28th February 2014: The Director of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Organisation, Dr Patrick McCarthy, will be giving the following talks about the science goals and current status of the GMT project:

• Monday 3^rd March 2014, 10AM-11AM, Swinburne University, Virtual Reality Theatre (coffee and nibbles at Haddon’s Café from 9:30AM-10AM)
• Tuesday 4^th March 2014, 1:30PM–2:30PM, Mt Stromlo Observatory, Canberra
• Public Event: “The Giant Magellan Telescope: Solving Big Engineering Challenges to do Big Science”, Dr McCarthy in conversation with Prof Matthew Colless. Tuesday 4^th March 2014, 6PM-7PM, ANU Law Link Theatre, Canberra.
• Friday 7^th March 2014, 2PM-4PM, ICRAR/UWA, Perth
• Monday 10^th March 2014, 1:30PM-3:30PM, Australian Astronomical Observatory, North Ryde, Sydney

26th February 2014: AAL signs a subcontract with Adelaide Research & Innovation, under the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, to support operations of the Pierre Auger Observatory cloud detector system.

25th February 2014: AAL signs a subcontract with Swinburne University, under the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, to provide a support service to help astronomers use Swinburne's GPU supercomputer (gSTAR) and other supercomputing facilities until mid-2015.