Important Information

Scam warning

We have not made any arrangements with any booking companies. Anyone contacting you about arranging bookings is a scam.

VISA Information

All visitors to Australia must have a valid visa to travel to and enter Australia (other than New Zealand passport holders who will normally be granted a Special Category visa on arrival, provided they meet health and character requirements; and permanent residents of Norfolk Island who may be granted a Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa on arrival).

If you are planning to visit Australia to participate in a business event such as a conference, trade fair or seminar or expo, and you are not being paid by an organiser for your participation in the event, you may be eligible for an ETA (subclass 601), eVisitor visa (subclass 651) or Visitor (Business Stream) visa (subclass 600). (Border.gov.au 600/601/651 Visas)

For more information on Australia border control & visa regulations, please refer to (www.border.gov.au)

NOTE: If a paper visa is required processing may take up to a month so please apply as soon as possible.

Smoke free Monash

January 2016 has signalled the start of a healthier, smoke-free Monash, with smoking no longer permitted on any Monash Victorian campus, including University buildings, grounds and vehicles.

This rule applies to all students, staff, contractors and visitors at Monash. For more details see (Smoke Free Monash)

Code of Conduct

The organizers are committed to making this meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Please follow these guidelines:

• Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.


• All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.


• Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.

Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organizers without a refund of any charge.
Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to Carolyn Doherty or John Lattanzio.

This code of conduct was originally designed for the Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology., conference in London 2015, adapted by Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris from a document by Software Carpentry, which itself derives from original Creative Commons documents by PyCon and Geek Feminism. It is released under a CC-Zero licence for reuse.