From eogrady at swin.edu.au Tue Apr 13 10:40:19 2021 From: eogrady at swin.edu.au (Erin O'Grady) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:40:19 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Registration & Abstract Submission now open: 14th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi14) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues On behalf of the Local and Scientific Organising committee, this is the first announcement that Registration and Abstract submission is now open for the 14th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi14). Please visit the Amaldi14 website to register https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dkLACgZ0N1iAYGVZXuN3P09?domain=amaldi14.org. The Amaldi14 website will be updated as the program is finalised. If you have any questions please email info at ozgrav.org. Kind regards Erin On behalf of the Local & Scientific Organising Committees Erin O'Grady | Executive Assistant ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) Faculty of Science Engineering and Technology Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn Vic 3122 Ph: +61 3 9214 8246 [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/yBNGCjZ1N7inyRpQLiRiRB7?domain=docs.google.com] (CRICOS Provider 00111D) Please note I work Monday, Tuesday & Thursday I acknowledge and pay respect to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which Swinburne Campuses are located. I also acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait nations across Australia, their Elders, Ancestors, cultures and heritage. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aduffy at swin.edu.au Tue Apr 13 11:54:11 2021 From: aduffy at swin.edu.au (Alan Duffy) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 01:54:11 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Bushfire Data Challenge Message-ID: <42DF9F8D-F04F-445E-BD0E-7E3092CCB136@swin.edu.au> Dear ASA colleagues, Together with Microsoft and EY, a Data Challenge has now opened to use AI to combat bushfire. This 2021 Better Working World Data Challenge will see participants develop an automated fire-edge detection and forecasting model using airborne and satellite imagery from NASA, the European Space Agency, and Geoscience Australia to help tackle the global threat of bushfires. This call is open to staff and postgrad/undergrad students alike (ideally in small teams) with everyone provided with cleaned satellite data, linescan IR imagery from the CFA, and computer credits on Microsoft?s Azure platform. Outcomes include potential cash prizes, mentoring from EY for top finalists and of course demonstrated skills for future data science roles. For most of us of course the greatest outcome will be knowing you have helped combat bushfire! Enter: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GmWBCzvkyVCMmw8JKI4kmzT?domain=ey.com Good luck! Cheers Alan ======================================== Prof Alan Duffy Director, Space Technology and Industry Institute Lead Scientist, The Royal Institution of Australia Mail Number H29, PO Box 218 Swinburne University of Technology Vic 3122, Australia Email: mail at alanrduffy.com Web: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TMaJCANpgjCN1lr7jC8uR8X?domain=alanrduffy.com Twitter: @astroduff ======================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rpearse at swin.edu.au Tue Apr 13 15:06:44 2021 From: rpearse at swin.edu.au (Romy Pearse) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 05:06:44 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Call for international expressions of interest to engage with the AAT Message-ID: <6E21C1C8-4A47-447D-9309-6E14F9914A5A@swin.edu.au> [A picture containing drawing Description automatically generated] Dear all, The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) Consortium is currently seeking expressions of interest from international groups to engage with the AAT facility through pay-for-access arrangements from July 2022. We ask those astronomers who receive this email to please circulate it to your international contacts or get in touch with AAL if you know of those who may be interested. The AAT is a 3.9m equatorially-mounted Cassegrain reflector, located at Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, Australia. It can be accessed via remote observing from nodes around the world. The telescope is operated by the Australian National University on behalf of the funding Consortium, which at present comprises 13 Australian universities. The AAT currently offers four facility-class spectrographic instruments: AAOmega (with 2dF or Koala), Hermes and Veloce. The new Hector spectrograph is expected to come online in 2021. The attached flyer gives more details about these instruments and their capabilities. Requests for the use of visitor instruments on the AAT will also be considered. As part of this call, we welcome proposals and are open to conversations regarding conditions of access, including joining the Consortium as a full partner, medium-to-long-term paid-time contracts, data-sharing or access, or other innovative arrangements. These may also include potential public outreach components. If you are interested in seeking access on the AAT, please contact Dr Lucyna Chudczer, AAL?s Program Manager for the AAT (lucyna.chudczer at astronomyaustralia.org.au), by May 31 2021. Please include an expression of interest (up to 2 pages) detailing how you wish to use the telescope; this may involve instruments of interest, length/time of proposed use, research details or the outreach component, and level and source of potential funding support. For more information regarding the AAT, including available instruments and capabilities, please visit: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TFIpCXLW2mUXMq3q8s69iyy?domain=aat.anu.edu.au Kind regards, Romy Pearse ______________________________________________ Romy Pearse Communications Manager Astronomy Australia Ltd T: 03 9214 8485 E: romy.pearse at astronomyaustralia.org.au W: astronomyaustralia.org.au P: P.O. 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An outcome of this event is to see the creation of an astronomy Community of Practice where groups can connect and discuss topics of their interest, share best practices and answer questions on astronomy and HPC. This session will be facilitated by Professor Alan Duffy, who will host the following panel: * Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, Curtin University * Dr Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Center (Lead of the Quantum Computing team) * Dr Elaine Sadler, CSIRO (ATNF Chief Scientist at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science) They will discuss: * Astronomy and their research * Current limitations and the potential of supercomputers to overcome them * The next generation of astronomy research Register here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/75PbCp81lrtnxvrjYfPtz9T?domain=pawsey.org.au/ If you have any issues, please email help at pawsey.org.au We look forward to seeing you at our event. Cheers, Lachlan. Dr Lachlan Campbell Astronomy Specialist [cid:5c94cb3b-76e4-4c8d-9f2d-c7699b6839af] Tel: +61 8 6436 8606 Pawsey Supercomputing Centre 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Technology Park Kensington WA 6151 pawsey.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Outlook-glcorobe.png Type: image/png Size: 57128 bytes Desc: Outlook-glcorobe.png URL: From Ivy.Wong at csiro.au Wed Apr 14 14:03:07 2021 From: Ivy.Wong at csiro.au (Wong, Ivy (CASS, Kensington WA)) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 04:03:07 +0000 Subject: [ASA] Co-funded PhD position available in sunny Perth! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear ASA colleagues, Hope this finds you all well. I am writing to let you all know that I am advertising for another joint ICRAR/UWA + CASS/ATNF PhD student through the UWA UPA co-funding scheme to work with us on an ASKAP WALLABY-related radio astronomy project (ref: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/8ghdC3QNPBipRYGQ3tguRIl?domain=tinyurl.com). The deadline for emailing me is mid-May 2021 for a start before 30 August 2021. This could be of interest to candidates who narrowly missed out in the last round of RTPs or APAs. If you know of any interested & eligible candidates (currently residing in Australia), I would be most grateful if you are able to pass this information along. Thanks in advance. cheers, Ivy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr O. Ivy Wong Science leader CSIRO Astronomy Space Science PO Box 1130, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, AUSTRALIA Adjunct SRF, ICRAR/University of Western Australia, WA 6009 Phone: +61-8-64368602 or +61-402-828363 Email: ivy.wong at csiro.au> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From b.pope at uq.edu.au Wed Apr 14 16:55:06 2021 From: b.pope at uq.edu.au (Benjamin Pope) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 06:55:06 +0000 Subject: [ASA] PhD Positions in Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics at UQ Message-ID: Dear ASA colleagues, I'm very happy to say that we have two PhD positions available at UQ. Perhaps you would like to pass this information on to any bright students interested in exoplanets who might not have been able to find RTP funding. These studentships are associated with my ARC DECRA project "Getting to Know the Neighbours: Naked-Eye Stars and Their Planets", which aims to use TESS, Kepler, JWST, and ground-based observations to study the brightest stars in the sky, with a view to both stellar physics and exoplanetary science. Possible student projects on this theme could be construed in quite a broad sense, and might include very computational work developing new data analysis techniques, or more classical astronomy applying our techniques to observations. Can we get JWST to look at targets that are ordinarily too bright, like the asteroid Ceres? Can do we do asteroseismology from sparse, irregularly-sampled data? What can we learn from TESS about the stars visible to the naked eye? The DECRA studentships are open to people of any citizenship, but regrettably they have to be resident in Australia at the time of application due to COVID restrictions. I am of course very happy to take students with RTPs as well! Funding commences in July 2021, and I'd hope to be able to recruit students to start soon after this but there is some flexibility. Kind regards, Benjamin Pope -------------------------------------------- Dr Benjamin Pope (he/him) Lecturer in Astrophysics School of Mathematics & Physics University of Queensland benjaminpope.github.io -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au Wed Apr 14 19:50:35 2021 From: Cathryn.Trott at curtin.edu.au (Cathryn Trott) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:50:35 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASA COVID Fund - Call for Applications Message-ID: Dear ASA Members, In recognition of the ongoing professional difficulties experienced by some members due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ASA is operating another round of funding through the ASA COVID Fund. In consultation with the ASA ECR Chapter, we have developed a set of COVID Fund Guidelines (attached) with the aim to make the fund conditions more transparent and accessible. The current round is for expenses incurred in the period January 1, 2021 - June 30, 2021. Applications will be considered as they are received. Prioritisation of individuals Students and ECRs (within five years FTE of PhD) will be strongly prioritised. More senior members with a very compelling case may also be considered. Funding level Individual payments, up to $1,500, with the expectation that most requests would be substantially less than this amount. Members can apply in more than one funding round, if funds are available, but the total integrated funding per individual is capped at $1,500. 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The announcement of $387 million in funding over 10 years will ensure Australia meets its commitments to the SKA as it moves into the construction phase in the second half of this year, with construction due to begin on site in Western Australia in early 2022. Overall, hosting this internationally funded project will see $1.8 billion of additional foreign income flow into Australia over the coming 30 years. The announcement includes a $64.4m investment in the Australian SKA Regional Centre (or AusSRC), a node of the global SKA Regional Centre network that will work with researchers to maximise scientific impact from SKA science data. This data processing centre will build expertise to handle the enormous flows of complex data from the SKA, securing opportunities for Australians to gain experience in advanced data analysis and other skills in demand in sectors from finance to mining. The government also announced further investments in site readiness and local communities. This will ensure that Australia delivers a scientifically excellent telescope site while protecting Indigenous heritage. Part of the investment will leverage the Australian SKA site's fibre optic connection to provide connectivity for two communities nearby to the site - the Pia Wadjarri Remote Aboriginal Community and the Murchison Settlement. This investment will support economic development in the region and protect the radio quietness of the Observatory. This is exciting news for SKA and for Australia. The new budget measure will ensure that the project gets off to a fantastic start and that benefits flow to Australian researchers, businesses and communities. In the coming months, we expect to start seeing the start of procurement opportunities managed by the international SKA Observatory, in preparation for work to begin at Australia's SKA site early next year. As information becomes available about those processes we will share it with the Australasian SKA Industry Cluster (ASKAIC). You can find a link to sign up to ASKAIC and receive updates on www.ska.gov.au. Even as we receive this good news, we acknowledge the impact of ex-Tropical Cyclone Seroja upon communities in WA. All staff at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and CSIRO facilities in Geraldton have confirmed they are safe. While power disconnections and road closures have caused some disruption, we have had no reports of serious damage at the MRO. Our thoughts are with local communities as they deal with the impact of this event. Hosting this ambitious mega-science project in Australia is an honour and an opportunity. We have already seen big discoveries from the SKA precursors, many of them by research teams led by Australian scientists. 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The role is for up to 12 months at this stage. Please email me if you're interested. More details and apply here: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tusmCp81lrtnx7wkMFPqN14?domain=mq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.mcdermid at mq.edu.au Fri Apr 16 12:56:46 2021 From: richard.mcdermid at mq.edu.au (Richard McDermid) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 02:56:46 +0000 Subject: [ASA] 2021 MAVIS Science Workshop, July 5-9th Message-ID: 2021 MAVIS Science Workshop We welcome the participation of the astronomical community to the 2021 MAVIS Science Workshop, to be held online during the week of July 5-9th, 2021 (Detailed schedule to follow). REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION (deadline May 30, 2021 - no registration fees): https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/y9_FCnx1jni76ZNM1u9baxM?domain=indico.ict.inaf.it Rationale MAVIS (MCAO Assisted Visible Imager and Spectrograph) is a forthcoming facility instrument for the ESO?s VLT AOF (Adaptive Optics Facility, UT4 Yepun) currently starting Phase B. MAVIS comprises two main parts: a Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system, pushing AO into the visible on a large field of view and over a significant fraction of the sky; and its post-focal instrumentation, featuring a 30"x30" imager, and a versatile integral field spectrograph (3? or 6? square field, R~5,000-15,000), both covering the visible part of the spectrum (370-1000nm) at the diffraction limit of the VLT. More information can be found on MAVIS blog page (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/By_9CoV1kpfrKV3x1TzvTS6?domain=mavis-ao.org). With its unique parameter space, MAVIS is foreseen to cover broad science cases, from solar system objects to high redshift galaxies, as highlighted in the current MAVIS Science Case (https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Jp0QCp81lrtnx03XJUYskfQ?domain=arxiv.org). This workshop aims at bringing together the scientific community and discussing the key science cases where MAVIS will have a strong impact due to its unparalleled capabilities, as well as identifying the areas where it will provide unique synergies with existing and forthcoming facilities such as ELTs and JWST. The workshop is an opportunity to engage the community and push forward the MAVIS project. Format and Contributions Given the current pandemic situation, the meeting will be fully online. To optimize the scientific outcome of the workshop and overcome limitations due to different time zones, the meeting will have pre-recorded contributions, available in advance, and live sessions mainly focused on discussion and interaction among participants. As part of the registration, participants are strongly encouraged to provide a short abstract describing the science questions and topics they would like to address with MAVIS. The recorded talks will be informal, and can be up to 15 minutes in length. Shorter contributions are also welcomed. Live sessions will be held over a series of consecutive days, during an overlapping time window suitable for both east-coast Australia and Europe (most likely 6-9pm Australian Eastern Standard Time / 10am-1pm Central European Time). A detailed schedule will be made available closer to the meeting, though we expect to discuss the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: ? Galaxies at high redshift ? Evolution of galaxy structure ? Interstellar medium of galaxies ? Resolved stellar populations in galaxies ? Intermediate Mass Black Holes ? Supermassive Black Holes ? Feedback mechanisms in galaxies ? Star clusters across cosmic time ? Stellar abundances ? Circumstellar environments ? Solar system bodies ? Synergies with current and future facilities We invite you to circulate this first announcement among your colleagues. We apologize if you receive this more than once. For any questions, do not hesitate to contact: richard.mcdermid at mq.edu.au or giovanni.cresci at inaf.it. 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