From swyithe at unimelb.edu.au Tue May 28 13:20:27 2019 From: swyithe at unimelb.edu.au (Stuart Wyithe) Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 03:20:27 +0000 Subject: [ASA] David McClelland FAA Message-ID: Dear ASA, Please join me in congratulating David McClelland who has been elected to the Australian Academy of Science. David is speaking tomorrow at the New Fellows Symposium at the Shine Dome. Citation from the AAS reads: In 2016, the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, opening up a new window for astronomy and cosmology. David McClelland was a vital contributor to this success as Australia's leading audio-band gravitational wave scientist and Chair of the Instrument Science/Advanced Detector program in the 1000-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He led the ANU team that played a crucial role in designing, installing and commissioning Advanced LIGO's acquisition system, which brings the interferometers into operation. His pioneering quantum science experiments that beat the previous low-frequency limit for squeezing light by three orders of magnitude were also essential for improving gravitational wave detection sensitivity. Please join me in congratulating David! Best regards, Stuart (ASA president) ------------------------------ Stuart Wyithe | Head, School of Physics School of Physics | Faculty of Science Room 104, David Caro Building 192 The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 5420 and +61 3 8344 5083 E: swyithe at unimelb.edu.au Shirley Els | Executive Assistant - Head, School of Physics T: +61 3 8344 5453 E: shirley.els at unimelb.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.brough at unsw.edu.au Wed May 29 09:54:17 2019 From: s.brough at unsw.edu.au (Sarah Brough) Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 23:54:17 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Fwd: [SciColl] Applications open for the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <86B6D096-934C-4177-8134-741B5AE9D1F8@unsw.edu.au> Hi All, This thoroughly-recommended opportunity is open to PhD students in Australia and all travel costs would be covered by the program. Cheers, Sarah Begin forwarded message: From: Lucianne Walkowicz > Date: 18 May 2019 at 1:42:56 am AEST To: Adam Miller >, Lucianne Walkowicz > Subject: [SciColl] Applications open for the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program (Please distribute to your colleagues ? application deadline is June 14, 2019) We are pleased to announce that the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for new students! You can learn more at astrodatascience.org, and apply directly using this form: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tvo0CQnzP0tj7Vw7tP98CA?domain=forms.gle The LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program (DSFP) is a supplement to graduate education in astronomy-related fields (e.g. astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, planetary science, etc.), intended to teach students essential skills for dealing with big data. You don't need to know anything about data science to apply, you just need to be excited to learn! The DSFP consists of three, one-week schools per year over a two year period. On top of teaching our students the skills they need for modern survey astronomy, we also aim to create a collaborative, supportive learning environment, and work to empower our students to teach the skills they learn to others. We strive to create an inclusive program, and particularly encourage applications from students from underrepresented groups in astronomy. Please visit astrodatascience.org and check out our FAQ to learn more! Lucianne Walkowicz, Director Adam Miller, Program Director -- _________ Dr. Lucianne M. Walkowicz Astronomer and TED Senior Fellow Adler Planetarium 1300 South Lake Shore Dr. Chicago, IL 60605 312.542.2412 adlerplanetarium.org SPACE IS FREAKING AWESOME. _______________________________________________ SciColl mailing list SciColl at lists.lsst.org https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0SgvCWLJY7im03n0hmB5UV?domain=lists.lsst.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhurley at swin.edu.au Wed May 29 21:27:33 2019 From: jhurley at swin.edu.au (Jarrod Hurley) Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 11:27:33 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Reminder and Deadline Extension - ASTAC Call for Proposals for astronomy supercomputing time in Q3-Q4 2019 (ASTAC 2019-B) In-Reply-To: References: <9E7F297D-CD45-4622-AA9D-95CDC3D22F0C@swin.edu.au>, , , Message-ID: The deadline for proposals to the Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee for supercomputing time in 2019-B has been extended to midday (Eastern time) on Monday June 3rd. See the attached document for details on how to apply. ________________________________ From: Jarrod Hurley Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:24 PM To: asa at physics.usyd.edu.au Subject: ASTAC Call for Proposals for astronomy supercomputing time in Q3-Q4 2019 (ASTAC 2019-B) ________________________________ Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC 2019-B ** The current call for proposals closes at 5pm Friday 31st May 2019. ** The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation call for proposals for Q3-Q4 2019 is now open. The deadline for this call is 5pm Friday 31st May 2019. Within this call we have 3 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). Please see the attached information sheet for more information, including how to apply, noting that applications are via an online process. 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... Name: ASTAC-call-2019B(2).pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 330325 bytes Desc: ASTAC-call-2019B(2).pdf URL: From simon.otoole at mq.edu.au Thu May 30 11:42:41 2019 From: simon.otoole at mq.edu.au (Simon O'Toole) Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 01:42:41 +0000 Subject: [ASA] REMINDER: Astronomical Data Archives meeting, 5-8 August 2019, Sydney Australia. Message-ID: <8F916CA1-67C9-4E55-BE6B-FDD8D8966442@mq.edu.au> Please note that Early Bird Registration for the Data Archives meeting has been extended until 7 June 2019. Register here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AGPWCk8vAZtzLK5pU2WDp5?domain=bit.ly Motivation Data management is becoming a greater challenge in the era of large surveys from telescopes such as Gaia, LSST and the various SKA pathfinder projects. We are well and truly in the petabyte regime, and with the SKA on the horizon, we are not far from the exabyte regime. Users still need to access these data to do science. The goals of the meeting are therefore to determine what areas of data archives we can collaborate on, and where we can share information, data and code. There is a lot of great work being done here with new technologies (as seen at the ADASS and IVOA meetings), and it would be great to avoid duplicating effort. And of course we?re all interested in interoperability. Themes * Exploring different technologies for storage and querying (SQL, noSQL, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, etc, what works and what doesn't) * Beyond Data Storage (What services should archives offer and what do they currently?) * Interoperability (incl. IVOA) * Tools (incl. access control and code-to-the-data) * User Interfaces and User Experience * Hardware (incl. cloud vs hosted vs hybrid) The meeting will be a mix of talks, Birds of a Feather sessions, mini-workshops, a networking session, and a discussion about things to take away from the meeting and possibly report on at a future meeting. We are also planning a poster session, however the posters would display the full stack of a participant?s data archive rather than research or projects. Registration The Early Bird fee is $250 AUD (the Standard fee after 31 May 2019 is $300 AUD). Thanks, Simon [Data Central] Simon O'Toole ? Senior Research Systems Engineer ? Data Central Project Scientist datacentral.org.au ? 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Submitting papers in such circumstances clearly violates PASA's submission policies and authors will be asked to withdraw such papers in the first instance (or they will be rejected). If you are the submitting author on a paper it is your responsibility to ensure papers go through all co-authors and the appropriate commenting and agreement process prior to submission. Post submission is not an acceptable time to gain co-author agreement. Additionally, it is the responsibility of all authors to ensure the contents of a paper are suitable for publication by that team. Again, we recently received complaints of people submitting papers without approval of the project PI and/or in a misleading manner around some of the paper contents. It is not the responsibility of PASA to deal with external collaboration disputes after submission, that is not fair either on the PASA Editorial Board or the referees. Further information on the PASA code of ethics can be found here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/klGyCmOxDQtND6VvTGOMMt?domain=cambridge.org Complaints about violation of PASA policies can be directed to me. Likewise, questions around the above message. Finally, PASA remains committed to support high-quality papers from the Australian and global astronomical communities, and strongly welcomes team papers, particularly from Australia-led survey teams. Where policy violations do occur, we are happy to accept resubmissions of papers after any policy violation issues have been corrected. Best regards, Melanie PASA Editor-in-Chief ????????????????????????? "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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URL: From swyithe at unimelb.edu.au Fri May 31 16:53:03 2019 From: swyithe at unimelb.edu.au (Stuart Wyithe) Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 06:53:03 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Revision of the ASA Code of Conduct and Statement of Ethics Message-ID: Dear ASA members, It is the policy of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) that all participants in its activities are able to enjoy an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment, and that its members conduct themselves appropriately during all professional activities. As part of our ongoing commitment to this policy, the ASA Council has recently revised the ASA Code of Conduct and Statement of Ethics documents. The revised Code of Conduct and Statement of Ethics apply to all participants at ASA endorsed meetings or activities, and to ASA members at all astronomical meetings or activities. The ASA Council has also instituted a new process by which potential breaches of the Code of Conduct or Statement of Ethics can be reported. This process is outlined in the new document Handling of Potential Breaches of the ASA Statement of Ethics and Code of Conduct. Council has also convened a new Ethics and Conduct Committee (ECC). The ECC is charged with oversight of the ASA Code of Conduct and Statement of Ethics as well as handling of potential breaches. Whilst we hope that these new processes will not be needed, it is the ASA Council's view that a defined process for reporting and action is required to ensure that the values and behaviour enshrined in the Code of Conduct and Statement of Ethics are maintained. ASA members are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the new documents, which may be found on the ASA web pages at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/kyAYCJyp0qhEXROyUvmBWX?domain=asa.astronomy.org.au. 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