19/11: The SEMINARS programme is now full, and can be found here. See you next week!
The 7th Annual Stromlo Student Christmas Seminars are being held on the 27th of November 2009. We invite students from all over Australia to attend and give talks. These seminars represent a chance for you to present a talk in a friendly environment on your thesis work, or on any astronomy related (however vaguely) subject you like.
Registration is FREE for students and we'll even throw in free snacks and dinner! How good is that? Pretty good.
About this year's theme:
Ah, acronyms. Astronomy seems to be full of them these days, from ARMPIT to WOMBAT and everything in between. Let's be honest, we all know and lo--well, we all know them, right?
So this year the Christmas Seminars is a celebration of everything acronymic, and we've even got our own acronym: S.E.M.I.N.A.R.S, or Students' Expositions on the Matter of Irritating and Needless AcRonymS. This is a pretty broad topic, when you think about it. Are you involved in a project with its own acronym? Do you use data from MACHO or 2MASS, for example? We'd love to hear about your work. Fancy talking about something else? You've got plenty of scope given the abundance of acronyms in the wild. Want to talk about something completely silly? We bet you can't come up with sillier acronyms than we can!
Talks will be 12 minutes long plus 3 minutes of question time. Like last year, there will be prizes for the best talks, and a prize for the silliest acronym created and used in a talk, so get your thinking caps on. If you need inspiration, check out D.O.O.F.A.A.S: the Dumb Or Overly Forced Astronomical Acronym Site.
Download the S.E.M.I.N.A.R.S poster and spread the acronymmy goodness.
Organising committee:
Christine Nicholls (Chair)
Marc White (Webmaster)
Melissa Ness
Tiago Pereira
Simon Murphy
