Welcome to the pages of the GECO group

The Galaxies, Etoiles et Cosmologie (GECO; Galaxies, Stars, and Cosmology) group covers a wide range of topics going from stars to cosmology. In particular it covers the study of:

• the interstellar and intergalactic media,
• the different phases of the formation of stars,
• the physical processes involved in the formation and the evolution of galaxies and their environment,
• the dynamics of galaxies,
• the large-scale structure of the Universe,
• the dark matter properties,
• the cosmological model.

People:

• Members of the group

• Visitors to the group

• Internships in the group

News

• On-going calls for telescope time, grants, travel money, positions, conf/workshop registrations (pertinent to the team).

• On going prospective in link with the HCERES review: a series of meeting opened to all GECO member is taking place in may. The HCERES document will include a prospective aspect on the continuation of current activities (e.g. galaxy surveys), and elements emerging from these discussions on relatively newer activities:

  • May 12 (Thursday) 11:00, tramontane room: prospective on transients (chair: S. Blondin). Overall intro (based on the INSU prospective) - Blondin ; SVOM mission + ground-based follow-up - Basa ; Athena+ mission (transients only) - Basa ; MISTRAL spectrograph at OHP for transient follow-up - Adami ; implication in LSST - TBD ; open discussion

  • May 20 (Friday) 15:00, Mistral room, prospective on Athena (chair: C. Adami)

  • May 23 (Monday) 11:00, Mistral room, prospective on the submm/radio, post-Herschel (chair: G. Lagache)

  • May 23 (Monday) 14:00, Romarin (TBC) room, prospective on uv future instruments (chair: B. Milliard)

  • May 31 (Tuesday) 15:00, Mistral room, prospective on CMB science (chair: G. Lagache)

Scientific life of the group

Discussion Circles - Scientific discussions around various topics.

Weekly Events

• Café Club every Tuesday at 13h30 in room Mistral - An informal seminar with presentations of ~20-25 minutes. Event organizers: Carlo Giocoli & Javier Marquez & Pedro Palmeirim

• Tea Time Chat every other Tuesday, 15h00 - 16h00 - Informal meeting of students and postdocs to discuss science/life/etc.. Event organizer: Janine Pforr.

• All Write every Wednesday, 16h00 - 17h00 - A quiet writing hour. Organizer: Janine Pforr.

• Discussion Circles meetings (subject to changes):

  • Monday, 11:00, Galaxy Evolution (first meeting Monday, January 25th)
  • Wednesday, 11:00, IGM (first meeting Wednesday, 20th)
  • Thursday, 14:00, Cosmology (first meeting, Wednesday, 28th)
  • Thursday, 14:00, Feedback(first meeting, Wednesday, 28th)
  • Friday, 10:00, Transients (first meeting, February, 5th)
  • Friday, 15:00, Clusters (every two weeks, alternating with Dark Matter)
  • Friday, 15:00, Dark Matter (every two weeks, alternating with Clusters)

Annual Events

• GECO General Meeting : GECO-day, 2016, june 28th

• Marseille Cosmology Conference (every two years)

Hosted Exceptional Events

• FLARE meeting, 2016, March 14-15

• SERVS (Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey)/DEEPDRILL collaboration workshop, 2016, June 15-17

Projects of the group

• Funded projects - Funded projects led by GECO members

• Observational projects - Large observational programmes in which GECO members are involved

Teaching & Outreach

• Master SPaCE-Astrophysique at LAM/Aix-Marseille Université

• Master P3TMA at Luminy/Aix-Marseille Université

Useful information & links

• DIRCOM page - Administrative information and forms

• Room booking - Book a room at LAM

• Directory - Find a name, an office, or a telephone number at LAM

• Service Informatique Pythéas - IT service information

• IT support - Submit a ticket for IT support

• WIFI Account - Create a WIFI account for your visitors

• Webmail - Webmail service

• FileZ - Distribute files for a limited time

• Calendar - Calendar service

• Nuage - Cloud service

• Sympa - View and manage mailing lists

• Institutional Access to astronomy journals - A short reminder about how to access papers.

• Form to request a mission: Demande-mission.docx

• Form "Etat de Frais" to fill after a mission: EtatDeFrais2016.pdf (version sent by Agnes Le baron, june 2016).

• Form to obtain an access key for your visitors (to be signed by the group head and the direction): Formulaire_attribution_clé_téléphone.pdf

• Document concerning the arrival of interns at the laboratory. CONVENTIONS are absolutely needed, and may take up to 2 month to be signed by every party.

• Entry/Account Form - Form to be filled by new permanent staffs to get an account

• GECO office label template: Etiquette_geco.odt, Etiquette_geco.doc

GECO group meetings

• March 2016, 22nd, Meeting of the GECO permanents 2016-03-22-titulaires.pdf

• March 2016, 9th, Meeting Direction- groups, Notes: CR_preparation_HCERES3.pdf

• January 2016, kickoff, GECO_2016_01_kickoff.pdf

GECO wiki members & help

• GecoGroup

• GecoAdminGroup

• WikiHelp

• HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax: quick access to wiki markup