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The African Astronomical Society (AfAS) wishes to inform you that the AfAS Annual Conference will be held from the 13th to the 17th of March, 2023. The conference will be organised as a hybrid meeting (online and in-person) in collaboration with the Wits Centre for Astrophysics. The physical venue is the Wits Origins Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. The maximum number of in-person attendees at the venue is 100 (hundred), and the rest will join virtually.
The hybrid format will allow those that are unable to travel the opportunity of attending and/or presenting a talk by virtual means. This notice is a Call for abstracts from those wanting to present a talk or poster at the conference in the following tracks:
1) Scientific
2) Education, Development, and Outreach (EDO)
Interested persons must submit a brief abstract (Maximum 300 Words) on the presentation, which the Scientific and EDO Organising Committee will consider; the closing date for the submission of the abstracts is 09 January 2023. Presenters must indicate whether they wish to present in-person or virtually. AfAS is committed to a diverse representation of talks at all levels, including student presentations on their research work. It is anticipated that the final programme will be published by the end of February 2023, with authors of successful abstract submissions advised by mid-February 2023.
Information on the conference can be found at:
https://www.africanastronomicalsociety. ... formation/
Registration for the AfAS-2023 Annual Conference is now open at:
https://www.africanastronomicalsociety. ... tion-form/
In addition to the annual conference, AfAS, in conjunction with DARA Big Data, the OAD, and IDIA, is organising a Data Science Hackathon event at the University of the Witwatersrand from 18-20 March 2023. This will take place fully in-person. The hackathon is open to Undergraduate, Postgraduate students and young professionals from across Africa from all STEM fields who have a keen interest in data science and machine learning. Information and registration for the hackathon are at the link below:
