From kgereb at swin.edu.au Mon Mar 5 14:44:54 2018 From: kgereb at swin.edu.au (Katinka Gereb) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 03:44:54 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASA - call for abstracts Message-ID: We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) Annual Scientific Meeting is now open. The conference will be hosted at the Hawthorn Campus of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, between 25-29 June 2018. Payment options for this meeting are not yet available, participants will be invited to pay at a later date. Abstract submission closes on 15 April, early-bird registration is open until 30 April. The Harley Wood School for Astronomy will be hosted at the Ballarat Municipal Observatory and Museum between 21-24 June. Registration for this event will open soon. Visit the website of the conference at https://asa2018.swin.edu.au We are looking forward to hosting you at the 2018 ASA, -- Dr. Katinka Gereb + 61392143786 Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From itso at aao.gov.au Mon Mar 5 21:05:04 2018 From: itso at aao.gov.au (International Telescopes Support Office) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 21:05:04 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Call for Blanco proposals in Semester 2018B Message-ID: 2018B Call for Blanco proposals Proposals for Australian time on the CTIO Blanco 4m telescope for Semester 2018B (1 Aug 2018 - 31 January 2019) are due by *5:00pm AEST, Thursday 29 March 2018.* A separate call for Magellan proposals in Semester 2018B (with a 6 April 2018 deadline) will be issued shortly. A reminder that proposals for Australian community access to the Subaru Telescope in Semester 2018B (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GrIZCYWL1vigMKWlF0TSqm?domain=aao.gov.au) are due *next Thursday* (1pm AEST 8 March 2018). *AAL will be providing funds sufficient to cover observer travel funding to Australian Subaru users in 2018B.* *What's new for Semester 2018B?* * In Semester 2018B there will be 5 nights available to the Australian community to apply for. The Dark Energy Survey (DES) has been granted a total of 52 equivalent nights during 2018B to complete their survey. As in previous B-semesters during the DES, these nights will be concentrated in October and November, plus 2nd half nights in September and 1st half nights in December. In addition, the DECals Survey has been granted 35 equivalent nights in September-November. Together *these two surveys use all of the dark and grey time during October, November, and the first week of December*. This leaves 47 nights available for allocation by the NOAO and Australian TACs, concentrated at the beginning and end of the semester. * The DECam imager and the COSMOS instrument are available for Australian proposals. COSMOS is available in an imaging, longslit and multi-object spectroscopy modes. The Astronomy Research with the Cornell InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (ARCoIRIS) instrument is being relocated to SOAR in 2018. How to apply Blanco proposals must be submitted using the AAO's Lens proposal submission system. For full details on instrument availability and application procedures, please see: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BOLQC1WZXriO3rAGFpVhR_?domain=aao.gov.au Need help? For general enquiries about Australian access to the Blanco telescope, please contact the International Telescopes Support Office (itso at aao.gov.au) at the AAO. 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The workshop will give attendees the opportunity to learn important (non-research) skills for advancing their career in academia or switching to industry, expand their network, and receive advice and guidance from our panel of mentors, all in a relaxed setting. The conference website will be updated with more information soon. This workshop is intended for late-stage PhD students, postdocs and very junior faculty. In past years we have had around 30 participants and always have a diverse group of speakers and attendees, all in a family friendly environment. Registration is now open and closes on 27th March, 2018. Please pass this message on to your colleagues; ASA members are encouraged to join the ECR Chapter by emailing the ECR Chapter Steering Committee . We will be in touch shortly with further details. Please plan to join us! Cheers,The ASA ECR Chapter Steering Committee (Manodeep Sinha, Sarah Martell, Darren Croton, Pascal Elahi, Jonti Horner, Anthea King, Simon Mutch, Belinda Nicholson, Jesse van de Sande) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.mcdermid at mq.edu.au Fri Mar 9 17:01:26 2018 From: richard.mcdermid at mq.edu.au (Richard McDermid) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 06:01:26 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Initial Announcement: MAVIS Workshop, May 7-9th AAO, Sydney Message-ID: <970E76D5-5FFF-4B22-9D8C-82042F5A8358@mq.edu.au> Dear Colleagues, We would like to bring to your attention the following workshop ? details given below. On behalf of the organisers, Richard McDermid Francois Rigaut ---- MAVIS Science and Instrumentation Workshop 7th - 9th May 2018 Australian Astronomical Observatory, Sydney, Australia Information and Registration: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-iXoC81Zj6tQVmKDunze0X?domain=mavis-ao.org Enquiries: project-scientist at mavis-ao.org Overview In anticipation of an upcoming call for proposals for a 3rd generation VLT instrument for ESO, Australia is leading the development of ?MAVIS? (MCAO Assisted Visible Imager & Spectrograph) - an ambitious concept for a new instrument that will fully exploit ESO?s large investment in the VLT Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) on UT4. MAVIS will provide near-diffraction limited capabilities at optical wavelengths over a field of view of 30'', creating exciting opportunities for high spatial resolution imaging, unique spectroscopic capabilities, and synergies with key future facilities, including E-ELT and JWST. The combined image quality and light gathering power of MAVIS on the AOF will open up new regimes across a broad range of science, from solar system bodies to the highest redshift stellar systems, and everything in between. To make the most of this important opportunity, we are hosting a workshop on May 7-9th, 2018 at the AAO in Sydney, to gather instrument makers, adaptive optics scientists, and astrophysicists of the Australian and European communities interested in participating in the MAVIS project to discuss its science case, design and performance. The workshop will encompass both science and instrumentation sessions, with a mixture of presentations and structured discussions/activities aimed at informing participants, stimulating ideas, and defining the path towards a set of viable instrument concepts and science goals for MAVIS. Find out more about MAVIS and follow updates via the project blog here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8kaQC91ZkQtxyJpLuEXATY?domain=mavis-ao.org. Want to get involved? Email MAVIS: project-scientist at mavis-ao.org Registration Registration for the workshop is free, and is now open through our workshop website (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-iXoC81Zj6tQVmKDunze0X?domain=mavis-ao.org), which includes abstract submission. We encourage early registration submissions, to help shape the workshop content. The SOC will begin considering the submitted abstracts after April 6th, with a view to issuing the final program by May 3rd. Goals of the workshop - Mature/advance the instrument and science case ideas with the view of writing the proposal - Exchange and interaction between scientists and instrument builders - Review the various instrumental concepts (optical design, alternative design ideas) - Consolidate the science case and prepare the detailed writing of the science case in the proposal. Program Overview Over the three days, we will interleave the instrumental/adaptive optics and science sessions to maximise the interaction between these aspects. There will be four sessions per day, each session being 1.5 hour (e.g. 9:00-10:30, 10:45-12:15, 13:45-15:15, 15:30-17:00) giving 12 sessions in total. Below we give an initial breakdown of the workshop content. This will evolve as the SOC finalises the program: - Science Topics - Solar System - The transient Universe - Star clusters - Near-field Cosmology - Resolved stellar populations beyond the local group - Galaxy transitions over cosmic time - Probing the highest redshifts - Instrumentation Topics - Instrument overview - System engineering & project management - AO simulations - Alternative/additional concepts (segmented, GMCAO, etc) - Opto-mechanical design - RTC concepts & Control - Data reduction issues - Operational concepts? - AOF system and operations Venue The workshop will be held at the AAO headquarters in North Ryde, Sydney (how to get there). This location is easily accessible by train (or taxi) from the airport. There is convenient accommodation nearby, and it is also accessible from the Sydney city centre. Scientific Organising Committe Richard McDermid (chair) (Macquarie, Australia) Julia Bryant (USyd, Australia) - TBC Lorenzo Busoni (INAF Arcetri, Italy) Simon Ellis (AAO, Australia) Thierry Fusco (LAM & ONERA, France) Sarah Martell (UNSW, Australia) Antonino Milone (INAF Padova, Italy) C?line Peroux (LAM, France) Francois Rigaut (ANU, Australia) Sarah Sweet (Swinburne, Australia) Eline Tolstoy (Groningen, Netherland) Valentina Viotto (INAF Padova, Italy) Local Organising Committee Simon Ellis (chair) (AAO) Tiffany Day (Macquarie) Gayandhi De Silva (AAO/USyd) Jamie Soon (ANU) Dan Zucker (Macquarie) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Sat Mar 10 12:09:53 2018 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 01:09:53 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Postdoctoral Position(s) at the University of Sydney, Australia In-Reply-To: <31465aed-e6b5-72fc-fca7-1e854b66a468@sydney.edu.au> References: <31465aed-e6b5-72fc-fca7-1e854b66a468@sydney.edu.au> Message-ID: <8927E9E7-7120-4599-BFA3-04DF557C8F95@sydney.edu.au> Dear Colleagues, The Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney has recently advertised a postdoctoral position in astrophotonics and exoplanet instrumentation / observational research. This is primarily to support the GLINT project, which is developing integrated-optic photonic nulling technologies for deployment at a range of large telescopes (such as Subaru) and other observatories worldwide. There is also the opportunity to participate in the wider range of astrophysical research undertaken within the group at U.Sydney with themes in high contrast/high resolution imaging, optical interferometric polarimetry and spectro-interferometry. We are particularly seeking skills at the boundary of Astronomy data analysis and interpretation, coding development, and interfacing to hardware. Further details are attached, or to find the full University job advertisement: Click Here (or, if you have to type it out for some reason, a tiny URL here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/EcFNCgZowLHNM2qnFNoZuc?domain=tinyurl.com ) This is the first of two positions being advertised at the University of Sydney in this research area in 2018. The second will be focused on the James Webb Space Telescope Interferometer which will launch in the NIRISS instrument next year. The technology enabling this instrument was designed here at Sydney and this second JWST-I postdoctoral position will play a major role in its commissioning and scientific exploitation. This should be advertised later in the year, but expressions of interest from exceptional candidates are welcome. I would appreciate if this opportunity could be brought to the attention of early-career researchers in your institute. Thanks and best wishes Peter Tuthill ????????????????????????? "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept? ????????????????????????? ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O?BYRNE Associate Dean (Student Life), Faculty of Science Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. 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