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AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
National Committees for Science: ANNUAL REPORT TO COUNCIL on 2005 activities
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR: Astronomy CHAIR: Dr Brian Boyle
PERIOD COVERED IN THIS REPORT: 1 January - 1 December, 2005

MEETINGS OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE
THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE MET ON: 3 May (with Editorial Board), Sydney; 25 May (with Editorial Board), Sydney; 4 July (with Heads of Department), Sydney; and 29 November, Canberra. THE FOLLOWING MEETINGS ARE PROPOSED FOR 2006 (include date and place, if possible): July 2006, Canberra December 2006, Canberra

MEETINGS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AFFILIATED WITH ICSU
The next IAU GENERAL ASSEMBLY will be held in July 2006. AUSTRALIAN OFFICE HOLDERS IN ICSU AND AFFILIATED BODIES AUSTRALIANS WHO HELD OFFICE IN 2005 WERE: (include all appointed/elected memberships of subsidiary bodies, standing committees, commissions etc. as well as appointments to Bureau/Executive positions in the governing body).

Person
Michael Burton Mark Calabretta Ron Ekers Ron Ekers Ron Ekers Dave Jauncey Anne Green Anne Green

International Body
IAU Working Group for Antarctic Astronomy IAU FITS working group IAU URSI Global VLBI working group IAU working group on "large scale facilities" URSI Global VLBI Working Group IAU Division X Executive Committee

Position
chair Member President, Member member Member Member

Term
2003-06 2003-06 2003-06 2000-06

2003-06 2003-06

IAU working group on the Status Chair
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of women in Astronomy
Dave Jauncey Don Melrose Don Melrose Don Melrose Ray Norris Ray Norris Ray Norris Ray Norris Wayne Orchiston John Reynolds Elaine Sadler Michelle Storey Michelle Storey Tasso Tzioumis Tasso Tzioumis IACG Working Group on Space VLBI IAU commission 10 (Solar activity) IAU Division II (Solar) IUPAP Commission 16 (Plasma Physics) IAU working group on astronomical data IAU Commission 5 CODATA: IAA SETI post-detection committee IAU Working Group on Historic Radio Astronomy IAU WG on reference Frames IAU commission 28 (Galaxies) IAU Working Group on Publishing IAU Comm. 50, Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites Organising Committee ITU Radiocommunication Study Group 7 (Sciences Services). URSI representative on IUCAF Member Vice-President Vice-President member Chair Vice-president IAU representative Chair Chair Member President Chair Vice-Chair Member Voting delegate of URSI 2003-06 2003-06 2003-06 2003-06 2002-05 2000-06 2003-06 2002-05 2003-06 2003-06 2003-06 2003-06

ACTIVITIES OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE ­ Please include comments on progress achieved on projected activities identified in your 2004 Business Plan.
Go to http://www.science.org.au/reports/2004anrep.pdf pp16-21, to view the Chairs' Reports on 2003 activities. I SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING REPORT TO COUNCIL ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE IN calendar year 2005 (200-250 words): As identified in the 2005 work plan, the major NCA activity for 2005 was the oversight of the Decadal Planning process. This culminated with the release of New Horizons: Australian Astronomy Decadal Plan 2006-15 on 24 November 2005. The Decadal Plan received the unanimous endorsement of the NCA and the broad support of the community by acclamation at the July Astronomical Society of Australia meeting in July 2005. The NCA has two sub-committees, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Consortium (ASKAC) and the Extremely Large Telescope working group (ELTWG). During the year ASKAC made good progress on issues of Governance during the year, establishing an Executive group and an Australian SKA Planning Office to implement ASKAC policy. ASKAC are also on track to submit a response to the request for proposals issued by the International SKA Steering Committee for siting the SKA by the deadline of 31 December 2005. The ELTWG made significant advances in developing opportunities for strategic collaboration between the GMT consortium and Australia. Both sub-committees also made significant progress in building links with industry related to design study/prototype work associated with SKA and ELTs
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In his capacity as NCA Chair, Brian Boyle was invited to serve on the NCRIS expert subcommittee on Frontier Technologies, providing input based on the priorities identified in the Decadal Plan to the Exposure Draft of the NCRIS strategic roadmap.

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