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<span style="color:black">Dear all,</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">It is our pleasure to announce the 2020 International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) meeting and student workshop, to be held this June in Australia. <b>Abstract submission is now open</b>, and registration will open shortly.</span></p>
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<b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black">Science meeting (June 15-19, Hobart, Tasmania):</span></b><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> The meeting will bring together
observers, data analysts, and theoreticians interested in the detection and study of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves through pulsar timing. The meeting will address both the astrophysics of the sources of the gravitational radiation, including supermassive
black holes, and the astrophysics of pulsars required to detect and study the predicted gravitational waves. Invited and contributed presentations and posters will highlight recent progress and challenges facing in the field. Discussion sessions will be used
to roadmap scientific goals and other plans for the community for the coming years. Plenty of time will be set aside for informal collaboration. The meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Tasmania. The meeting coincides with the </span><span style="font-size:16px">renowned</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> Dark
Mofo arts and cultural festival.</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Student workshop (June 9-12, Melbourne Victoria): </span></b><span style="color:black;background:rgb(248,248,248)">The student workshop will be held on the Swinburne University campus from 9-12 June 2019. The curriculum for the
workshop includes a series of lectures and tutorials relating to analysis of pulsar timing array data. Subjects will include precision pulsar timing with modern techniques, Bayesian inference and noise analyses, and gravitational wave detection and astrophysics. The
projects are designed to suit undergraduate students to postdoctoral researchers. Students will also get hands-on experience (remotely) observing pulsars with the Parkes 64-metre radio telescope, and will then analyse their data.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">For further information, please visit the conference website:</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:black;font-size:12pt"><a href="http://ipta4gw.org/meetings/2020/" target="_blank">http://ipta4gw.org/meetings/2020/</a></span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt"> </span><br>
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<b style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black">Important dates:</span></b><br>
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<b><span style="color:black">Abstract submission closes March 31.</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Registration closes April 27.</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Hobart hotel booking closes May 15.</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:black">We look forward to seeing everyone in Melbourne and Hobart in June. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the meeting.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Ryan Shannon, on behalf of the organising committees:</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Scientific organising committee:</span></p>
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<span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Maura McLaughlin (<i>chair, West Virginia</i>)</span><span style="color:black"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Manjari Bagchi (<i>Institute of Mathematical Sciences</i>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Sarah Buchner (<i>South African Radio Astronomy Observatory</i>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Kejia Lee (<i>Peking</i>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Rob Ferdman (<i>East Anglia</i>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Xing-Jiang Zhu (<i>Monash</i>)</span></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Student week organising committee:</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Daniel Reardon (chair, <i>Swinburne/OzGrav</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Thankful Cromartie (<i>Virginia</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Nate Garver-Daniels (<i>West Virginia</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Marisa Geyer (<i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">South African Radio Astronomy Observatory</span></i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Jeff Hazboun (<i>Washington-Bothell</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Hannah Middleton (<i>Melbourne/OzGrav</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Golam Shaifullah (<i>ASTRON</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Abhimanyu Sushobhan (<i>Tata Institute</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Lawrence Toomey (<i>CSIRO</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Caterina Tiburzi (<i>ASTRON</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Songbo Zhang (<i>University of the Chinese Academy of Science/Purple Mountain Observatory</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Local organising committee:</span></p>
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<span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ryan Shannon (<em>co-chair, Swinburne/OzGrav</em>)</span><span style="color:black"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Daniel Reardon (<em>co-chair, Swinburne/OzGrav</em>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Nate Garver-Daniels (<em>West Virginia</em>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Yeshe Fenner (<em>Swinburne/OzGrav</em>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Hannah Middleton (<em>Melbourne/OzGrav</em>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Luana Spadafora (<em>Swinburne/OzGrav</em>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Lawrence Toomey (<em>CSIRO</em>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ross Turner (<em>Tasmania</em>)</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Xing-Jiang Zhu (<em>Monash/OzGrav</em>)</span></span></p>
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