One of the principal activities of the Astronomical Society of Australia is the Annual Scientific Meeting, being held this week in Adelaide, and on-line, to bring together astronomers from around Australia. The meeting offers the opportunity to stay in touch with developments across the broad range of astronomy in Australia. The meeting includes the Annual General Meeting of the Society, the public Harley Wood Lecture, and presentation of the ASA’s annual prizes and awards. This year the Emerging Leaders in Astronomy Software Development Prize (sponsored by the Australian Research Data Commons) was awarded to Dr Joshua Preston Pritchard (CSIRO) for Dstools: a processing pipeline package for radio interferometric data from ATCA, ASKAP, MeerKAT and VLA. In conjunction with the Annual Scientific Meeting, the ASA sponsors the Harley Wood School of Astronomy for postgraduate students each year. The School is named in memory of Dr Harley Wood, first President of the ASA.
