SARAO IAU events schedule

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Dear All

SARAO will have extensive representation including an exhibition at the IAU GA 2024 taking place from 6-15 August 2024. Please see below an outline of events and the SARAO programme.

Download IAU schedule of SARAO events (pdf)

SARAO side events

Engineering event, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 @ 12:00pm

Multi-Wavelength Astrometry focus meeting, Wednesday, 14 and Thursday, 15 August 2024 from 10h30am

SARAO events at SAAO

Open Access Encounters: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 @ 09h00am

Stargazing with the Carnarvon Astro-Guides, Thursday, 8 August 2024 @ 19h00pm

Cultural storytelling evening, Tuesday, 13 August 2024 @ 18h30pm

SARAO event at Iziko South Africa Museum

SARAO Women in Astronomy (Science and Engineering) Breakfast, Friday, 9 August 2024. (Please note that this is an exclusive, invitation-only event.)

SARAO events in the Karoo

Dark Skies Tours in Carnarvon: Friday, 9 August – Sunday, 11 August 2024 @19h30pm

Shared Skies Exhibition, Monday, 5 – Friday, 16 August 2024 @ 17h00pm

SARAO site visits in the Karoo

VVIP site visit, Wednesday, 7 August 2024

MeerKAT Open Days and site tours for GA participants and general public, Saturday, 10 and Sunday, 11 August 2024

SKA Partners to MeerKAT site and Carnarvon, Monday, 12 and Tuesday, 13 August 2024

VVIP site visit, Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Visits to Innes telescope Johannesburg Observatory (upon request)

SARAO exhibition from 6-15 August 2025, 9h00 am-18:00 pm daily, profiling:

* International cooperation
* Industry partnerships and collaboration
* Scientific findings with expert commentary, visualisation and a visually immersive experience
* Impact
* TART telescope
* Local communities

Invited talks:

Thursday, 8 August 2024: Invited Discourse: Dr Bernie Fanaroﬀ @17:15pm

Monday, 12 August 2024: Carla (Sharpe) Mitchell: The SKA’s development and its impact on Southern Africa @ 10h30am

Monday, 12 August 2024: Prof. Justin Jonas, Dr George Nicolson and Pontsho Maruping: 65 years of radio astronomy in South Africa: from the shack to SKA-Mid @15h30pm

Full list of SARAO-related talks, presentations and posters at the CTICC 6-15 August 2024

Tuesday, 6 August 2024

10:00-10:30

Poster session FM1-1: Harnessing ground-based optical telescopes: an opportunity for emerging astronomy in Africa

Poster session FM7-1: New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data

10:30-12:00

Oral session FM2-1: A Coherent View of Atomic and Molecular Gas from Infrared to Radio Wavelengths

13:30-15:00

Oral session FM2-2: A Coherent View of Atomic and Molecular Gas from Infrared to Radio Wavelengths

Oral session FM7-2: New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data

15:00-15:30

Poster session FM2-2: A Coherent View of Atomic and Molecular Gas from Infrared to Radio Wavelengths

Poster session FM7-2: New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data

Poster session OAO-2/WG5-2: Oﬃce for Astronomy Outreach/Professional-Amateur Relations in Astronomy

15:30-17:00

Oral session FM7-3: New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data

Oral session S 389-3 IAUS 389: Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

Wednesday, 7 August 2024

10:00-10:30

Poster session CPS-1: Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference

Poster session FM5-1: The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum

Poster session S 390-3 IAUS 390: A Multi-Point view of the Sun: Advances in Solar Observations and in Space Weather Understanding

Oral session CPS-1: Centre for the Protection of the Dark & Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference

10:00-12:00

Oral session FM5-1: The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum

15:30-17:00

Oral session FM2-6: A Coherent View of Atomic and Molecular Gas from Infrared to Radio Wavelengths

Oral session FM5-3: The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum

Thursday, 8 August 2024

10:00-12:00

Oral session FM5-4: The future of radio astronomy in an increasingly crowded spectrum

15:00-15:30

Poster Session FM7-4: New Horizons at the interface between Computational Astrophysics and Big Data

17:15-18:15

Invited Discourse: Dr Bernie Fanaroﬀ (SKA)

Friday, 9 August 2024

10:00-10:30

Poster Session Division B-1: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science: Poster 1

10:30-13:00

Poster Session Division J -1: Galaxies and Cosmology

15:00-15:30

Poster Session Division B-2: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

15:00-15:30

Poster Session Division C-2: Education, Outreach and Heritage

15:00-15:30

Poster Session Division J -2: Galaxies and Cosmology

Monday, 12 August 2024

10:00-10:30

Poster Session Division B-3: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

Poster Session Division C-3: Education, Outreach and Heritage

Poster Session Division E-3: Sun and Heliosphere

Poster Session Division J -3: Galaxies and Cosmology

10:30-12:00

Invited talk: Carla Sharpe: Division C-3: Education, Outreach and Heritage

13:30-15:00

Division J -4: Galaxies and Cosmology

15:00-15:30

Poster Session Division B-4: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science

Poster Session Division C-4: Education, Outreach and Heritage

Poster Session Division J -4: Galaxies and Cosmology

15:30-17:00

Invited talk: Division B5: Facilities, Technologies and Data Science: 65 years of Radio Astronomy in South Africa: from The Shack to SKA-Mid (Justin L Jonas (SKAO/Rhodes University/SARAO et al.)

Tuesday, 13 August 2024

10:00-10:30

Poster Session FM4-1: Bridging the ﬁnal stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients

Poster Session FM9-1: Measures of luminous and dark matter in galaxies across time

15:00-15:30

Poster Session FM4-2: Bridging the ﬁnal stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients

Wednesday, 14 August 2024

10:00-10:30

Poster Session FM11-1: Multi-wavelength Astrometry

Poster Session FM4-3: Bridging the ﬁnal stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients

Poster Session S 392-3 IAUS 392: Neutral hydrogen in and around galaxies in the SKA era

10:30-12:00