From renu.sharma at uwa.edu.au Mon Oct 1 16:24:35 2018 From: renu.sharma at uwa.edu.au (Renu Sharma) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 06:24:35 +0000 Subject: [ASA] =?windows-1252?q?Inviting_applications_for_the_=93_ICRAR_V?= =?windows-1252?q?isiting_Fellowship_for_Senior_Women_in_Astronomy=94_for_?= =?windows-1252?q?2019?= Message-ID: Dear ASA Members, ICRAR is committed to supporting women in astronomical sciences and technology and we are pleased to invite applications for the ? ICRAR Visiting Fellowship for Senior Women in Astronomy? for 2019. Please see detailed information on: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/aWXHCGvmB5imJz4nSKwLEo?domain=icrar.org Please also find attached the fellowship poster. The main objectives of the fellowship are to: ? Create opportunities for young researchers at ICRAR, particularly women, to learn career development and work-life balance strategies from potential senior role models. ? Enable scientific interaction between early career researchers and graduate students, particularly women, with senior academic visitors. ? Explore opportunities for developing mentoring relations. ? Enrich the research environment at ICRAR. ? Create opportunities to foster national and international collaborations. The Fellow is expected to take part in a range of mutually discussed and agreed activities in line with the objectives of the Fellowship and spend time at both the Nodes of ICRAR. What the Fellowship provides ICRAR will offer one fellowship per calendar year and will provide: ? $5,000 per month for two to three months for living and accommodation expenses. ? Travel assistance of up to $5,000. ? Needs-based additional support of up to $4,000 may be provided for childcare or other required support. Please see application procedure on link above or in the attached document. Applications close on 30th October 2018. Applications should be submitted via fellowship at icrar.org We look forward to receiving applications from interested candidates. Kind regards Renu Dr Renu Sharma GAICD, FLWA Associate Director and COO International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) Web: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uN3OCJyp0qhR8jwOfGqBk2?domain=icrar.org 7 Fairway, The University of Western Australia Crawley WA 6009 Phone: +618 6488 7871 ICRAR is a Joint Venture of Curtin University and The University of Western Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On 10 Sep 2018, at 1:38 pm, Elizabeth Mannering > wrote: Dear Colleagues, The All-Sky Virtual Observatory (ASVO) is enabling researchers to access data across a federated network of datasets, from all types of astronomical facilities in Australia. The ASVO currently consists of five active nodes: - Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory (TAO) - SkyMapper - Data Central (AAT) - MWA - CASDA https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/YbrdC4QZ1RFyYgQJTxq-S6?domain=asvo.org.au You are invited to provide feedback and comments for each ASVO node, and the ASVO as a whole, by completing a short survey: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2LmuC3Q8Z2Fw7qJmhg_o3e?domain=goo.gl The collected responses will inform aspects of the current development and potential future functionality of the ASVO nodes. The survey takes ~15 minutes to complete, and your time and effort will help ensure that ASVO is best positioned to meet the needs of the Australian astronomical community. We look forward to receiving survey responses by the 1st October 2018. Please contact me with any questions, and feel free to forward this email to astronomers/students who may not be on the ASA email list. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Kind regards, Liz Mannering, on behalf of the ASVO [Data Central] Dr Liz Mannering ? Web Developer ? UX Designer ? Software Engineer datacentral.org.au ? Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tamarad at physics.uq.edu.au Tue Oct 2 14:52:19 2018 From: tamarad at physics.uq.edu.au (Tamara Davis) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 04:52:19 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Scientific Organising Committee ASA 2019 @ UQ - call for volunteers Message-ID: <0953601B-9DB0-467A-89DF-0499A148E7EC@physics.uq.edu.au> Hi ASA, We?re excited to be hosting the next Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia at the University of Queensland from 7th-12th July, 2019. To make sure we cover the range of topics of most interest to the Australian astrophysics community we would like to have a diverse scientific organising committee (SOC), and thus this quick email to ask for volunteers. We welcome contributions from PhD students, postdocs, and faculty. If you?re interested in helping arrange the scientific program for the meeting, please email Kylie Williams (cc?d) with your name, institution, subject of research, and reason you would like to be on the SOC (a couple of sentences is all we need). If you can get that to us before the 14th of October it would be much appreciated. We may not be able to accommodate everyone but we will make sure we have a wide range of research areas covered. Thanks in advance! We're looking forward to a great meeting. All the best, Tamara p.s. If you don?t want to be on the SOC, but still have ideas you?d like to see implemented ? feel free to contact myself, Holger Baumgardt, or Kylie Williams. :: Professor Tamara Davis :: School of Mathematics and Physics :: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia :: http://www.smp.uq.edu.au/people/TamaraDavis :: tamarad at physics.uq.edu.au :: +61 432 526 989 :: @tamarastro :: UQ ALLY, Supporting the diversity of sexuality and gender at UQ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au Tue Oct 2 15:32:09 2018 From: caroline.foster at sydney.edu.au (Caroline Foster) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 05:32:09 +0000 Subject: [ASA] An update from your ESO UC representative Message-ID: <221DB303-DD2B-4A73-AF37-DBB5B7CD3A38@sydney.edu.au> Please forward the following message to all potentially interested parties. Dear fellow Australian astronomers, This is an update from your Users Committee (UC) representative. My role is to represent Australian ESO users and act as the capillary link between ESO and the Australian community. The ESO Users Committee met in April (UC42) to receive an update from ESO on various issues and to discuss a new set of recommendations. Certain details and documents from the UC42 are publicly accessible at the following URL: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/qQmgCvl0PoCGyD0KfQm6Vo?domain=eso.org In particular, the Users Committee Report, which includes the Australian fact sheet I prepared, based on your feedback, is available here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/-bCTCwVLQmi7RDZ9UqKmFM?domain=eso.org The report highlights the overall satisfaction of the ESO users community, but also some points for improvement. Most of the feedback has been received through the annual UC poll, which was circulated earlier this year. I would like to thank those who took the time to fill out the UC poll (34/146 Australian ESO PIs, Phase 2 delegates and archive users). This is a crucial aspect of communicating issues with your ESO UC representative and ESO itself. Australian users showed a high level of satisfaction with their ESO experience so far. Our community made a few suggestions to improve the OPC feedback (ESO?s TAC), as well as some specific phase 2 preparation and data reduction issues. All comments have been forwarded to ESO, although ESO has noted that some comments were too vague to be addressed. ESO reminds users that the ESO helpdesk is the best avenue to report and resolve specific issues. You will find the minutes of the Users Committee meeting at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_-PeCxnMRvtyQ2qwSYmERo?domain=eso.org The recommendations resulting from UC42 are attached to this post. ESO usually provides a preliminary response to the recommendations in November via teleconference, while the final responses will be presented at the next UC meeting in April next year. Many thanks to those who agreed to be nominated for the Observing Programme Committee (ESO TAC). I was assured that the Australian list of nominations is well populated. Another call for nominations has now started in time for the next OPC meeting. If you know someone who would be able to serve on the OPC (ESO requests for 2nd postdoc of beyond), please contact me directly. If you have been nominated, but haven?t been contacted by ESO yet, your name will stay in the system for a total of 4 periods (2 years). Also a reminder: large program call for proposals will move to a yearly basis starting with P104. I note that this does not affect the frequency of the call for proposals for normal programs or director?s discretionary time proposals. You can read the full Time Allocation Working Group report here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oaN2CyoNVrcgylmkHR1DM7?domain=auditore.cab.inta-csic.es The ESO fellowship & studentship applications are currently open (deadline 15 October) https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/i8BQCzvOWKi3m0N9HoDmKU?domain=eso.org. The ESO fellowships were featured in the latest ESO newsletter: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tIWgCANZvPig1vJ2HMrzpC?domain=eso.org As a previous ESO fellow, I can recommend these fellowships. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to know more about what it is like to be an ESO fellow or about the application process. Finally, don?t forget to sign up for the ESO science newsletter. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jW76CBNZwLi1lgJBfv-g90?domain=eso.org Clear skies! 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Candidates should have primary research interests in Astroparticle Physics, theoretical physics, Cosmology/Astrophysics/Astronomy. The applicant will be working in the Astroparticle group (led by Prof Celine Boehm; Head of School) and expected to perform independent research in collaborations with Prof Celine Boehm, Prof Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Scott Croom, Geraint Lewis, Elaine Sadler, Kevin Varvell, and Associate Prof Archil Kobakhidze. Applicants will be also encouraged to interact with graduate students and postdocs in the school. Australia is an exciting place for Astroparticle Physicists with the possibility to join CTA-OZ, or benefiting from the new partnership between ESO and Australia as well as the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) and the prospects of the new SABRE experiment and the SKA. The University of Sydney embraces multi-disciplinary research and as such candidates will be also encouraged to collaborate with researchers from other fields, should such an opportunity present itself. Applicants should have a PhD in high-energy theory and/or theoretical cosmology and have demonstrated excellence in research in these areas. This position is intended to be 3 years in length. Applicants should submit a Cover Letter, a Curriculum Vitae, a short summary (3 pages max) of their research activities and Research Interests, a Publication List and name three referees through https://sydney.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.processJobSearch&jobid=4333F779-B459-4978-A7DE-A94300BE4057&CurATC=EXT&CurBID=949319bc-8898-4f11-ac4b-9db401358504&jobsListKey=7c776a95-74a1-4e38-94aa-317c801c8009&persistVariables=CurATC,CurBID,jobsListKey&lid=18710370008, Closing date: 11:30pm, 31 October 2018 (Sydney Time) though applications at a later stage might be considered. The University of Sydney is committed to diversity and social inclusion. Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. Letters of Reference should be sent to: physics.hos at sydney.edu.au Kind regards Professor C?line Boehm | Head of School, Physics The University of Sydney Faculty of Science +61 2 9351 2537 | +61 2 9351 7726 (fax) 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asa.ecr.chapter at gmail.com Fri Oct 5 09:23:57 2018 From: asa.ecr.chapter at gmail.com (ASA Early Career Researcher Chapter) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 09:23:57 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Registrations now open for "SciCoder: The Australian Tour presented by ASTRO 3D" Message-ID: <78ced625-667e-a08a-357e-5c77423d4046@gmail.com> Dear ASA members, Registrations are now open for "SciCoder: The Australian Tour presented by ASTRO 3D" for the 3 different workshop locations across Australia. The registration fee will be $330 and the attendance is capped at 40 at each location. We encourage you to sign-up early; depending on the attendance, we may open up registrations to the broader Australian research community. You can register via the following links: * Perth, Oct 29 - Nov 2: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3IP7CBNZwLi1vnMzszM47C?domain=trybooking.com * Melbourne, Nov 19 - Nov 23: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ipaFCD1jy9t1XxnDs5Coux?domain=trybooking.com * Sydney, Dec 3 - Dec 7: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/PdtECE8kz9tmBqgkcpVHHg?domain=trybooking.com The SciCoder workshop is created and presented by Dr. Demitri Muna who has been offering this training since 2010. SciCoder is targeted to those who have not had much (or any) formal training in writing software but learned it piecemeal in the context of their research. The workshop is appropriate for early career researchers (grad students, postdocs) as well as anyone who would like focussed training on software development. Those who write basic scripts in languages like IDL or Python and would like to transition to writing object-oriented code and reusable libraries will particularly benefit. Topics covered include (also see https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/V6vlCGvmB5imw802cQctzD?domain=scicoder.org * Modern programming practices * Version control with git and github * Unit tests to ensure software continues to work as expected * Tools to improve software development environment (command-line, regular expressions etc) * Database design, the SQL query language, and interacting with databases from python * Advanced topics include multi-processing, the R language, and a special section on Astropy The SciCoder workshops have been enabled by ASTRO 3D and ADACS, along with UniMelb, UNSW, ICRAR, USyd and the Hunstead Gift for Astrophysics, OzGrav, CASS, and the ASA. We have limited funds available to support suitable attendees. Please email us (asa.ecr.chapter at gmail.com) with a short description (300 words or less) of how the workshop will be particularly beneficial to you, and a justification for the financial support request. We will try our best to accommodate as many requests as possible to maximize attendance broadly. *Relevant Deadlines:** * 1. Registrations stay open till first workshop day (capped at 40 attendees) 2. Review of financial requests start on Monday, Oct 15. Please feel free to reach out the ASA Early Career Researcher Chapter Steering Committee if you have any questions. Cheers, Manodeep Sinha, Chair, ASA ECR Chapter Steering Committee https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/x3aDCJyp0qhRxn1gFvEZ5A?domain=asa-ecr.org asa.ecr.chapter at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ivy.wong at uwa.edu.au Fri Oct 5 15:36:59 2018 From: ivy.wong at uwa.edu.au (O. Ivy Wong) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 13:36:59 +0800 Subject: [ASA] Registration is open: 2019 12th PHISCC meeting in Perth Message-ID: <1f7865db-dffa-ee83-0aa8-c31fa8fdca0b@uwa.edu.au> Dear Colleagues, This is the first announcement for the 2019 12th PHISCC meeting ? one of the first PHISCC meetings where the_main focus is on the new science emerging from the much anticipated SKA precursors and pathfinders_. As is tradition, the PHISCC workshop's plenary session will span 2.5 to 3 days (11-13 February 2019). In the upcoming PHISCC workshop, the plenary session will be followed by a set of technical hands-on or strategic focus sessions, where together, the plenary session and the focus sessions will span the full week starting the 11th February 2019. Places for this workshop are limited to a maximum of 80 participants but there is a chance that we might have to close registration early if we reach this number before the early-bird registration deadline of 15 December 2018. Therefore we encourage everyone to register early. Please register your participation using the following URL: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/T5CZCXLKZoi13KXzs6h7hg?domain=icrar.org The science themes covered by the 2019 PHISCC plenary sessions are: 1)blind HI surveys; 2) high-redshift HI; 3) cold HI (through absorption); 4) targeted HI surveys; and 5) Synergies across radio facilities and simulations. Confirmed invited speakers are: James Allison (Oxford); Erwin de Blok (ASTRON); Sarah Blyth (UCT); Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL); Rajeshwari Dutta (ESO); Kelley Hess (ASTRON); Ren?e Kraan-Korteweg (UCT); Claudia Lagos (ICRAR/UWA); Karen Lee-Waddell (CSIRO); Natasha Maddox (Munich); Jonghwan Rhee (ICRAR/UWA); Paolo Serra (INAF-Cagliari); Marc Verheijen (Kapteyn); Zheng Zheng (NAOC); Ming Zhu (NAOC). The focus sessions will bring together active HI astronomers from across the different facilities and survey teams for the purposes of: 1) sharing expertise and knowledge of what works and does not in this new era of radio facilities; 2) understanding the methods currently employed to mitigate the challenges faced by these new HI observations; 3) learning the latest tools and software through hands-on tutorials and demonstrations. The current confirmed focus sessions and champions of these sessions are in parentheses: i)Reference Fields (Betsey Adams); ii) Database & products for public release (Lister Staveley-Smith); iii)RFI flagging and mitigation (Vanessa Moss); iv) Data quality assessment (Betsey Adams); v) New lessons in high/deep dynamic range imaging (Oleg Smirnov); vi) Visualisation (Russ Taylor); vii) Source finding (Tobias Westmeier); viii)Source parameterisation (Se-Heon Oh); and specific team focus sessions for DINGO, FLASH, Fornax (MeerKAT); MHONGOOSE, MIGHTEE-HI & WALLABY. Regards, Ivy Wong (on behalf of the SOC) SOC: Marc Verheijen (PHISCC chair); Ivy Wong (SOC chair); Sarah Blyth; Erwin de Blok; Nissim Kanekar; Martin Meyer; Se-Heon Oh; Kristine Spekkens; Lister Staveley-Smith; Jacqueline van Gorkom & Ming Zhu -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr O. Ivy Wong ICRAR-M468, University of Western Australia Crawley, Western Australia 6009, AUSTRALIA Phone: +61-8-6488-7761 Email: ivy.wong at uwa.edu.au Webpage: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/7nLICYWL1viQPlL4sGWuzc?domain=icrar.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Philip.Edwards at csiro.au Fri Oct 5 17:32:32 2018 From: Philip.Edwards at csiro.au (Philip.Edwards at csiro.au) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 07:32:32 +0000 Subject: [ASA] CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science post-doctoral fellowships In-Reply-To: <1534317609972.12622@csiro.au> References: , <1530586366352.45482@csiro.au>, <1534317609972.12622@csiro.au> Message-ID: <1538724752979.12600@csiro.au> Dear colleagues, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science currently has three postdoctoral fellowship positions open. Please follow the links below for more details. Bolton Postdoctoral Fellow, Radio Astronomy https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vhmXCWLJY7i2w5Xvu67gIq?domain=jobs.csiro.au Applications close: Tuesday 6 November, 2018 CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Radio Astronomy Survey Science https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3BhjCXLKZoi17XD3iVOY1Z?domain=jobs.csiro.au Applications Close: 10:59pm AEDT, 31 October 2018. CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Machine Learning and Serendipity in Astronomy https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vnMUCYWL1viQoLpPi9X_eh?domain=jobs.csiro.au Applications Close: 10:59pm AEDT, 31 October 2018. Regards, Phil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Aims of the meeting include discussing the technical feasibility of preliminary survey strategies, compiling a list of capabilities that the ASKAPsoft image processing pipeline will need to support and capturing any outstanding areas of ASKAP's performance that require further characterisation. This will allow CASS to prioritise development activities for the future. We also aim to identify short observations that can be made to test aspects of technical feasibility that require further verification.? There will be ample opportunity for discussions between Survey Science Teams regarding potential commensal observations as part of the pilot surveys. The program will start at 10am on Oct 24th and will conclude by 4pm on Oct 25th. For more details, please see https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cW7-COMxNytJr54MsE5EaP?domain=atnf.csiro.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: