Harley Wood School of Astronomy (HWSA)

Fri 9th July – Sun 11th July 2021
Face to face meeting at La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga campus (Vic/NSW border); Online participation available too.

ASA

Mon 12th July – Fri 16th July 2021
Hubs in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth, or Online
Hosted by the School of Physics at The University of Melbourne

Welcome to the website for the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) 2021. This meeting will be held in five hubs across Australia, as well as online, between 12-16th July, 2021.

The last year with COVID has presented unique challenges for astronomy and for all of us. Nonetheless, exciting research has continued to be done through these trying times. The ARC Centres of Excellence ASTRO-3D and OzGrav are in full swing, and proposals for new centres being put together. Australia continues to benefit from joining ESO in 2017, and looks forward to large international observatories, SKA and GMT, later this decade.

This meeting aims to bring together astronomers across Australia to build connections, to spark new ideas, and to share the latest research, even as COVID makes it harder to meet in person. We hope this meeting can trial new approaches to conferences that may reduce Astronomy’s carbon footprint in the future, while still fostering collaboration within our community.

Key dates:

Registration fees are:

Daily lunches and refreshments will be provided to in-person registrees at the hubs.

Contacts

SOC    Christian Reichardt and Emma Ryan-Weber
LOC    Kim Dorrell

The full schedule can be found here.

A calendar of events is below.

Note: A playlist of the videos can be found here.

Aditya Manuwal	Alexandra Moroianu	Alison Wong
Aman Chokshi	Andrew Cameron	Anna Syme
Balu Sreedhar	Brad Carter	Brett Addison
Danica Scott	Daniele d’Antonio (NB: The poster pdf doesn’t show up properly in Firefox. Please download or use a different browser.)	Eduardo Schiappucci
Freya North-Hickey	Gavin Rowell	Geray Karademir
Grace Lawrence	Gurvarinder	Hayley Bignall
Himanshi Garg	Ian Hendricksen	Jaimie Rose Sheil
Jake Clark	James Tocknell	Jennifer Hardwick
Jess Thorne	Jimi Green	Jonah Hansen
Joshua Pritchard	Juan Camilo Zapata Trujillo	Juan Espejo
Kai Yang	Kate Harborne	Kathryn Ross
Kosta Servis	Lachlan Marnoch	Madhooshi Senarath
Marcin Sokolowski	Marcus Lower	Mark Casali
Matthew Wilkinson	Melanie Ross	Michael Brown
Michael Kriele	Miguel Gonzalez-Bolivar	Patrick Armstrong
Philip Lah	Rami Alsulami	Rebecca Mayes
Ji-Jia Tang	Romy Pearse	Sarah Martell
Simon Lee	Sonja Panjkov	Sree Oh
Stuart Ryder	Tayyaba Zafar – 1	Tayyaba Zafar – 2
Tiffany Collins	Yuanming Wang	Ziteng Wang
Zixian Wang

ASA Annual Scientific Meeting 2021

Key dates:

Registration fees are:

Daily lunches and refreshments will be provided to in-person registrees at the hubs.

ABSTRACT AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS

• Submissions are now being accepted for the 2021 ASA Annual Science Meeting.
• Contributed talks should be prepared for 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions.
• Please enter your abstract or poster submission via the registration form.
• To help mitigate unconscious bias in the talk selection process, submissions will be collated and forwarded to the SOC without any identifying information.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS HAVE CLOSED

POSTERS will be accepted up until 5.00pm (AEST) on Friday 2nd July.

Instructions for posters can be found here while instructions for talks can be found here.

REGISTRATION
Registration is open (click here), and will remain open until 5pm (AEST) on Friday 2nd July. Abstracts and posters are submitted through the registration form. All participants must register to receive Zoom links (for online attendance) and meals (for in-person attendance). Payment of your registration fees is processed via the links below.

The registration fees are:

Daily lunches and refreshments will be provided to in-person registrees at the hubs.

REFUNDS

Please email kdorrell@unimelb.edu.au if you require a refund. Due to COVID uncertainty, refunds will not be issued until the week after the event. Applications for refund will remail open until Wed 14th July. If your intended in-person hub has to be canceled, you should receive a email detailing steps.

A preliminary list of social activities associated with the ASM will be available shortly.

Due to COVID-related travel uncertainty, most of this year’s registrants will attend a hub centrally located in a capital city, rather than meeting in a central location.

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 are located at:

• Melbourne (VIC) – University of Melbourne (event hosts)
• Canberra (ACT) – RSAA, Mt Stromlo
• Adelaide (SA) – University of Adelaide
• Perth (WA) – Curtin University

Unfortunately, the Sydney and Brisbane hubs had to move online due to covid restrictions.

All talks and activities advertised as part of the national programme will also be broadcast via Zoom. Links are available on the programme. Local hubs may also organise social and other events that will not be available virtually. Hubs will also provide some form of catering and/or refreshments to encourage informal interactions.

If you have questions about your local hub activities please contact the local organisers:

• QLD – h.valiantis@uq.edu.au; k.saidahmedsoliman@uq.edu.au; tamarad@physics.uq.edu.au
• NSW – marie.partridge@sydney.edu.au
• ACT – dougal.mackey@anu.edu.au
• VIC – kdorrell@unimelb.edu.au; r.webster@unimelb.edu.au
• TAS – simon.ellingsen@utas.edu.au ; andrew.cole@utas.edu.au
• SA – gavin.rowell@adelaide.edu.au ; sabrina.einecke@adelaide.edu.au
• WA – Beth.Cloake@csiro.au; George.Heald@csiro.au; Natasha.Hurley-Walker@curtin.edu.au; adam.stevens@uwa.edu.au
• NZ – j.eldridge@auckland.ac.nz

Harley Wood School of Astronomy (HWSA)

TIME/DATES   

Commences 14.30 (AEST) on Friday 9^th July and concludes 12.00 Sunday 11^th July 2021

VENUE 

La Trobe University Albury-Wodonga campus

See: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/albury-wodonga/about

We will meet in a 150 seat lecture theatre which has all AV requirements.

REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED

ORGANISING COMMITTEE (SOC/LOC) 

Christian Reichardt – UMelb

Rachel Webster – UMelb (emergency mobile: 0425 863 209)

Kim Dorrell – UMelb (emergency mobile: 0421 135 145)

Balu Sreedhar – UMelb

Yi Shuen (Christine) Lee – UMelb

Julian Carlin – UMelb

Juan Salcedo – SUT

Giulia Santucci – UNSW

Any questions please contact Kim Dorrell in the first instance.

PROGRAM  

The full schedule can be found here.

ACCOMMODATION 

The on-campus student accommodation will house around 20-25 people (one person per room) depending on availability. However, all linen (and toilet paper) would need to be supplied by the guests. The cost per room per night is approximately $49. There are a couple of motels and caravan parks nearby (short walk away), see below.

La Trobe’s location is marked with the yellow blob.

AU$100 – Big 4 Borderland Holiday Park * – about 200 m walk away. Approximately 20-25 more people could be accommodated here. The cost per person per night ranges from $58 – $95 which includes a 10% discount for a group booking. Sharing preferences will be noted on the registration form.

*CANCELLATION POLICY – If a COVID-19 related border closure or lockdown were declared that required us to cancel the event at short notice, we would get 100% refund of our booking fees. Other cancellations made more than 14 days before the arrival date will also receive a 100% refund. Cancellations received 7-14 days beforehand will forfeit 50% of the accommodation cost.

AU$137 – Econo Lodge Border Gateway

AU$129 – Belvoir Village Motel and Apartments 3*motel

AU$118 – Murray Valley Motel 3*motel

AU$125 – Wodonga Caravan and Cabin Park

AU$140 – Stagecoach Motel Wodonga 4* Hotel

TRANSPORT 

There are several options for people travelling from NSW, ACT and VIC. People from other states can join a group from any of these starting points or make their own arrangements. Transport costs are to be paid by local institutions (ie. not from event budget).

Melbourne -> Wodonga

• Train/Bus

From Southern Cross station to Wodonga station. Travel time is approximately 4 hours 16 minutes (train and then coach). Return cost is $82 (adult) $41 (concession). Reservations are required for this regional service.

Melb -> Wodonga – Dep 09.26   Arr 13.42 (4 hr 16mins)

Wodonga -> Melb – Dep 12.54   Arr 16.40 (3hr 46 mins)

• Car  

Driving time from Melbourne is approximately 3 hr and 27 mins (326.2 km) via M31.

Registrations are closed.

Online participation – NO CHARGE

In-person – $375 per person (+ GST)

Registration fees include:

• Accommodation – Friday and Saturday nights 

This will be in either self-contained student rooms (shared bathrooms and all linen etc required) or on-site cabins or bungalows with separate bedrooms. Some of the larger cabins are two bedroom/twin share. Preferences will be captured on the registration form.

• Meals
  

1. Breakfast (Sat/Sun)
2. Lunch (Sat/Sun)
3. Afternoon tea (Fri)
4. Dinner (Fri/Sat)

Any dietary requirements will be noted at the time of registration.

Drinks at the evening meals will need to be paid for by the attendees.

• Social Activities 

1. Friday evening (weather-permitting) astrophotography tutorial/observing night led by Aman Chokshi (UMelb)
2. Saturday afternoon session at the local Wodonga Bounce indoor trampolining centre (800m – 10 mins walk) or 10-pin bowling (6kms from campus, Uber?)
3. Self-organised walk of the local Botanic Gardens

Your registration is not confirmed until payment has been received in full.

REFUNDS

Please email Kim Dorrell if you require a refund.

• Cancellation requests received by 5pm AEST on Wed 23rd June will be 100% refundable.
• Cancellation requests received by 5pm on Wed 30th June will be 50% refundable.
• Cancellations after 30th June are non-refundable.

CONTACT

Any questions please contact Kim Dorrell in the first instance – 0421 135 145