Ongoing calls

In every section, calls are ranked by their deadline (DL). Most recent announcements are on the top of each section. If you want to circulate an announcement, please sent it to geco_cast@lam.fr. It will be then added on this page and to the weekly mailing list.

Conferences and workshops

• The galaxy life-cycle. From activity to quiescence, and back, across cosmic times. Organized by Excellence Cluster Universe and the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics at Venice, Italy, 24-28 October 2016. Abstract DL : 31 May 2016.

• A series of workshops at the Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics (MIAPP) This is the 2017 programme, but the registration DL is quite early this year. Each workshop typically consists of regular seminars, but leaves much time for collaborations and informal discussions. Registrations for 2016 MIAPP Workshops are closed, but you can contact the organizers (info@munich-iapp.de) to know if spaces are still available.

• XMM-Newton: The Next Decade 9-11 May 2016. Registration DL : 14 Apr 2016

• Workshop "High-resolution X-ray spectroscopic software and tools" 12-13 May 2016. Registration DL: 14 Apr 2016

• Signals from the Deep Past, Unveiling early cosmic structures, Malta, 18-22 july 2016. Abstract DL: 3 April 2016

• COSMO21 - Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology, Chania, Crete (Greece), 24-27 May 2016. Abstract DL expired (19 Feb). Registration DL : 4 April 2016.

• Cosmic dawn of galaxy formation: linking observations and theory with new-generation spectral models IAP Paris, 20-24 June 2016. Abstract DL : 30 March 2016

• Active Galactic Nuclei: What's in a name? ESO Garching bei München, Germany, 27 June - 1 July 2016. Abstract DL : 25 March 2016

• The physics of relativistic outflows - LABEX OCEVU thematic workshop. Toulouse, 22-24 Mars 2016

• JWST @ Royal Observatory of Edinburgh Edinburgh, 4-7 July 2016. Abstract DL : 18 March 2016

• FLARE meeting at LAM, 14-15 March

PhD schools

• ADA8 Summer School, Chania, Crete (Greece), 22-24 May 2016. This is a summer school on Astronomical Data Analysis that will take place just before the COSMO21 conference (see above), at the same venue and the COSMO21 registration includes the possibility to participate in the ADA8 Summer School.

Telescope time and other science proposals

• Spitzer Space Telescope Cycle-13 Call for Proposals - DL : 8 June 2016 (4:00 PM PDT)

• HST Cycle 24 - DL : 8 April 2016 (8:00 pm EDT)

Funding and grants

• Bilateral France-Iran - travel money. DL: 23 June 2016.

• Bilateral France-Switzerland - travel money. DL : 1 May 2016

• LIA Origin Travel money for franco-chinese collaborations in the domaines of cosmology, extragalactic, study of the Galaxy, Exoplanets. DL : 15 March 2016

• Bilateral France-China - Consolidation of collaborations around co-supervised thesis. DL: 22 Feb 2016

Job offers

• Postdoctoral position in galaxy formation at University of Minnesota, to work with Claudia Scarlate and Lucy Fortson on galaxyzoo.org and zooniverse.org related projects. More info here

• Postdoctoral position in Cosmology at the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (CNRS/IN2P3 - LAPP), in the framework of ASTERICS (http://asterics2020.eu/), a project funded within the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission. More info here

Useful links

List of international meetings (CADC)

• http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/meetings/

Call of Proposals webpages of the principal Observatories

• ESO proposals

• HST proposals

• Subaru

Jobs announcements

• AAS Job Register

• New Scientist

• Euraxess

• Career Opportunities in Euclid

• Jobs and PhD in UK (there is also a section of careers advice like "how to write a CV" etc.)