at 2:37:23 am AEDT To: > Dear colleagues, We would like to bring to your attention the upcoming La Silla Paranal Users Workshop scheduled in ESO Garching, Germany from 12-14 March 2018, and its upcoming early registration deadline which we have extended till 22 January. This workshop will provide an opportunity for users to have hands-on experience on topics of their choice, including, but not restricted to, help with data reduction (both for own data and tutorials on selected instruments), help in proposal writing, finding information on the ESO web, installing ESO software, help in observation preparation, and using the Science Archive either to access data or return reduced data to the archive. If you are a La Silla Paranal Observatory user and are interested in a face-to-face contact with the various support services at ESO, this workshop is for you. This workshop will provide you with the necessary knowledge to make the most out of ESO data and thereby provide a strong momentum to your science. Please note that the early registration deadline is 22 January 2018. Participants who register by this deadline will have the possibility to shape the second part of the workshop, reserved for hands-on experience and tutorials, by indicating which area of the programme (Phase1, Phase2, data reduction) they would like to further explore. Later registrations will be accepted but with no commitment to adjust the programme to individual requests. There is no registration fee for students. For other participants, there is a small registration fee (50 EUR), if payment is made before the early registration deadline. Please forward this email to colleagues you think would be interested. 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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. Preliminary program now available online. Registration is closing soon on 26th January 2018. Details are available at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vii5COMxNytZ4825cENcs2?domain=caastro.org, and the key dates and registration fees are as follows. 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The Society expects that female candidates should comprise at least 25% of the nominations for each prize and acknowledges the support of institutions for helping to achieve this goal. The fraction of female candidates nominated for each prize across the last three years is included below. Bok Prize For most outstanding Honours/Masters thesis in astronomy or a closely related field. Eligible Masters students are those who have entered their Masters degree directly from a 3 year undergraduate degree (without undertaking an Honours year). All degree requirements must have been completed in 2017. A maximum of 2 nominations can be submitted by an Australian University and nominations must be endorsed by the Head of Department and submitted by the candidate?s supervisor. Percentage of female nominations in previous years: 29% (2017), 50% (2016), 83% (2015) Please follow the nomination guidelines at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Dq_MCjZrzqHG2lz4uWan1h?domain=asa.astronomy.org.au Charlene Heisler Prize For most outstanding PhD thesis in astronomy or a closely related field. The PhD thesis must have been accepted (but not necessarily conferred) by an Australian university during 2017. A maximum of 2 nominations can be submitted by an Australian University and nominations must be endorsed by the Head of Department and submitted by the candidate?s supervisor. Percentage of female nominations in previous years: 43% (2017), 25% (2016), 40% (2015) Please follow the nomination guidelines at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2OQPClxwB5CPyOWwiypx_0?domain=asa.astronomy.org.au Louise Webster Prize For outstanding research by a scientist early in their post-doctoral career, based on the scientific impact of a single research paper (within astronomy or a closely related field), which has the applicant as first author. The applicant is required to be a current financial member of the ASA and to have held that membership for at least two years prior to the nomination. 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The prize is open to all astronomy communicators and the scope of the activity is broad. However, the outreach activity must have been undertaken within Australia, by an Australian citizen or permanent resident or an Australian institution. THE DAVID ALLEN PRIZE The David Allen Prize is awarded to an individual, group or institution that actively connects with the public to communicate astronomical themes in an engaging and informative way. The activity should reach a broad range of audiences. It must be highly prominent and interesting, while maintaining a strong level of scientific integrity. The scope of the activity can be quite broad such as public presentations, popular writing, sustained media and outreach events, on-line activities and/or any innovative and creative activity that achieves astronomy outreach. 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MINERVA-Australis, led by Associate Professor Rob Wittenmyer, is a remotely-operated 6-telescope array dedicated to the characterisation of planet candidates from the TESS mission. At commissioning in mid-2018, MINERVA-Australis will host six 0.7m telescopes (1.7m effective collecting area) all feeding a high-resolution spectrograph for precise Doppler velocimetry. The successful candidate will: (1) Develop and optimise the data-processing algorithms required to derive high-precision light curves from TESS photometric data. (2) Identify candidate exoplanet transit signals and plan MINERVA-Australis observations accordingly to best prioritise the most interesting candidates. (3) Work with the MINERVA team to apply a suite of sophisticated analysis techniques to interpret the signals in the resulting velocities. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue a vigorous independent research program using MINERVA-Australis, which would include leading and authoring publications describing its scientific output, and representing the MINERVA-Australis team at international conferences. She/He will also be encouraged to pursue outreach and professional development activities consistent with their longer-term career goals, and to participate in student supervision and appropriate service activities to USQ, AAO, ASA, and the profession generally. We seek applicants with these qualifications: (1) A PhD in a relevant area of Physics, Astronomy or Astrophysics. (2) Demonstrated experience in exoplanetary research using high-precision radial velocity and/or time-series photometric observations. (3) High level of scientific communication skills, as demonstrated by a strong track record of research publications in astronomy. 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The meeting will include invited talks, contributed talks and posters. Registration and other administrative matters are organized by the IAU, as explained on the General Assembly website . Register here Poster with SOC and invited speakers * *Key topics:* * * The cosmological origin and evolution of angular momentum (AM) * New precision measurements of galactic AM using integral field spectroscopy and interferometry * Numerical simulations of acquisition, transport, growth and ejection of galactic AM * Interpretation of the Hubble morphology sequence in terms of AM * The role of AM in cold gas physics, turbulence, winds, clumps, star formation and black holes * Alignment of galactic spin and cosmic large scale structure Important dates: * *January 31*: Early-bird registration deadline * *February 28*: Deadline for regular abstract submission for oral and poster contributions; deadline for IAU grant submission * May 1: Announcement final program * May 31: Deadline for poster-only submissions * June 30: Deadline for regular registration * August 20-31: IAU general assembly * August 22-22: IAU focus meeting #6 We look forward to seeing you in Vienna in August, 2018! 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