Message SF2A No 1142 – 16/06/25
- Appel d’Offre Subvention Congrès
- Comptes rendus des réunions de la CSAA
- SVOM call for prososals 2025
- Workshop pipa2025, September 1-5, 2025, Bergen (Norway)
- Petition pour le Palais de la Découverte / Renvoi du président d’Universcience
1. Appel d’Offre Subvention Congrès
La SF2A peut vous soutenir financièrement pour l’organisation de congrès et écoles.
L’appel à propositions de l’automne 2025 vient d’ouvrir.
La date limite pour soumettre vos demandes est fixée au 3 octobre 2025 et celle-ci doivent parvenir au secrétariat de la SF2A (secretariat@sf2a.eu). Les résultats seront annoncé au mois de novembre 2025.
Plus d’information sur le site de la SF2A : https://sf2a.eu/website2023/subventions_congres/
Le conseil de la SF2A
2. Comptes rendus des réunions de la CSAA
Les comptes rendus des réunions de la Commission Spécialisée Astronomie-Astrophysique (CSAA) de novembre 2024 et mars 2025 sont publics et mis en ligne à l’adresse suivante : https://programmes.insu.cnrs.fr/astro/csaa/
Le compte rendu de la réunion de la CSAA se tenant à Jussieu ces 10 et 11 juin 2025 y sera également mis en ligne sous peu.
Transmis par Benoit Famaey
3. SVOM call for prososals 2025
As part of the SVOM General Program, the SVOM consortium is pleased to invite proposals for observations to be conducted in 2026. The policies and conditions governing this call are detailed in the following document: https://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/docs/Call_for_Proposal_for_SVOM_General_Program_Semester_2026.pdf
While formal submission of proposals is limited to SVOM co-Investigators and affiliate scientists, we warmly encourage members of the French astrophysical community to take part by initiating collaborations with SVOM co-Is. These co-Is will assist in ensuring that proposals align with SVOM’s observational constraints and will be responsible for submitting the proposals on behalf of the proposing team.
This Call for Proposals (CfP) welcomes two types of observation requests:
Pre-planned known source observations;
Target of Opportunity (ToO) observations for known sources.
Although pointed observations are primarily designed for the narrow field-of-view instruments MXT (0.2 – 10 keV) and VT (b- and r-band), all four onboard instruments – including ECLAIRs (4 – 150 keV) and GRM (15 keV – 5 MeV) – are available for use under this call.
The SVOM pointing strategy is specifically designed to maximize the detection of extragalactic transients and enable rapid follow-up by ground-based telescopes. To achieve this, the satellite maintains a nearly anti-solar pointing, avoiding regions such as Sco X-1 and the Galactic plane, and instead favoring directions near the Galactic poles. Up to 15% of the General Program’s observing time may be allocated to regions within ±10° of the Galactic plane. The remaining 85% must comply with the satellite’s attitude law (SVOM B1 law; see CfP document for details).
We strongly encourage proposals that focus on targets located near the Galactic poles and that are fully compatible with the SVOM B1 law. Designing programs within these constraints will greatly enhance the feasibility of execution.
Please note that acceptance of a proposal does not guarantee observation to be performed, as priority is given to SVOM’s core science goals (GRB and multi-messenger/fast high-energy transient detection and follow-up) as well as operational constraints.
SVOM data obtained through this CfP will be accessible to all SVOM co-Is and affiliate scientists. However, the proposing team will retain priority in leading the data analysis, interpretation, and publication. These efforts will be coordinated within the framework of the SVOM Observatory Science Working Group, where active participation by all of the SVOM co-Is and affiliate scientists is both welcome and encouraged.
For further information, please contact the SVOM General Program Mission Scientist: Alexis Coleiro (coleiro@apc.in2p3.fr)
Transmis par Alexis Coleiro
4. Workshop pipa2025, September 1-5, 2025, Bergen (Norway).
We invite abstracts for the forthcoming meeting on “Partially Ionised Plasmas in Astrophysics” (PIPA2025) that will take place in Bergen (Norway) in the period 1-5 September 2025.
The dynamics of partially ionized astrophysical plasmas is a relatively new and rapidly growing topic of research in various areas of astrophysics (solar lower atmosphere, heliosphere, interstellar medium, protostellar discs, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, etc). The meeting aims to broaden and strengthen the collaboration of scientists working in partially ionized plasmas in astrophysics and space science and to develop common scientific interests that could enhance cross-collaboration between the different fields.
The PIPA2025 meeting includes contributions from all areas of Astrophysics in which partially ionised plasmas (PIPs) play an essential role (including Solar Physics):
– Fundamental atomic and energy transport in partially ionised plasmas: charge exchange, radiation transport, chemical reactions, etc
– Fundamental dynamical processes in partially ionised plasmas: waves, instabilities, dynamo, turbulence, etc.
– Observations and modelling of space and astrophysical partially ionised plasmas
Invited Speakers:
– Meers Oppenheim, Boston University, USA
– Kristina Lynch, Dartmouth College, USA
– Ben Snow, University of Exeter, UK
– David Martínez-Gómez, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
– Fulvia Pucci, NASA, USA
– Ugo Lebreuilly, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique Saclay, France (TBC)
– Paul Song, University of Massachusetts, USA
The abstract submission is open via the official conference website (https://www.uib.no/en/ift/173827/partially-ionized-plasmas-astrophysics-pipa2025)
IMPORTANT DATES:
15 July 2025: Abstract submission deadline
31 July 2025: Registration deadline
Transmis par Geoffroy Lesur
5. Petition pour le Palais de la Découverte / Renvoi du président d’Universcience
Le personnel d’Universcience vient de lancer une pétition:
https://www.change.org/p/sauvons-le-palais-de-la-d%C3%A9couverte pour
sauver le Palais de la Découverte. Cette pétition fait suite (entres
autres) au renvoi du président d’Universience (Établissement public du
palais de la Découverte et de la Cité des sciences et de l’industrie) en
conseil des ministres hier (12 juin). Un historique des difficultés
rencontrées se trouve au début de la pétition.
Pour ceux qui ont trouvé leur vocation au Palais de la Découverte (fermé
depuis plusieurs années) il y a un risque que celui-ci disparaisse ou
soit fortement réduit.
La pétition est ici:
https://www.change.org/p/sauvons-le-palais-de-la-d%C3%A9couverte
Transmis par Patrick Hennebelle
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