From elaine.sadler at sydney.edu.au Mon Oct 22 04:56:15 2018 From: elaine.sadler at sydney.edu.au (Elaine Sadler) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:56:15 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASTRO 3D postdoc position in HI absorption-line surveys Message-ID: <6EF34089-79A6-4D7A-B6AA-E1DC08088E38@sydney.edu.au> Dear colleagues, Please could you pass on this job ad to anyone who may be interested. The ASKAP radio telescope will begin operations in its full 36-antenna configuration in early 2019, so this is a great time to get involved in the project. Many thanks, Elaine --- ASTRO 3D postdoctoral position in HI Absorption-line Surveys at the University of Sydney Full-time/Part-time, 3 years Fixed Term Employment. Academic Level A, Base Salary: AU$92,682 p.a. - AU$98, 940 p.a. (pro-rata if applicable) plus leave loading and a generous employer contribution to superannuation Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to undertake research on HI absorption studies of distant galaxies as part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), under the guidance of Prof. Elaine Sadler. ASTRO 3D is a $40m Research Centre of Excellence led by Prof. Lisa Kewley. ASTRO 3D is funded over seven years by the Australian Research Council and supported by six collaborating Australian universities - ANU, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Western Australia and Curtin University. Other Australian partners in the Centre include CSIRO, the Australian Astronomical Observatory and National Computational Infrastructure. The ASTRO 3D mission is to produce a comprehensive picture of the evolution of matter, the chemical elements, and ionizing radiation in the Universe from shortly after the Big Bang to the present day. ASTRO 3D trains the next generation of scientific leaders and conducts nationwide education and public outreach programs. ASTRO 3D supports the activities of around 200 researchers, administrative staff and students, provides a collaborative working environment and supports a flexible, family friendly working environment. Subject to visa restrictions, this opportunity is available as either a full-time or part-time position This position, based at the University of Sydney, is for three years. The researcher appointed to this role will be part of the ASTRO 3D First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH) project team, and will analyse HI spectral-line data obtained with the new Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. ASKAP's radio-quiet site, large spectral bandwidth and wide field of view open up a completely new parameter space for large-area HI absorption-line surveys in the redshift range 0 < z < 1. The FLASH team use measurements of the redshifted 21cm HI absorption line to detect and study the neutral gas in distant galaxies, and work with members of the ASTRO 3D Genesis Simulations team to test current galaxy and mass assembly models across a wide range in redshift. We are seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate with a PhD in Astrophysics or a closely-related discipline, to work on the observations, analysis, modelling and interpretation of HI absorption-line data from ASKAP. This position is also listed in the AAS Jobs Register, and email enquiries can be sent to: elaine.sadler at sydney.edu.au All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website. Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment and search by the reference number 1881/0918F to apply. Your application should include a CV with a full publication list, contact details for three referees, and direct responses to the selection criteria. Closing date: 11:30pm, 8 November 2018 (Sydney Time) 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. --- PROF ELAINE M SADLER FAA | Professor of Astrophysics Sydney Institute for Astronomy | School of Physics | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Room 354, School of Physics A28 | University of Sydney NSW 2006 T +61 2 9351 2622 | F +61 2 9351 7726 E elaine.sadler at sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/elaine.sadler -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.hopkins at mq.edu.au Mon Oct 22 08:52:22 2018 From: andrew.hopkins at mq.edu.au (Andrew Hopkins) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 21:52:22 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Celebrating the new AAO-MQ: Postponed Message-ID: <1749F931-8357-4442-8B68-8DC49B7BA5A3@mq.edu.au> Dear all, We have decided to postpone the proposed AAO-MQ workshop, previously announced to be held over 19-22 November. The timing conflicts with other events, and the notice was too short for us to confirm the range of speakers we would like to see at such an event. We are also looking forward to a workshop supported by the full AAO consortium (MQ, ANU, USyd and AAL) to be held in the new year, and feel that there is value in promoting AAO-MQ to the community at that broader event. Please stay tuned for updated announcements about these activities in due course. Andrew Hopkins ? 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ICRAR Visiting Fellowship for Senior Women in Astronomy? for 2019. Please see detailed information on: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TA4KCjZrzqH7yYJWtWcxXm?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. 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URL: From luca.cortese at uwa.edu.au Mon Oct 22 12:54:51 2018 From: luca.cortese at uwa.edu.au (Luca Cortese) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 01:54:51 +0000 Subject: [ASA] The life and death of star-forming galaxies - Registration and Abstract submission deadline Nov 1st Message-ID: <2E11DA77-5F3D-4E7E-BEA1-4B88807147C3@uwa.edu.au> **Apologies if you receive this message more than once** ================================================= ?The life and death of star-forming galaxies? workshop to be held in Scarborough, Perth, Western Australia on March 18th-22nd 2019. ================================================= Dear Colleagues, Registration and abstract submission will close next week (November 1st, 2018). Venue capacity is limited to 100 participants, so please do not leave your registration to the last minute. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AjP6CoVzGQi7KK90s1fJkR?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) and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) 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 11th 2018: Abstract submission opens * November 1st 2018: Abstract submission closes * December 1st 2018: Program announced * January 1st 2019: Registration and conference fee payment deadline Confirmed Invited Speakers: Louis Abramson (University of California Los Angeles) Francesco Belfiore (University of California Santa Cruz) Blakesley Burkhart (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Erica Nelson (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Kate Rowlands (Johns Hopkins University) Samir Salim (Indiana University) Freeke van de Voort (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) Joanna Woo (University of Victoria) 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 ARC Future Fellow 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/nEiTCp8AJQtjxxkBIDfUsH?domain=corteseluca.wordpress.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Present a talk or a poster about your research or anything related to the theme, there will be --> prizes for the best <-- science talk, the best theme-related talk and the best overall talk! Thanks, we hope to see you all there! Best regards, Jens Kammerer (on behalf of the LOC) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mmurphy at swin.edu.au Fri Oct 26 11:26:05 2018 From: mmurphy at swin.edu.au (Michael Murphy) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:26:05 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Postdoctoral Research Associate in Stellar Spectroscopy to Probe Fundamental Physics at Swinburne Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Applications are invited for a 4-year postdoctoral research associate (RA) position in observational astrophysics at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. The RA will work with Prof. Michael Murphy, and collaborators in Australia and Europe, on a new project to test the fundamental laws of nature using precision stellar spectroscopy. The full advertisement is available on the AAS Job Register at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ie8FCJyp0qh708oVIVxEGf?domain=jobregister.aas.org The application deadline is the 15th December 2018. It would be greatly appreciated if you could bring this to the attention of potential applicants. Many thanks, Michael Murphy. -- Professor Michael T. Murphy, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Mail H29, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia. @MTMurphy77, http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~mmurphy Pho: +61 (0)3 9214 5818; Mob/Cell: +61 (0)405 214 461. CRICOS Provider No.: 00111D -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: