AAL Advisory Committees

AAL currently has four committees advising AAL on astronomy facilities:

• Antarctic Astronomy Advisory Committee (AAAC) which was created as an independent committee in early 2007, and was incorporated as an AAL committee on 31st October 2007.
• Astronomy eResearch Advisory Committee (AeRAC) which was created in 2010.
• Optical Telescopes Advisory Committee (OTAC) which was created in 2010.
• Radio Telescopes Advisory Committee (RTAC) which was created in 2010.

ESO Working Group

• European Southern Observatory Working Group (ESOWG) was created in 2009 by AAL in conjunction with the NCA. The ESOWG finished its initial investigations to Australian membership of ESO in 2011.

Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee

The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee (ASTAC) is tasked with allocating the time given to astronomy on several supercomputers including gSTAR, the Swinburne Supercomputer and the NCI National Facility (1 million CPU-hrs/yr as per NCI Guidelines).

National Committee for Astronomy

AAL has observer status as a "Corresponding Scientific Organisation" with the National Committee for Astronomy.