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

• Galaxy clusters: physics laboratories and cosmological probes, Cambridge (UK), 5-9 Dec 2016 (travel support available). Abstract DL : 31 July 2016.

• 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.

• Exploring the Universe with JWST - II, Montreal (Canada), 24-28 October 2016. Abstract DL : 15 July 2016.

• Half a Decade of ALMA: Cosmic Dawns Transformed, Indian Wells, California (USA), 20-23 September 2016. Abstract DL : 15 June 2016.

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

• VIALACTEA 2016: The Milky Way as a Star Formation Engine. Towards a predictive Galaxy-scale model of the Star Formation Life-Cycle. Rome (Italy), 26-30 September 2016. Abstract DL : 20 June 2016

• 26th annual conference on the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, Stazione Marittima Conference Centre, Trieste (Italy), 16-20 October 2016. Abstract DL : 24 June 2016 (but financial aid request by May 31st).

... abstract submission closed/not expected

• Towards the European Coordination of the CMB programme, to set the conditions and chart the first steps towards European coordination on the ground and sub-orbital missions, review and prepare future collaboration in the detector side, discuss similar efforts in other parts of the world, prepare the proposals to future mission calls of ESA. Florence (Italy), 8-9 Sept 2016. Registration DL : 31 Aug 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. Registration DL : 31 July 2016.

• Crossing the Rubicon: the fate of gas flows in galaxies, Santarcangelo di Romagna (Italy), 5-9 Sept 2016. Registration DL : 15 July 2016.

• U.S. Radio/Millimeter/Submillimeter Science Futures II. Workshop to broadly discuss potential U.S. futures for radio-millimeter-submillimeter science in the 2020’s and beyond. Baltimore (USA), 3-5 August 2016. Registration DL : 15 July 2016 (1 July to get travel support).

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

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

• 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. Registration DL : 20 June 2016.

• BREAKING THE LIMITS: Super-Eddington Accretion on Compact Objects, Arbatax, Sardinia (Italy) 19-23 Sept 2016. Registration DL : 15 August

• 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). Registration DL : 4 July 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.

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

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

• Astrophysical Probes of Fundamental Physics. A PhD School at University of Ferrara, Italy (director: P. Rosati). 5-9 Sept 2016.

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

• School of Astrophysics "Francesco Lucchin", Bertinoro (FC, Italy), 18-23 September 2016. Topics: 1) The Hot and Energetic Universe through high-resolution spectroscopy (Directors: M. Cappi, S. Ettori); 2) Techniques and strategies to search for signs of Life in the Solar System: new results from Rosetta (Directors: J. Brucato, P. Cerroni)

• The Data Incubator An 8 week (from 6 June to 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.

Telescope time and other science proposals

• ESA call for M5 missions

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

Funding and grants

• Call is open for ERC advanced grant 2016

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

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

• Funds for collaborations France-Brasil. DL 8 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

• Postdoc fellowships in Chile (many benefits, e.g. money to travel).

• [[http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/509137/postdoctoral-fellow-research-fellow-in-dark-energy-or-transients|Postdoctoral fellowship in Dark Energy or Transient, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU) - Mt. Stromlo Observatory.

• Postdoc position at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, to work with Cherenkov Telescope Array.

• This is a postdoc fellowship potentially interesting to SDSS postdocs or finishing graduate students, given expertise in the collaboration in working with large data sets and fostering citizen science. Note that "Positions start July 1 or when filled".

• Postdoc in high-energy physics/gamma ray at the Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics (Innsbruck University, see info here)

• Two postdoctoral positions to work at LAPP in Annecy (see info here.

• Postdoc at the IFIC group to work in KM3NeT-ANTARES, to start by end of 2016 - beginning of 2017.

• Postdoc within Tsvi Piran's project (ERC funded), to work on Relativistic Transients - Mergers, TDEs and GRBs at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). More info here.

• The MAP (Multi-messenger Approach for Astro-Particle Physics) research group at the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC) in Barcelona(Spain) is offering 2 post-doctoral positions. One such position is dedicated to theoretical studies, whereas the other will be observationally-oriented. For info about the group see: http://www.ice.csic.es/research/map

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