From s.martell at unsw.edu.au Tue May 15 07:41:09 2018 From: s.martell at unsw.edu.au (Sarah Martell) Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 07:41:09 +1000 Subject: [ASA] ASA Early Career Researchers chapter: Steering Committee elections Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The Early Career Researcher Chapter of the ASA is inviting ECR Chapter Members to nominate for a number of positions on the Chapter Steering Committee. The Chapter is active in promoting and assisting the career development of early- and mid-career researchers in the Australian astronomy community. The goals of the chapter are: * Inform the members about opportunities for professional training and support * Provide training for the members in areas of professional development * Connect the members with each other, and also with senior researcher mentors, providing a support network * Act as an advocacy and representation body for the members The ECR chapter has been active since 2013. Over that period it has organised activities that have been beneficial to our ECR members, including workshops (2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018), the ?Meet-a-Mentor? session at the annual ASA meeting (co-organised with the IDEA Chapter), and a mentoring scheme, partnering senior mentors with postdocs and PhD students. The ECR Chapter is run by a Steering Committee who play a leading role in devising and implementing initiatives to fulfill the Chapter?s goals. The Committee consists of a Chair, five Steering Committee members, a student representative and a senior representative. There is also an ASA council representative, who is ex-officio unless they are also elected to the committee. Terms are held for two years (ordinary members) and one year (student representative and senior representative). We are now inviting nominations for four positions: senior representative, student representative, and two ordinary committee members. These positions are open to all Chapter members, except for the student representative, which is open to students only. Current Steering Committee members are welcome to renominate if they wish. Sarah Martell will be the returning officer for this election, so all nominations should go to her via email (s.martell at unsw.edu.au) by Wednesday 30 May. Each nomination must include a brief paragraph summarising your interest in the position and how you intend to contribute to the broad goals of the Chapter. Please note that this information will be made available to voters. Kind regards, Sarah Martell - ECR chapter steering committee immediate past chair and returning officer on behalf of the ECR Chapter steering committee -- Sarah Martell Senior Lecturer School of Physics, UNSW Sydney s.martell at unsw.edu.au / +61 2 9385 6547 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhurley at swin.edu.au Wed May 16 16:13:02 2018 From: jhurley at swin.edu.au (Jarrod Hurley) Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 06:13:02 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASTAC Call for Proposals for astronomy supercomputing time in Q3-Q4 2018 (ASTAC2018-B) In-Reply-To: <9E7F297D-CD45-4622-AA9D-95CDC3D22F0C@swin.edu.au> References: <9E7F297D-CD45-4622-AA9D-95CDC3D22F0C@swin.edu.au> Message-ID: ________________________________ Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC2018-B ** The current call for proposals closes at 5 pm (AEDT) Monday 11th June 2018. ** The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation call for proposals for Q3-Q4 2018 is now open. The Deadline for this call is 5pm (AEDT) Monday 11th June 2018. Within this call we have over 5 million service units (or CPU-core-hours) available to allocate to the astronomy community on national supercomputing facilities. This includes allocations for CPU-only and GPU-specific applications. The following resources are available: 1. NCI Astronomy Flagship Program: up to 1,000 kSUs (CPU only) 2. OzSTAR: up to 2,000 kSUs (CPU or GPU) 3. Pawsey Magnus: up to 1,000 kSUs (CPU only) 4. Pawsey Zeus: up to 1,000 kSUs (CPU only) 5. Pawsey Nimbus (GPU only) Please see the attached information sheet for more information, including how to apply, noting that applications are via an online process for this round. ASTAC is formed by Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and the ASTAC process is managed by Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS). Best regards, Jarrod Hurley (on behalf of ADACS and ASTAC) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On behalf of the SOC, it?s with great pleasure that i?d like to announce the program for this year's ASA Annual Science Meeting, which is now live at the conference webpage. https://asa2018.swin.edu.au/asa2018/program/ In particular, new to this year are community led ?special sessions?, which include: ESO A focus on big data and computing (ADACS) Exoplanets & galactic structure in the TESS era Massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys SKA precursor science with ASKAP and MWA GALAH, Gaia and the Galaxy The future of Australian optical astronomy Multi-messenger astronomy We also have a number of social and community activities planned. Those who submitted abstracts for talks/posters should have been notified by now (if not, please contact me). We?re looking forward to seeing you at Swinburne in late-June! Thanks, Darren (SOC Chair) -- Darren Croton Professor of Astrophysics Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia Phone: 61-3-9214-5537; Fax: 61-3-9214-8797 http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~dcroton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dcroton at swin.edu.au Thu May 17 20:36:24 2018 From: dcroton at swin.edu.au (Darren Croton) Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:36:24 +0000 Subject: [ASA] 2018 ASA Annual Science Meeting @Swinburne Program Announced In-Reply-To: <6EC5215A-E922-40B4-94A0-D1304D650288@swin.edu.au> References: <6EC5215A-E922-40B4-94A0-D1304D650288@swin.edu.au> Message-ID: <7420086F-6AF7-4B16-A495-30D4614D851F@swin.edu.au> Hi everyone. A quick follow-up. It looks like the system is taking its time to send talk/poster notifications, and so maybe i shouldn?t have been so quick to ask you to email if one hadn?t arrived. These should come. Regardless, the program online is accurate. Thanks, Darren On 17 May 2018, at 6:10 pm, Darren Croton > wrote: Dear ASA member. On behalf of the SOC, it?s with great pleasure that i?d like to announce the program for this year's ASA Annual Science Meeting, which is now live at the conference webpage. https://asa2018.swin.edu.au/asa2018/program/ In particular, new to this year are community led ?special sessions?, which include: ESO A focus on big data and computing (ADACS) Exoplanets & galactic structure in the TESS era Massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys SKA precursor science with ASKAP and MWA GALAH, Gaia and the Galaxy The future of Australian optical astronomy Multi-messenger astronomy We also have a number of social and community activities planned. Those who submitted abstracts for talks/posters should have been notified by now (if not, please contact me). We?re looking forward to seeing you at Swinburne in late-June! Thanks, Darren (SOC Chair) -- Darren Croton Professor of Astrophysics Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia Phone: 61-3-9214-5537; Fax: 61-3-9214-8797 http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~dcroton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhurley at swin.edu.au Thu May 17 21:59:03 2018 From: jhurley at swin.edu.au (Jarrod Hurley) Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 11:59:03 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Position available - Astronomy HPC and Data Science Support within ADACS Swinburne Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We currently have a position open within the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing (CAS) to join the team as part of the Swinburne node of the Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) initiative. The ideal candidate will have a background in computer science with relevant software development experience and/or a background in astrophysics with a demonstrated track record of suitable experience in scientific computing. For those interested in more information on this role please see the Swinburne job listing: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/v96LCP7yOZtqQYrjcznVoJ?domain=tinyurl.com We intend to start considering applications and forming a shortlist from Monday May 28th onwards until the position is filled. Please circulate to those you feel may be interested and don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about the position. Best regards, Jarrod Hurley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dcroton at swin.edu.au Fri May 18 12:32:01 2018 From: dcroton at swin.edu.au (Darren Croton) Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 02:32:01 +0000 Subject: [ASA] 2018 ASA Annual Science Meeting @Swinburne Program Announced In-Reply-To: <7420086F-6AF7-4B16-A495-30D4614D851F@swin.edu.au> References: <6EC5215A-E922-40B4-94A0-D1304D650288@swin.edu.au> <7420086F-6AF7-4B16-A495-30D4614D851F@swin.edu.au> Message-ID: <34D3FF36-B420-4DA0-A7FD-BEA5657E3B67@swin.edu.au> A final follow-up. The notifications should have gone out now. We had a lot of abstracts submitted (around 250!) for about 150 talk spots. The goal was to balance scientific discipline with interest while maintaining gender and geographical diversity. If you were unsuccessful in getting a talk (and sorry if so) we allocated you a poster. If you need to update any details please email me and CC Katinka Gereb (kgereb at swin.edu.au) and we?ll get you sorted. We?re looking forward to an exciting meeting! Thanks, Darren On 17 May 2018, at 8:36 pm, Darren Croton > wrote: Hi everyone. A quick follow-up. It looks like the system is taking its time to send talk/poster notifications, and so maybe i shouldn?t have been so quick to ask you to email if one hadn?t arrived. These should come. Regardless, the program online is accurate. Thanks, Darren On 17 May 2018, at 6:10 pm, Darren Croton > wrote: Dear ASA member. On behalf of the SOC, it?s with great pleasure that i?d like to announce the program for this year's ASA Annual Science Meeting, which is now live at the conference webpage. https://asa2018.swin.edu.au/asa2018/program/ In particular, new to this year are community led ?special sessions?, which include: ESO A focus on big data and computing (ADACS) Exoplanets & galactic structure in the TESS era Massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys SKA precursor science with ASKAP and MWA GALAH, Gaia and the Galaxy The future of Australian optical astronomy Multi-messenger astronomy We also have a number of social and community activities planned. Those who submitted abstracts for talks/posters should have been notified by now (if not, please contact me). We?re looking forward to seeing you at Swinburne in late-June! Thanks, Darren (SOC Chair) -- Darren Croton Professor of Astrophysics Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia Phone: 61-3-9214-5537; Fax: 61-3-9214-8797 http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~dcroton _______________________________________________ ASA mailing list ASA at mailman.sydney.edu.au Change membership status or contact information via ASA's Edit Membership page https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6ksMCnxyErCQpzk6f9-AEo?domain=asa.wildapricot.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: