[ASA] IAU Early Career Astronomer (ECA) Online Discourse Series

[Themiya Nanayakkara]

Dear ASA, 

The IAU Junior Member Working Group is organising a series of workshops in a variety of topics catered at the Early Career Researchers. The first 4 workshops are now announced and are in large  Australian friendly times. All videos will be available online if you can’t make it to the live event:

 - "The IAU: What does it do? How to get involved?" & "Careers discussion”: Thursday October 15th, 2020: 8:00-9:00 UTC:  
Prof Dr. Ewine F. van Dishoeck (IAU President; Leiden University)
Prof. Dr. Maria Teresa V. T. Lago (IAU General Secretary; University of Porto)

-  "Careering through astrophysics”: Thursday October 22nd, 2020: 8:00-9:00 UTC: 
Prof. Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford)

-  "ESO: the most powerful telescopes and a community of practice”: Thursday October 29th, 2020: 9:00-10:00 UTC
Prof. Dr. Xavier Barcons (ESO Director General)

- "How to present online?’: Thursday November 12th, 2020: 9:00-11:00 UTC / 10:00-12:00 CET
Hans Van de Water (The Floor is Yours) https://thefloorisyours.be/en/ <https://thefloorisyours.be/en/> 

More details can be found in the attached flyer. 
Please register here: https://forms.gle/KHsjyu2jm3ogCdkq9 <https://forms.gle/KHsjyu2jm3ogCdkq9> and feel free to spread the word to non-ASA members. 


Also if you are within your first 6 years of PhD and would like to consider joining as an IAU Junior Member, the membership call is now open:  https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann20035/?lang <https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann20035/?lang> and the NCA (Virginia) will send more details on the Australian joining process. 

Please let us know if you have any questions, both me and Ellie (eleanor.sansom at curtin.edu.au <mailto:eleanor.sansom at curtin.edu.au> ) are in the organising committee. 

Thanks,

Themiya. 




> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: IAU Junior Member WG <no-reply at iau.org>
> Subject: IAU Early Career Astronomer (ECA) Online Discourse Series
> Date: 10 October 2020 at 12:59:48 am AEDT
> To: themiyananayakkara at gmail.com
> Reply-To: iaujuniormember at gmail.com
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> Dear fellow IAU Junior Members,
> 
>  
> We have another exciting set of events in store for you! We hereby proudly present to you the IAU Early Career Astronomer (ECA) Online Discourse Series. This virtual series will contain career discussions in academia and industry, multifaceted science highlights, professional development trainings, and more. All will be tailored to our community of early career astronomers. The kick-off line up has 4 scheduled events and full descriptions are provided in the attachment.
> 
>  
> Thursday October 15th, 2020: 8:00-9:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 CEST
> 
> "The IAU: What does it do? How to get involved?" & "Careers discussion"
> 
> Prof Dr. Ewine F. van Dishoeck (IAU President; Leiden University)
> 
> Prof. Dr. Maria Teresa V. T. Lago (IAU General Secretary; University of Porto)
> 
>  
> Thursday October 22nd, 2020: 8:00-9:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 CEST
> 
> "Careering through astrophysics"
> 
> Prof. Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford)
> 
>  
> Thursday October 29th, 2020: 9:00-10:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 CET
> 
> "ESO: the most powerful telescopes and a community of practice"
> 
> Prof. Dr. Xavier Barcons (ESO Director General)
> 
>  
> Thursday November 12th, 2020: 9:00-11:00 UTC / 10:00-12:00 CET
> 
> Workshop "How to present online?’
> 
> Hans Van de Water (The Floor is Yours)
> 
>  
> Participation is free. All you have to do is fill out the event registration form:
> 
> https://forms.gle/KHsjyu2jm3ogCdkq9 <https://forms.gle/KHsjyu2jm3ogCdkq9>
> The discourses will be made available to you via Zoom and Youtube.
> 
>  
> We look forward to many of you joining us for this exciting series!
> 
>  
> Warm regards,
> 
> Maria Drozdovskaya & Fatoumata Kebe, co-Chairs
> 
> On behalf of the entire Organizing Committee:
> 
> Camilla Danielski, Christopher Moore, Eleanor Sansom, Gaël Buldgen, Sudeshna Boro Saikia, Themiya Nanayakkara
> 
>  
>  
> P.S.: (1) If you cannot join due to your time zone, recordings will be made available. (2) We plan on organizing more events that are spread across different time zones.
> 

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