Monash Centre for Astrophysics

News

  • MoCA has just been announced as the host institution for the Astronomical Society of Australia annual scientific meeting in 2013, the premier gathering of Astronomy & Astrophysics researchers in Australia. We will also be hosting the Harley Wood Winter School alongside this event.
  • Welcome to Dr. Ben Ayliffe (from Exeter, UK) and Dr. Christoph Federrath (from Heidelberg, Germany) as new postdocs at MoCA, working in the SPH/star and planet formation group
  • Audio and video of Brian Schmidt's public talk are available.
  • MoCA is happy to congratulate Yuri Levin on his Future Fellowship!
  • Congratulations to Michael Brown for receiving the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher, and to John Lattanzio for being accepted on AAL's Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee.

Events

Public Lecture


Trevor Ireland
"Hayabusa Returns"

6:30pm, Wednesday 9 May
Lecture theatre S5, Clayton Campus
(Note change of venue!)

Next colloquium


Chris Blake (Swinburne)
"Measuring Dark Energy With The Wigglez Survey"

3pm, Tuesday 22 May
Maths, Rm. 345