Australian P.I Simon Driver attended the international meeting “Community Astrophysics with WFIRST: Guest Observer and Archival Science” in Pasadena from 29 Feb through to 2 March 2016. WFIRST is… Read More »WAVES presentation at WFIRST meeting
Simon Driver and Aaron Robotham (WAVES co-PI and WAVES-Wide PS) at the University of Western Australia successfully led a second ARC LIEF bid for continued… Read More »Successful ARC LIEF bid plus University contributions awards a total of $880k towards continued construction of AESOP
Three WAVES team members are appointed to 4MOST Infrastructure Working Groups. Chris Power is appointed Chair of the 4MOST Science Simulations working group (IWG5) following… Read More »WAVES Team Members appointed to 4MOST IWGs
The first ‘All Hands Meeting’ of the 4MOST consortium took place over 28th September – 2nd October 2015 at Cambridge University (UK), at which the… Read More »Successful first 4MOST All-Hands meeting
First publication from the WAVES team outlying the contemporary survey design and science goals accepted and available online (Driver et. al., 2015). Paper is from… Read More »WAVES design concept paper accepted and available online
WAVES Project Office established across the UWA node (Perth) of ICRAR and the University of Hamburg. Joe Liske is appointed as co-PI following successful University… Read More »WAVES Project Office Established and co-PI appointed
4MOST and WAVES presentation at the international conference; `Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys and Wide Fields’ in Santa Cruz de… Read More »4MOST/WAVES Presentation at Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys and Wide Fields
The Australian Research Council announced ~$600k LINKAGE INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES (LIEF) funding for the Australian–European Southern Observatory Positioner (AESOP). This funding is in addition… Read More »ARC LIEF award plus University partners provide 1.2million towards construction of AESOP