From celine.dorgeville at anu.edu.au Mon Jun 15 10:52:10 2020 From: celine.dorgeville at anu.edu.au (Celine D'Orgeville) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:52:10 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Postdoctoral position at Subaru Telescope - high contrast imaging References: <52673478-386e-cdfd-d4f4-c35192324846@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Message-ID: <1F31CEAE-1EBB-4339-A873-B95812F5A276@anu.edu.au> FYI - This may be of interest to students and postdocs at your institution. Cheers, Celine d?Orgeville (ANU) ************ Dear colleagues, Subaru Telescope is advertising a 3-yr postdoc position related to the development of high contrast imaging techniques for exoplanets. More details on: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pOzYCq71mwf43n8xTZxnwD?domain=subarutelescope.org Application deadline is July 9. 2020. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Sincerely, Olivier -- Olivier Guyon Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, JAPAN Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, USA Astrobiology Center, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, JAPAN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jhurley at swin.edu.au Mon Jun 15 16:21:55 2020 From: jhurley at swin.edu.au (Jarrod Hurley) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 06:21:55 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Announcing the availability of dedicated astronomy access to OpenStack Virtual Machine computing resources In-Reply-To: References: , , , Message-ID: *** Please respond via openstack at adacs.org.au if you would like to discuss accessing these resources *** Dear All, Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and Swinburne University of Technology are pleased to announce the availability of up to 2,000 virtual CPUs for dedicated astronomy access on the Swinburne cell within the NeCTAR Cloud network. These CPUs will be utilised via OpenStack Virtual Machines (VMs), which can be provisioned in a variety of different 'flavours' to accommodate a broad spectrum of workflows. Single VMs will typically comprise up to 8 or 16 virtual CPUs and 16 or 32 GB RAM (although larger sizes will be possible upon request), as well as attachable storage, a DNS zone and a floating IP address. It is envisaged that this resource will be of interest to small-job use cases that do not require the full blown infrastructure of a high-performance computing (HPC) facility and/or will benefit from the flexibility of working outside of a HPC environment. However, there is currently no restriction on use case and we are keen to see how this resource can be of benefit to a variety of astronomy workflows. To facilitate usage we have developed a customised astronomy interface which comes with a range of software packages included. We expect this interface to develop further over time based on the needs of the community. At this stage we would like to hear from anyone who thinks that this resource may be of benefit to their research. Please contact openstack at adacs.org.au to register your interest, discuss your use case, find out more of the details or ask any related questions. All the best, David Liptai & Jarrod Hurley Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) ADACS is funded under the Astronomy National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Program via Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au Tue Jun 16 13:18:41 2020 From: Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au (Cathryn Trott) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 03:18:41 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASA virtual Annual Scientific Meeting - Registration open! Message-ID: Dear ASA Members, The 2020 virtual-Annual Scientific Meeting of the ASA will be held Tuesday July 7 - Wednesday July 8 via zoom. Tuesday's program will showcase the work of students and ECRs, and Wednesday's program includes presentations from all of the ASA Prize Winners, and the Annual General Meeting. Registration is now open and closes June 30. Registration is FREE, and is required for a personalised zoom meeting link. Speakers will be contacted by Deb Gooley with further information. Information, including the current program is available at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0okRCMwGxOtoNgpLFwRO9a?domain=asa.astronomy.org.au Registration page: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkf-GvrD4sH9YJ_fas7kajs89dUflqt8w- We hope you can join us to hear the excellent science and engineering from our junior community members and prize winners! Regards, Cathryn _______________________________________________________ Cathryn Trott Associate Professor ARC Future Fellow President, Astronomical Society of Australia 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 john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Wed Jun 17 10:07:28 2020 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:07:28 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Can you see the stars? Join us for a world record light pollution project In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please forward the following message among your appropriate networks. Go to worldrecordlight.thinkific.com and How to? to see how to participate. Dear Dark Sky Devotees, Spread the word and look to the skies: Tell us what you can see on the longest night, help us map Australia?s light pollution, and set a world record. Scientists are asking all Australians to step outside on the longest, darkest night of the year to help them measure light pollution around the country. Could you please share the following with your friends and colleagues? The Australasian Dark Sky Alliance is asking people to join them this Sunday on Australia?s longest night to help researchers create a map of Australia?s darkest skies, and learn about light pollution and its effect on people, animals, and astronomy. ?Together, our observations will map how light pollution varies across Australia?s cities and regions, and make a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS? attempt for ?Most users to take an online environmental sustainability lesson in 24 hours?,? says Marnie Ogg, ADSA?s CEO and founder. The project is supported by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, which has produced The National Light Pollution Guidelines for Wildlife. Other supporters include ASTRO 3D, AstroNZ, Bintel, ICRAR, Globe at Night, Unihedron, ANU, the International Dark Sky Alliance, Laing Simmons & Young, Waiheke Island Dark Sky Park and Dark Sky Traveller. Look out for tweets from @DarkSkyAlliance, retweet them, and share your own thoughts, support and pics on the night using the hashtags #LightPollution and #DarkSky. And sign up to take part on the night at worldrecordlight.thinkific.com. Please feel free to pass this information on to your friends and colleagues ? we need dark sky observations from the city, country, suburbs, outback and everywhere in between. Kind regards, [logo] MARNIE OGG Founder and CEO T: +61 417 689 003 W: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/YedoCwV1vMfYLWmPf9gLSp?domain=australasiandarkskyalliance.org E: info at ausdarksky.org [in] [tw] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Light pollution media release_FINAL.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 236997 bytes Desc: Light pollution media release_FINAL.pdf URL: From s.martell at unsw.edu.au Wed Jun 17 10:12:36 2020 From: s.martell at unsw.edu.au (Sarah Martell) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:12:36 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASA Early Career Researcher Chapter election Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The Early Career Researcher Chapter of the ASA is inviting nominations for five positions on the Chapter Steering Committee - senior representative, student representative, and three ordinary committee members. The Chapter is active in promoting and assisting the career development of early- and mid-career researchers in the Australian astronomy community. The goals of the chapter are: * Inform the members about opportunities for professional training and support * Provide training for the members in areas of professional development * Connect the members with each other, with senior academic mentors, and with former academics working in industry, providing a support network * Act as an advocacy and representation body for the members The ECR chapter has been active since 2013. Over that period it has organised activities that have been beneficial to our ECR members, including workshops (2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018), an 'Extronomers' group for perspectives and advice on moving into industry, the ?Meet-a-Mentor? session at the annual ASA meeting (co-organised with the IDEA Chapter), and a mentoring scheme, partnering senior mentors with postdocs and PhD students. The ECR Chapter is run by a Steering Committee who develop and carry out initiatives to fulfill the Chapter?s goals. The Committee consists of a Chair, five Steering Committee members, a student representative and a senior representative. Terms are held for two years (ordinary members) and one year (student representative and senior representative). In the interest of having a steering committee that reflects the diverse experiences of the community, we particularly encourage people from racial, cultural and gender minorities to nominate. These positions are open to all Chapter members, except for the student representative, which is open to students only. Becoming a member of the Chapter can be done through the ASA membership website at asa.wildapricot.org. Sarah Martell will be the returning officer for this election. Please send all nominations to her via email (s.martell at unsw.edu.au) by Friday 26 June. Each nomination must include a brief paragraph summarising your interest in the position and how you intend to contribute to the broad goals of the Chapter. Please note that this information will be made available to voters. Kind regards, Sarah Martell - ECR chapter steering committee immediate past chair and returning officer on behalf of the ECR Chapter steering committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.brough at unsw.edu.au Wed Jun 17 10:23:37 2020 From: s.brough at unsw.edu.au (Sarah Brough) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:23:37 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Satellite Constellation 1 Workshop, June 29 & 30, 14:30-19:00 UT In-Reply-To: <28CB85EB-AF78-4965-8873-51219339CE09@noao.edu> References: <28CB85EB-AF78-4965-8873-51219339CE09@noao.edu> Message-ID: <985424a5-6cb3-f197-4911-6bebd56b24ef@unsw.edu.au> Dear All, While this workshop is not being held at the best time of day for Australian astronomers, it may be of interest to many. Cheers, Sarah Satellite Constellations 1 Workshop CTIO Mayall 4m DECam: A train of SpaceX Starlink satellites is seen in the night sky in this image captured with DECam on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) by astronomers Clara Mart?nez-V?zquez and Cliff Johnson. The National Science Foundation?s NOIRLab and the AAS, with support from NSF, are hosting the Satellite Constellations 1 (SATCON1) workshop virtually from 29 June to 2 July 2020. The first two days are open to people interested in mitigating the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy. This workshop will gather together astronomers, satellite operators, dark-sky advocates, policy-makers, and other stakeholders and interested parties?to discuss, understand, and quantify the impacts of large satellite constellations on astronomy and the human experience of the night sky. The goal is to work collectively towards effective solutions to mitigate those impacts and to publish them in a white paper which will be widely distributed.?As launches and deployments of these satellite constellations have already begun, and new launches are planned for every few weeks, time is of the essence. *i*n the weeks before the workshop, four working groups are drafting a report summarizing the current state of knowledge in four areas (1) synthesizing results from ground-based observations of satellites and identify future observing program needs; (2) examining the current status of simulations for assessment of impact and need for further refinement; (3) exploring mitigation through lab measurement of satellite surface reflection and detector performance as well as operational strategies; and (4) developing a set of metrics for protection of Optical/IR observations based on the results of the other working groups. Their findings will be shared with registered attendees and other stakeholders in a document a few days before the workshop and will be presented and discussed during the first two days of the workshop. Through the outcome of the discussions, revisions will be made and a white paper will result with recommendations that include quantitative metrics and an understanding on the impact on the science as well as our cultural heritage. This white paper will then be widely disseminated. *When are the conference dates?* Days 1 and 2, Monday, 29 June and Tuesday, 30 June, are open to astronomers, satellite operators, dark-sky advocates, policy-makers, and other stakeholders. The first two days will be devoted to sharing results from the four?working groups and discussion. Days 3 and 4, Wednesday, 1 July and Thursday, 2 July, will focus on the working groups (and highly interested attendees) merging information from the discussions and the pre-workshop document into produce a final white paper. We will?meet for four hours each day, in two 2-hour blocks: * ?7:30am?9:30am US Pacific Time and 10am?noon US Pacific Time * 10:30am?12:30pm US Eastern Time/Chilean Time and 1:00pm?3:00 pm US Eastern Time/Chilean Time * 14:30 ? 16:30 UTC and 17:00 ? 19:00 UTC * 16:30 ? 18:30 CEST and 19:00 ? 21:00 CEST *Where can you find the conference?*?Online via ZOOM. *Attend the first two days by registering at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xk9GCQnMBZfzXBGGcPBDlp?domain=aas.org. All attendees must register to receive a /unique/?zoom link to the workshop. There is no fee. The registration deadline will be June 22, 2020.* Image Caption: Starlink satellites imaged on 18 Nov. 2019 from the Blanco 4m telescope. 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We will then poll all pre-registered participants closer to the date to determine a consensus for the best time-slot each day. Topics to be covered include: * GPU architecture deep dive and execution model * CUDA - new features and beyond (including CUDA11) * CUDA - unified memory architecture * Reduced precision computation using tensor cores * Libraries update - cuTensor, cuSparse, cuBLAS * Profiling tools - Nsight System and Nsight Compute * Best practices when benchmarking CUDA applications * OpenACC - new features and beyond * GPU Direct, NCCL Library, CUDA-Aware MPI * Multi-GPU programming with OpenACC noting that we will also provide pre-registered participants with an opportunity to shape the topic list and will leave time in the final session to respond to feedback arising from the earlier sessions. The workshop will be delivered by Dr. Gabriel Noaje, Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA APAC South. 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