SPARCS VII: 17-21 July 2017 - Perth, Australia - 3rd announcement - abstracts due by May

[Nicholas Seymour]

[Apologies for any cross-posting]

SPARCS VII: The Precursors Awaken

Continuum and Polarisation Science from SKA Precursors

17-21 July 2017  - Perth, Australia - 3rd announcement

WWW: icrar.org/conferences/sparcs7

Email: spa...@icrar.org

Twitter: #sparcs2017

Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to attend the 7th SKA Pathfinder Radio Continuum Science meeting (SPARCS VII) to be held in Perth, Australia. Registration is open until May 30 and abstracts are due by May 12. Please follow the link on the website above. The aim of this meeting is to gather together researchers from the SKA precursors and pathfinders working in the areas of radio continuum and polarisation science. This will be the seventh meeting of an annual series. SPARCS was setup to share knowledge, techniques and experience on continuum science from the SKA precursors. This year the meeting will include synergy with polarisation surveys, a day of breakouts for planning SKA Key Science Projects, and the ASKAP/EMU collaboration meeting.

Programme:

• July 17: EMU Consortium Meeting
• July 18: Updates from Pathfinders and SPARCS working groups
• July 19: Continuum Science from Pathfinders
• July 20: Polarisation Science from Pathfinders
• July 21: SKA KSP planning (break out sessions): SKA Cosmic Magnetism and Continuum SWG team meeting

Invited Speakers include:

• Bjorn Adebahr (ASTRON) on APERTIF
• Rob Beswick  (Manchester) on eMERLIN 
• Jess Broderick (ASTRON) on LOFAR
• Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) on MWA
• Amy Kimball (NRAO) on JVLA
• Josh Marvil (CSIRO) on ASKAP/EMU
• Cormac Purcell (Macquarie) ASKAP/POSSUM
• Dharam Vir Lal (NCRA) on uGMRT
• TBD on MeerKAT

Scientific Organising Committee:

• Nick Seymour (ICRAR/Curtin chair)
• Claire Chandler (NRAO)
• Yashwant Gupta (NCRA)
• George Heald (CASS)
• Minh Huynh (CASS, ICRAR/UWA)
• Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON)
• Tom Muxlow (Manchester)
• Ray Norris (CASS, WSU)
• Russ Taylor (UWC) 
• Randall Wayth (ICRAR/Curtin)

Key dates:

• Jan 23: 1st Announcement
• Mar 22: 2nd Announcement & Registration opens
• April 28: 3rd Announcement
• May 12: Abstracts due
• May 30: Registration closes and programme announced

We look forward to seeing you in Perth. 

regards,

Nick Seymour, Minh Huynh, George Heald for the SOC