Events

Registration Open for Future of Meetings Symposium

Registration for The Future of Meetings Symposium is still open! This will be a three-day CSIRO-hosted conference held entirely virtually next week on 15th-17th September 2020. It will be an excellent chance to learn more about both best practice for virtual interactions and tools out there that can help you achieve it, plus meet some interesting people you may not otherwise cross paths with. We recognise that effective ways of interacting virtually is an important topic to all of us and would like to bring together a diverse crosssection of the Australian and international community - as such, registration for the conference is free.

Our primary goal with this virtual conference is to address the topic of “the future of meetings” in a holistic, crossdisciplinary way by considering it alongside key related themes of technology, accessibility, inclusivity and sustainability, among others. We have a very exciting and diverse speaker line-up alongside plans for workshops, panels and discussions, and this will definitely be an interesting (and hopefully enjoyable) experiment into developing new standards and practices for effective online events.

Please feel free to circulate information about this meeting to your colleagues and networks, especially if they are from different fields or backgrounds.

By Dr Vanessa Moss (CSIRO)

Save the date! The 2021 SKA Science Conference is coming

We are pleased to announce that the 2021 SKA science meeting, entitled “A precursor view of the SKA sky”, will take place as a fully virtual event, on 15-19 March 2021.

In the year that will mark the establishment of the SKA Observatory, as well as the start of SKA construction activities, we want to bring the focus to science, with the new and exciting results that are being produced by the SKA precursors and pathfinders and their implication for SKA. The format of the meeting will include plenary talks as well as splinter meetings organised by the science working groups. Details on registration and abstract submission will follow shortly. For now, please save the date!

By Dr Anna Bonaldi, on behalf of the Scientific Organising Committee

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Andrei Mesinger Laura Wolz Natasha Hurley-Walker Izaskun Jimenez-Serra George Heald Willem van Straten Jason Hessels Cormac Reynolds Stijn Buitink Alvise Raccanelli Sebastien Mueller Sarah Blyth Eduard Kontar Jan Forbrich Anna Bonaldi