ANITA Sponsored Meetings

One of the aims of ANITA is to facilitate theory meetings in Australia. To this end, ANITA sponsors a general national workshop and summer school each year, along with periodic workshops on topics of interest to the community.

Upcoming ANITA Sponsored Meetings

ANITA Workshop J-P Macquart Best Student Talk Prize

The annual ANITA workshop honours the memory of Jean-Pierre Macquart from Curtin University by awarding the J-P Macquart prize for best student talk. Congratulations to:

  • 2024 Megha Sharma (Monash)
  • 2023 Giulia Cinquegrana (Monash)
  • 2022 Ella Wang (ANU)
  • 2021 Chayan Chatterjee (UWA)
  • 2020 James Beattie (ANU) and Evgenii Neumerzhitckii (Monash)
  • 2019 Jacob Seiler (Swinburne)
  • 2018 Lisa Drummond (University of Melbourne)
  • 2017 David Liptai (Monash)
  • 2016 Hayley Macpherson (Monash)
  • 2015 Athira Menon (Monash)

Past ANITA Sponsored Meetings

  • Tidal disruption events school and 18th ANITA Workshop, 5-19 February 2024, Monash, Melbourne
  • Astroparticle physics school and 17th ANITA Workshop, 6-10 February 2023, Adelaide
  • The 16th ANITA Workshop took place at Macquarie University in Sydney (and via zoom), 10-11 February 2022
  • The ANITA summer school on Galactic Archaeology took place at Macquarie (and via zoom) on 7-9 February 2022
  • The 15th ANITA Theory Workshop took place online in 2021
  • The ANITA astroinformatics school on green computing took place online in 2021
  • The 14th ANITA Theory Workshop, UNSW Canberra, 6-7 February 2020
  • The ANITA school on cosmic explosions, UNSW Canberra, 3-5 February 2020
  • The 13th ANITA Theory Workshop, Swinburne University Melbourne, 7-8th February 2019
  • The ANITA astroinformatics school on machine learning, Swinburne University Melbourne, 4th-6th February 2019
  • The 12th ANITA Theory Workshop, Curtin University Perth, 8-9th February 2018
  • The ANITA gravitational wave astronomy summer school, University of Western Australia Perth, 5th-7th February 2018
  • The 11th ANITA Theory Workshop, University of Tasmania Hobart, 9-10th February 2017
  • The ANITA programming school and hackfest, University of Tasmania Hobart, 6-8th February 2017
  • The 10th ANITA Theory Workshop, Monash University Melbourne, February 11-12 2016
  • The ANITA Summer School, Monash University Melbourne, February 8-10 2016
  • The 9th ANITA Theory Workshop<, Australian National University Canberra, February 9-10 2015
  • The ANITA Astrophysics Informatics School, Australian National University Canberra, February 11-13 2015
  • The 8th ANITA Theory Workshop, University of Sydney NSW, February 17-18 2014
  • The ASA/ANITA Summer School on Astrophysical N-body Simulations, University of Sydney NSW, February 19-21 2014
  • The 7th ANITA Theory Workshop, University of Queensland Brisbane, Feb 21-22 2013
  • The ANITA Astrophysics Informatics School, University of Queensland Brisbane, Feb 18-20 2013
  • The ASA/ANITA Numerical Astrophysics Summer School, Monash Univeristy Melboure, Feb 15-17 2012
  • The 6th ANITA Theory Workshop, Monash University Melbourne, Feb 13-14 2012
  • The 5th ANITA Theory Workshop, Perth, Feb 14-15 2011
  • The 4th ANITA Theory Workshop, Swinburne University, 22-23 March 2010
  • The gSTAR GPU Workshop, Swinburne University, 24 March 2010
  • The ASA/ANITA Summer School on Stellar Nucleosynthesis, Monash University, 17-22 January 2010
  • The 3rd ANITA Theory Workshop, RSSA Mt Stromlo, 13-14 March 2009
  • The Inaugural ASA Summer School on Relativistic Astrophysics – Cradle Coast Campus, University of Tasmania, 13-24 January 2008
  • The 5th Stromlo Symposium: Disks, Winds and Jets: from Planets to Quasars hosted by the RSAA, Mt Stromlo, 3-8 December 2006. Refereed conference papers are published in a special issue of ApSS
  • The 9th Annual Charlene Heisler Workshop, hosted by the RSAA Mt Stromlo, 22-23 November 2004
  • High Energy Astrophysics, hosted by the RSAA, Mt Stromlo, 30 Sept – 1 Oct 2004
  • Gravity 2004, hosted by the University of Sydney, 15-16 April 2004
  • The 2nd ANITA workshop, hosted by Macquarie University, 2-3 October 2003
  • GCD V: Galactic Chemodynamics V workshop, hosted by Swinburne University, 9-11 July 2003
  • Observing the Theoretical Universe: Theoretical Astrophysics & the VO, hosted by Sydney University, 28-29 January 2003
  • Active Galactic Nuclei & Starburst Galaxies – Charlene Heisler workshop, hosted by Mt Stromlo Observatory, 13 December 2002
  • Nuclear Astrophysics with the Murchison Meteorite – 6th Torino workshop, hosted by Monash University, 10-13 December 2002
  • The 1st ANITA Workshop on Theoretical Astrophysics, hosted by Monash University, 1-2 February 2002