From naw at ast.cam.ac.uk Sun Nov 03 19:58:18 2013 Received: from ppsw-52.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.152]) by lists-2.csi.cam.ac.uk (lists.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.15]:25) with esmtp id 1Vd3oQ-00075A-JX (Exim 4.70) for ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk (return-path ); Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:58:18 +0000 X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from casxb.ast.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.68.80]:40000) by ppsw-52.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.138]:25) with esmtp id 1Vd3oQ-00061l-EM (Exim 4.80_167-5a66dd3) for ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk (return-path ); Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:58:18 +0000 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (casx010 [131.111.70.156]) by casxb.ast.cam.ac.uk (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rA3JwHxa013318; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 19:58:18 GMT Message-ID: <5276AAD9.5020901 at ast.cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:58:17 +0000 From: Nicholas A Walton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk Subject: WORKSHOP: Gaia-PESSTO: QUB 5-7 Feb 2014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:58:45 +0000 X-BeenThere: ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: GREAT announcements List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:58:18 -0000 Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to a Gaia-PESSTO scientific workshop, which will take place at Queen's University Belfast from 5th-7th February 2014. Gaia will be ESA's milestone astrometric mission, and is due for launch in the near future. Gaia will repeatedly map the whole sky, and will find many transient events, including thousands of supernovae. Getting ready for this influx of Gaia data is now timely. This workshop will bring together the key European groups investigating supernovae, both in understanding the physics of the objects, and their use as probes of the nearby Universe and for cosmology. The meeting will focus on the significant impact that Gaia will shortly have in revealing a significant yield of thousands of newly discovered supernoave, generating statistically significantly samples of hitherto rare events, such as super-luminous supernovae. The workshop will be a key milestone in the organisation of the follow-up and exploitation of the Gaia supernovae, where scientific and operational priorities will be agreed. The workshop will lead to the development of a specific 'Gaia supernova roadmap' defining the follow-up campaign to ensure maximal scientific return from the Gaia supernova sample. Thanks to support from the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training ((GREAT) networking programme, we are able to provide limited funding for participation in the workshop for students and early career researchers (within 5 years of PhD). There will be no registration fee for any participant. The registration and call for contributed talks is now open on the PESSTO wiki pages: https://sites.google.com/a/pessto.org/wiki/pessto-wiki/pessto-meetings/gaia---pessto-great-esf-workshop and closes on December 15th. There is the opportunity for a limited number of contributed talks and there will also be space available for posters. The total number of participants is capped at 45. We look forward to seeing you in Belfast in February. Best regards on behalf of the SOC, Stephen Smartt Mark Sullivan Nic Walton SOC: Mark Sullivan (University of Southampton, UK; Chair) Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast, UK; LOC Chair) Michel Dennefeld (IAP, Paris, France) Xavier Luri (University of Barcelona, Spain) Seppo Mattila (Tuorla Observatory, Turku, Finland) Ferdinando Patat (ESO, Germany) Nancy Elias de la Rosa (IEEC, Barcelona, Spain) Massimo Turatto (Observatory of Trieste, INAF, Trieste, Italy) Nicholas A Walton (IoA, Cambridge, UK) Wolfgang Hillebrandt (MPA, Germany) -- ======================================================================== Dr Nicholas A. Walton Institute of Astronomy Tel: +44 1223 337503 University of Cambridge Fax: +44 1223 337523 Madingley Road WWW: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~naw Cambridge, CB3 0HA email: naw at ast.cam.ac.uk ======================================================================== From celine at obs-besancon.fr Wed Nov 13 13:11:20 2013 Received: from ppsw-32.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.132]) by lists-2.csi.cam.ac.uk (lists.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.15]:25) with esmtp id 1VgaE4-0003SL-4R (Exim 4.70) for ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk (return-path ); Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:11:20 +0000 X-Cam-SpamDetails: score 0.0 from SpamAssassin-3.3.2-1540972 * -0.0 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay * domain * 0.0 T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT Fill in a short form with personal * information X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/email/scanner/ Received: from sassmtp.obs-besancon.fr ([193.52.185.18]:57847 helo=smtpext.utinam.cnrs.fr) by ppsw-32.csi.cam.ac.uk (mx.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.146]:25) with esmtp id 1VgaE2-0007lV-2g (Exim 4.82_3-c0e5623) for ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk (return-path ); Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:11:20 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtpext.utinam.cnrs.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7FA2A752; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:11:12 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at utinam.cnrs.fr Received: from smtpext.utinam.cnrs.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtpext.utinam.cnrs.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Nx4qfzXiytqX; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:11:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.obs-besancon.fr (mail.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.236]) by smtpext.utinam.cnrs.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB602A38C; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:11:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from celine.obs-besancon.fr (celine.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.48]) by mail.obs-besancon.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BE9240A6; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:11:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <52837AFF.6020302 at obs-besancon.fr> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:13:35 +0100 From: "Celine.Reyle" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101013 Thunderbird/3.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk, "forum-etoiles at obs.ujf-grenoble.fr" , AS Gaia Subject: Gaia and the Unseen The Brown Dwarf Question: 2d announcement Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:48:00 +0000 Cc: ricky smart X-BeenThere: ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: GREAT announcements List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:11:20 -0000 A second announcement for the GREAT-ESF workshop Gaia and the Unseen The Brown Dwarf Question at Torino University on March 24-25-26 2014 Webpage: http://GaiaBDs.oato.inaf.it/ This is an update on the above workshop which will look at all aspects of what the ESA mission Gaia can do for brown dwarf science. A number of invited overviews have been included in the program and the morning parallel sessions have been allocated. The preliminary schedule is available at the meeting webpage. There is still ample room for submitted talks related to the meeting topic. Registration and abstract submission by December 20th is required to be considered for a contributed talk. Poster contributions will be on display all three days of the meeting. There will be two prizes for the posters that best combine aesthetic, educational, didactic and scientific content. This will be decided by a subset of the SOC and announced during the social dinner on the Tuesday. Each day at the end of the morning session people will be able to briefly summarise their poster for all meeting participants. The proceedings from the meeting will be published as part of the Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana (SAIt) series. The presentations and contributions will also be published online on the meeting site. The meeting has no registration fee and there is a small amount of support for the attendance of participants if needed. This can be applied for as part of the registration process by December 20th. On the meeting website, you can download the poster to print in A2 format and display at your local institution. Alternatively, you can email your postal address to gaiabds at oato.inaf.it and we will send you a printed version. All further announcements will only be sent to registered participants. The registration will only be possible until February 20th. The webpage will be kept updated with any major changes. Web links. Registration: http://gaiabds.oato.inaf.it/registration.php Program: http://gaiabds.oato.inaf.it/programme.php Poster: http://gaiabds.oato.inaf.it/images/poster.zip Important Dates. Submission of a talk proposal: 20 December 2013 Request for financial support: 20 December 2013 Closure of general registration: 20 February 2014 We look forward to seeing you in Torino. The Scientific Organising Committee: Beate Stelzer (INAF-OAPa, Palermo), Céline Reylé (UTINAM, Obs. Besancon), Coryn Bailer-Jones (MPIA, Heidelberg), David Barrado y Navascues (CAB, Madrid), Davy Kirkpatrick (IPAC, California), France Allard (CRA, Lyon), Hugh R. A. Jones (UHerts, Hatfield), Jackie Faherty (Carnegie DTM, Washington), Mario G. Lattanzi (INAF-OATo, Torino), Richard L. Smart (INAF-OATo, Torino). The Local Organising Committee: Alberto Vecchiato, Alessandro Sozzetti, Beatrice Bucciarelli, Catia Cardoso, Maria Teresa Crosta, Marica Sarasso, Roberto Morbidelli Tullia Carriero (INAF-OATo). From naw at ast.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 29 15:41:48 2013 Received: from ppsw-52.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.152]) by lists-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (lists.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.15]:25) with esmtp id 1VmQCS-0003tw-A4 (Exim 4.70) for ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk (return-path ); Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:41:48 +0000 X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from casxb.ast.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.68.80]:62756) by ppsw-52.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.138]:25) with esmtps (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1VmQCS-0005Rf-DP (Exim 4.82_3-c0e5623) for ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk (return-path ); Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:41:48 +0000 Received: from cappc87.ast.cam.ac.uk (casx010 [131.111.70.156]) by casxb.ast.cam.ac.uk (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rATFfkFi006127; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:41:46 GMT Message-ID: <5298B5BA.7000304 at ast.cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:41:46 +0000 From: Nicholas A Walton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk Subject: REMINDER: Gaia GREAT ESF Funding Opportunity - Workshops, Exchange Visits - Deadline 20 Dec 2013 References: <52651C1E.5040106 at ast.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <52651C1E.5040106 at ast.cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:42:11 +0000 X-BeenThere: ast-great-announce at lists.cam.ac.uk X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: GREAT announcements List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:41:48 -0000 Dear All, This is to note that the next GREAT ESF call is currently open. The deadline for receipt of proposals is *Friday 20th December 2013* (@ 18.00 GMT). Yours, Nicholas Walton (on behalf of the GREAT ESF RNP Steering Committee) Nicholas A Walton wrote, on 21/10/2013 13:20: > Dear All, > > Today our current GREAT ESF call for proposals to support a range of > networking activities has been issued. > > In particular you will find calls to support the following: > > a) Workshops - see > http://great-esf.eu/participate/esf-meetings/esf-workshops/Workshop-Call-Dec13/ > > b) Longer Exchange visits - see > http://great-esf.eu/participate/esf-grants/esf-visits/Exch-Call-Dec13/ > > (Note that for short exchange visits only, proposals can be made at any > time.) > > The links above provide full details for each funding opportunity > together with the link to the proposal submission page. > > The deadline for receipt of proposals is *Friday 20th December 2013* (@ > 18.00 GMT). All proposals will be evaluated by the GREAT ESF Steering > Committee with replies by email to proposers made by end January 2014. > > For this open call, proposals are welcome to support networking in any > area within the science scope of the GREAT programme. Please check the > list of previously supported calls on the wiki page > http://great.ast.cam.ac.uk/Greatwiki/GaiaScienceMeetings Proposals > covering similar topics to those recently supported are also welcome but > will need to demonstrate a clear additional value. > > General information concerning the GREAT programme is available at > http://www.great-esf.eu > > Also - please check http://great.ast.cam.ac.uk/Greatwiki/GaiaScienceMeetings > for details of a number of upcoming 2014 GREAT supported workshops > - which may be of interest. > > Finally I draw your attention to the launch of Gaia - scheduled for 20 Nov 2013. > Latest news on this can be found on the ESA Gaia blog at http://blogs.esa.int/gaia/ > and http://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2013/10/Gaia_s_preparation_in_Kourou shows > the somes videos of final pre-launch preparations at Kourou. > > > Yours, Nicholas Walton > > (on behalf of the GREAT ESF RNP Steering Committee) > -- ======================================================================== Dr Nicholas A. Walton Institute of Astronomy Tel: +44 1223 337503 University of Cambridge Fax: +44 1223 337523 Madingley Road WWW: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~naw Cambridge, CB3 0HA email: naw at ast.cam.ac.uk ========================================================================