From jeffrey.simpson at unsw.edu.au Mon May 17 12:08:41 2021 From: jeffrey.simpson at unsw.edu.au (Jeffrey Simpson) Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 02:08:41 +0000 Subject: [ASA] REMINDER: 2021 GALAH Survey Science Meeting (22 to 24 June) In-Reply-To: <7A9B2586-E31E-454F-9FBF-FE548833403D@unsw.edu.au> References: <7A9B2586-E31E-454F-9FBF-FE548833403D@unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: <92E5E523-CF35-4468-90EE-BF3DDC32D0FA@unsw.edu.au> Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the GALAH Survey Science Meeting closes this Friday 21 May. This conference will use a hybrid format. For our Australian and New Zealand colleagues, we will be meeting in-person on the campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 22 to 24 June 2021. For our international colleagues, you will be able to participate virtually. To allow people to speak at a time friendlier to their time zone, we will dedicate sessions at the start and end of each day for the Americas and Europe/Africa respectively. With permission, all talks will be recorded and put on an unlisted YouTube channel for people who could not watch them in real time. The 2021 GALAH Science Meeting will be free to attend. Please register using this form https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0xbjC91WPRTkx1krKfoXwqR?domain=forms.office.com to indicate how you will be attending and if you would like to present your work. We now have the following confirmed invited speakers: Tobias Buck (AIP) Sven Buder (ANU) Emily Cunningham (Flatiron) Diane Feuillet (Lund Observatory) Keith Hawkins (University of Texas at Austin) Paula Jofr? (Universidad Diego Portales) Tadafumi Matsuno (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) Melissa Ness (Columbia University) Sanjib Sharma (University of Sydney) See our website for all the details on the conference https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1balC0YKPviG48GYWCDqEMe?domain=2021-galah-survey.github.io Kind regards Jeffrey Simpson (on behalf of the organizing committee) On 27 Apr 2021, at 11:18 am, Jeffrey Simpson > wrote: Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 2021 GALAH Survey Science Meeting, to be held from 22 to 24 June 2021. It will have a hybrid format with people both online, and meeting in-person in Sydney, Australia. The GALAH Survey is an ongoing, ambitious stellar spectroscopic survey of the local Galactic volume, acquiring high-resolution optical spectra for over one million stars with the HERMES spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. GALAH had its Third Data Release in November 2020, which provided reduced spectra, stellar parameters, elemental abundances, and radial velocities for about 600000 stars. Subsequent to this release was the Third Early Data Release from the Gaia astrometric mission. The combination of these two data releases has provided an unprecedented view of our Galaxy. This conference aims to bring together researchers to present the latest research taking place using the GALAH survey, Gaia, and other stellar surveys. The GALAH Survey and other stellar surveys facilitate a wide breadth of topics. Scientific themes we are interested in talks on include: * Galactic chemical evolution * Galactic chemodynamics * Galactic migration * The accreted halo * Stellar streams This conference will use a hybrid format. For our Australian and New Zealand colleagues, we will be meeting in-person on the campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 22 to 24 June 2021. For our international colleagues, it will highly unlikely that you will be able to travel to Australia, so you will be able to present and participate virtually. We will set aside time at the start and end of day for people to present via zoom at times friendly to your time zone. If the COVID-19 situation changes in Sydney, we will move the conference to fully online. The 2021 GALAH Science Meeting will be free to attend. Please register using this form https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0xbjC91WPRTkx1krKfoXwqR?domain=forms.office.com to indicate how you will be attending and if you would like to present your work. If you wish to be considered for a presentation slot, please complete the form by Friday 21 May; otherwise, please complete the form by 11 June. There will be some travel support available for people travelling from outside of NSW, with preference given to early career researchers presenting their work. We will also have free on-site childcare. Up-to-date information on the schedule and logistics can be found at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1balC0YKPviG48GYWCDqEMe?domain=2021-galah-survey.github.io Please distribute this to people who would be interested in attending or presenting. Kind regards Jeffrey Simpson (on behalf of the organizing committee) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From msinha at swin.edu.au Mon May 17 15:15:20 2021 From: msinha at swin.edu.au (Manodeep Sinha) Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 05:15:20 +0000 Subject: [ASA] ASA ECR Chapter Elections 2021 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The Early Career Researcher (ECR) Chapter of the ASA is inviting nominations for five positions on the Chapter Steering Committee - student representative, senior representative, and three ordinary committee members. The ECR 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, 2018, 2020), an 'Astronomers in Industry' group for perspectives and advice on moving into industry, a scheme for providing feedback on writing (2019), the annual 'Speed-Meet-a-Mentor' session at the ASA meeting, and a mentoring scheme for 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). This year we are looking for 3 ordinary members, the student representative and the 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 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/iLxfCvl1rKi74G8v6HQKxcN?domain=asa.astronomy.org.au. Manodeep Sinha will be the returning officer for this election. Please send all nominations via email to msinha at swin.edu.au by Friday 4 June, 2021. 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Highlights include: * Some kind of Meta Talk on Climate Science featuring Dr Karl S. Kruszelnicki, Julius Sumner Miller Fellow and Prof Peter Tuthill, (both University of Sydney) * An industry engagement session presented by AAL * A sustainability seminar and challenge with $$$ prizes * Mental health discussions * Rainbow Astronomy get-togethers Scientific Organising Committee * Christian Reichardt (University of Melbourne, Co-Chair) * Emma Ryan-Weber (Swinburne University of Technology, Co-Chair) * Nichole Barry (University of Melbourne) * Jackie Bondell (Swinburne University of Technology) * Barbara Catinella (University of Western Australia) * Andrew Cole (University of Tasmania) * Christoph Federrath (Australian National University) * Devika Kamath (Macquarie University) * Ivo Rolf Seitenzahl (University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy) * Khaled Said Soliman (University of Queensland) * Linqing Wen (University of Western Australia) Local Organising Committee * Christian Reichardt (University of Melbourne) * Rachel Webster (University of Melbourne) * Kim Dorrell (University of Melbourne) * Hub Contacts (tbc - please check website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AjoqCZY1Nqi5xq9Zrsz5Emd?domain=blogs.unimelb.edu.au/ ) Venue Information Participants are welcome to attend an in-person hub from any location (subject to local COVID travel and visitor guidelines and the policy of their home institution). Hubs will be located at: * Brisbane (Qld) - University of Queensland (tbc) * Sydney (NSW) - AAO Macquarie * Canberra (ACT) - RSAA, Mt Stromlo * Melbourne (VIC) - University of Melbourne (event hosts) * Perth (WA) - ARRC Building, CSIRO All talks and activities advertised as part of the national programme will also be broadcast via Zoom. Links will be sent out to registered participants prior to each day of the meeting. Local hubs may also organise social and other events that will not be available virtually. Registration Costs * In-person hub participation (Full ASA Members) - $150 plus GST includes daily lunches and refreshments * Online-only participation (Full ASA Members) - $50 plus GST * In-person hub participation (Student/Retired ASA Members) - NO CHARGE includes daily lunches and refreshments * Online-only participation (Student/Retired ASA Members) - NO CHARGE To register and submit an abstract or poster: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/qJSqC1WLPxcMOANy2hGe-DD?domain=blogs.unimelb.edu.au We can't to wait to see you either online or in person somewhere around the country! 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[The panel will take question and suggestions live, but we would also like to line up some questions from the audience beforehand. Please email Isobel Romero-Shaw to suggest questions for the panel.] On June 10 and June 17, Paul Hancock and Rebecca Lange from ADACS we will provide tutorials on high-performance computing, profiling, optimisation, and related topics. The registration for the school is now open. Please register by filling in the following form: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/NDaMC71R2NTAy0LBBf8gERV?domain=docs.google.com Even those who have previously expressed their interest should register, as we have a limited number of slots for the school. A meeting link and additional information will be emailed to registered participants closer to the start date. Best wishes, Ilya (ANITA chair) on behalf of the ANITA steering committee and the school organisers ? Isobel, Greg, Paul, Rebecca and Darren From matt.roth at anu.edu.au Thu May 20 11:48:45 2021 From: matt.roth at anu.edu.au (Matt Roth) Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 11:48:45 +1000 Subject: [ASA] CTA-UK Science Meeting 24-25 June 2021 Message-ID: <44a2e76f-6aa7-faa3-c833-c28f5fef3b9f@anu.edu.au> Good morning all, The IOP Astroparticle Physics Group is running the Cherenkov Telescope Array UK Science Meeting on 24-25 June 2021 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/H4XrCmO5gluj6Xm1YFGknpJ?domain=cta2021.iopconfs.org . There are a broad range of topics on the agenda and registration is free. The timing is also relatively civil, with a 7pm and 6:30pm start (AEST) respectively, running into the wee hours of the morning. We are currently looking for poster presentations on topics broadly related to the CTA science goals (e.g. cosmic rays, gamma-rays, sources, etc.). Abstract submission closes on 31 May https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gwCdCnx1jni7xwJlLHJLwPf?domain=cta2021.iopconfs.org . This is an excellent opportunity for students to showcase your science to an audience outside of Australia and make some valuable connections overseas. Best regards, Matt -- Matt Roth Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics The Australian National University Mount Stromlo Observatory, Cotter Road, Stromlo ACT 2611, Australia M +61 474 117 189 matt.roth at anu.edu.au From paul.lasky at monash.edu Fri May 21 11:50:53 2021 From: paul.lasky at monash.edu (Paul Lasky) Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 11:50:53 +1000 Subject: [ASA] postdoc position at Monash Message-ID: Hi All, Please see below an advertisement for a one-year postdoc position working with me at Monash University. The position description is very broad, and includes gravitational-wave astronomy, black hole/neutron star physics, high energy astrophysics, gamma-ray bursts, pulsar timing, tests of GR, etc, etc. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tKcaCr81nyt840Dg7T7nYlZ?domain=careers.pageuppeople.com The closing date for applications is Sunday June 6. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries! Best wishes, Paul ============================= A/Prof Paul Lasky ARC Future Fellow School of Physics and Astronomy Monash University 10 College Walk, Rm 138 https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Xpx2Cvl1rKi7rjyQqSXRDv_?domain=users.monash.edu.au tel. +61 (0)3 9905 0770 ============================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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