Message SF2A No 501 - 13/02/12
1. OPTICON : Trans-National Access program in semester 2012B, DL February 29th 2012
2. Second announcement of the Saas-Fee Winter Course 2012, March 25-31, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland
3. Dixième école d’observations NEON, 10-22 septembre, Observatoire d’Asiago, Italie
4. Call for applications for the 2012 edition of the International School for Advanced Instrumentation (IScAI), DL 2012 March 1st
5. Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way : proceedings
6. Workshop : "Metals in 3D : New Insights from Integral Field Spectroscopy", 18-20 April 2012, Granada, Spain
7. Special session on ASTRO-H at European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, July 3, 2012, Roma, Italy
1. OPTICON : Trans-National Access program in semester 2012B, DL February 29th 2012
L’appel à demande de temps OPTICON pour 2012B est ouvert. Il permet notamment à des equipes françaises de demander du temps sur les telescopes européens nationaux auquels nous n’avons pas accès : AAT à Siding Spring, les INT, WHT, TNG et LT à La Palma, et le CAHA 2.2m à Calar Alto. Les détails de l’appel sont disponibles sur cette page. La date limite est le 29 Février, 12:00 UT.
Transmis par Hervé Aussel
2. Second announcement of the Saas-Fee Winter Course 2012, March 25-31, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland
Please find all the information about the 42nd Saas-Fee Winter Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA) on "Dynamics of Young Star Clusters and Associations" on this website.
Transmis par Corinne Charbonnel
3. Dixième école d’observations NEON, 10-22 septembre, Observatoire d’Asiago, Italie
La dixieme école d’observations NEON aura lieu du 10 au 22 septembre 2012 à l’Observatoire d’Asiago (Italie). Elle est ouverte aux étudiants en thèse, ou post-docs, désireux d’apprendre les bases de l’observation astronomique et de la reduction de donnees.
Pour plus de details, voir notre site : ICI.
Vous y trouverez egalement le formulaire de candidature, à renvoyer avant le 20 avril 2012.
Merci de transmettre cette information à vos étudiants.
Transmis par Michel Dennefeld
4. Call for applications for the 2012 edition of the International School for Advanced Instrumentation (IScAI), DL 2012 March 1st
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and partner institutions announce the 2012 edition of the International School for Advanced Instrumentation (IScAI).
The IScAI is a collaborative international initiative in higher education that allows acquiring expertise in all areas related to the construction of cutting-edge scientific instrumentation, with a particular emphasis on astronomical instrumentation. The IScAI offers a highly specialized set of courses and laboratory work to be held in research institutions with world-class instrumentation programs and high-tech companies with expertise in design and construction of scientific instrumentation.
The programme consists of five weeks of intensive course work on five different subjects (optics, mechanics, electronics, software and management) related to the design and construction of astronomical instrumentation. These will be held at the headquarters of the *Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)* in La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The IScAI will start in May 2012 and is open to astronomers, physicists and engineers worldwide. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2012. Enrolled students may be eligible for financial aid.
The IScAI 2012 is funded by the grant "First Science with the GTC", under the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
For more information about the IScAI and the registration procedure, please check our web site at this URL.
Transmis par Mercedes Franqueira
5. Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way : proceedings
Les compte-rendus de la conférence Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way sont maintenant publiés par EPJ et disponibles à cette adresse.
Transmis par Céline Relylé
6. Workshop : "Metals in 3D : New Insights from Integral Field Spectroscopy", 18-20 April 2012, Granada, Spain
Deadline for registration and abstract submission : 25 February 2012.
Web page : this URL.
Contact Adress : metals3d@iaa.es
Transmis par Thierry Contini
7. Special session on ASTRO-H at European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, July 3, 2012, Roma, Italy
A one-day Special Session SpS8 will be devoted to the Japanese ASTRO-H mission at the next European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Rome. ASTRO-H will be launched in 2014 and will carry several revolutionary instruments, like a focusing-optics hard X-ray imager and the first calorimeter on an X-ray satellite. Several European countries and ESA are participating in the ASTRO-H mission, providing a wonderful opportunity for European astronomers.
The special session on July 3rd, 2012 will have the goal of promoting the mission in the European community and to start preparing European astronomers for the successful use of ASTRO-H. The meeting will introduce the different elements of the ASTRO-H mission and instruments, and then focus on the major scientific advances that are expected from the ASTRO-H mission, in particular (but not limited to) :
Galaxy clusters
Active galactic nuclei
X-ray binaries
Supernova remnants
Young stars
We invite the community to submit abstracts for contributed talks and posters until March 30, 2012 on this web page.
All information regarding the EWASS 2012 meeting (registration, accommodation, venue, ...) can be found on the EWASS 2012 web site.
More information about the ASTRO-H mission can be found here.
For the SpS8 SOC, Stéphane Paltani and Marc Audard
Transmis par Marc Audard
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