From Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au Mon Jul 2 13:35:43 2018 From: Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au (Cathryn Trott) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 03:35:43 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2018 - *abstract submission and registration open* Message-ID: Dear ASA Members, This is a reminder that the 2018 Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Congress will be held in Perth from December 9-13, and will include an ASA-sponsored focus session Next-generation Astrophysics with New Observatories. Registration is now open: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cr6TCgZowLHgkxn4hNq4CB?domain=aip2018.org.au Abstract submission has been extended to July 15, 2018. Plenary speakers include Garth Illingworth (UCSC) and 2017 Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss. Key dates Abstracts: 15 July 2018 Early registration: 6 Sept 2018 Congress: 9 to 13 Dec 2018 The conference fee will be fairly high ($720), but day registration fees ($255) will be available. The ASA is a cognate society of the AIP and we encourage members to attend. For more details see below. Regards, Lister Staveley-Smith (Program Committee) Cath Trott (Organising Committee) [X] Join the Physics World in Perth, Australia, from 9-13 December 2018 for the: 23rd Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Congress, Australian Optical Society (AOS) Conference, 43rd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), and 2018 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD) Submit your abstract online www.aip2018.org.au by 15 June 2018. ________________________________ Dear colleagues, The Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) and the Australian Optical Society (AOS), with the support of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANNF) and the Australian Nanotechnology Network(ANN), would like to invite you to submit abstracts for presentation at the 23rd AIP Congress and the Australian Optical Society Conference that will be held jointly with the 43rd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and with the 2018 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD). The Congress website is www.aip2018.org.au. Seamlessly integrated to form one of Australia?s foremost science forums, the meeting will take place in beautiful Perth on the leafy campus of the University of Western Australia, during 9-13 December 2018. To Australia?s and the world's industries, we welcome your presence at the congress and look forward to your suggestions as to how to make the Congress most relevant to you! To all science teachers, we want to include you as part of the Congress and look forward to your involvement. To all university academics, government and industry scientists, to all science students and to our international colleagues, please help us make this meeting a big success by submitting your best work. The conference strongly supports the principles of equity and diversity and encourages contributions from all. The Congress organisers will strive to achieve gender balance and are committed to equal representation of male and female speakers in plenary and invited talks. Abstracts can be submitted before 15 June 2018. For information about the abstract submission process and the link to the submission portal, please click here. On behalf of the Australian physics, science and technology community, welcome to Perth! Gerd Schr?der-Turk (Chair of Organising Committee) Jodie Bradby (Vice-President Australian Institute of Physics) Simon Fleming (President Australian Optical Society) If you have any questions, please contact Conference Logistics on 02 6281 6624 or email aip at conlog.com.au or visit the website www.aip2018.org.au. [X] Acting as Agent for AIP _______________________________________________________ Cathryn Trott Associate Professor ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Curtin University Bentley WA, Australia cathryn.trott at curtin.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Philip.Edwards at csiro.au Tue Jul 3 12:52:45 2018 From: Philip.Edwards at csiro.au (Philip.Edwards at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 02:52:45 +0000 Subject: [ASA] 2018 OzSKA meeting "save the date" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1530586366352.45482@csiro.au> 4th OzSKA Workshop, 18-19 September 2018, Mt Stromlo Following the success of the previous OzSKA meetings, the 4th OzSKA Workshop will be held on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th September 2018 at Mt Stromlo. Registrations and abstract submissions will open in the near future. The aim of continuing these meetings is to provide updated information to the Australian astronomical community about recent progress within the SKA project including: the development of key science and working group activities, progress towards the realisation of scientific operations on SKA1, and the SKA in the context of multi-wavelength astronomy. The programme will include a number of invited talks, but a significant portion of the program will be devoted to contributed talks and discussion. ?Regards, Phil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From luca.cortese at uwa.edu.au Thu Jul 5 16:51:32 2018 From: luca.cortese at uwa.edu.au (Luca Cortese) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 06:51:32 +0000 Subject: [ASA] =?utf-8?q?The_life_and_death_of_star-forming_galaxies_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93-_save_the_date_and_pre-registration?= Message-ID: <375156AE-A2E1-4CF4-B517-9F991471AF26@uwa.edu.au> **Apologies if you receive this message more than once** Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to circulate a pre-announcement for ================================================= ?The life and death of star-forming galaxies? workshop to be held in Scarborough, Perth, Western Australia on March 18th-22nd 2019. ================================================= Please save the date. Registration and abstract submission will open in September. If you?d like to receive further announcements, please pre-register on the conference website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/A0mQCYWL1vi0KjKxf0N9yO?domain=icrar.org Rationale The physical processes driving the evolution of galaxies across the stellar mass vs. star formation rate plane remain elusive. Through decades of multi-wavelength surveys, we have made tremendous progress in characterising the phenomenological properties of galaxies across redshifts. For instance, it is well established that the local galaxy population is mainly bimodal, with star-forming galaxies on one side and passive systems on the other; that galaxies at earlier epochs were forming stars at higher rates than what is observed today, and that passive and active galaxies show clear differences in their stellar structure. However, understanding the physics behind these relations is challenging, partly because of the difficulty of discriminating between simple correlations and physical causation. An additional level of complication comes from the fact that every physical process invoked to transform a star-forming galaxy into a passive, feature-less one requires at least a few billion years, a time during which even isolated star-forming systems have changed (e.g., grown) significantly. This means that ? for example ? today?s rotating, star-forming disks cannot be naively assumed to be the progenitors of local passive, dispersion-supported systems. Thus, simply comparing galaxies of different types at fixed redshift and/or at fixed stellar mass is unlikely to provide us with a realistic view of the transformation that they have experienced during their lives. Only by identifying the progenitors of different galaxy populations as a function of time will it be possible to reveal the origin of the heterogeneous population of galaxies that we observe today. This 5-day workshop sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D) will focus on 4 key themes (under the general topic of star formation of galaxies across cosmic age), with the aim of summarizing the state of the field, identifying current challenges and discussing ways forward to make significant progress over the life-time of the ASTRO 3D Centre of Excellence. The four themes are: * The role of bulges on star formation: correlation or causation? We know that passive galaxies are mainly bulge dominated and disks are star-forming, but is there solid observational evidence to support the idea that quenching is driven by (or at least related to) bulge formation? * What regulates the star formation efficiency in galaxies? What is the evidence for a varying star formation efficiency with galaxy properties and redshift? What are the physical drivers? Does this help understanding how galaxies stop forming stars? * Life in the transition region. Are galaxies in between the blue and red sequences `in transition?? Are they all following the same evolutionary path? Do galaxies cross the transition region only once in their life? * Are we getting closer to reliable star-formation histories of galaxies? Can we link progenitors and progeny across cosmic time? We envisage an engaging and lively workshop to discuss the status, challenges and prospects for these specific areas of galaxy evolution. The plan is to have 1-1.5 days focused on each theme, each ending with a discussion/brainstorm to summarize where we are, what we do not understand, what is controversial and how can we make progress in the next few years. Each discussion will be co-led by members of the SOC. This is meant to be a mid-sized workshop with 60-80 participants (with 100 being the absolute maximum). Key Dates * July 2018: First announcement and pre-registration * September 15th 2018: Abstract submission opens * November 1st 2018: Abstract submission closes * December 1st 2018: Program announced * January 1st 2019: Registration and conference fee payment deadline Scientific Organising Committee Barbara Catinella (co-chair, ICRAR/UWA) Luca Cortese (co-chair, ICRAR/UWA) Elisabete da Cunha (Australian National University) Luke Davies (ICRAR/UWA) Brent Groves (Australian National University) Richard McDermid (Macquarie University) Trevor Mendel (Australian National University) Danail Obreschkow (ICRAR/UWA) Camilla Pacifici (Space Telescope Science Institute) Karin Sandstrom (UC San Diego) Emily Wisnioski (Australian National University) Ivy Wong (ICRAR/UWA) ---------------------- 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://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/JWxmCZYM2VFm1X1NCjZVN-?domain=corteseluca.wordpress.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au Fri Jul 6 08:56:36 2018 From: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au (Caroline Foster) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 22:56:36 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ESO Users Committee recommendations for 2018 Message-ID: <7C914057-5D9E-4F40-BF35-A8D9B7E44550@sydney.edu.au> Good morning all, As usual, please forward this email to all interested parties. I?ve seen that the results from the ESO time allocations for P102 are now out. Congratulations to all who successfully secured time on the ESO facilities! It was a pleasure to see so many members of our community last week at the ASA. During my update, I mentioned that the latest recommendations from the ESO Users Committee meeting (26-27 April 2018) were nearly ready but still confidential. Well, you can now stop holding your breath as they are finally public. I attach them to this email for your convenience. You may also read the Users Committee 2018 report at the following URL: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bpuNCoVzGQioj7N7t11Xxf?domain=eso.org this includes the factsheet for Australia. I?d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that as your representative on the users committee, you may contact me at any time with any comments, concerns or issues with your experience using ESO facilities (other than technical). I note that ESO has an extensive website and provides quality technical support through its helpdesk, so if you have any technical issues, these are the best forums to get a quick resolution. Finally, the ESO Science Newsletter is just out: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bGfWCp8AJQtl1jrjSD8MEV?domain=eso.org Remember to sign up as this is the best way to stay up to date on important ESO announcements. Clear skies! 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