Women’s History Month: Vera Rubin – by Chenoa Tremblay

March 25, 2021

Our Universe contains only a small fraction of known matter. The rest is made up of something we call “dark matter”. Vera Rubin was one of the first pioneers in […]

Women’s History Month: Maria Mitchell – by Chenoa Tremblay

March 24, 2021

Maria Mitchell was the first internationally known women to work as both a professional astronomer and Professor of Astronomy. She was the first women elected as a Fellow of the […]

Women’s History Month: Grace Murray Hopper – by Chenoa Tremblay

March 23, 2021

In computer programming we use compilers to transpose computer code from one computer language to another. Often this is used to translate a human-readable code to a computer-readable language. Grace […]

Women in History: Helen Ling – by Chenoa Tremblay

March 22, 2021

Way before we had electronic computers that we can carry in our pockets we had human computers that performed mathematical operations, often for scientific or engineering purposes. Helen Ling lead […]

A better normal for conferences and collaboration – by Moss et al.

March 19, 2021

As someone wryly observed last year, “I was hoping the future of meetings would be no meetings at all”. Though this might sound cynical, it is an insightful observation on […]

New radio stars – by Pritchard et al.

March 18, 2021

Pritchard et al. present results from a circular polarisation survey for radio stars in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) . Circular polarisation surveys are a promising method for widefield […]

New radio stars – by Pritchard et al.

March 17, 2021

Pritchard et al. present results from a circular polarisation survey for radio stars in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) . Circular polarisation surveys are a promising method for widefield […]

SKA Science Meeting 2021

March 16, 2021

The SKA Science conference 2021 , “A precursor’s view of the SKA sky”, is being held this week as a fully virtual event. The meeting includes plenary talks as well […]

AusSRC Design Study Program – by Karen Lee-Waddell

March 15, 2021

Earlier this month, the Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC) held its first ever full (in-person) team workshop. Although the AusSRC is in a fairly early stage of design and development, […]

International Women’s Day: Ivy Wong

March 12, 2021

Ivy Wong re-joined CASS last year , as a CSIRO Science Leader working on the big data challenges in the SKA era. Her most recent co-authored publication was led by […]

International Women’s Day: Shivani Bhandari

March 11, 2021

It’s hard to believe, but it is three years since Shivani joined CASS as a CSIRO ResearchPlus postdoc. Shivani has contributed to great advances in the field of Fast Radio […]

ATNF Colloquium – Radio Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events

March 10, 2021

Dougal Dobie (Swinburne University of Technology) Abstract: The detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation from a neutron star merger, GW170817, heralded the dawn of a new age of astronomy […]