DATE: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:53:12 +1100
SUBJECT: AAO Distinguished Visitor announcement


The AAO is pleased to announce that we have instituted a Distinguished  
Visitor
Scheme, to strengthen and enhance the AAO's visibility both locally and
internationally, and to provide opportunities for AAO staff and other
Australian astronomers to benefit from longer term collaborative visits
by distinguished international colleagues.

The AAO will typically award one or two Distinguished Visitorships  
annually.

To celebrate the inaugural round of the Distinguished Visitor Scheme,  
and
to promote the new scheme, the AAO has awarded four Visitorships to  
occur
during 2010.

The recipients of the AAO Distinguished Visitorships for 2010 are:

Associate Professor Andrew Connolly (University of Washington)
Professor Richard Ellis (Caltech)
Professor David Koo (UCO Lick Observatory, and UC Santa Cruz)
Assistant Professor Kim-Vy Tran (Texas A&M University)

Details of the AAO Distinguished Visitor Scheme and the research
programs of the Visitors during 2010 can be found at:

http://www.aao.gov.au/distinguished_visitors/


Andrew Hopkins
-- 
A.Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of AAT Science
Anglo-Australian Observatory
P.O. Box 296, Epping
NSW 1710, Australia
ph: +61 2 9372 4849  fax: +61 2 9372 4880