[ASA] Reminder: Register now for the 2019 Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium (ALCS)

[Chris Power]

Hi all,
A reminder that you can still register - deadline October 1st 2019 - for the 2019 Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium (ALCS),

https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/L2NwCWLJY7i3k3wKH6dUiZ?domain=opus.nci.org.au

 to be held at the Australian Academy of Science and The Australian National University in Canberra from November 6th until 8th, at

https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0IEPCXLKZoiAJA7RUVf8eb?domain=eventbrite.com.au .

ALCS 2019 will be Australasia’s research supercomputing users’ forum, and a flagship promotion of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-performance data (HPD) in Australasia.

Astronomy is one of the computational science disciplines that will have its own dedicated stream - the others are genomics, geoscience, climate and weather, and materials science - and one of the aspirations of ALCS is to share knowledge about HPC and HPD in practice within and across these  communities. More broadly, it’s an opportunity to extend networks, share leading practice, learn from peers, and build understanding of the role of HPC and HPD in current and future work.

The astronomy programme is almost finalised, and will be online soon. We will cover a broad range of topics from a diverse list of speakers over 1.5 days, ranging from

  *   applications of machine learning in radio astronomy, to the
  *   real-time detection of gravitational waves, to
  *   observational surveys and theoretical simulations of dark matter, to the
  *   challenges astronomers face in the exascale computing era.

For an international perspective, we will hear from keynote speaker Dr Mark Wilkinson, project director of the UK DiRAC HPC facility.

For Australian current and future perspectives, Prof Lisa Kewley, director of the ARC CoE ASTRO 3D and The Australian National University, will be one of the ALCS plenary speakers.

Please register by October 1st for what promises to be an exciting event in Australasian research HPC and HPD. Registration ($200 full rate, $50 reduced rate for EMCRs and students) includes access to all plenary sessions and astronomy sessions. Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea for Wednesday/Thursday/Friday and the Thursday conference dinner are included.

Best wishes,

Chris, on behalf of the Astronomy Stream Organising Panel (Minh Huynh, Simon O’Toole, CP, and Katrina Sealey)


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