Ongoing calls

In every section, calls are ranked by their deadline (DL), so most recent announcements are not necessarily on the top of each section.

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Conferences and workshops...

...with abstract submission still open

• Shining from the heart of darkness: black hole accretion and jets, Kathmandu, Nepal, 16-21 October 2016. The conference will be focused on the discussion of accretion physics and the mechanisms of jet launching and evolution in Galactic and extragalactic black hole systems (major observational and theoretical results). Abstract DL : 31 July 2016.

• BRITE-Constellation Science Conference: small satellites - big science. Innsbruck, Austria, 22-26 Aug 2016. Abstract DL : 15 June 2016

• 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.

• The Milky Way and its environment: gaining insights into the drivers of galaxy formation and evolution. International workshop held at IAP, Paris (France), 19-23 Sept 2016. Abstract DL : 15 May 2016.

• From Wall to Web, conference on the IGM held at the Harnack House in Berlin (Germany), 24-29 July 2016. Early registration is highly recommended. Abstract DL : 30 April 2016.

• Hidden Monsters: Obscured AGN and Connections to Galaxy Evolution in the Era of NuSTAR and WISE Hanover, NH, USA on 8-12 Aug 2016. A workshop bringing together observers and theorists to discuss the physical nature and cosmological importance of obscured AGN. Abstract DL : 22 Apr 2016

• Dark Matter 2016: from the smallest to the largest scales. Santander (Spain) 27 June - 1 July 2016. Abstract DL : 15 April 2016.

• Crossing the Rubicon: the fate of gas flows in galaxies, Santarcangelo di Romagna (Italy), 5-9 Sept 2016. Abstract DL : 14 Apr 2016.

... abstract submission closed/not expected

• Workshop on the next decade of Chandra observations, Cambridge (USA), 16-19 August 2016.

• Star Formation in Different Environment, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 25-29 July 2016. Organized by NAOJ and EAO. Registration DL : 3 July 2016.

• Illuminating the Dark Ages: Quasars and Galaxies in the Reionization Epoch, MPIA Summer Conference 2016. Heidelberg, Germany, 27 June - 1 July 2016.

• JWST @ Royal Observatory of Edinburgh Edinburgh, 4-7 July 2016.

• Workshop on the 1st GAIA release at ESAC, Madrid, Spain, 2-4 Nov 2016. If you are interested in the exploitation of Gaia data. Pre-registration here by 18 March 2016.

• Active Galactic Nuclei: What's in a name? ESO Garching bei München, Germany, 27 June - 1 July 2016. Registration DL : 6 June 2016

• European Week of Astronomy and Space Sciences (EWASS), Athens, Greece, 4-8 July 2016. This is the premier annual astronomy conference in Europe, organized by the European Astronomical Society (EAS), consisting of 17 symposia and 12 special sessions on many topics (among the others: MUSE First Year Science and Beyond). Early registration DL : 30 April 2016.

• Discs in Galaxies, ESO, Garching (Germany) 11-15 July 2016. The aim of this Joint international conference is to explore the importance of stellar and gaseous discs in a variety of galaxies from high redshift to the Milky Way in the context of exciting new observations and numerical simulations. Early registration closes on 29 April. Early registration DL : 29 April 2016.

• Cosmic dawn of galaxy formation: linking observations and theory with new-generation spectral models IAP Paris, 20-24 June 2016. Early registration DL : 15 April 2016

• Signals from the Deep Past, Unveiling early cosmic structures, Malta, 18-22 July 2016. Registration DL: 30 April 2016

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

• Chianti Workshop 2016: Use of small telescopes in the giant era San Donato in Poggio, Firenze (Italy) 11-13 May 2016. Organized by INAF, ESO, UC Davis, University of Florence. "It is not so much time that 8 m class telescopes are on duty and there are projects to build 30-40 m aperture telescopes. In this realm inhabited by such giants is still there need for small (less than 2 m) telescopes?". Registration DL : 30 April 2016

• Star Clusters: from Infancy to Teenagehood, Heidelberg, Germany, 8-12 August 2016. Early registration DL : 15 June 2016

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

PhD schools

• III Krome School on Computational Astrochemistry, Arcetri, Firenze (Italy), 19-21 September 2016.

• The Data Incubator An 8 week (from 6 June 29 July) fellowship for people interested in entering data science industry. It's in the US, but it's open to everyone, there's no fees, and there's the possibility of attending remotely.

• PhD School F. Lucchin, Napoli, Italy, 23-27 May 2016. Main topics: Novelty and Rarity of Stellar Explosions (chairs E. Cappellaro and M. Della Valle), Cosmology with Large Surveys (chair M. Viel). Early registration DL : 15 April 2016

• Ground and space-based instruments for future research in Solar-Terrestrial physics, in L’Aquila (Italy) 6-10 June 2016. Organized by the International School of Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale at the Gran Sasso Science Institute. Applications DL : 27 March 2016

• 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)

• ESO period 98 (1 October 2016 - 31 March 2017). DL : 31 March 2016 (12:00 noon, CEST)

Funding and grants

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

• France-Netherland collaborations, travel money. DL : 15 June 2016.

• Bilateral France-Poland travel money. DL : 3 June 2016

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

• L'Oreal-UNESCO prizes for women in science. 15+15 grants for female PhD students and postdocs.

Job offers

• FONDECYT postdoctoral fellowships in Astrophysics at the Department of Physics at Universidad Andres Bello (Chile). More info here

• PhD position in (experimental or theoretical)cosmology or particle astrophysics at the Stokholm University.

• PhD position in Oslo.

• Argos postdoc position on adaptive optics.

• Two generic postdoc positions at IAC (Tenerife, Spain). There is no "a priori" research field for this offert. Application DL : 31 May 2016.

• Postdoctoral position at Purdue University with Kyoung-Soo Lee on a broad range of topics including spectroscopic and photometric properties of field and protocluster galaxies at high redshift. DL is 29 Feb 2016, but late applications will be accepted until the position is filled. More info.

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.)

• Available jobs at the University of Stockholm

• Open positions at MPIA in Heidelberg

• Job offers at MPA in Garching