***IAU Division D Newsletter, May 2023***
INDEX
* Announcement of Opportunity for observations with Insight-HXMT
* Call for applications for the IAU Hands-On Workshops (I-HOW)
* Call for Survey Participants: The Future of Observational Astronomers
* Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Workshops
* In memoriam
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* Announcement of Opportunity for observations with Insight-HXMT
The Insight-HXMT Cycle 6 guest observation program is open completely to the whole international scientific community. Insight-HXMT is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched on 15th June 2017 and is currently in service smoothly.
The key milestones for this announcements:
Proposals Submissions Open time: Apr. 21, 2023
Proposals Due: Jun. 15, 2023
Announcement of accepted proposals: Aug. 30, 2023
Start time of the AO-04 Observations: Sept. 1, 2023
End time of the AO-04 Observations: Aug. 31, 2024
Useful links:
AO-06 White Book of Insight-HXMT: http://hxmten.ihep.ac.cn/notice/799.jhtml
Submit via the website (registration reuired): http://proposal.ihep.ac.cn/proposal.jspx
Guide for proposal submission: http://enghxmt.ihep.ac.cn/doc/170.jhtml
Proposal forms download: http://enghxmt.ihep.ac.cn/doc/282.jhtml
Yours sincerely,
Prof. Shuang-Nan Zhang, PI of Insight-HXMT
Insight-HXMT Science Center, Institute of High Energy Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
For questions, please email to Zheng Shijie：zhengsj@ihep.ac.cn
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* Call for applications for the IAU Hands-On Workshops (I-HOW)
The IAU calls for applications for workshops under the IAU Hands-On Workshops (I-HOW) initiative. This is an initiative to train young scientists in developing countries in accessing, analysing and using those data for their research projects.
Proposals to organise one of these workshops should be submitted using the application form provided on the website by email to one of the members of the I-HOW Steering Committee (see list of members on that same webpage).
*** The deadline for applications is May 30, 2023 ***
More information on the characteristics of the initiative, the procedure and selection criteria for workshops, and a link to the application form are available at: https://www.iau.org/training/iau-hands-on-workshops/
Contact:
Mariano Mendez
I-HOW Director
Email: mariano@astro.rug.nl
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* Call for Survey Participants: The Future of Observational Astronomers
If you are a researcher or postgraduate student working in the broad field of Observational Astronomy, please complete an anonymous online survey (< 10 min) to help improve understanding of current practices and future changes relating to: (1) the level of in-person involvement in data collection; and (2) the use of automation to assist with research activities.
Further details and the survey questions are at: https://tinyurl.com/futureastronomersurvey
The survey will close on Monday 8 May 2023.
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* Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Workshops
Arcus Community Science Meeting
May 4-5, 2023
On-line only
http://www.arcusxray.org/meetings.html
6th GW open data workshop
May 15-17, 2023
Remotely
https://www.gw-openscience.org/odw/odw2023/
10th Micro-quasar Workshop
May 22-26, 2023
Crete, Greece
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/home?pli=1
Bologna-VLBI: Life begins at 40!
May 22-26, 2023
Bologna, Italy
https://vlbi-40.ira.inaf.it
Advanced School on Multi-messenger Astrophysics
May 29 - June 7, 2023
Sao Paulo, Brasil
https://www.institutoprincipia.org/en/mma-school
The Transient Universe 2023
May 30-June 9, 2023
Cargese, France
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/27295/
1st Trieste Meeting on the physics of GW
June 5-9, 2023
SISSA, Trieste, Italy
https://indico.sissa.it/event/86/
AGN winds on the Chesapeake
June 11-16, 2023
Tidewater Inn, Easton MD, USA
https://physics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/iacs/agn-winds-conf/index.html
Towards LISA Catalog
June 12-14, 2023
Campus Valrose, Nice, France
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29764/
X-ray Universe 2023
June 12-16, 2023
Athens, Greece
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2023-symposium
Timing and Imaging of compact sources with SKA pathfinders and precursors
June 12-16, 2023
Kerastari, Greece
https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/conferences/2023/Kerastari2023/
The first Vasto accretion meeting
June 19-23, 2023
Vasto, Italy
http://astro.dur.ac.uk/vam2023/
2023 Summer School for Astro-statistics
June 19-23, 2023
Heraklion, Greece
http://astro.physics.uoc.gr/Conferences/Astrostatistics_School_Crete_2023/
Astrophysical black Holes: a rapidly moving field
June 23-26, 2023
Hong Kong, China
https://astrobh.physics.hku.hk/event/3/
The restless nature of AGN: 10 years later
June 26-30, 2023
Naples, Italy
https://forms.gle/iYuGoLvwCvHFCkpW6
International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ICGAC15)
July 3-7, 2023
Gyeongju, South Korea
https://www.apctp.org/theme/d/html/activities/activities01_read-pop.php?id=1801
Second MaNiTou Summer School on Gravitational Waves: A new window to the Universe
July 3-8, 2023
Nice, France https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29050/
Gravitational Wave Populations: what’s next?
July 10-14, 2023
Milan, Italy https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/gwpopnext
COST CA18108: Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach July 11-14, 2023
Rijeka, Croatia https://indico.capa.unizar.es/event/31/
Massive Binaries 2023
July 17-21, 2023
Leuven, Belgium
http://ster.kuleuven.be/massivebinaries2023
European Astronomical Society 2023 Annual Meeting
Special Session: Circumbinary disks across all binary systems
July 12, 2023
Krakov, Poland
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/
European Astronomical Society 2023 Annual Meeting
Special Session: Black-Hole accretion disks 50 years on
July 14, 2023
Krakov, Poland
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/
European Astronomical Society 2023 Annual Meeting
Symposium: Baryonic feedback, magnetic fields and cosmic rays in galaxy evolution
July 13-14, 2023
Krakov, Poland
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/
International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)
July 26-August 3, 2023
Nagoya, Japan
https://www.icrc2023.org/
High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy: a Chandra workshop
August 1-3, 2023
Cambridge, USA
https://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/hrxs2023/
Astrophysics & Particle Physics Conference announcement: "Windows on the Universe"
August 6-12, 2023
ICISE, Quy Nhon, Central Vietnam
https://www.icisequynhon.com/
Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM 2023)
August 7-11, 2023,
Koriyama, Japan (hybrid)
https://www.aprim2023.org/
IAU Symposium 384: Planetary Nebulae: a Universal Toolbox in the Era of Precision Astrophysics
September 4-8, 2023
Cracow, Poland
https://iaus384-pne.ncac.torun.pl
5th International Workshop on AM CVn binaries
September 5-8, 2023
Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
https://www.armagh.space/meetings-conferences/5th-international-workshop-on-am-cvn-binaries
AGN on the beach - The many facets of fuelling and feedback in jetted AGN
September 10-15, 2023
Tropea, Italy
http://agnonthebeach.space/
XX International workshop on Neutrino Telescopes
October 23-27, 2023
Venezia, Italy
https://agenda.infn.it/event/33107/
HEPRO VIII: High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows VIlI
October 23-26, 2023
Paris, France
https://hepro8.sciencesconf.org/
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*In memoriam
We are sorry to learn of the passing of:
- Prof. Pierre Pizzochero, University of Milan
https://www.fisica.unimi.it/ecm/home/aggiornamenti-e-archivi/tutte-le-notizie/content/cordoglio-per-pierre-pizzochero.0000.UNIMIDIRE-104034
- Prof. Gülnur Gün, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University
https://www.tad.org.tr/ani-defteri/gulnur-ikis-gun
- Prof. Klaus Meisenheimer, Heidelberg University
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/news/detail/prof-dr-klaus-meisenheimer-verstorben
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If you wish to share with IAU Division D any information about matters that may be relevant to the activities of Div D Members, please send an e-mail to rea@ice.csic.es . This will appear in the next Newsletter, which will be sent out around June 1, 2023. Thank you in advance for your inputs, and best regards.
Dr. Nanda Rea, acting Scientific Secretary of IAU Division D Steering Committee
Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC, IEEC; Barcelona, Spain)
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