From s.tingay at curtin.edu.au  Wed Jul 15 17:59:14 2020
From: s.tingay at curtin.edu.au (Steven Tingay)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:59:14 +0800
Subject: [ASA] PhD scholarship available at Curtin University
Message-ID: <CAOc6+D08hLEqZerCFw8jOj6z6J=4Y+rqMQvuXfs3atw_t-uCRw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,

A PhD scholarship is available at Curtin University, for a project that may
be interesting to completing undergraduate students at your institutions
(not just in your physics/astronomy groups).

The project is offered by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI; part
of the Faculty of Humanities) in conjunction with the Curtin Institute of
Radio Astronomy (CIRA; part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering).

The project, "What is excellent Astronomy? Probing disciplinary concepts of
research excellence", is described here, along with application information:

https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pAskCJyBrGfrN5JEHVFx-M?domain=scholarships.curtin.edu.au

In brief, the study will leverage the existing data assets developed
through the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (a combined data set of over
100 million research outputs and millions of researchers) alongside the
unique data available to the astronomy community through the Astrophysics
Data System. It will combine ethnographic examination of astronomy
researchers and research with large scale textual analysis and data science
to develop new tools that dig beyond counting of citations to consider how
researchers and their institutions contribute, and how this differs across
different disciplines.

Questions and enquiries can go to Professor Cameron Neylon at
cameron.neylon at curtin.edu.au

Regards,
Steven

-- 
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Professor Steven Tingay
John Curtin Distinguished Professor

Executive Director
Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy
Curtin University
Bentley, Western Australia
Australia

Deputy Executive Director
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

Street address:
Brodie Hall building
1 Turner Ave
Technology Park
Bentley 6102
Western Australia

Email:  S.Tingay at curtin.edu.au <s.tingay at curtin.edu.au>
            Steven.Tingay at icrar.org

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Phone: +61 (0)8 9266 4908

Mobile: +61 (0)401 103635
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From mmurphy at swin.edu.au  Thu Jul 16 13:49:24 2020
From: mmurphy at swin.edu.au (Michael Murphy)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:49:24 +1000
Subject: [ASA] UVES 20 Years Workshop
Message-ID: <CAF1-tB_Yt9wS-TA-va=mrivpYjgVtJXhzHWUk5HdUmb+C6=2zw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear ASA members,

Please find below details of ESO's "UVES 20 Years Workshop" on October 21 &
22. UVES is the high-resolution slit spectrograph on the VLT UT2 telescope.
Please register if you are interested and/or forward this opportunity to
others who may be.

I think the most important part will be the discussion about the future of
UVES. As none of the planned ELTs will offer much sensitivity in the UV
(<~3800?), an upgraded UVES is likely to remain important over the next 20
years. There should also be opportunities for Australia to partner in the
upgrade process, some of which is already being planned.

Thanks,

Michael.


*To: *"uves2020 at eso.org" <uves2020 at eso.org>
*Subject: *[Uves2020] First announcement: UVES 20 Years Workshop

Dear all,

*The conference registration* for the UVES 20 Years Workshop (UVES2020), to
be held virtually at ESO Garching, 21 and 22 October 2020,* is now open*!
Please register here:

 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wnoaCWLVXkUkgMNmU6CYpJ?domain=eso.org
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wnoaCWLVXkUkgMNmU6CYpJ?domain=eso.org>

The workshop format will include a series of invited talks on many of the
science cases UVES has contributed to address with view in the next decade,
followed every day by a panel discussion. In order to cover as many time
zones as possible, the workshop will consist of two  three hours sessions,
between 12 and 15 CET.
*Please notice that only the registered participants will be able to
attend the workshop*.

*Workshop rationale*

UVES, the UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph, saw the first light on VLT-UT2 in
2000. Over twenty years, this highly efficient, reliable and flexible
?workhorse? instrument has contributed data to countless science cases from
Solar System to high-redshift objects, from the study of newborn stars to
the analysis of the most primordial ones ever detected, formed shortly
after the Big Bang. It quickly became the most productive ESO instrument in
terms of published papers, a distinction it still holds to this day. For
these reasons UVES is one of the two first-generation VLT instruments
(together with FORS2) foreseen to remain in operation in the next decade,
and it will thus be in need of an upgrade, both to prevent obsolescence of
components, and to maintain its competitiveness in a changed scientific and
instrumental landscape. In this virtual  workshop we intend to celebrate 20
years of great UVES science and envision the future role of the instrument.
Ten prominent scientists will resume the history of UVES, outline the
scientific highlights of its long career and offer their insights on how to
best equip it to help tackle the scientific questions of the next decade. A
final discussion session will address the possible future instrumental
upgrades, to balance technical constraints with scientific needs, and help
to define a set of compelling science cases.



*Invited Speakers*

   - Norbert Christlieb (U.Heidelberg)
   - Annalisa De Cia (U. Geneve)
   - Bernard-Alexis Delabre (ESO)
   - Sandro D'Odorico (ESO)
   - Valentina D'Odorico (INAF)
   - Emmanuel Jehin (U. Liege)
   - Michael Murphy (Swinburne U.)
   - Patrick Petitjean (IAP)
   - Sofia Randich (INAF)
   - Else Starkenburg (AIP)



 *SOC*

   - Luca Sbordone (Chair)
   - Vanessa Hill (OCA)
   - Andreas Kaufer (ESO)
   - C?dric Ledoux (ESO)
   - Celine Peroux (ESO)
   - Francesca Primas (ESO)


-- 

Professor Michael T. Murphy,

ARC Future Fellow
<https://www.arc.gov.au/grants/discovery-program/future-fellowships>,
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing,
Swinburne University of Technology,
Mail H29, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia.
@MTMurphy77 <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/qPwtCXLW2mUJy8koCVAXMJ?domain=twitter.com>,
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/OOuPCYW8Noc8Jnj2C9_qYJ?domain=astronomy.swin.edu.au
Pho: +61 (0)3 9214 5818; Mob/Cell: +61 (0)405 214 461.
CRICOS Provider No.: 00111D
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From slava.kitaeff at uwa.edu.au  Thu Jul 16 18:22:00 2020
From: slava.kitaeff at uwa.edu.au (Slava Kitaeff)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:22:00 +0000
Subject: [ASA] Australian radio astronomy data user survey report
Message-ID: <4269EADE-DD40-4C8B-93C3-8698C044D031@uwa.edu.au>

Dear all,


Later last year Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC) Design Study Program undertook a survey of the radio astronomy data user community in Australia for the purposes of obtaining a feedback that would inform the development of AusSRC. The results based on seventy-four responses, conclusions and future actions obtained from the survey are detailed in the report, which now can be downloaded https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dSEGCK1DvKTJq4jPfMMmAG?domain=aussrc.org.



Kind regards,

Slava

________________________________

Dr Slava Kitaeff
Australian SKA Regional Centre Program Manager

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
The University of Western Australia

Astronomy and Space Science
CSIRO

Email: slava.kitaeff at icrar.org<mailto:slava.kitaeff at icrar.org> or slava.kitaeff at csiro.au<mailto:slava.kitaeff at csiro.au>
Tel.: (+61) (0) 8 6488 7744 (ICRAR) or (+61) (0) 8 6436 8865 (CSIRO)
Mob.: +61 404 297 414

Mailing addresses:
M468, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia, or
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, PO Box 1130, Bentley WA 6102, Australia

ICRAR: Discovering the hidden Universe through radio astronomy
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From nick.seymour at curtin.edu.au  Fri Jul 17 11:32:24 2020
From: nick.seymour at curtin.edu.au (Nicholas Seymour)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:32:24 +0800
Subject: [ASA] PhD Opportunities in Astronomy & Radio Astronomy Engineering
 at the ICRAR, Curtin University node
Message-ID: <BCC21C82-A350-47AC-A02A-8C3E85A59719@curtin.edu.au>


Dear Colleagues,

[Please forward this to any interested students]
We invite well-qualified students of any nationality to apply to the PhD program at Curtin University's Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA) based in Perth, Australia, to work on radio astronomy or radio astronomy engineering. We have a wide range of potential PhD projects to choose from. <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9UIXCMwGxOtlxp63HwMSxF?domain=astronomy.curtin.edu.au>
CIRA forms one half of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/50iQCNLJyQURVYM3H4sZ3h?domain=icrar.org>), a joint venture between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia. Curtin University operates the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TdKDCOMKzVTG5D2xskU0fN?domain=mwatelescope.org>), the precursor to the low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/YV4hCP7LAXflvB5XHjn00l?domain=astronomers.skatelescope.org>), and supports a large research group spanning radio astronomy (galactic, extragalactic), pulsars, accretion physics, studies of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR), and radio astronomy engineering research including significant participation in developing systems (hardware and software) for the SKA.

Please note this is a two stage process:

Review the projects listed here <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9UIXCMwGxOtlxp63HwMSxF?domain=astronomy.curtin.edu.au/>. Prospective students should contact potential supervisors by 15th August 2020 with a detailed CV, transcripts of undergraduate (and Masters?) studies and a paragraph on why they are interested in that project. Unfilled projects will remain open until the scholarship deadline in step 2. 
Once confirmed as the preferred choice for a given project by a supervisor, students may proceed with the scholarship application.  Detailed instructions on how to apply for the Research Training Programme (RTP) scholarship may be found here <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ntqVCQnMBZfxBnNPIr7Euk?domain=scholarships.curtin.edu.au>. The deadline for the scholarship application is 1st September 2020.

CIRA is committed to equity and diversity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. 

Please send any general enquiries to AppPhD_CIRA at curtin.edu.au <mailto:AppPhD_CIRA at curtin.edu.au>.

Regards,

Nick


Dr Nick Seymour | CIRA

Curtin University
Tel | +61 8 9266 3736 

Email | nick.seymour at curtin.edu.au <file:///C:/Users/225663b/AppData/Local/Temp/yournamehere at curtin.edu.au> 
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From joanna.ashbourn at stx.ox.ac.uk  Fri Jul 17 19:33:14 2020
From: joanna.ashbourn at stx.ox.ac.uk (Joanna Ashbourn)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:33:14 +0000
Subject: [ASA] Nobel Laureate Discussion Panel notice
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HAPP NOBEL LAUREATE DISCUSSION PANEL


HAPP will be holding its first virtual event online by Zoom with a Nobel Laureate Discussion Panel
on "The Greatest Physics Discoveries of the 20th Century" on Friday 31st July from 5-7 pm BST.


A Nobel Laureate panel will discuss their choices for "The Greatest Physics Discoveries of the
20th Century" and confirmed panellists are:

Professor Steven Weinberg ForMemRS (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979)

Professor William Phillips (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997)

Professor Sir Anthony Leggett FRS (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003)

Professor John Mather (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2006)


Confirmed discussants are:

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS FRSE (University of Oxford)

Professor S. James Gates Jr (Brown University)

Professor Chung-Pei Ma (University of California, Berkeley)



The full programme is available at:

https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/UOhuC3QNPBiB2AOAIgBH7R?domain=stx.ox.ac.uk


and registration for the conference can be made at the following webpage:

https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vE0SC4QOPEiol0q0Ixe3hf?domain=oxforduniversitystores.co.uk