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Letter N° 176 – 2023 Septembre 1st
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NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°176
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
1 september 2023
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: SOME INFORMATION
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. PHD POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM
2. SCEECS POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: SOME INFORMATION
Hello everyone
The PNHE Days are about to begin. I would like to remind you of some important information:
** Location, website, program **
– The days will take place from 6 to 8 Sept at IAP https://www.iap.fr/accueil/acces/acces.php. They will start at 9am on Wednesday 6th and finish at 1pm on Friday 8th.
The late morning of Friday 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. will be dedicated to discussions, in particular on the prospective work to come. It will also be an opportunity to exchange views with our sponsors. We look forward to seeing you there!
– The website can be accessed here https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/
– The program can be viewed here https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/timetable/#20230906
** Presentations **
– For presentations, we suggest French. Those who prefer English will of course be able to do so. However, the slides must be in English.
– Invited presentations are 25 min long (including 5 min for questions).
– Invited presentations are 15 min long (including 3 min for questions).
– Timing is going to be very tight, so
-> for invited, solicited or contributed presentations, we strongly suggest that you upload your presentations via the conference’s indico site, at the location corresponding to your presentation. If you are unable to do so, please send us your presentations and we will do it for you.
Alternatively, you can use the conference laptop to upload your presentations no later than half a day before your presentation (i.e. in the morning for the afternoon, in the evening for the morning).
-> For flash presentations, however, there’s no choice. They must be sent to us in pdf format, again no later than half a day before your presentation. As a reminder, these presentations must have only one overhead and last only 2 min. per person.
** ZOOM link **
A zoom link will be sent the day before the event, Tuesday, Sept. 5.
** Lunch ***
-> lunches are not provided. You can either go to the observatory cafeteria, or to one of the many restaurants close to the IAP.
-> On the evening of the 6th, there will be an aperitif dinner from 7pm to 9:30-10pm in the Salle Cassini, in the Bat. Perrault of the Paris Observatory (see map https://luth.obspm.fr/IMG/pdf/plan_paris_291117-1200.pdf). Only those who have pre-registered will be able to take part. Registrations are no longer possible.
That’s all for now.
Looking forward to seeing you soon
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. PHD POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM
The Faculty of Science, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Theoretical Astroparticle Physics at the University of Potsdam invites applications for the following position limited to three years, which will be filled as soon as possible: Academic Staff Member, PhD student, ID no. 403/2023
The astroparticle-physics theory group at the University of Potsdam, currently consisting of four postdocs and three PhD students, is particularly interested in the physics of cosmic accelerators (such as supernova remnants), gamma-ray astronomy, and plasma physics. We offer excellent research opportunities in astroparticle physics through close cooperation with many research groups and major institutions in this field in Germany and abroad.
The Institute for Physics & Astronomy at the University of Potsdam supports a broad range of research in observational and theoretical astrophysics. It has close links with the neighboring Leibniz-Institute für Astrophysik (AIP) and Albert Einstein Institute in addition to DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron), which is one of the world’s leading research centers for particle and astroparticle physics. The Professor responsible for the astroparticle-physics theory group, Prof. Martin Pohl holds a joint position at University of Potsdam and DESY.
The position will be associated with a project involving massively parallel Particle-in-cell simulations of electron acceleration at collisionless shocks that is funded by DFG and embedded in a cooperation with research groups in Cracow and in Tokyo.
For more information about this position, please contact Mr. Prof. Martin Pohl (marpohl@uni-potsdam.de).
Please send us your application in electronic form a CV, a 2-page statement of current and future research interests, a list of publications, a link to the M.Sc. thesis, and the names and contact info of at least 2 references by the deadline of November 1, 2023. Provide the ID no. 403/2023, by email to ines.tietgen@uni-potsdam.de
Transmitted by Benoît Cerutti
2. SCEECS POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS
The Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources (SCEECS) is advertising up to fourteen SCEECS Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers working in fields relevant to the collaboration. The positions will be for up to 3 years and will offer competitive salaries, in the range $65k-85k, and benefits. Most appointments are anticipated to begin in the fall of 2024, though earlier start dates can be entertained, if appropriate.
SCEECS is a new, multi-national, collaboration that focuses on the theory of neutron stars and black holes, building on recent astrophysical discoveries and upcoming experimental opportunities that confront classical and quantum electrodynamics with new challenges. With a highly synergistic research approach, we are addressing these challenges by following a methodology that is both “bottom up” and “top down” to span a vast range of length scales. These approaches involve the physics of collisionless relativistic plasmas (including in strong QED fields), relativistic magnetohydrodynamics and the physics of dense matter of relevance to the interior of neutron stars. We encourage candidates with expertise in any of these and neighboring physics subfields to apply. The new postdoctoral researchers will be able to join ongoing projects within the collaboration and develop their own, original, research programs.
The Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators collaborating on SCEECS are Roger Blandford, Stanford, Director (rdb3@stanford.edu), Sasha Philippov, Maryland, Deputy Director (sashaph@umd.edu), Richard Anantua, U Texas, San Antonio, (richard.anantua@utsa.edu), Matt Caplan, Illinois State (mecapl1@ilstu.edu), Katerina Chatziioannou, Caltech, (kchatziioannou@caltech.edu), Ke Fang (kefang@physics.wisc.edu) and Ellen Zweibel (egzweibel@wis.edu), U. Wisconsin, Sam Gralla, Arizona, (sgralla@email.arizona.edu), Yuri Levin (yl3470@columbia.edu) and Lorenzo Sironi (lsironi@astro.columbia.edu), Columbia, Amir Levinson, Tel Aviv, (levinson@tauex.tau.ac.il), Tsvi Piran, Hebrew University, (tsvi.piran@mail.huji.ac.il), Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton (anatoly@astro.princeton.edu), Chris Thompson, CITA, (thompson@cita.utoronto.ca), and Yajie Yuan, Washington University in St Louis (yajiey@wustl.edu). Applications made in response to this advertisement, as well as those made thr!
ough the institutions of collaborating investigators that designate SCEECS, will be considered by the entire collaboration.
Candidates for these positions should have, or expect to receive, a Ph.D. in astronomy or physics prior to starting their appointment. They should provide a curriculum vitae, including a publication list and a 3-page statement of research interests and plans, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation submitted. In addition, applicants should indicate the preferred institutions to hold a fellowship and are invited, as a component of their research statement, to discuss their experience with or commitment to engaging in mentoring, outreach, teaching, fostering inclusive environments and activities that diversify the field. We also encourage applicants to follow the structure of the AAS advice on the content of CVs and research statements given here: https://jobregister.aas.org/postdoc-application-guidelines.
The deadline for applications, through AcademicJobsOnline, is November 15, 2023. Late applications will be considered at the discretion of the search committee.
More information about SCEECS can be found at https://www.simonsceecs.com
Informal enquiries about these positions can be directed to simonsceecs@stanford.edu.
Transmitted by Benoît Cerutti
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°176
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
1 september 2023
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— SUMMARY
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: SOME INFORMATION
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. PHD POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM
2. SCEECS POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: SOME INFORMATION
Hello everyone
The PNHE Days are about to begin. I would like to remind you of some important information:
** Location, website, program **
– The days will take place from 6 to 8 Sept at IAP https://www.iap.fr/accueil/acces/acces.php. They will start at 9am on Wednesday 6th and finish at 1pm on Friday 8th.
The late morning of Friday 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. will be dedicated to discussions, in particular on the prospective work to come. It will also be an opportunity to exchange views with our sponsors. We look forward to seeing you there!
– The website can be accessed here https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/
– The program can be viewed here https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/timetable/#20230906
** Presentations **
– For presentations, we suggest French. Those who prefer English will of course be able to do so. However, the slides must be in English.
– Invited presentations are 25 min long (including 5 min for questions).
– Invited presentations are 15 min long (including 3 min for questions).
– Timing is going to be very tight, so
-> for invited, solicited or contributed presentations, we strongly suggest that you upload your presentations via the conference’s indico site, at the location corresponding to your presentation. If you are unable to do so, please send us your presentations and we will do it for you.
Alternatively, you can use the conference laptop to upload your presentations no later than half a day before your presentation (i.e. in the morning for the afternoon, in the evening for the morning).
-> For flash presentations, however, there’s no choice. They must be sent to us in pdf format, again no later than half a day before your presentation. As a reminder, these presentations must have only one overhead and last only 2 min. per person.
** ZOOM link **
A zoom link will be sent the day before the event, Tuesday, Sept. 5.
** Lunch ***
-> lunches are not provided. You can either go to the observatory cafeteria, or to one of the many restaurants close to the IAP.
-> On the evening of the 6th, there will be an aperitif dinner from 7pm to 9:30-10pm in the Salle Cassini, in the Bat. Perrault of the Paris Observatory (see map https://luth.obspm.fr/IMG/pdf/plan_paris_291117-1200.pdf). Only those who have pre-registered will be able to take part. Registrations are no longer possible.
That’s all for now.
Looking forward to seeing you soon
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. PHD POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM
The Faculty of Science, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Theoretical Astroparticle Physics at the University of Potsdam invites applications for the following position limited to three years, which will be filled as soon as possible: Academic Staff Member, PhD student, ID no. 403/2023
The astroparticle-physics theory group at the University of Potsdam, currently consisting of four postdocs and three PhD students, is particularly interested in the physics of cosmic accelerators (such as supernova remnants), gamma-ray astronomy, and plasma physics. We offer excellent research opportunities in astroparticle physics through close cooperation with many research groups and major institutions in this field in Germany and abroad.
The Institute for Physics & Astronomy at the University of Potsdam supports a broad range of research in observational and theoretical astrophysics. It has close links with the neighboring Leibniz-Institute für Astrophysik (AIP) and Albert Einstein Institute in addition to DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron), which is one of the world’s leading research centers for particle and astroparticle physics. The Professor responsible for the astroparticle-physics theory group, Prof. Martin Pohl holds a joint position at University of Potsdam and DESY.
The position will be associated with a project involving massively parallel Particle-in-cell simulations of electron acceleration at collisionless shocks that is funded by DFG and embedded in a cooperation with research groups in Cracow and in Tokyo.
For more information about this position, please contact Mr. Prof. Martin Pohl (marpohl@uni-potsdam.de).
Please send us your application in electronic form a CV, a 2-page statement of current and future research interests, a list of publications, a link to the M.Sc. thesis, and the names and contact info of at least 2 references by the deadline of November 1, 2023. Provide the ID no. 403/2023, by email to ines.tietgen@uni-potsdam.de
Transmitted by Benoît Cerutti
2. SCEECS POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS
The Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources (SCEECS) is advertising up to fourteen SCEECS Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers working in fields relevant to the collaboration. The positions will be for up to 3 years and will offer competitive salaries, in the range $65k-85k, and benefits. Most appointments are anticipated to begin in the fall of 2024, though earlier start dates can be entertained, if appropriate.
SCEECS is a new, multi-national, collaboration that focuses on the theory of neutron stars and black holes, building on recent astrophysical discoveries and upcoming experimental opportunities that confront classical and quantum electrodynamics with new challenges. With a highly synergistic research approach, we are addressing these challenges by following a methodology that is both “bottom up” and “top down” to span a vast range of length scales. These approaches involve the physics of collisionless relativistic plasmas (including in strong QED fields), relativistic magnetohydrodynamics and the physics of dense matter of relevance to the interior of neutron stars. We encourage candidates with expertise in any of these and neighboring physics subfields to apply. The new postdoctoral researchers will be able to join ongoing projects within the collaboration and develop their own, original, research programs.
The Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators collaborating on SCEECS are Roger Blandford, Stanford, Director (rdb3@stanford.edu), Sasha Philippov, Maryland, Deputy Director (sashaph@umd.edu), Richard Anantua, U Texas, San Antonio, (richard.anantua@utsa.edu), Matt Caplan, Illinois State (mecapl1@ilstu.edu), Katerina Chatziioannou, Caltech, (kchatziioannou@caltech.edu), Ke Fang (kefang@physics.wisc.edu) and Ellen Zweibel (egzweibel@wis.edu), U. Wisconsin, Sam Gralla, Arizona, (sgralla@email.arizona.edu), Yuri Levin (yl3470@columbia.edu) and Lorenzo Sironi (lsironi@astro.columbia.edu), Columbia, Amir Levinson, Tel Aviv, (levinson@tauex.tau.ac.il), Tsvi Piran, Hebrew University, (tsvi.piran@mail.huji.ac.il), Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton (anatoly@astro.princeton.edu), Chris Thompson, CITA, (thompson@cita.utoronto.ca), and Yajie Yuan, Washington University in St Louis (yajiey@wustl.edu). Applications made in response to this advertisement, as well as those made thr!
ough the institutions of collaborating investigators that designate SCEECS, will be considered by the entire collaboration.
Candidates for these positions should have, or expect to receive, a Ph.D. in astronomy or physics prior to starting their appointment. They should provide a curriculum vitae, including a publication list and a 3-page statement of research interests and plans, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation submitted. In addition, applicants should indicate the preferred institutions to hold a fellowship and are invited, as a component of their research statement, to discuss their experience with or commitment to engaging in mentoring, outreach, teaching, fostering inclusive environments and activities that diversify the field. We also encourage applicants to follow the structure of the AAS advice on the content of CVs and research statements given here: https://jobregister.aas.org/postdoc-application-guidelines.
The deadline for applications, through AcademicJobsOnline, is November 15, 2023. Late applications will be considered at the discretion of the search committee.
More information about SCEECS can be found at https://www.simonsceecs.com
Informal enquiries about these positions can be directed to simonsceecs@stanford.edu.
Transmitted by Benoît Cerutti
Letter N° 175 – 2023 August 1st
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NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°175
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
1 août 2023
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. CALL FOR TENDERS PNHE 2024
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. CALL FOR TENDERS PNHE 2024
The 2024 call for tenders for the National High Energy Program (PNHE) is now open.
The Astronomy-Astrophysics framework note including the text of the PNHE AO is available on the INSU website:
https://programmes.insu.cnrs.fr/programmes-aa/
Projects can be submitted online via the site https://sigap.cnrs.fr
Applicants belonging to a CNRS unit must fill in their applications in Dialog (Title, Amount, Abstract) before September 12, 2023 – 5pm.
Full proposals for scientific projects should be submitted using the electronic form available at https://sigap.cnrs.fr before September 15, 2023 – 5 p.m.
We encourage you to complete this online form well before the deadline.
Please note that, compared with previous years: the scientific justification of an application (parts A+B of the scientific dossier) < 5 k€ must be limited to 2 pages of text and 1 additional page for figures and references in total. For applications > 5k€, for school or conference funding, or for applications submitted simultaneously to the PNHE and one or more other NPs, the number of pages is limited to 5.
Transmitted by Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE
We are looking for a 2-years postdoc in our GW group to work on source modelling of black hole binaries.
Candidates with experience in relativistic perturbation theory, as well semi-analytical approaches
to describe astrophysical compact sources and their gravitational wave emission are encouraged to apply.
We expect the candidate to work on the modelling of asymmetric systems beyond General Relativity
or in non vacuum astrophysical environments. The successful candidate will also work within an
international network which includes different nodes in Europe,
as the University of Pisa and the University of Nottingham.
Applications need to be submitted online:
https://applications.gssi.it/postdoc/
(ref. Position 1.4)
Application deadline is on 11 September.
Andrea Maselli
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°175
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
1 août 2023
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. CALL FOR TENDERS PNHE 2024
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. CALL FOR TENDERS PNHE 2024
The 2024 call for tenders for the National High Energy Program (PNHE) is now open.
The Astronomy-Astrophysics framework note including the text of the PNHE AO is available on the INSU website:
https://programmes.insu.cnrs.fr/programmes-aa/
Projects can be submitted online via the site https://sigap.cnrs.fr
Applicants belonging to a CNRS unit must fill in their applications in Dialog (Title, Amount, Abstract) before September 12, 2023 – 5pm.
Full proposals for scientific projects should be submitted using the electronic form available at https://sigap.cnrs.fr before September 15, 2023 – 5 p.m.
We encourage you to complete this online form well before the deadline.
Please note that, compared with previous years: the scientific justification of an application (parts A+B of the scientific dossier) < 5 k€ must be limited to 2 pages of text and 1 additional page for figures and references in total. For applications > 5k€, for school or conference funding, or for applications submitted simultaneously to the PNHE and one or more other NPs, the number of pages is limited to 5.
Transmitted by Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE
We are looking for a 2-years postdoc in our GW group to work on source modelling of black hole binaries.
Candidates with experience in relativistic perturbation theory, as well semi-analytical approaches
to describe astrophysical compact sources and their gravitational wave emission are encouraged to apply.
We expect the candidate to work on the modelling of asymmetric systems beyond General Relativity
or in non vacuum astrophysical environments. The successful candidate will also work within an
international network which includes different nodes in Europe,
as the University of Pisa and the University of Nottingham.
Applications need to be submitted online:
https://applications.gssi.it/postdoc/
(ref. Position 1.4)
Application deadline is on 11 September.
Andrea Maselli
Letter N° 174 – 2023 July 1st
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NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°174
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 July 1st
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION DEADLINE (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. 2ND ASTRO-COLIBRI MULTI-MESSENGER WORKSHOP (Paris, 20 au 24 novembre 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. TWO POSTDOC POSITIONS IN JAPAN FOR GAMMA-RAY / MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY
2. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSITUTE
3. POSTDOC POSITION AT BOCHUM TO WORK ON ICECUBE
4. PHD POSITION AT THE INFN FERRARA – ITALY
MISCELLANEOUS
1. IXPE BECOMES AN OBSERVATORY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION DEADLINE (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
Hello
The program for the PNHE days (September 6-8 at IAP) is now available at the following link
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/timetable/#20230906
It includes invited, invited and contributed talks, as well as “lightning” presentations, divided into 5 main themes:
– Compact objects and their environment
– New observation methods
– Transients/Explosive phenomena
– High-energy particles: acceleration phenomena, cosmic rays, neutrinos, VHE photons
– Multi-messenger universe: theory and observations
These days will conclude with a long discussion on Friday morning, with the aim of initiating the foresight work to come. We look forward to your participation in these discussions…
You can still register for these days (registration is free but necessary to anticipate the number of people attending the Wednesday evening aperitif dinner) until July 7 via the following link:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations/3458/
Hope to see you soon at these days.
Sincerely
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. 2ND ASTRO-COLIBRI MULTI-MESSENGER WORKSHOP (Paris, 20 au 24 novembre 2023)
We are pleased to announce the 2nd Astro-COLIBRI multi-messenger astrophysics workshop that will take place from November 20 to November 24, 2023, at Institut Pascal at the Paris-Saclay University (France).
Building on the successful first workshop last year, we aim to discuss and develop a research agenda on interconnecting software tools for real-time multi-messenger astronomy. This international workshop provides a forum for leading scientists and young researchers to foster communication between developers and users with a wide range of expertise in the production and use of software tools that facilitate life in the rapidly evolving field of real-time multi-messenger astronomy.
The first two days of the workshop will consist of invited and contributed talks to discuss the current hot topics, challenges, and opportunities in real-time multimessenger astronomy. Starting Wednesday, we will work together in small teams in a Hackathon-like event (“Sciathon”) prototyping and implementing new ideas developed during the workshop.
Participation is free of charge but the number of available places is limited. Application for participation is possible until August 31. The selected participants will be announced shortly after that.
See details on the agenda on our website, where you can also register for the event: https://astrophysics-workshop-2nd.web.app
Looking forward to welcoming you at Paris-Saclay,
Fabian on behalf of the Organizing Committee
– Fabian Schüssler (Irfu, CEA Paris-Saclay), chair
– Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne (Irfu, CEA Paris-Saclay)
– Patrick Reichherzer (Oxford University)
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. TWO POSTDOC POSITIONS IN JAPAN FOR GAMMA-RAY / MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY
We open two postdoc positions located in Japan, working for gamma-ray / multi-messenger astronomy. Locations
(1) ICEHAP, Chiba University / ICRR, University of Tokyo (Chiba)
(2) Hiroshima University (Hiroshima)
Job descriptions
(1)
The successful candidate will work with Dr. Daniela Hadasch for the MAGIC and CTA projects, and will perform physics analysis with multi-year experimental data of MAGIC and CTA Large Size Telescopes (LSTs). He/ She will conduct research in multi messenger astrophysics focussing on variable and transient sources in the gamma-ray sky. Since CTA is a quite large international project, applicants with an international mind are strongly encouraged.
(2)
The successful candidate will work with Dr. Yusuke Suda and pursue research in high energy transient phenomena. He/She is expected to join the CTA LST project and to lead LST data analysis. Development of a new silicon pixel detector for future MeV gamma-ray astronomy will be the other main task. He/She will have the opportunity to join international research collaborations such as MAGIC, Fermi-LAT, CAMELOT and AMEGO-X.
Contract: 3-year contract, which should start from October 2023 at earliest. The applicant should have a PhD degree when she/he starts the position. Salary is a competitive one compared with similar opportunities in Japan.
The deadline of the application is 31 Aug 2023 (Japanese time). The selection is done with the application documents, followed by interviews if needed (can be online on request).
The following application documents should be sent to each of the Academic Online Jobs sites (even if one applies for both positions).
– CV
– Publication list
– Research plans, including starting date (max. 2 pages)
– 2 reference letters
Links for the submission and further details
(1) https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24917
(2) https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24925
Any questions / inquiries can be addressed to
(1)(2) Koji Noda nodak@chiba-u.jp
(1) Daniela Hadasch hadasch@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
(2) Yusuke Suda ysuda@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Best regards,
Yusuke Suda
2. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSITUTE
We are looking for a 2-years postdoc in our GW group to work on source modelling of black hole binaries.
Candidates with experience in relativistic perturbation theory, as well semi-analytical approaches
to describe astrophysical compact sources and their gravitational wave emission
are encouraged to apply.
We expect the candidate to work within an international network which includes different nodes in Europe,
as the University of Pisa and the University of Nottingham
Applications need to be submitted online:
https://applications.gssi.it/postdoc/
(ref. Position 1.4)
Application deadline is on July 6.
Andrea Maselli
3. POSTDOC POSITION AT BOCHUM TO WORK ON ICECUBE
We’re hiring a postdoc in Bochum to work on the IceCube realtime program and multi-messenger studies. Deadline for applications is July 24.
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/66b714c996b20857c3fb194ac3432dbd5a56c4f90?ref=homepage
Please bring this to the attention of suitable candidates, and don’t hesitate to contact me in case of questions. Thanks!
Best,
Anna Franckowiak
4. PHD POSITION AT THE INFN FERRARA – ITALY
Dear all,
please share with your students/colleagues the information below concerning a PhD position at the University of Ferrara in the Doctoral programme Space Science and Technology – SST, for activities in the R&D of technologies for space observation of hard-X and gamma-rays of astrophysical interest. Call deadline 6th July 2023 (https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/107293/announcement-of-selection).
Here below you may find the details on the PhD position.
Title of the PhD project: Development of technologies for the use of oriented crystals for observations of astrophysical interest – E66E23000110001
https://www.unitn.it/phd-sst/785/details-about-funded-positions-39th-cycle-curriculum-5
Contacts: guidi@fe.infn.it, bandiera@fe.infn.it, mazzolari@fe.infn.it, malagu@fe.infn.it
Thank you very much and sorry if you get this message more than once.
Transmitted by Sara Cutini
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MISCELLANEOUS
1. IXPE BECOMES AN OBSERVATORY
As of February 2024, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) becomes an observatory opened to the X-ray enthusiast community. IXPE General Observer (GO) Program solicits proposals for basic research relevant to the IXPE mission in any area of astrophysics (not constrained to address IXPE’s prime science areas). Further details on IXPE Cycle 1 may be found on the IXPE GO Program website at https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ixpe/.
Optional Notices of Intent are requested by September 18, 2023. Phase-1 proposals are due at 4:30 p.m. eastern time October 18, 2023, via ARK/RPS. Phase-1 proposals will be evaluated using a dual-anonymous peer review process. See Section 2.2.2 and in the associated “Guidelines for Anonymous Proposals” document.
If you are interested to measure the 2-8 keV polarization of your favorite high energy sources, do not hesitate to submit a proposal.
IXPE contact person in France : Frédéric MARIN (Obs. Strasbourg) frederic.marin@astro.unistra.fr
Frédéric Marin
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°174
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 July 1st
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION DEADLINE (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. 2ND ASTRO-COLIBRI MULTI-MESSENGER WORKSHOP (Paris, 20 au 24 novembre 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. TWO POSTDOC POSITIONS IN JAPAN FOR GAMMA-RAY / MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY
2. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSITUTE
3. POSTDOC POSITION AT BOCHUM TO WORK ON ICECUBE
4. PHD POSITION AT THE INFN FERRARA – ITALY
MISCELLANEOUS
1. IXPE BECOMES AN OBSERVATORY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION DEADLINE (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
Hello
The program for the PNHE days (September 6-8 at IAP) is now available at the following link
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/timetable/#20230906
It includes invited, invited and contributed talks, as well as “lightning” presentations, divided into 5 main themes:
– Compact objects and their environment
– New observation methods
– Transients/Explosive phenomena
– High-energy particles: acceleration phenomena, cosmic rays, neutrinos, VHE photons
– Multi-messenger universe: theory and observations
These days will conclude with a long discussion on Friday morning, with the aim of initiating the foresight work to come. We look forward to your participation in these discussions…
You can still register for these days (registration is free but necessary to anticipate the number of people attending the Wednesday evening aperitif dinner) until July 7 via the following link:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations/3458/
Hope to see you soon at these days.
Sincerely
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. 2ND ASTRO-COLIBRI MULTI-MESSENGER WORKSHOP (Paris, 20 au 24 novembre 2023)
We are pleased to announce the 2nd Astro-COLIBRI multi-messenger astrophysics workshop that will take place from November 20 to November 24, 2023, at Institut Pascal at the Paris-Saclay University (France).
Building on the successful first workshop last year, we aim to discuss and develop a research agenda on interconnecting software tools for real-time multi-messenger astronomy. This international workshop provides a forum for leading scientists and young researchers to foster communication between developers and users with a wide range of expertise in the production and use of software tools that facilitate life in the rapidly evolving field of real-time multi-messenger astronomy.
The first two days of the workshop will consist of invited and contributed talks to discuss the current hot topics, challenges, and opportunities in real-time multimessenger astronomy. Starting Wednesday, we will work together in small teams in a Hackathon-like event (“Sciathon”) prototyping and implementing new ideas developed during the workshop.
Participation is free of charge but the number of available places is limited. Application for participation is possible until August 31. The selected participants will be announced shortly after that.
See details on the agenda on our website, where you can also register for the event: https://astrophysics-workshop-2nd.web.app
Looking forward to welcoming you at Paris-Saclay,
Fabian on behalf of the Organizing Committee
– Fabian Schüssler (Irfu, CEA Paris-Saclay), chair
– Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne (Irfu, CEA Paris-Saclay)
– Patrick Reichherzer (Oxford University)
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. TWO POSTDOC POSITIONS IN JAPAN FOR GAMMA-RAY / MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY
We open two postdoc positions located in Japan, working for gamma-ray / multi-messenger astronomy. Locations
(1) ICEHAP, Chiba University / ICRR, University of Tokyo (Chiba)
(2) Hiroshima University (Hiroshima)
Job descriptions
(1)
The successful candidate will work with Dr. Daniela Hadasch for the MAGIC and CTA projects, and will perform physics analysis with multi-year experimental data of MAGIC and CTA Large Size Telescopes (LSTs). He/ She will conduct research in multi messenger astrophysics focussing on variable and transient sources in the gamma-ray sky. Since CTA is a quite large international project, applicants with an international mind are strongly encouraged.
(2)
The successful candidate will work with Dr. Yusuke Suda and pursue research in high energy transient phenomena. He/She is expected to join the CTA LST project and to lead LST data analysis. Development of a new silicon pixel detector for future MeV gamma-ray astronomy will be the other main task. He/She will have the opportunity to join international research collaborations such as MAGIC, Fermi-LAT, CAMELOT and AMEGO-X.
Contract: 3-year contract, which should start from October 2023 at earliest. The applicant should have a PhD degree when she/he starts the position. Salary is a competitive one compared with similar opportunities in Japan.
The deadline of the application is 31 Aug 2023 (Japanese time). The selection is done with the application documents, followed by interviews if needed (can be online on request).
The following application documents should be sent to each of the Academic Online Jobs sites (even if one applies for both positions).
– CV
– Publication list
– Research plans, including starting date (max. 2 pages)
– 2 reference letters
Links for the submission and further details
(1) https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24917
(2) https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24925
Any questions / inquiries can be addressed to
(1)(2) Koji Noda nodak@chiba-u.jp
(1) Daniela Hadasch hadasch@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
(2) Yusuke Suda ysuda@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Best regards,
Yusuke Suda
2. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSITUTE
We are looking for a 2-years postdoc in our GW group to work on source modelling of black hole binaries.
Candidates with experience in relativistic perturbation theory, as well semi-analytical approaches
to describe astrophysical compact sources and their gravitational wave emission
are encouraged to apply.
We expect the candidate to work within an international network which includes different nodes in Europe,
as the University of Pisa and the University of Nottingham
Applications need to be submitted online:
https://applications.gssi.it/postdoc/
(ref. Position 1.4)
Application deadline is on July 6.
Andrea Maselli
3. POSTDOC POSITION AT BOCHUM TO WORK ON ICECUBE
We’re hiring a postdoc in Bochum to work on the IceCube realtime program and multi-messenger studies. Deadline for applications is July 24.
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/66b714c996b20857c3fb194ac3432dbd5a56c4f90?ref=homepage
Please bring this to the attention of suitable candidates, and don’t hesitate to contact me in case of questions. Thanks!
Best,
Anna Franckowiak
4. PHD POSITION AT THE INFN FERRARA – ITALY
Dear all,
please share with your students/colleagues the information below concerning a PhD position at the University of Ferrara in the Doctoral programme Space Science and Technology – SST, for activities in the R&D of technologies for space observation of hard-X and gamma-rays of astrophysical interest. Call deadline 6th July 2023 (https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/107293/announcement-of-selection).
Here below you may find the details on the PhD position.
Title of the PhD project: Development of technologies for the use of oriented crystals for observations of astrophysical interest – E66E23000110001
https://www.unitn.it/phd-sst/785/details-about-funded-positions-39th-cycle-curriculum-5
Contacts: guidi@fe.infn.it, bandiera@fe.infn.it, mazzolari@fe.infn.it, malagu@fe.infn.it
Thank you very much and sorry if you get this message more than once.
Transmitted by Sara Cutini
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MISCELLANEOUS
1. IXPE BECOMES AN OBSERVATORY
As of February 2024, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) becomes an observatory opened to the X-ray enthusiast community. IXPE General Observer (GO) Program solicits proposals for basic research relevant to the IXPE mission in any area of astrophysics (not constrained to address IXPE’s prime science areas). Further details on IXPE Cycle 1 may be found on the IXPE GO Program website at https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ixpe/.
Optional Notices of Intent are requested by September 18, 2023. Phase-1 proposals are due at 4:30 p.m. eastern time October 18, 2023, via ARK/RPS. Phase-1 proposals will be evaluated using a dual-anonymous peer review process. See Section 2.2.2 and in the associated “Guidelines for Anonymous Proposals” document.
If you are interested to measure the 2-8 keV polarization of your favorite high energy sources, do not hesitate to submit a proposal.
IXPE contact person in France : Frédéric MARIN (Obs. Strasbourg) frederic.marin@astro.unistra.fr
Frédéric Marin
Letter N° 173 – 2023 May 31st
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NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°173
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 May 31st
==============================================
— SUMMARY
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: REMINDER! DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Paris, September 6 to 8, 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS (HEPRO) VIII (PARIS, 23 AU 26 OCTOBRE 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSITIONS IN HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY PHYSICS AND PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS
2. POSTDOC IN ML/GWDA AT SISSA
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: REMINDER! DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Paris, September 6 to 8, 2023)
Hello everyone
This message is a reminder of the deadline for submitting your contributions to the PNHE 2023 days (which will take place from September 6 to 8, 2023 at the IAP, see the copy of the latest circular at the end of the message).
The deadline is *** June 9 ***.
To submit a contribution, please use the following link
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations
The final program will be published at the end of June.
A buffet dinner is also planned for the evening of Wednesday Sept. 6 in the Salle Cassini at Paris Observatory.
*** Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by July 10 ***
via the link
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
On behalf of the PNHE Scientific Council
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS (HEPRO) VIII (PARIS, 23 AU 26 OCTOBRE 2023)
Dear All,
this is a kind reminder that the formal deadline for abstract submission for the HEPRO VIII (High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows), which will take place next Fall in Paris, October 23 – 26, 2023, is drawing near: June 15!
The organization of this conference in France presents a rare occasion for the PNHE community to participate and showcase its activities and achievements. Do not miss this opportunity! You can register through the website https://hepro8.sciencesconf.org
We look very much forward to seeing you next October in Paris,
for the LOC: Sandy Artero, Frédéric Daigne, Kumiko Kotera, Martin Lemoine (chair) and Hélène Sol.
Transmitted by Martin Lemoine
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSITIONS IN HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY PHYSICS AND PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS
We invite applications for research positions at the plasma physics group at the University of Lisbon to be led by Prof. Frederico Fiuza. Positions are open at different levels, including PhD students, postdocs, and research scientists. We welcome applications from candidates interested in a wide range of topics in high- energy-density physics and plasma astrophysics. Our current research interests include particle acceleration and radiation emission in astrophysical jets, collisionless shocks, and magnetic reconnection, intense laser-plasma interactions and laboratory astrophysics, and applications of machine learning to multi-scale modeling of plasmas. This position will involve basic research in theory and numerical modeling of plasmas. Depending on the project and interests of the candidate, it can also involve close collaboration with planned experiments at high-energy-density facilities such as NIF at LLNL and FACET-II and LCLS at SLAC. These positions will be funded b!
y the ERC Consolidator grant XPACE.
Candidates interested in these position should send a cover letter and a CV with a complete list of publications via e-mail to Prof. Frederico Fiuza at fiuza@slac.stanford.edu or fredfiuza@gmail.com. Applicants should also arrange for at least two letters of recommendation to be sent by e-mail to Prof. Frederico Fiuza at the same address. Review of applications will being on July 1st, 2023 but the positions will remain open until filled.
The University of Lisbon is an equal opportunity employer. It welcomes applications from women and members of minority groups, as well as from others who would bring additional dimensions to the university’s research.
Frederico Fiuza
2. POSTDOC IN ML/GWDA AT SISSA
Dear Colleagues
please find below the announcement for a postdoc in ML/GWDA at SISSA
(Trieste Italy) starting in Jan 2024. Please feel free to forward to
potentially interested parties
https://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2023/05/10/postdoc-in-ml-gwda/
best regards
Enrico Barausse
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°173
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 May 31st
==============================================
— SUMMARY
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: REMINDER! DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Paris, September 6 to 8, 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS (HEPRO) VIII (PARIS, 23 AU 26 OCTOBRE 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSITIONS IN HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY PHYSICS AND PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS
2. POSTDOC IN ML/GWDA AT SISSA
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: REMINDER! DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Paris, September 6 to 8, 2023)
Hello everyone
This message is a reminder of the deadline for submitting your contributions to the PNHE 2023 days (which will take place from September 6 to 8, 2023 at the IAP, see the copy of the latest circular at the end of the message).
The deadline is *** June 9 ***.
To submit a contribution, please use the following link
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations
The final program will be published at the end of June.
A buffet dinner is also planned for the evening of Wednesday Sept. 6 in the Salle Cassini at Paris Observatory.
*** Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by July 10 ***
via the link
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
On behalf of the PNHE Scientific Council
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS (HEPRO) VIII (PARIS, 23 AU 26 OCTOBRE 2023)
Dear All,
this is a kind reminder that the formal deadline for abstract submission for the HEPRO VIII (High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows), which will take place next Fall in Paris, October 23 – 26, 2023, is drawing near: June 15!
The organization of this conference in France presents a rare occasion for the PNHE community to participate and showcase its activities and achievements. Do not miss this opportunity! You can register through the website https://hepro8.sciencesconf.org
We look very much forward to seeing you next October in Paris,
for the LOC: Sandy Artero, Frédéric Daigne, Kumiko Kotera, Martin Lemoine (chair) and Hélène Sol.
Transmitted by Martin Lemoine
———————————————-
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSITIONS IN HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY PHYSICS AND PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS
We invite applications for research positions at the plasma physics group at the University of Lisbon to be led by Prof. Frederico Fiuza. Positions are open at different levels, including PhD students, postdocs, and research scientists. We welcome applications from candidates interested in a wide range of topics in high- energy-density physics and plasma astrophysics. Our current research interests include particle acceleration and radiation emission in astrophysical jets, collisionless shocks, and magnetic reconnection, intense laser-plasma interactions and laboratory astrophysics, and applications of machine learning to multi-scale modeling of plasmas. This position will involve basic research in theory and numerical modeling of plasmas. Depending on the project and interests of the candidate, it can also involve close collaboration with planned experiments at high-energy-density facilities such as NIF at LLNL and FACET-II and LCLS at SLAC. These positions will be funded b!
y the ERC Consolidator grant XPACE.
Candidates interested in these position should send a cover letter and a CV with a complete list of publications via e-mail to Prof. Frederico Fiuza at fiuza@slac.stanford.edu or fredfiuza@gmail.com. Applicants should also arrange for at least two letters of recommendation to be sent by e-mail to Prof. Frederico Fiuza at the same address. Review of applications will being on July 1st, 2023 but the positions will remain open until filled.
The University of Lisbon is an equal opportunity employer. It welcomes applications from women and members of minority groups, as well as from others who would bring additional dimensions to the university’s research.
Frederico Fiuza
2. POSTDOC IN ML/GWDA AT SISSA
Dear Colleagues
please find below the announcement for a postdoc in ML/GWDA at SISSA
(Trieste Italy) starting in Jan 2024. Please feel free to forward to
potentially interested parties
https://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2023/05/10/postdoc-in-ml-gwda/
best regards
Enrico Barausse
Letter N° 172 – 2023 May 2nd
==============================================
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°172
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 May 2nd
==============================================
— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: INFORMATION AND DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. TEVPA 2023 (Naples, Italie, 11 au 15 septembre 2023)
2. MIST2023 : COSMIC TURBULENCE AND MAGNETIC FIELDS: PHYSICS OF BARYONIC MATTER ACROSS TIME AND SCALES (Cargèse, 25 au 29 septembre 2023)
3. HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS (HEPRO) VIII (Paris, 23 au 26 octobre 2023)
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: INFORMATION AND DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
Hello everyone
As a reminder, the PNHE 2023 days will take place from September 6 to 8, 2023 in the IAP amphitheater.
These days will be an opportunity to get an overview of the field and to take stock of the French community’s involvement.
A proposed agenda, including invited and solicited contributions, can be consulted on the website:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/timetable/#20230906
We also have several slots for submitted contributions.
*** The deadline for submissions is June 9. ***
Rather than poster sessions, we’re also planning “lightning” presentation sessions (1 minute to describe your work), to enable young PhD students in particular to make themselves known to the community.
A buffet dinner is also planned for the evening of Wednesday Sept. 6 in the Salle Cassini at Paris Observatory.
*** Participation is free, but registration is required before July 10. ***
You can now register for these days and also propose a contribution by following the link:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations/3458/
The final program will be published at the end of June.
We look forward to your participation,
The Scientific Council of the PNHE
PS: We also invite you to make your hotel reservations as soon as possible, as the Rugby World Cup kicks off in Paris on Friday September 8.
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. TEVPA 2023 (Naples, Italie, 11 au 15 septembre 2023)
Dear all,
a quick message to inform you that we have extended the Early Bird fee deadline of one week, so it will be possible to register at a discounted rate until next Monday, April 24th.
The 2023 edition of TeVPA will take place in Napoli (Italy), September 11-15, and information on important dates, location, and travel are all available at our webpage:
https://agenda.infn.it/e/tevpa2023
We have a few fee waiver scholarships for graduate students -application process explained on our webpage- and we strongly encourage especially postdocs and graduate students to submit an abstract for one of the parallel sessions, listed below.
We expect a lively and exciting meeting, and we look forward to seeing you all in Napoli.
Best,
Fabio
for the TeVPA23 LOC
Transmitted by Fabio Iocco
2. MIST2023 : COSMIC TURBULENCE AND MAGNETIC FIELDS: PHYSICS OF BARYONIC MATTER ACROSS TIME AND SCALES (Cargèse, 25 au 29 septembre 2023)
First Announcement
The pre-registration and abstract submission (deadline: April 15) are now open for the conference
« Cosmic turbulence and magnetic fields: physics of baryonic matter across time and scales »
to be held in Cargèse (France) on 25 – 29 September 2023.
More information on: https://mist2023.sciencesconf.org
The attendance being limited to 100, participants will be selected on the basis of the acceptance of their abstract by the SOC, but a pre-registration is mandatory for the abstract submission.
There will be no registration fee.
If you have questions about the meeting, feel free to contact us at mist2023@sciencesconf.org.
Transmitted by Edith Falgarone
3. HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS (HEPRO) VIII (Paris, 23 au 26 octobre 2023)
**** Registration now open for HEPRO VIII (High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows) ****
Dear Colleagues,
it is our great pleasure to announce that registration for the conference HEPRO VIII (High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows), which will take place next Fall in Paris (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris & Observatoire de Paris), October 23 – 26, 2023, is now open.
The HEPRO conferences are a cycle of biennial events devoted to the discussion of the most recent developments, either theoretical, phenomenological, or observational, on the major themes of high-energy and multi-messenger astrophysics associated with relativistic winds and jets, on all scales. The scientific program leaves ample room for oral contributions and posters, so do not hesitate to contribute!
Abstract submission will remain open until June 15 at an early bird registration fee of 250euros and the final conference program will go live in early July. Details on the registration procedure, including a preliminary list of invited speakers, can be found on the conference web page.
Important: as France will be hosting the 2023 rugby World Cup next Fall, Paris might be busy at the time of the conference. We thus encourage you to submit your abstract and pre-book your accommodation at your earliest convenience. A limited amount of external funding is available to support some participants, please check the web page for details.
Finally, do not hesitate to circulate this email around. Thank you!
We look very much forward to seeing you next October in Paris,
For the LOC: Sandy Artero, Frédéric Daigne, Kumiko Kotera, Martin Lemoine (chair) and Hélène Sol.
Transmitted by Martin Lemoine
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°172
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 May 2nd
==============================================
— SUMMARY
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: INFORMATION AND DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. TEVPA 2023 (Naples, Italie, 11 au 15 septembre 2023)
2. MIST2023 : COSMIC TURBULENCE AND MAGNETIC FIELDS: PHYSICS OF BARYONIC MATTER ACROSS TIME AND SCALES (Cargèse, 25 au 29 septembre 2023)
3. HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS (HEPRO) VIII (Paris, 23 au 26 octobre 2023)
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE DAYS: INFORMATION AND DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
Hello everyone
As a reminder, the PNHE 2023 days will take place from September 6 to 8, 2023 in the IAP amphitheater.
These days will be an opportunity to get an overview of the field and to take stock of the French community’s involvement.
A proposed agenda, including invited and solicited contributions, can be consulted on the website:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/timetable/#20230906
We also have several slots for submitted contributions.
*** The deadline for submissions is June 9. ***
Rather than poster sessions, we’re also planning “lightning” presentation sessions (1 minute to describe your work), to enable young PhD students in particular to make themselves known to the community.
A buffet dinner is also planned for the evening of Wednesday Sept. 6 in the Salle Cassini at Paris Observatory.
*** Participation is free, but registration is required before July 10. ***
You can now register for these days and also propose a contribution by following the link:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations/3458/
The final program will be published at the end of June.
We look forward to your participation,
The Scientific Council of the PNHE
PS: We also invite you to make your hotel reservations as soon as possible, as the Rugby World Cup kicks off in Paris on Friday September 8.
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
———————————————-
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. TEVPA 2023 (Naples, Italie, 11 au 15 septembre 2023)
Dear all,
a quick message to inform you that we have extended the Early Bird fee deadline of one week, so it will be possible to register at a discounted rate until next Monday, April 24th.
The 2023 edition of TeVPA will take place in Napoli (Italy), September 11-15, and information on important dates, location, and travel are all available at our webpage:
https://agenda.infn.it/e/tevpa2023
We have a few fee waiver scholarships for graduate students -application process explained on our webpage- and we strongly encourage especially postdocs and graduate students to submit an abstract for one of the parallel sessions, listed below.
We expect a lively and exciting meeting, and we look forward to seeing you all in Napoli.
Best,
Fabio
for the TeVPA23 LOC
Transmitted by Fabio Iocco
2. MIST2023 : COSMIC TURBULENCE AND MAGNETIC FIELDS: PHYSICS OF BARYONIC MATTER ACROSS TIME AND SCALES (Cargèse, 25 au 29 septembre 2023)
First Announcement
The pre-registration and abstract submission (deadline: April 15) are now open for the conference
« Cosmic turbulence and magnetic fields: physics of baryonic matter across time and scales »
to be held in Cargèse (France) on 25 – 29 September 2023.
More information on: https://mist2023.sciencesconf.org
The attendance being limited to 100, participants will be selected on the basis of the acceptance of their abstract by the SOC, but a pre-registration is mandatory for the abstract submission.
There will be no registration fee.
If you have questions about the meeting, feel free to contact us at mist2023@sciencesconf.org.
Transmitted by Edith Falgarone
3. HIGH ENERGY PHENOMENA IN RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS (HEPRO) VIII (Paris, 23 au 26 octobre 2023)
**** Registration now open for HEPRO VIII (High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows) ****
Dear Colleagues,
it is our great pleasure to announce that registration for the conference HEPRO VIII (High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows), which will take place next Fall in Paris (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris & Observatoire de Paris), October 23 – 26, 2023, is now open.
The HEPRO conferences are a cycle of biennial events devoted to the discussion of the most recent developments, either theoretical, phenomenological, or observational, on the major themes of high-energy and multi-messenger astrophysics associated with relativistic winds and jets, on all scales. The scientific program leaves ample room for oral contributions and posters, so do not hesitate to contribute!
Abstract submission will remain open until June 15 at an early bird registration fee of 250euros and the final conference program will go live in early July. Details on the registration procedure, including a preliminary list of invited speakers, can be found on the conference web page.
Important: as France will be hosting the 2023 rugby World Cup next Fall, Paris might be busy at the time of the conference. We thus encourage you to submit your abstract and pre-book your accommodation at your earliest convenience. A limited amount of external funding is available to support some participants, please check the web page for details.
Finally, do not hesitate to circulate this email around. Thank you!
We look very much forward to seeing you next October in Paris,
For the LOC: Sandy Artero, Frédéric Daigne, Kumiko Kotera, Martin Lemoine (chair) and Hélène Sol.
Transmitted by Martin Lemoine
Letter N° 171 – 2023 March 31st
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NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°171
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 March 31st
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. SF2A AS SKA-LOFAR AND PNHE WORKSHOP – COMPACT OBJECTS: OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY FROM RADIO TO GAMMA (Strasbourg, 23 juin 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. 6TH GRAVITATIONAL WAVE OPEN DATA WORKSHOP (15 au 17 mai 2023)
2. 10TH MICROQUASAR WORKSHOP “THE VARIOUS FACETS OF EXTREME GRAVITY” (Héraklion, Grèce, 22 au 26 mai 2023)
3. 1ST TRIESTE MEETING ON THE PHYSICS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES (Trieste, Italie, 5 au 9 juin 2023)
4. TOWARDS LISA CATALOGS WORKSHOP (Nice, 12 au 14 juin 2023)
5. 2ND MANITOU SUMMER SCHOOL ON GWS (Nice, 3 au 8 juillet 2023)
6. 4TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF COST ACTION CA18108 “QUANTUM GRAVITY PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE MULTI-MESSENGER APPROACH” (Rijeka, Croatie, 11 au 14 juillet 2023)
7. XX INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEUTRINO TELESCOPES (Venise, Italie, 23 au 27 octobre 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. RECRUITMENT OF TEMPORARY TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (ATER) – ARTEMIS LABORATORY, CÔTE D’AZUR UNIVERSITY
2. JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP – ARTEMIS LABORATORY, NICE
3. PHD POSITIONS GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS
MISCELLANEOUS
1. SYMPOSIUM STAVROS KATSANEVAS (Paris, 1er juin 2023)
2. CALL FOR TENDERS NATIONAL TELESCOPES 2023B
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. SF2A AS SKA-LOFAR AND PNHE WORKSHOP – COMPACT OBJECTS: OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY FROM RADIO TO GAMMA (Strasbourg, 23 juin 2023)
We are pleased to announce the workshop S03 of the SF2A Meeting 2023. This workshop, jointly organized by the PNHE and the Action Spécifique SKA-LOFAR, will be help on Friday, June 23rd, and is entitled:
Compact Objects: Observations and Theory from radio to Gamma.
We encourage everyone working on any aspects of compact objects to submit abstracts for this workshop. More info here:
https://journees.sf2a.eu/ateliers/ska-lofar/
Sebastien Guillot, Francesca Calore, Jérôme Novak.
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. 6TH GRAVITATIONAL WAVE OPEN DATA WORKSHOP (15 au 17 mai 2023)
Link to this announcement: https://inspirehep.net/conferences/2639268
The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announces its *6th edition of the Gravitational Wave Open Data workshop* (GWODW) for May 15th to the 17th 2023. The workshop will tackle topics such as access to LVK public data, introduction to GW detectors and their data, techniques for GW data analysis, and interpretation of compact binary coalesce signals. As the last edition, the 6th GWODW will be a hybrid workshop. There will be remote lectures offered by LVK scientists on *May 15th-17th from 9.00 CEST to 10.30 CEST*. In parallel, each institution or group participating in the workshop can host an in-person “study hub”. Study hubs are the central forum where the participants of the workshop can meet, discuss, and work together on the tutorial material prepared for the workshop. Study Hubs can be also a place to stream lectures. We warmly invite every institution hosting a GW expert that participates in the workshop to organize a study hub. More details about the workshop c!
an be found on the conference website [*].
There is no fee for the workshop. Registrations to the workshop will be managed via Thinkific [#] and the link for the streaming will be both uploaded on the platform and sent to the participants. If you are planning to organize a study hub at your institution, please use the following link [+] to let other people know.
[*] https://www.gw-openscience.org/odw/odw2023/
[#] https://gw-odw.thinkific.com/courses/gw-open-data-workshop-6
[+] https://ask.igwn.org/t/open-data-workshop-study-hubs-2023/462
Transmitted by Eric Chassande-Mottin
2. 10TH MICROQUASAR WORKSHOP “THE VARIOUS FACETS OF EXTREME GRAVITY” (Héraklion, Grèce, 22 au 26 mai 2023)
Dear colleagues
This is the 3rd circular about the 10th Microquasar Workshop “The various
facets of extreme gravity” that will take place at Heraklion, Crete, Greece,
on 22-26 May 2023. This circular is also accessible via the following link:
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/circulars/third-circular
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The programme of the workshop is now public. You can find it here
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/program/scientific-program
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*** Registration ***
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If you want to take advantage of the early bird registration fees please
register before the 10th of March at
https://backoffice.ccbsgreece.gr/clients/microquasar.html
For latter registrations the fees are:
– Normal Registration (Through 10 April 2023) : 410 euro
– Late Registration (Up to the Conference Time) : 450 euro
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*** Hotel reservation ***
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Crete being a very popular tourist destination, we strongly recommend that you
book your flight and hotel as soon as possible. Informations about hotels can
be found here
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/practical-information/accomodation
We are really looking forward to seeing you in Crete!
Best regards
Nick & Pierre-Olivier
Transmitted by Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
3. 1ST TRIESTE MEETING ON THE PHYSICS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES (Trieste, Italie, 5 au 9 juin 2023)
Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce the 1st Trieste meeting on the physics of gravitational waves for next June:
https://indico.sissa.it/event/86/
The observation of gravitational waves from binary black holes and neutron stars by the LIGO-Virgo scientific collaboration heralds a new era in astrophysics, in which gravitational radiation will probe the
universe in a new and complementary way to traditional telescopes. With several new detectors coming online soon, such as LISA, ET and Cosmic Explorer, these detections are just the beginning of an
exciting scientific journey that will unravel the nature of the most mysterious objects of our Universe, black holes.
One of the main scientific targets of new detectors are supermassive black holes, which are typically present in galactic centers and surrounded by astrophysical environments involving accretion disks,
dark matter, stars, and other smaller black holes. In order to fulfill the ambitious goals of gravitational-wave astronomy it is crucial to assess how these environments affect the gravitational-wave signal of
a binary coalescence. The 1st Trieste meeting on environmental effects on binary black holes will bring together experts on astrophysical and waveform modelling, and gravitational-wave data analysis to try to
answer questions like:
– What is the bias we incur if environmental effects are not properly modeled? Can they compromise tests of GR and the nature of compact objects?
– What are the limitations of current models for environmental effects and what are the best strategies to improve them?
– How do we efficiently include these effects in the state-of-the-art waveform models?
– With what precision will we be able to constrain the properties of astrophysical environments with future detections?
The meeting will be held at SISSA in Trieste (Italy) from June 7-9, 2023 and will be preceded by the mid-term meeting of the H2020-MSCA-RISE Network Gravitational Universe: Challenges and Opportunities (June 5-6). On the non-scientific side, Trieste is a vibrant multicultural city facing the charming azure of the Adriatic sea, with a rich history and plenty of leisure and cultural activities. It is particularly enjoyable in late spring.
Note that the number of registrations may be capped due to room capacity.
On behalf of the organizers, all the best
Francisco Duque
4. TOWARDS LISA CATALOGS WORKSHOP (Nice, 12 au 14 juin 2023)
We are organizing a workshop to start addressing the challenge of turning the L2 data products into L3 data to be used by the largest possible community. It will be on June 12-14, in Nice (Valrose campus, downtown).
More specifically, the questions we want to address (or start addressing) regarding L2->L3 data are:
What does the input data look like (what comes out of the Global Fit, how to interpret it properly)
What could the output data look like (what is a “good” catalog?)
How to go from one to the other (examples from space missions, gravitational waves, galactic binaries with EM, first LISA efforts…).
We will be gathering LISA science and data analysis experts as well as experts on data processing of space missions and ground-based GW detectors. We are aiming at a relatively small meeting (20-30 people), to allow for ample discussions and interactions.
Please consider registering soon (https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29764/ ) if you want to make sure that you will be able to attend (local hotels also fill up quickly in June).
We look forward to seeing you in Nice and discussing LISA and LISA data!
Best,
Astrid and Nelson
Transmitted by Astrid Lamberts
5. 2ND MANITOU SUMMER SCHOOL ON GWS (Nice, 3 au 8 juillet 2023)
This is the second announcement for the 2nd MaNiTou Summer School on GWs.
More details, including the link to the school website and a preliminary program, are available here below.
Please note that a first selection of the received student applications will take place at the beginning of April.
For this reason we strongly encourage all prospective students to register on the website of the school before the end of March.
We would also like to remind that accommodation for selected Master and PhD students will be provided free of charge.
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Date: July 3-8 2023.
Location: campus Valrose of the Université Cote d’Azur, Nice, France.
Registration: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29050/registrations/3442/
Registration deadline: registrations are open until the end of May 2023, but a first selection of the received student applications will be done at the beginning of April. We strongly encourage all perspective student participants to register before the end of March 2023.
The school will cover the emerging field of gravitational wave detection and of its scientific exploitation. The goal of the school is to provide the students with a solid introduction to most aspects of this interdisciplinary field in accelerated expansion.
The school is open in priority to Master and PhD students, and also to young or not so young scientists who would like to get better acquainted with Gravitational Waves.
The school is limited to 40 participants. Master and PhD students can be accommodate at a CROUS residence free of charge (cost paid by the school).
School Programme:
GR and GW Theory (7h) – Simone Speziale (CPT)
Panorama of possible GW sources (1h) – Joe Romano (TTU)
GW Data Analysis (3h) – Sylvain Marsat (L2IT)
GW Instruments (3h)
– On Ground (LIGO/Virgo, ET) – Walid Chaibi (OCA)
– In Space (LISA) – Hubert Halloin (APC)
Hands on data analysis (3h) – Simone Mastrogiovanni (INFN – La Sapienza)
GW to study the Universe:
– Astrophysics (1h30) – Astrid Lamberts (OCA)
– Cosmology (1h30) – Simone Mastrogiovanni (INFN – La Sapienza)
– Fundamental Physics (1h30) – Mairi Sakellariadou (King’s College)
– Multi-Messager Astronomy (1h30) – Sarah Antier (OCA)
Advanced seminars:
– GW and Nuclear Physics (1h30) – TBD
– Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA):
– Science and Detection (1h30) – Gilles Theureau (LPC2E)
– SGWB Analysis (1h30) – Joe Romano (TTU)
– Deep Learning in GW physics (1h30) – Natalia Korsakova (APC)
Organising committee:
Marie-Anne BIZOUARD (OCA/ARTEMIS)
Oualid CHAIBI (OCA/ARTEMIS)
Nelson CHRISTENSEN (OCA/ARTEMIS)
Sebastien GUILLOT (IRAP)
Eric KAJFASZ (CPPM/IPhU)
Christian MARINONI (CPT/IPhU)
Sylvain MARSAT (L2IT)
Alejandro PEREZ (CPT/IPhU)
Delphine PORQUET (LAM/IPhU)
Nicola TAMANINI (L2IT)
Transmitted by Delphine Porquet
6. 4TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF COST ACTION CA18108 “QUANTUM GRAVITY PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE MULTI-MESSENGER APPROACH” (Rijeka, Croatie, 11 au 14 juillet 2023)
Dear Colleague,
We hope this mail finds you well.
It is our pleasure to announce the 4th Annual Conference of COST Action CA18108 “Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach” (https://qg-mm.unizar.es/),
which will take place in Rijeka, Croatia from 11 – 14 July 2023.
The aim of the meeting, as well as the Action, is to enable researchers from different communities of quantum gravity, theoreticians, phenomenologists, and experimentalists, to cooperate on developing new strategies for testing candidate quantum gravity theories using multi-messenger high-energy astrophysical observations.
All details about the meeting and the registration form can be found in the indico page:
https://indico.capa.unizar.es/event/31/
The registration deadline is 30 April 2023.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Rijeka!
Please be advised that July is the high tourist season in Rijeka. Early accommodation booking is strongly recommended.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to other colleagues who might find it interesting.
Best regards,
Tomislav Terzic
on behalf of the organising committee
7. XX INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEUTRINO TELESCOPES (Venise, Italie, 23 au 27 octobre 2023)
Dear Colleagues,
The XX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes will take place on 23-27 October 2023, both in-person and remote modality.
Please visit the Workshop web site for all information:
https://agenda.infn.it/event/33107/.
Conference fees are detailed on the Workshop web site at this page:
https://agenda.infn.it/event/33107/page/7189-fees-payments-and-receipts
The Conference program will be articulated in Plenary Sessions (by invitation only, 25+5 min talks), Parallel Sessions (12+3 min talks) and Flash Talks sessions, (3+2 min talks).
We require the in-person participation of the speakers for plenary and parallel talks, while flash talks can also be given remotely.
We warmly invite your collaboration to submit abstracts for talks in the parallel and flash talks sessions. The topics for parallel and flash talks and the important dates are detailed in:
https://agenda.infn.it/event/33107/abstracts/
All the contributions will be published under the open source Zenodo platform with the assignment of a DOI.
Invitations for plenary talks will be sent in the next few weeks.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could advertise this Conference among your collaborators.
With our best regards,
Mauro Mezzetto (INFN Padova), chairperson
Elisa Bernardini (Padova University and INFN Padova) co-chair
Pina Salente (INFN Padova) contact person
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. RECRUITMENT OF TEMPORARY TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (ATER) – ARTEMIS LABORATORY, CÔTE D’AZUR UNIVERSITY
Dear colleagues,
A one-year position for an ATER (Attachés Temporaires d’Enseignement et de Recherche) is available at Laboratoire Artemis, Université Côte d’Azur. In addition to his/her teaching responsibilities, the person will participate in the Artemis Laboratory’s research program in multi-messenger astrophysics of gravitational wave sources. This also includes the search for gravitational wave sources in LIGO-Virgo data and preparation for the scientific exploitation of LISA data. A job description is available at the following address:
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ATERListesOffresPubliees/0062205P/FOPC_51065.pdf
Instructions for the application procedure are available at the following address:
https://univ-cotedazur.fr/universite/travailler-a-universite-cote-d-azur/annonces-offres-d-emplois/recrutement-des-attaches-temporaires-denseignement-et-de-recherche
Please contact Nelson Christensen for further information.
nelson.christensen@oca.eu
Nelson CHRISTENSEN
2. JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP – ARTEMIS LABORATORY, NICE
Dear Colleagues,
Here in France there is a new initiative called the Chaire Professeur Junior (CPJ). The CPJs are intended for researchers in the first part of their career, with a strong potential to manage and lead a research team, as well as to participate in national, European or international projects. Once hired, the person would be on a tenure-track-like system. After 3 to 6 years they would become a University Professor, or a CNRS Directeur de Recherche.
The Artemis Laboratory in Nice, France has a CPJ position for the development of high power and stabilizer laser systems for gravitational-wave detectors. The position comes with a start-up package of 350k€. See the attachment for a description of the position. For this position at Artemis, the hired person would become a CNRS Directeur de Recherche after tenure. The application procedure can be found at:
https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/rejoignez-le-cnrs-la-liste-des-37-postes-de-chaires-de-professeur-junior
The application deadline is April 14.
Please contact me (nelson.christensen@oca.eu) if you need more information or would like to discuss.
I greatly appreciate your help.
Best Wishes,
Nelson CHRISTENSEN
3. PHD POSITIONS GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS
Dear all,
The Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology (CAC) at the University of Nova Gorica has openings for two PhD student positions in gamma-ray astrophysics, with starting date in October 2023.
The positions are focused on the following research topics:
— development of a dedicated Raman lidar and its integration into the emerging CTA Observatory, as well as to the study of atmosphere-induced systematic uncertainties, which are expected to be particularly important for the all-sky surveys (Mentor of Prof. S. Stanič)
— research related to dark matter searches in experimental astrophysical data of the Fermi LAT satellite, Cherenkov Telescope Array and/or Vera Rubin Observatory LSST, together with theoretical studies and data interpretation (Mentor of Prof. G. Zaharijas)
More info https://inspirehep.net/jobs/2644407
Please forward this to any suitable candidates. Thanks a lot!
Gabrijela Zaharijas
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MISCELLANEOUS
1. SYMPOSIUM STAVROS KATSANEVAS (Paris, 1er juin 2023)
On November 27th, 2022, our friend and colleague Prof. Stavros Katsanevas passed away. At APC Laboratory, his beloved laboratory,
we wish to pay tribute to him through a day, which will be dedicated to the man, the physicist, the philosopher that he was.
The registration is open to everyone and free, but mandatory.
For your information, you will find attached the poster advertising the symposium and below the website for registration and info:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/e/stavros_katsanevas
Thank you in advance for kindly spreading this message around you!
Antoine Kouchner
For the Advisory Committee
2. CALL FOR TENDERS NATIONAL TELESCOPES 2023B
INSU call for tender for observations on 2-m telescopes, OHP-T193 and TBL, for the 2023B semester is out : https://programmes.insu.cnrs.fr/actualite/appel-doffres-telescopes-nationaux-call-for-proposals-for-observations-on-the-french-telescopes-at-ohp-and-tbl-2023b/ .
Response deadline: April 27, 2023, noon (Paris time)
Transmitted by Bruno Bézard
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°171
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 March 31st
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. SF2A AS SKA-LOFAR AND PNHE WORKSHOP – COMPACT OBJECTS: OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY FROM RADIO TO GAMMA (Strasbourg, 23 juin 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. 6TH GRAVITATIONAL WAVE OPEN DATA WORKSHOP (15 au 17 mai 2023)
2. 10TH MICROQUASAR WORKSHOP “THE VARIOUS FACETS OF EXTREME GRAVITY” (Héraklion, Grèce, 22 au 26 mai 2023)
3. 1ST TRIESTE MEETING ON THE PHYSICS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES (Trieste, Italie, 5 au 9 juin 2023)
4. TOWARDS LISA CATALOGS WORKSHOP (Nice, 12 au 14 juin 2023)
5. 2ND MANITOU SUMMER SCHOOL ON GWS (Nice, 3 au 8 juillet 2023)
6. 4TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF COST ACTION CA18108 “QUANTUM GRAVITY PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE MULTI-MESSENGER APPROACH” (Rijeka, Croatie, 11 au 14 juillet 2023)
7. XX INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEUTRINO TELESCOPES (Venise, Italie, 23 au 27 octobre 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. RECRUITMENT OF TEMPORARY TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (ATER) – ARTEMIS LABORATORY, CÔTE D’AZUR UNIVERSITY
2. JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP – ARTEMIS LABORATORY, NICE
3. PHD POSITIONS GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS
MISCELLANEOUS
1. SYMPOSIUM STAVROS KATSANEVAS (Paris, 1er juin 2023)
2. CALL FOR TENDERS NATIONAL TELESCOPES 2023B
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. SF2A AS SKA-LOFAR AND PNHE WORKSHOP – COMPACT OBJECTS: OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY FROM RADIO TO GAMMA (Strasbourg, 23 juin 2023)
We are pleased to announce the workshop S03 of the SF2A Meeting 2023. This workshop, jointly organized by the PNHE and the Action Spécifique SKA-LOFAR, will be help on Friday, June 23rd, and is entitled:
Compact Objects: Observations and Theory from radio to Gamma.
We encourage everyone working on any aspects of compact objects to submit abstracts for this workshop. More info here:
https://journees.sf2a.eu/ateliers/ska-lofar/
Sebastien Guillot, Francesca Calore, Jérôme Novak.
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. 6TH GRAVITATIONAL WAVE OPEN DATA WORKSHOP (15 au 17 mai 2023)
Link to this announcement: https://inspirehep.net/conferences/2639268
The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announces its *6th edition of the Gravitational Wave Open Data workshop* (GWODW) for May 15th to the 17th 2023. The workshop will tackle topics such as access to LVK public data, introduction to GW detectors and their data, techniques for GW data analysis, and interpretation of compact binary coalesce signals. As the last edition, the 6th GWODW will be a hybrid workshop. There will be remote lectures offered by LVK scientists on *May 15th-17th from 9.00 CEST to 10.30 CEST*. In parallel, each institution or group participating in the workshop can host an in-person “study hub”. Study hubs are the central forum where the participants of the workshop can meet, discuss, and work together on the tutorial material prepared for the workshop. Study Hubs can be also a place to stream lectures. We warmly invite every institution hosting a GW expert that participates in the workshop to organize a study hub. More details about the workshop c!
an be found on the conference website [*].
There is no fee for the workshop. Registrations to the workshop will be managed via Thinkific [#] and the link for the streaming will be both uploaded on the platform and sent to the participants. If you are planning to organize a study hub at your institution, please use the following link [+] to let other people know.
[*] https://www.gw-openscience.org/odw/odw2023/
[#] https://gw-odw.thinkific.com/courses/gw-open-data-workshop-6
[+] https://ask.igwn.org/t/open-data-workshop-study-hubs-2023/462
Transmitted by Eric Chassande-Mottin
2. 10TH MICROQUASAR WORKSHOP “THE VARIOUS FACETS OF EXTREME GRAVITY” (Héraklion, Grèce, 22 au 26 mai 2023)
Dear colleagues
This is the 3rd circular about the 10th Microquasar Workshop “The various
facets of extreme gravity” that will take place at Heraklion, Crete, Greece,
on 22-26 May 2023. This circular is also accessible via the following link:
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/circulars/third-circular
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The programme of the workshop is now public. You can find it here
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/program/scientific-program
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*** Registration ***
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If you want to take advantage of the early bird registration fees please
register before the 10th of March at
https://backoffice.ccbsgreece.gr/clients/microquasar.html
For latter registrations the fees are:
– Normal Registration (Through 10 April 2023) : 410 euro
– Late Registration (Up to the Conference Time) : 450 euro
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*** Hotel reservation ***
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Crete being a very popular tourist destination, we strongly recommend that you
book your flight and hotel as soon as possible. Informations about hotels can
be found here
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/practical-information/accomodation
We are really looking forward to seeing you in Crete!
Best regards
Nick & Pierre-Olivier
Transmitted by Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
3. 1ST TRIESTE MEETING ON THE PHYSICS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES (Trieste, Italie, 5 au 9 juin 2023)
Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce the 1st Trieste meeting on the physics of gravitational waves for next June:
https://indico.sissa.it/event/86/
The observation of gravitational waves from binary black holes and neutron stars by the LIGO-Virgo scientific collaboration heralds a new era in astrophysics, in which gravitational radiation will probe the
universe in a new and complementary way to traditional telescopes. With several new detectors coming online soon, such as LISA, ET and Cosmic Explorer, these detections are just the beginning of an
exciting scientific journey that will unravel the nature of the most mysterious objects of our Universe, black holes.
One of the main scientific targets of new detectors are supermassive black holes, which are typically present in galactic centers and surrounded by astrophysical environments involving accretion disks,
dark matter, stars, and other smaller black holes. In order to fulfill the ambitious goals of gravitational-wave astronomy it is crucial to assess how these environments affect the gravitational-wave signal of
a binary coalescence. The 1st Trieste meeting on environmental effects on binary black holes will bring together experts on astrophysical and waveform modelling, and gravitational-wave data analysis to try to
answer questions like:
– What is the bias we incur if environmental effects are not properly modeled? Can they compromise tests of GR and the nature of compact objects?
– What are the limitations of current models for environmental effects and what are the best strategies to improve them?
– How do we efficiently include these effects in the state-of-the-art waveform models?
– With what precision will we be able to constrain the properties of astrophysical environments with future detections?
The meeting will be held at SISSA in Trieste (Italy) from June 7-9, 2023 and will be preceded by the mid-term meeting of the H2020-MSCA-RISE Network Gravitational Universe: Challenges and Opportunities (June 5-6). On the non-scientific side, Trieste is a vibrant multicultural city facing the charming azure of the Adriatic sea, with a rich history and plenty of leisure and cultural activities. It is particularly enjoyable in late spring.
Note that the number of registrations may be capped due to room capacity.
On behalf of the organizers, all the best
Francisco Duque
4. TOWARDS LISA CATALOGS WORKSHOP (Nice, 12 au 14 juin 2023)
We are organizing a workshop to start addressing the challenge of turning the L2 data products into L3 data to be used by the largest possible community. It will be on June 12-14, in Nice (Valrose campus, downtown).
More specifically, the questions we want to address (or start addressing) regarding L2->L3 data are:
What does the input data look like (what comes out of the Global Fit, how to interpret it properly)
What could the output data look like (what is a “good” catalog?)
How to go from one to the other (examples from space missions, gravitational waves, galactic binaries with EM, first LISA efforts…).
We will be gathering LISA science and data analysis experts as well as experts on data processing of space missions and ground-based GW detectors. We are aiming at a relatively small meeting (20-30 people), to allow for ample discussions and interactions.
Please consider registering soon (https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29764/ ) if you want to make sure that you will be able to attend (local hotels also fill up quickly in June).
We look forward to seeing you in Nice and discussing LISA and LISA data!
Best,
Astrid and Nelson
Transmitted by Astrid Lamberts
5. 2ND MANITOU SUMMER SCHOOL ON GWS (Nice, 3 au 8 juillet 2023)
This is the second announcement for the 2nd MaNiTou Summer School on GWs.
More details, including the link to the school website and a preliminary program, are available here below.
Please note that a first selection of the received student applications will take place at the beginning of April.
For this reason we strongly encourage all prospective students to register on the website of the school before the end of March.
We would also like to remind that accommodation for selected Master and PhD students will be provided free of charge.
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Date: July 3-8 2023.
Location: campus Valrose of the Université Cote d’Azur, Nice, France.
Registration: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29050/registrations/3442/
Registration deadline: registrations are open until the end of May 2023, but a first selection of the received student applications will be done at the beginning of April. We strongly encourage all perspective student participants to register before the end of March 2023.
The school will cover the emerging field of gravitational wave detection and of its scientific exploitation. The goal of the school is to provide the students with a solid introduction to most aspects of this interdisciplinary field in accelerated expansion.
The school is open in priority to Master and PhD students, and also to young or not so young scientists who would like to get better acquainted with Gravitational Waves.
The school is limited to 40 participants. Master and PhD students can be accommodate at a CROUS residence free of charge (cost paid by the school).
School Programme:
GR and GW Theory (7h) – Simone Speziale (CPT)
Panorama of possible GW sources (1h) – Joe Romano (TTU)
GW Data Analysis (3h) – Sylvain Marsat (L2IT)
GW Instruments (3h)
– On Ground (LIGO/Virgo, ET) – Walid Chaibi (OCA)
– In Space (LISA) – Hubert Halloin (APC)
Hands on data analysis (3h) – Simone Mastrogiovanni (INFN – La Sapienza)
GW to study the Universe:
– Astrophysics (1h30) – Astrid Lamberts (OCA)
– Cosmology (1h30) – Simone Mastrogiovanni (INFN – La Sapienza)
– Fundamental Physics (1h30) – Mairi Sakellariadou (King’s College)
– Multi-Messager Astronomy (1h30) – Sarah Antier (OCA)
Advanced seminars:
– GW and Nuclear Physics (1h30) – TBD
– Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA):
– Science and Detection (1h30) – Gilles Theureau (LPC2E)
– SGWB Analysis (1h30) – Joe Romano (TTU)
– Deep Learning in GW physics (1h30) – Natalia Korsakova (APC)
Organising committee:
Marie-Anne BIZOUARD (OCA/ARTEMIS)
Oualid CHAIBI (OCA/ARTEMIS)
Nelson CHRISTENSEN (OCA/ARTEMIS)
Sebastien GUILLOT (IRAP)
Eric KAJFASZ (CPPM/IPhU)
Christian MARINONI (CPT/IPhU)
Sylvain MARSAT (L2IT)
Alejandro PEREZ (CPT/IPhU)
Delphine PORQUET (LAM/IPhU)
Nicola TAMANINI (L2IT)
Transmitted by Delphine Porquet
6. 4TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF COST ACTION CA18108 “QUANTUM GRAVITY PHENOMENOLOGY IN THE MULTI-MESSENGER APPROACH” (Rijeka, Croatie, 11 au 14 juillet 2023)
Dear Colleague,
We hope this mail finds you well.
It is our pleasure to announce the 4th Annual Conference of COST Action CA18108 “Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach” (https://qg-mm.unizar.es/),
which will take place in Rijeka, Croatia from 11 – 14 July 2023.
The aim of the meeting, as well as the Action, is to enable researchers from different communities of quantum gravity, theoreticians, phenomenologists, and experimentalists, to cooperate on developing new strategies for testing candidate quantum gravity theories using multi-messenger high-energy astrophysical observations.
All details about the meeting and the registration form can be found in the indico page:
https://indico.capa.unizar.es/event/31/
The registration deadline is 30 April 2023.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Rijeka!
Please be advised that July is the high tourist season in Rijeka. Early accommodation booking is strongly recommended.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to other colleagues who might find it interesting.
Best regards,
Tomislav Terzic
on behalf of the organising committee
7. XX INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEUTRINO TELESCOPES (Venise, Italie, 23 au 27 octobre 2023)
Dear Colleagues,
The XX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes will take place on 23-27 October 2023, both in-person and remote modality.
Please visit the Workshop web site for all information:
https://agenda.infn.it/event/33107/.
Conference fees are detailed on the Workshop web site at this page:
https://agenda.infn.it/event/33107/page/7189-fees-payments-and-receipts
The Conference program will be articulated in Plenary Sessions (by invitation only, 25+5 min talks), Parallel Sessions (12+3 min talks) and Flash Talks sessions, (3+2 min talks).
We require the in-person participation of the speakers for plenary and parallel talks, while flash talks can also be given remotely.
We warmly invite your collaboration to submit abstracts for talks in the parallel and flash talks sessions. The topics for parallel and flash talks and the important dates are detailed in:
https://agenda.infn.it/event/33107/abstracts/
All the contributions will be published under the open source Zenodo platform with the assignment of a DOI.
Invitations for plenary talks will be sent in the next few weeks.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could advertise this Conference among your collaborators.
With our best regards,
Mauro Mezzetto (INFN Padova), chairperson
Elisa Bernardini (Padova University and INFN Padova) co-chair
Pina Salente (INFN Padova) contact person
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. RECRUITMENT OF TEMPORARY TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (ATER) – ARTEMIS LABORATORY, CÔTE D’AZUR UNIVERSITY
Dear colleagues,
A one-year position for an ATER (Attachés Temporaires d’Enseignement et de Recherche) is available at Laboratoire Artemis, Université Côte d’Azur. In addition to his/her teaching responsibilities, the person will participate in the Artemis Laboratory’s research program in multi-messenger astrophysics of gravitational wave sources. This also includes the search for gravitational wave sources in LIGO-Virgo data and preparation for the scientific exploitation of LISA data. A job description is available at the following address:
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ATERListesOffresPubliees/0062205P/FOPC_51065.pdf
Instructions for the application procedure are available at the following address:
https://univ-cotedazur.fr/universite/travailler-a-universite-cote-d-azur/annonces-offres-d-emplois/recrutement-des-attaches-temporaires-denseignement-et-de-recherche
Please contact Nelson Christensen for further information.
nelson.christensen@oca.eu
Nelson CHRISTENSEN
2. JUNIOR PROFESSORSHIP – ARTEMIS LABORATORY, NICE
Dear Colleagues,
Here in France there is a new initiative called the Chaire Professeur Junior (CPJ). The CPJs are intended for researchers in the first part of their career, with a strong potential to manage and lead a research team, as well as to participate in national, European or international projects. Once hired, the person would be on a tenure-track-like system. After 3 to 6 years they would become a University Professor, or a CNRS Directeur de Recherche.
The Artemis Laboratory in Nice, France has a CPJ position for the development of high power and stabilizer laser systems for gravitational-wave detectors. The position comes with a start-up package of 350k€. See the attachment for a description of the position. For this position at Artemis, the hired person would become a CNRS Directeur de Recherche after tenure. The application procedure can be found at:
https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/rejoignez-le-cnrs-la-liste-des-37-postes-de-chaires-de-professeur-junior
The application deadline is April 14.
Please contact me (nelson.christensen@oca.eu) if you need more information or would like to discuss.
I greatly appreciate your help.
Best Wishes,
Nelson CHRISTENSEN
3. PHD POSITIONS GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS
Dear all,
The Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology (CAC) at the University of Nova Gorica has openings for two PhD student positions in gamma-ray astrophysics, with starting date in October 2023.
The positions are focused on the following research topics:
— development of a dedicated Raman lidar and its integration into the emerging CTA Observatory, as well as to the study of atmosphere-induced systematic uncertainties, which are expected to be particularly important for the all-sky surveys (Mentor of Prof. S. Stanič)
— research related to dark matter searches in experimental astrophysical data of the Fermi LAT satellite, Cherenkov Telescope Array and/or Vera Rubin Observatory LSST, together with theoretical studies and data interpretation (Mentor of Prof. G. Zaharijas)
More info https://inspirehep.net/jobs/2644407
Please forward this to any suitable candidates. Thanks a lot!
Gabrijela Zaharijas
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MISCELLANEOUS
1. SYMPOSIUM STAVROS KATSANEVAS (Paris, 1er juin 2023)
On November 27th, 2022, our friend and colleague Prof. Stavros Katsanevas passed away. At APC Laboratory, his beloved laboratory,
we wish to pay tribute to him through a day, which will be dedicated to the man, the physicist, the philosopher that he was.
The registration is open to everyone and free, but mandatory.
For your information, you will find attached the poster advertising the symposium and below the website for registration and info:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/e/stavros_katsanevas
Thank you in advance for kindly spreading this message around you!
Antoine Kouchner
For the Advisory Committee
2. CALL FOR TENDERS NATIONAL TELESCOPES 2023B
INSU call for tender for observations on 2-m telescopes, OHP-T193 and TBL, for the 2023B semester is out : https://programmes.insu.cnrs.fr/actualite/appel-doffres-telescopes-nationaux-call-for-proposals-for-observations-on-the-french-telescopes-at-ohp-and-tbl-2023b/ .
Response deadline: April 27, 2023, noon (Paris time)
Transmitted by Bruno Bézard
Letter N° 170 – 2023 March 1st
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NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°170
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 March 1st
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE QUESTIONNAIRE
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. ADVANCED SCHOOL ON MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (Sao Paulo, Brésil, 29 mai au 7 juin 2023)
2. CARGÈSE SCHOOL “THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE 2023” – SECOND CIRCULAR – REGISTRATION OPENING (Cargèse, 30 mai au 9 juin 2023)
3. EAS 2023 SPECIAL SESSION: BLACK-HOLE ACCRETION DISCS 50 YEARS ON: CURRENT FORTUNES AND NEW CHALLENGES (Cracovie, Pologie, 12 juillet 2023)
4. EAS 2023 SESSION LS1: CIRCUMBINARY DISKS ACROSS ALL BINARY SYSTEMS (Cracovie, Pologne, 14 juillet 2023)
5. ATELIER « THÉORIE, UNIVERS ET GRAVITATION » (Paris, 10 au 12 octobre 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. NEW POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT CPPM ON MULTI-MESSENGER ANALYSES WITH KM3NET
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE QUESTIONNAIRE
INSU’s National High Energy Program (PNHE) aims to map its community, research activities and resources. This information will also be invaluable for the upcoming foresight exercise.
A questionnaire has been set up, which we ask you to answer before March 31, 2023. It will take less than 15 minutes:
https://groupes.renater.fr/limesurvey/index.php/438555?lang=fr
This questionnaire is aimed at anyone whose research activities are wholly or partly concerned with High Energy Astrophysics and its interfaces.
This includes people who have held a permanent or temporary position in a French laboratory over the past 4 years, as well as researchers based abroad (e.g. post-docs) who maintain a strong link with a French laboratory (e.g. with a view to returning to France). And this applies to all career levels: researcher, teacher-researcher, engineer, doctoral student and post-doctoral researcher.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
On behalf of the PNHE Scientific Council
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. ADVANCED SCHOOL ON MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (Sao Paulo, Brésil, 29 mai au 7 juin 2023)
Dear colleague,
We are glad to announce the upcoming *Sao Paulo Advanced School on
Multi-Messenger Astrophysics*, dedicated to graduate students working
on or planning to enter into this emerging field of research.
This Advanced School will be held at the Principia Institute in Sao
Paulo (Brazil), between May 29 and June 7, with lectures and seminars
on the main topics that connect the different messengers and their
progenitors.
The main introductory courses offered are:
* Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy – Alicia López Oramas (IAC)
* High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics – Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard)
* Gravitational Wave Astronomy – Irene di Palma (Rome)
* The Astrophysics of Black Hole Mergers – Zoltan Haiman (Columbia)
You will find attached to this message a poster advertising the school.
For more information, see also our website:
https://www.institutoprincipia.org/en/mma-school
There is no registration fee, and we are able to offer financial
support for eligible graduate students.
We would be grateful if you could circulate this information in your
institutes and share it with students and colleagues.
Best regards,
Raul Abramo on behalf of the LOC
Local Organizing Committee:
L. Raul Abramo (USP), Ivone Albuquerque (USP), Rita de Cássia dos
Anjos (UFPR), Enrico Bertuzzo (USP), Rodrigo Nemmen (USP), Orlando L.
G. Peres (Unicamp), Edivaldo M. Santos (USP), L. Vitor de Souza (USP),
Riccardo Sturani (UNESP)
Transmitted by Kumiko Kotera
2. CARGÈSE SCHOOL “THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE 2023” – SECOND CIRCULAR – REGISTRATION OPENING (Cargèse, 30 May – 9 June 2023)
The Transient Universe 2023
Summary
The “Transient Universe 2023” school will address the astrophysical topic of transient events in all its diversity, including photon and multi-messenger astronomy (radio, X and gamma rays, and gravitational waves). It will cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from the death of massive stars, supernova explosions and their remnants, accretion and coalescence of binary systems to relativistic jets in AGNs and gamma-ray bursts.
The school is addressed to Ph.D students, post-docs and young researchers, and brings together international experts from different domains in order to prepare the future generation of young researchers to the upcoming revolution of time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy.
Registration opens February 1, 2023 and closes March 15. The school takes place from May 30, 2023 to June 9 at the Institute for Scientific Studies (IESC) in Cargèse, Corsica (France), with on-site lunches and lodging.
Second Circular / Registration is Open
(published 2023/2/1)
The registration is now open for participants of the school « The Transient Universe 2023 » to be held from 30 May to 9 June 2023 in Cargèse (please see details in the First Circular below).
Participants are invited to register on the following web site:
REGISTER
Registration to the school will be performed in two steps:
in a first step, you declare yourself candidate to participate to the school.
in a second step, your participation is confirmed by the LOC
At the first step:
you will be prompted to create your account on this site of the Cargèse institute. Please enter your first name (prénom) and your last name (nom de famille) and chose a password which is used specifically for this site. For students please select Quality « Auditor » (for lecturers which also need to register, please select « Lecturer »).
for students, please upload a short CV to present yourself (in pdf format)
upload an abstract (pdf), if you would like to give a students talk presentation at the school (10 to 15 min max, depending on number of presentations received). Every student is encouraged to give a presentation, it’s a nice non-stressful exercice to give a presentation in front of other students before doing so in a big conference.
upload a motivation letter (pdf), if you need a reduced attendance fee (a letter in which you explain why in your case you can not afford the full attendance fee)
click « Save Definitively » to submit your application.
At the second step, after acceptation of your application to the school by the LOC, you will be able to enter details of:
your arrival time and departure time. The students are requested to stay during the full period from 30 May to 9 June. Please note that there will be the « Cosmic Bus » from Ajaccio airport to Cargèse, scheduled in the afternoon of the 30 May (exact time To Be Confirmed). And the way back to Ajaccio the bus will depart the institute on 9 June at noon latest (exact time To Be Confirmed).
room and dietary constraints
and you will be asked for the payment of the attendance fee (payment details will be communicated later)
Looking forward to seeing you in Cargèse end of May 2023, during the most beautiful time of the year!
Stéphane Schanne on behalf of the LOC and SOC.
Web page: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/27295
Email: transientuniverse2023@gmail.com
Transmitted by Stéphane Schanne
3. EAS 2023 SPECIAL SESSION: BLACK-HOLE ACCRETION DISCS 50 YEARS ON: CURRENT FORTUNES AND NEW CHALLENGES (Krakow, Poland, 12 July 2023)
Dear Colleagues,
This year’s European Astronomical Society annual meeting (EAS 2023) will
be held on the 10th-14th July 2023 in Krakow, Poland. Below is a link to the
full program for the conference:
EAS : https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/program.jsp
On Wednesday 12th we will be hosting a special session entitled:
« Black-hole accretion discs 50 years on: current fortunes and new challenges »
The aim of this session is to review the state of the art in our observational
and theoretical understanding of the accretion process across the whole range
of black-hole mass and Eddington rate, and to discuss the major accomplishments,
outstanding questions, and future prospects of this research field.
The session will be divided into 3 blocks:
– Theory & observations of accretion discs
– Spectral diagnostics: lines & continuum
– Transient phenomena & variability
We invite applications for talks and scientific posters that fall into these
categories. The deadline for abstract submission is 01/03/22.
Registration is open now with the deadline for regular registration of the
09/07/23, there are also discounted very early bird (26/02/23) and early bird
(30/04/23) registrations available. The deadline for the fee waivers and/or
grants requests for attending the conference is the same as for abstract
submission, 01/03/23.
More information can be found on the session’s webpage:
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/session.jsp?id=SS8
Best regards,
The SOC of SS8
Transmitted by Raphaël Mignon-Risse
4. EAS 2023 SESSION LS1: CIRCUMBINARY DISKS ACROSS ALL BINARY SYSTEMS (Krakow, Poland, 14 July 2023)
Dear Colleagues,
This year’s European Astronomical Society annual meeting (EAS 2023) will
be held on the 10th-14th July 2023 in Kraków, Poland. Below is a link to the
full program for the conference:
EAS : https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/program.jsp
On Friday 14th we will be hosting a lunch session entitled:
« Circumbinary disks across all binary systems »
The goal of this session is to create a rare opportunity to gather around
the table experts interested in circumbinary disks from different fields
(planet/star formation, accreting black holes), both from observational
and theoretical backgrounds, taking advantage of these disks being mainly
governed by gravity.
Among the questions that will be addressed:
– how does matter settle to form the circumbinary disk?
– how does it depend on the environment?
– how to distinguish a circumbinary disk around an unresolved source
from a disk around an individual object?
We invite applications for talks and scientific posters that are related to
those questions, including any other work relevant for circumbinary disk physics.
The deadline for abstract submission is 01/03/22.
Registration is open now with the deadline for regular registration of the
09/07/23. There are also discounted very early bird (26/02/23) and early bird
(30/04/23) registrations available. The deadline for the fee waivers and/or
grants requests for attending the conference is the same as for abstract
submission, 01/03/23.
More information can be found on the session’s webpage:
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/session.jsp?id=LS1
Best regards,
Mayra Osorio, Peggy Varniere, Raphaël Mignon-Risse
Transmitted by Raphaël Mignon-Risse
5. WORKSHOP « THEORY, UNIVERSE AND GRAVITATION » (Paris, 10 – 12 October 2023)
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the third edition of the « Theory, Universe, and Gravitation » (TUG) workshop will be held in Paris on October 10-12, 2023. Please mark your calendar!
As in previous events, the goal of this workshop is to bring together the French community working on « Theory, Universe, and Gravitation », to review recent theoretical and phenomenological developments in the field, and to provide opportunities for interactions between theoretical physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists that barely meet otherwise. We strongly encourage the participation of young researchers, PhD students or postdocs, and we will allocate a fraction of our funding to help them attend (please get in touch with the organising committee for that matter).
The scientific program is currently under preparation and will be circulated later. An indico website is already available for (free) registration and abstract submission:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29276/
Looking forward to seeing many of you in October,
The organizers: Laura Bernard, Philippe Brax, Cédric Deffayet, Julien Lavalle, Pasquale Serpico, Vincent Vennin, Filippo Vernizzi.
PS: Please help us by forwarding this email to people you think might be interested!
Transmitted by Vincent Vennin
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. NEW POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT CPPM ON MULTI-MESSENGER ANALYSES WITH KM3NET
The CNRS/IN2P3 is offering a young postdoctoral position (<2 years of experience) with a contract 2 years in the field of astroparticle physics and neutrino astronomy. The postdoc will join the Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM). She/he will participate to the KM3NeT, SVOM and COLIBRI Collaborations.
Neutrinos are unique messengers to study the high-energy Universe as they are neutral and stable, interact weakly and therefore travel directly from their point of creation to the Earth without absorption and path deviation. Many hints on the association between high-energy neutrinos and bright astrophysical sources (active galaxy nuclei, tidal disruption events, etc.) have been discovered by the IceCube and ANTARES neutrino telescopes. All these nice results indicate that we are now reaching the top of the iceberg of the individual source detection. Thanks to its unprecedented angular resolution, the extended energy range (10 MeV → 10 PeV) and the full sky coverage, the new generation neutrino telescope KM3NeT will play an important role in the rapidly evolving multi-messenger field. End 2022, 15/21 detection units of KM3NeT are in operation at the ORCA/ARCA site. At the end of 2023, the size of both detectors will more or less double. A good sensitivity over such a large neutrino energy range can be obtained by combining the data of the two KM3NeT detectors (ORCA-France and ARCA- Italy). KM3NeT will achieve a directional precision of <0.1o for the muon neutrino tracks at very high energies, and <1.5o for the cascade events (from electron neutrino, tau neutrino charged current + all flavour neutrino neutral current interactions). With KM3NeT, we will be able to perform a very efficient all-flavour neutrino astronomy. Real-time multi-messenger campaigns are crucial in unveiling the sources of the most energetic particles and the acceleration mechanisms at work in active galactic nuclei. Neutrinos would provide insights into the physics of particle acceleration processes in relativistic jets and disc-corona systems. It relies on the quasi-online communication of potentially interesting observations to partner instruments (“alerts”), with latencies of a few minutes, at most. Such alerts are the only way to achieve simultaneous observations of transient phenomena by pointing instruments.
SVOM is a Franco-Chinese space mission (launch date scheduled end of 2023) to study the multi- wavelength emission of the most intense phenomena in the Universe and to assure the follow-up of the most interesting multi-messenger and multi-wavelength alerts. SVOM contains 2 large field of view instruments (ECLAIRs and GRM) and 2 narrow field instruments (MXT and VT). The particularity of this mission is that there is a very complex ground segment that contains several optical robotic telescopes. Among them, COLIBRI is a French-Mexican 1.3m robotic telescope equipped with 3 optical and NIR channels.
The neutrino group of CPPM is having a leading role in the construction and exploitation of the ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes for more than 20 years. Among the neutrino group at CPPM, the postdoc researcher will mainly work in the online analysis platform of KM3NeT to put in place the neutrino alerts and the search for time/space correlation with external multi-messenger and multi-wavelength triggers. To do so, she/he will develop efficient all-flavor cosmic neutrino event selections that identify a small number of interesting neutrino events from the bulk of atmospheric neutrinos and muons. Those selections will then be implemented in the real-time analysis framework of KM3NeT. Each selected event will trigger an alert sent publicly to the astronomer community.
The postdoc will also participate to the organisation and the data reduction of the multi-wavelength electromagnetic follow-up observations performed with the SVOM and the COLIBRI telescopes. She/he will participate to the development of the image analysis pipelines that are used to perform the data reduction of the COLIBRI images and to look for the optical counterpart of the transients discovered by SVOM or any multi-messenger alerts. She/he will also participate to the target of opportunity program to trigger the SVOM MXT and VT instruments. As a member of the KM3NeT and SVOM collaborations, the postdoc will have to participate to the different shifts and service tasks of these different facilities.
The applicant should have a PhD at the start of the contract and a good background in astroparticle physics and astrophysics. Interest in the data analysis is expected together with knowledge of statistics. Good practical skills in python, C++ and Root, and good knowledge of open software development environment (git, etc) will be an important asset. Ability to work in international teams and in large collaborations are highly recommended.
The postdoctoral position is expected to start September 1st, 2023, the exact starting date can be discussed. It will be funded for two years with a net monthly salary of about 2320-2670 euros (gross monthly salary of about 2890-3320 euros).
The deadline for application is June 1st 2023. The applicant should provide:
o A motivation letter that states the research interests or a research proposal
o Curriculum vitae and University grade transcripts (for all degrees)
o Two reference letters to be sent directly to dornic@cppm.in2p3.fr and bertin@cppm.in2p3.fr
Transmitted by Vincent Bertin
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°170
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 March 1st
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE QUESTIONNAIRE
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. ADVANCED SCHOOL ON MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (Sao Paulo, Brésil, 29 mai au 7 juin 2023)
2. CARGÈSE SCHOOL “THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE 2023” – SECOND CIRCULAR – REGISTRATION OPENING (Cargèse, 30 mai au 9 juin 2023)
3. EAS 2023 SPECIAL SESSION: BLACK-HOLE ACCRETION DISCS 50 YEARS ON: CURRENT FORTUNES AND NEW CHALLENGES (Cracovie, Pologie, 12 juillet 2023)
4. EAS 2023 SESSION LS1: CIRCUMBINARY DISKS ACROSS ALL BINARY SYSTEMS (Cracovie, Pologne, 14 juillet 2023)
5. ATELIER « THÉORIE, UNIVERS ET GRAVITATION » (Paris, 10 au 12 octobre 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. NEW POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT CPPM ON MULTI-MESSENGER ANALYSES WITH KM3NET
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE QUESTIONNAIRE
INSU’s National High Energy Program (PNHE) aims to map its community, research activities and resources. This information will also be invaluable for the upcoming foresight exercise.
A questionnaire has been set up, which we ask you to answer before March 31, 2023. It will take less than 15 minutes:
https://groupes.renater.fr/limesurvey/index.php/438555?lang=fr
This questionnaire is aimed at anyone whose research activities are wholly or partly concerned with High Energy Astrophysics and its interfaces.
This includes people who have held a permanent or temporary position in a French laboratory over the past 4 years, as well as researchers based abroad (e.g. post-docs) who maintain a strong link with a French laboratory (e.g. with a view to returning to France). And this applies to all career levels: researcher, teacher-researcher, engineer, doctoral student and post-doctoral researcher.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
On behalf of the PNHE Scientific Council
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. ADVANCED SCHOOL ON MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (Sao Paulo, Brésil, 29 mai au 7 juin 2023)
Dear colleague,
We are glad to announce the upcoming *Sao Paulo Advanced School on
Multi-Messenger Astrophysics*, dedicated to graduate students working
on or planning to enter into this emerging field of research.
This Advanced School will be held at the Principia Institute in Sao
Paulo (Brazil), between May 29 and June 7, with lectures and seminars
on the main topics that connect the different messengers and their
progenitors.
The main introductory courses offered are:
* Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy – Alicia López Oramas (IAC)
* High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics – Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard)
* Gravitational Wave Astronomy – Irene di Palma (Rome)
* The Astrophysics of Black Hole Mergers – Zoltan Haiman (Columbia)
You will find attached to this message a poster advertising the school.
For more information, see also our website:
https://www.institutoprincipia.org/en/mma-school
There is no registration fee, and we are able to offer financial
support for eligible graduate students.
We would be grateful if you could circulate this information in your
institutes and share it with students and colleagues.
Best regards,
Raul Abramo on behalf of the LOC
Local Organizing Committee:
L. Raul Abramo (USP), Ivone Albuquerque (USP), Rita de Cássia dos
Anjos (UFPR), Enrico Bertuzzo (USP), Rodrigo Nemmen (USP), Orlando L.
G. Peres (Unicamp), Edivaldo M. Santos (USP), L. Vitor de Souza (USP),
Riccardo Sturani (UNESP)
Transmitted by Kumiko Kotera
2. CARGÈSE SCHOOL “THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE 2023” – SECOND CIRCULAR – REGISTRATION OPENING (Cargèse, 30 May – 9 June 2023)
The Transient Universe 2023
Summary
The “Transient Universe 2023” school will address the astrophysical topic of transient events in all its diversity, including photon and multi-messenger astronomy (radio, X and gamma rays, and gravitational waves). It will cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from the death of massive stars, supernova explosions and their remnants, accretion and coalescence of binary systems to relativistic jets in AGNs and gamma-ray bursts.
The school is addressed to Ph.D students, post-docs and young researchers, and brings together international experts from different domains in order to prepare the future generation of young researchers to the upcoming revolution of time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy.
Registration opens February 1, 2023 and closes March 15. The school takes place from May 30, 2023 to June 9 at the Institute for Scientific Studies (IESC) in Cargèse, Corsica (France), with on-site lunches and lodging.
Second Circular / Registration is Open
(published 2023/2/1)
The registration is now open for participants of the school « The Transient Universe 2023 » to be held from 30 May to 9 June 2023 in Cargèse (please see details in the First Circular below).
Participants are invited to register on the following web site:
REGISTER
Registration to the school will be performed in two steps:
in a first step, you declare yourself candidate to participate to the school.
in a second step, your participation is confirmed by the LOC
At the first step:
you will be prompted to create your account on this site of the Cargèse institute. Please enter your first name (prénom) and your last name (nom de famille) and chose a password which is used specifically for this site. For students please select Quality « Auditor » (for lecturers which also need to register, please select « Lecturer »).
for students, please upload a short CV to present yourself (in pdf format)
upload an abstract (pdf), if you would like to give a students talk presentation at the school (10 to 15 min max, depending on number of presentations received). Every student is encouraged to give a presentation, it’s a nice non-stressful exercice to give a presentation in front of other students before doing so in a big conference.
upload a motivation letter (pdf), if you need a reduced attendance fee (a letter in which you explain why in your case you can not afford the full attendance fee)
click « Save Definitively » to submit your application.
At the second step, after acceptation of your application to the school by the LOC, you will be able to enter details of:
your arrival time and departure time. The students are requested to stay during the full period from 30 May to 9 June. Please note that there will be the « Cosmic Bus » from Ajaccio airport to Cargèse, scheduled in the afternoon of the 30 May (exact time To Be Confirmed). And the way back to Ajaccio the bus will depart the institute on 9 June at noon latest (exact time To Be Confirmed).
room and dietary constraints
and you will be asked for the payment of the attendance fee (payment details will be communicated later)
Looking forward to seeing you in Cargèse end of May 2023, during the most beautiful time of the year!
Stéphane Schanne on behalf of the LOC and SOC.
Web page: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/27295
Email: transientuniverse2023@gmail.com
Transmitted by Stéphane Schanne
3. EAS 2023 SPECIAL SESSION: BLACK-HOLE ACCRETION DISCS 50 YEARS ON: CURRENT FORTUNES AND NEW CHALLENGES (Krakow, Poland, 12 July 2023)
Dear Colleagues,
This year’s European Astronomical Society annual meeting (EAS 2023) will
be held on the 10th-14th July 2023 in Krakow, Poland. Below is a link to the
full program for the conference:
EAS : https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/program.jsp
On Wednesday 12th we will be hosting a special session entitled:
« Black-hole accretion discs 50 years on: current fortunes and new challenges »
The aim of this session is to review the state of the art in our observational
and theoretical understanding of the accretion process across the whole range
of black-hole mass and Eddington rate, and to discuss the major accomplishments,
outstanding questions, and future prospects of this research field.
The session will be divided into 3 blocks:
– Theory & observations of accretion discs
– Spectral diagnostics: lines & continuum
– Transient phenomena & variability
We invite applications for talks and scientific posters that fall into these
categories. The deadline for abstract submission is 01/03/22.
Registration is open now with the deadline for regular registration of the
09/07/23, there are also discounted very early bird (26/02/23) and early bird
(30/04/23) registrations available. The deadline for the fee waivers and/or
grants requests for attending the conference is the same as for abstract
submission, 01/03/23.
More information can be found on the session’s webpage:
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/session.jsp?id=SS8
Best regards,
The SOC of SS8
Transmitted by Raphaël Mignon-Risse
4. EAS 2023 SESSION LS1: CIRCUMBINARY DISKS ACROSS ALL BINARY SYSTEMS (Krakow, Poland, 14 July 2023)
Dear Colleagues,
This year’s European Astronomical Society annual meeting (EAS 2023) will
be held on the 10th-14th July 2023 in Kraków, Poland. Below is a link to the
full program for the conference:
EAS : https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/program.jsp
On Friday 14th we will be hosting a lunch session entitled:
« Circumbinary disks across all binary systems »
The goal of this session is to create a rare opportunity to gather around
the table experts interested in circumbinary disks from different fields
(planet/star formation, accreting black holes), both from observational
and theoretical backgrounds, taking advantage of these disks being mainly
governed by gravity.
Among the questions that will be addressed:
– how does matter settle to form the circumbinary disk?
– how does it depend on the environment?
– how to distinguish a circumbinary disk around an unresolved source
from a disk around an individual object?
We invite applications for talks and scientific posters that are related to
those questions, including any other work relevant for circumbinary disk physics.
The deadline for abstract submission is 01/03/22.
Registration is open now with the deadline for regular registration of the
09/07/23. There are also discounted very early bird (26/02/23) and early bird
(30/04/23) registrations available. The deadline for the fee waivers and/or
grants requests for attending the conference is the same as for abstract
submission, 01/03/23.
More information can be found on the session’s webpage:
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/session.jsp?id=LS1
Best regards,
Mayra Osorio, Peggy Varniere, Raphaël Mignon-Risse
Transmitted by Raphaël Mignon-Risse
5. WORKSHOP « THEORY, UNIVERSE AND GRAVITATION » (Paris, 10 – 12 October 2023)
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the third edition of the « Theory, Universe, and Gravitation » (TUG) workshop will be held in Paris on October 10-12, 2023. Please mark your calendar!
As in previous events, the goal of this workshop is to bring together the French community working on « Theory, Universe, and Gravitation », to review recent theoretical and phenomenological developments in the field, and to provide opportunities for interactions between theoretical physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists that barely meet otherwise. We strongly encourage the participation of young researchers, PhD students or postdocs, and we will allocate a fraction of our funding to help them attend (please get in touch with the organising committee for that matter).
The scientific program is currently under preparation and will be circulated later. An indico website is already available for (free) registration and abstract submission:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29276/
Looking forward to seeing many of you in October,
The organizers: Laura Bernard, Philippe Brax, Cédric Deffayet, Julien Lavalle, Pasquale Serpico, Vincent Vennin, Filippo Vernizzi.
PS: Please help us by forwarding this email to people you think might be interested!
Transmitted by Vincent Vennin
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. NEW POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT CPPM ON MULTI-MESSENGER ANALYSES WITH KM3NET
The CNRS/IN2P3 is offering a young postdoctoral position (<2 years of experience) with a contract 2 years in the field of astroparticle physics and neutrino astronomy. The postdoc will join the Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM). She/he will participate to the KM3NeT, SVOM and COLIBRI Collaborations.
Neutrinos are unique messengers to study the high-energy Universe as they are neutral and stable, interact weakly and therefore travel directly from their point of creation to the Earth without absorption and path deviation. Many hints on the association between high-energy neutrinos and bright astrophysical sources (active galaxy nuclei, tidal disruption events, etc.) have been discovered by the IceCube and ANTARES neutrino telescopes. All these nice results indicate that we are now reaching the top of the iceberg of the individual source detection. Thanks to its unprecedented angular resolution, the extended energy range (10 MeV → 10 PeV) and the full sky coverage, the new generation neutrino telescope KM3NeT will play an important role in the rapidly evolving multi-messenger field. End 2022, 15/21 detection units of KM3NeT are in operation at the ORCA/ARCA site. At the end of 2023, the size of both detectors will more or less double. A good sensitivity over such a large neutrino energy range can be obtained by combining the data of the two KM3NeT detectors (ORCA-France and ARCA- Italy). KM3NeT will achieve a directional precision of <0.1o for the muon neutrino tracks at very high energies, and <1.5o for the cascade events (from electron neutrino, tau neutrino charged current + all flavour neutrino neutral current interactions). With KM3NeT, we will be able to perform a very efficient all-flavour neutrino astronomy. Real-time multi-messenger campaigns are crucial in unveiling the sources of the most energetic particles and the acceleration mechanisms at work in active galactic nuclei. Neutrinos would provide insights into the physics of particle acceleration processes in relativistic jets and disc-corona systems. It relies on the quasi-online communication of potentially interesting observations to partner instruments (“alerts”), with latencies of a few minutes, at most. Such alerts are the only way to achieve simultaneous observations of transient phenomena by pointing instruments.
SVOM is a Franco-Chinese space mission (launch date scheduled end of 2023) to study the multi- wavelength emission of the most intense phenomena in the Universe and to assure the follow-up of the most interesting multi-messenger and multi-wavelength alerts. SVOM contains 2 large field of view instruments (ECLAIRs and GRM) and 2 narrow field instruments (MXT and VT). The particularity of this mission is that there is a very complex ground segment that contains several optical robotic telescopes. Among them, COLIBRI is a French-Mexican 1.3m robotic telescope equipped with 3 optical and NIR channels.
The neutrino group of CPPM is having a leading role in the construction and exploitation of the ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes for more than 20 years. Among the neutrino group at CPPM, the postdoc researcher will mainly work in the online analysis platform of KM3NeT to put in place the neutrino alerts and the search for time/space correlation with external multi-messenger and multi-wavelength triggers. To do so, she/he will develop efficient all-flavor cosmic neutrino event selections that identify a small number of interesting neutrino events from the bulk of atmospheric neutrinos and muons. Those selections will then be implemented in the real-time analysis framework of KM3NeT. Each selected event will trigger an alert sent publicly to the astronomer community.
The postdoc will also participate to the organisation and the data reduction of the multi-wavelength electromagnetic follow-up observations performed with the SVOM and the COLIBRI telescopes. She/he will participate to the development of the image analysis pipelines that are used to perform the data reduction of the COLIBRI images and to look for the optical counterpart of the transients discovered by SVOM or any multi-messenger alerts. She/he will also participate to the target of opportunity program to trigger the SVOM MXT and VT instruments. As a member of the KM3NeT and SVOM collaborations, the postdoc will have to participate to the different shifts and service tasks of these different facilities.
The applicant should have a PhD at the start of the contract and a good background in astroparticle physics and astrophysics. Interest in the data analysis is expected together with knowledge of statistics. Good practical skills in python, C++ and Root, and good knowledge of open software development environment (git, etc) will be an important asset. Ability to work in international teams and in large collaborations are highly recommended.
The postdoctoral position is expected to start September 1st, 2023, the exact starting date can be discussed. It will be funded for two years with a net monthly salary of about 2320-2670 euros (gross monthly salary of about 2890-3320 euros).
The deadline for application is June 1st 2023. The applicant should provide:
o A motivation letter that states the research interests or a research proposal
o Curriculum vitae and University grade transcripts (for all degrees)
o Two reference letters to be sent directly to dornic@cppm.in2p3.fr and bertin@cppm.in2p3.fr
Transmitted by Vincent Bertin
Letter N° 169 – 2023 February 1st
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NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°169
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 February 1st
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE 2023 DAYS (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. THEMATIC SCHOOL « GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EMISSION FROM PROTO-NEUTRON STARS AND NEUTRON STAR MERGERS » (Aussois, 5 – 9 June 2023)
2. CFRCOS4: WORKSHOP OF THE FRENCH COSMIC RAY COMMUNITY 4 (Montpellier, 3 – 5 July 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOC/PHD ANNOUNCEMENTS, KU LEUVEN (BELGIUM)
MISCELLANEOUS
1. REASSURING NEWS FROM ATHENA
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE 2023 DAYS (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
The PNHE 2023 days will take place from September 6 to 8, 2023 in the IAP amphitheatre.
These days will be an opportunity to get an overview of the field and to take stock of the French community’s involvement.
A draft agenda is available on the website:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/timetable/#20230906
We are planning a number of invited presentations on topics covering all PNHE themes, as well as regular and invited contributions.
Rather than poster sessions, we are also planning “lightning talks” (1 minute to describe your work), to enable young PhD students in particular to make themselves known to the community.
Participation is free, but registration is compulsory.
You can now register for these days and also propose a contribution by following the link:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations/3458/
We look forward to your participation,
The Scientific Council of the PNHE
PS: Please do not delay in making your hotel reservations, as the Rugby World Cup kicks off in Paris on Friday September 8.
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. THEMATIC SCHOOL « GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EMISSION FROM PROTO-NEUTRON STARS AND NEUTRON STAR MERGERS » (Aussois, 5 au 9 juin 2023)
Dear Colleagues,
You can now register to the thematic school « Gravitational wave emission from proto-neutron stars and neutron star mergers » that will take place in Aussois (France) from June 5 to June 9 2023, see https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28236/
The deadline for registration is April, 1st 2023. Note that registration fees include lodging and meals and that some limited support is available upon request, before March 15th.
This graduate school will consist of lectures, practical sessions, and seminars from young researchers. The focus will be on the gravitational wave emission from supernovae, proto-neutron stars and coalescing binaries, with an eye on the connection between astrophysical phenomena and the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter that defines the structure and macroscopic behaviour of these compact objects.
Teachers and topics:
Tito Dal Canton (Virgo collaboration & IJCLab Orsay, France)
Gravitational wave sources and data analysis
Fiorella Burgio (INFN Catania, Italy)
Ultra-dense matter of neutron stars and supernovas
Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo (GSI & TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Heavy element nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers and its electromagnetic signatures
Bruno Giacomazzo (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Numerical simulations of coalescing neutron star binaries
Pablo Cerda-Duran (University of Valencia, Spain)
Simulations of supernovae and gravitational wave emission from proto-neutron stars
More information on the website https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28236/
Looking forward to meeting you in Aussois,
The organizing committee
Marco Antonelli, Anthea Francesca Fantina, Francesca Gulminelli, Jérôme Novak, Micaela Oertel
2. CFRCOS4: WORKSHOP OF THE FRENCH COSMIC RAY COMMUNITY 4 (Montpellier, 3 – 5 july 2023)
The workshop number 4 of the French community involved in Cosmic Ray research (CFRCOS 4) is now opened to registration. The workshop will be held from July 3 to July 5 2023 in Montpellier, at the new building of Montpellier University. The workshop is dedicated to cosmic ray research. It includes three main sessions : cosmic-ray sources, cosmic-ray transport and cosmic-ray interaction and feed-back. You can register from now here: https://cfrcos4.sciencesconf.org/registration for this you need to have / create a science account (this takes a few minutes). Abstract submission will be accessible by the end of January.
For any further query please contact Alexandre.Marcowith@umontpellier.fr
The workshop number 4 of the French community involved in Cosmic Ray research (CFRCOS 4) is now opened to registration. The workshop will be held from July 3 to July 5 2023 in Montpellier, at the new building of Montpellier University. The workshop is dedicated to cosmic ray research. It includes three main sessions : cosmic-ray sources, cosmic-ray transport and cosmic-ray interaction and feed-back. You can register from now here:https://cfrcos4.sciencesconf.org/registration for this you need to have / create a science account (this takes a few minutes). Abstract submission will be accessible by end of January.
For any further query please contact Alexandre.Marcowith@umontpellier.fr
Transmitted by Alexandre Marcowith
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOC/PHD ANNOUNCEMENTS, KU LEUVEN (BELGIUM)
Dear all,
At the Centre for mathematical Plasmas Astrophysics of KU Leuven (Belgium) we are now offering a 2-year postdoc position and a 4-year fully funded PhD position (see links below), both in my group.
Could I ask you to redistribute this email to potentially interesting candidates and/or to your network of colleagues?
PostDoc: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60179958?hl=en&lang=en
PhD: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60179975?hl=en&lang=en
Fabio Bacchini
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MISCELLANEOUS
1. REASSURING NEWS FROM ATHENA
Dear Colleagues,
We come to you with some very reassuring news concerning the ESA Athena (Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics) project. As you may know, we are in the process of reformulating the mission, in order to significantly reduce its costs within an acceptable envelope for ESA’s scientific program. This reformulation began at the end of August with X-IFU. ESA, NASA, JAXA, CNES and the X-IFU Consortium are heavily involved in this exercise. We are now in a position to inform you that a new X-IFU has just seen the light of day: it is the fruit of close collaboration between ESA and the X-IFU Consortium.
This new X-IFU comes with major simplifications to the cryogenic chain, which now relies on passive cooling (with a significant legacy from Planck, Ariel and LiteBird). In simple terms, thanks to heat shields, the instrument is passively cooled down to around 50 Kelvins, enabling us to do away with the cryogenic machines we used to use between 300 Kelvins and a few tens of Kelvins. The cryostat and the simplified cryogenic chain are now within the consortium’s perimeter (whereas previously they were the responsibility of ESA). This solution requires a review of the NASA and JAXA contributions: these two agencies, which are fully involved in the reformulation, have repeatedly reaffirmed their full support for X-IFU. Simplification of the focal plane and the detector reading chain are also envisaged. This simplified and optimized configuration should significantly reduce the overall cost of Athena (by eliminating expensive cryogenic machines, eliminating coupled instrument/payload module activities at the industrial site, reducing the lead times for the various models, optimizing verification/calibration activities, etc.). It makes full use of the investments made in the project since the start of phase A, particularly at CNES and the French laboratories heavily involved in X-IFU hardware (APC, CEA-SBT, CEA-IRFU-DAp and IRAP).
The very good news is that this configuration preserves most of X-IFU’s performance, in terms of field of view, spectral resolution, etc. It also enables X-IFU and WFI to be located in the same focal plane (i.e. to share the large mirror, which remains removable). In conclusion, the new Athena should meet Athena’s main scientific objectives, as defined in November 2013, and thus preserve the mission’s flagship character. This last point will be confirmed with the Science Redefinition Team recently set up by ESA.
Our next deadlines are 1) the ESA Science Program Committee workshop in February on the long-term implementation plan for ESA’s science program (which will take into account the November 2022 ministerial releases), and 2) the SPC meetings in March and June. In parallel, a phase of programmatic consolidation of the new X-IFU, including an update of costs at ESA and in the consortia, will start immediately and last around 6 months. We should then resume industrial studies in the second half of 2023.
It’s now up to us to make the best possible use of the time between now and the adoption of the new Athena, to boost our technologies to the right level of demonstration, so that we can implement Athena over the next ten years or so, once it has been adopted into ESA’s scientific program. Once again, CNES and the French laboratories involved in X-IFU are fully mobilized, given the importance of French contributions to the mission’s success.
Like many projects before it, Athena has gone through a period of considerable turbulence in recent months, but thanks to the self-sacrifice of all those involved, we’re back on track to deliver the observatory and instrument the world’s scientific community has been waiting for.
Finally, we wish you an excellent 2023, and thank you for your support of Athena.
Yours sincerely
Didier Barret, X-IFU Principal Investigator (IRAP)
Vincent Albouys, X-IFU Project Manager (CNES)
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°169
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 February 1st
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— SUMMARY
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NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE 2023 DAYS (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. THEMATIC SCHOOL « GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EMISSION FROM PROTO-NEUTRON STARS AND NEUTRON STAR MERGERS » (Aussois, 5 – 9 June 2023)
2. CFRCOS4: WORKSHOP OF THE FRENCH COSMIC RAY COMMUNITY 4 (Montpellier, 3 – 5 July 2023)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOC/PHD ANNOUNCEMENTS, KU LEUVEN (BELGIUM)
MISCELLANEOUS
1. REASSURING NEWS FROM ATHENA
———————————————-
NEWS FROM PNHE
1. PNHE 2023 DAYS (Paris, September 6-8, 2023)
The PNHE 2023 days will take place from September 6 to 8, 2023 in the IAP amphitheatre.
These days will be an opportunity to get an overview of the field and to take stock of the French community’s involvement.
A draft agenda is available on the website:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/timetable/#20230906
We are planning a number of invited presentations on topics covering all PNHE themes, as well as regular and invited contributions.
Rather than poster sessions, we are also planning “lightning talks” (1 minute to describe your work), to enable young PhD students in particular to make themselves known to the community.
Participation is free, but registration is compulsory.
You can now register for these days and also propose a contribution by following the link:
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28794/registrations/3458/
We look forward to your participation,
The Scientific Council of the PNHE
PS: Please do not delay in making your hotel reservations, as the Rugby World Cup kicks off in Paris on Friday September 8.
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. THEMATIC SCHOOL « GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EMISSION FROM PROTO-NEUTRON STARS AND NEUTRON STAR MERGERS » (Aussois, 5 au 9 juin 2023)
Dear Colleagues,
You can now register to the thematic school « Gravitational wave emission from proto-neutron stars and neutron star mergers » that will take place in Aussois (France) from June 5 to June 9 2023, see https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28236/
The deadline for registration is April, 1st 2023. Note that registration fees include lodging and meals and that some limited support is available upon request, before March 15th.
This graduate school will consist of lectures, practical sessions, and seminars from young researchers. The focus will be on the gravitational wave emission from supernovae, proto-neutron stars and coalescing binaries, with an eye on the connection between astrophysical phenomena and the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter that defines the structure and macroscopic behaviour of these compact objects.
Teachers and topics:
Tito Dal Canton (Virgo collaboration & IJCLab Orsay, France)
Gravitational wave sources and data analysis
Fiorella Burgio (INFN Catania, Italy)
Ultra-dense matter of neutron stars and supernovas
Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo (GSI & TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Heavy element nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers and its electromagnetic signatures
Bruno Giacomazzo (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Numerical simulations of coalescing neutron star binaries
Pablo Cerda-Duran (University of Valencia, Spain)
Simulations of supernovae and gravitational wave emission from proto-neutron stars
More information on the website https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28236/
Looking forward to meeting you in Aussois,
The organizing committee
Marco Antonelli, Anthea Francesca Fantina, Francesca Gulminelli, Jérôme Novak, Micaela Oertel
2. CFRCOS4: WORKSHOP OF THE FRENCH COSMIC RAY COMMUNITY 4 (Montpellier, 3 – 5 july 2023)
The workshop number 4 of the French community involved in Cosmic Ray research (CFRCOS 4) is now opened to registration. The workshop will be held from July 3 to July 5 2023 in Montpellier, at the new building of Montpellier University. The workshop is dedicated to cosmic ray research. It includes three main sessions : cosmic-ray sources, cosmic-ray transport and cosmic-ray interaction and feed-back. You can register from now here: https://cfrcos4.sciencesconf.org/registration for this you need to have / create a science account (this takes a few minutes). Abstract submission will be accessible by the end of January.
For any further query please contact Alexandre.Marcowith@umontpellier.fr
The workshop number 4 of the French community involved in Cosmic Ray research (CFRCOS 4) is now opened to registration. The workshop will be held from July 3 to July 5 2023 in Montpellier, at the new building of Montpellier University. The workshop is dedicated to cosmic ray research. It includes three main sessions : cosmic-ray sources, cosmic-ray transport and cosmic-ray interaction and feed-back. You can register from now here:https://cfrcos4.sciencesconf.org/registration for this you need to have / create a science account (this takes a few minutes). Abstract submission will be accessible by end of January.
For any further query please contact Alexandre.Marcowith@umontpellier.fr
Transmitted by Alexandre Marcowith
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOC/PHD ANNOUNCEMENTS, KU LEUVEN (BELGIUM)
Dear all,
At the Centre for mathematical Plasmas Astrophysics of KU Leuven (Belgium) we are now offering a 2-year postdoc position and a 4-year fully funded PhD position (see links below), both in my group.
Could I ask you to redistribute this email to potentially interesting candidates and/or to your network of colleagues?
PostDoc: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60179958?hl=en&lang=en
PhD: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60179975?hl=en&lang=en
Fabio Bacchini
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MISCELLANEOUS
1. REASSURING NEWS FROM ATHENA
Dear Colleagues,
We come to you with some very reassuring news concerning the ESA Athena (Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics) project. As you may know, we are in the process of reformulating the mission, in order to significantly reduce its costs within an acceptable envelope for ESA’s scientific program. This reformulation began at the end of August with X-IFU. ESA, NASA, JAXA, CNES and the X-IFU Consortium are heavily involved in this exercise. We are now in a position to inform you that a new X-IFU has just seen the light of day: it is the fruit of close collaboration between ESA and the X-IFU Consortium.
This new X-IFU comes with major simplifications to the cryogenic chain, which now relies on passive cooling (with a significant legacy from Planck, Ariel and LiteBird). In simple terms, thanks to heat shields, the instrument is passively cooled down to around 50 Kelvins, enabling us to do away with the cryogenic machines we used to use between 300 Kelvins and a few tens of Kelvins. The cryostat and the simplified cryogenic chain are now within the consortium’s perimeter (whereas previously they were the responsibility of ESA). This solution requires a review of the NASA and JAXA contributions: these two agencies, which are fully involved in the reformulation, have repeatedly reaffirmed their full support for X-IFU. Simplification of the focal plane and the detector reading chain are also envisaged. This simplified and optimized configuration should significantly reduce the overall cost of Athena (by eliminating expensive cryogenic machines, eliminating coupled instrument/payload module activities at the industrial site, reducing the lead times for the various models, optimizing verification/calibration activities, etc.). It makes full use of the investments made in the project since the start of phase A, particularly at CNES and the French laboratories heavily involved in X-IFU hardware (APC, CEA-SBT, CEA-IRFU-DAp and IRAP).
The very good news is that this configuration preserves most of X-IFU’s performance, in terms of field of view, spectral resolution, etc. It also enables X-IFU and WFI to be located in the same focal plane (i.e. to share the large mirror, which remains removable). In conclusion, the new Athena should meet Athena’s main scientific objectives, as defined in November 2013, and thus preserve the mission’s flagship character. This last point will be confirmed with the Science Redefinition Team recently set up by ESA.
Our next deadlines are 1) the ESA Science Program Committee workshop in February on the long-term implementation plan for ESA’s science program (which will take into account the November 2022 ministerial releases), and 2) the SPC meetings in March and June. In parallel, a phase of programmatic consolidation of the new X-IFU, including an update of costs at ESA and in the consortia, will start immediately and last around 6 months. We should then resume industrial studies in the second half of 2023.
It’s now up to us to make the best possible use of the time between now and the adoption of the new Athena, to boost our technologies to the right level of demonstration, so that we can implement Athena over the next ten years or so, once it has been adopted into ESA’s scientific program. Once again, CNES and the French laboratories involved in X-IFU are fully mobilized, given the importance of French contributions to the mission’s success.
Like many projects before it, Athena has gone through a period of considerable turbulence in recent months, but thanks to the self-sacrifice of all those involved, we’re back on track to deliver the observatory and instrument the world’s scientific community has been waiting for.
Finally, we wish you an excellent 2023, and thank you for your support of Athena.
Yours sincerely
Didier Barret, X-IFU Principal Investigator (IRAP)
Vincent Albouys, X-IFU Project Manager (CNES)
Letter N° 168 – 2023 January 2nd
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NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°168
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 January 2nd
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Best wishes to all!
— SUMMARY
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. PROGRESS ON OLD AND NEW THEMES IN COSMOLOGY – PONT 2023 (Avignon, 2 – 5 May 2023)
2. 2ND CIRCULAR OF THE 10TH MICROQUASAR WORKSHOP: ABSTRACT DEADLINE, INVITED SPEAKER LIST AND ACCOMODATION (Héraklion, Grèce, 22 – 26 May 2023)
3. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL “THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE 2023” (Cargèse, 30 May – 9 June)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT UNIVERSITA` DI MILANO BICOCCA, ITALY
2. PHD POSITION IN MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY AT UTRECHT UNIVERSITY
3. PHD IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
4. POINCARÉ EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
5. POST DOCTORAL POSITION OPENING IN THE FIELD OF THEORETICAL GRAVITY
6. POSTDOC AND PHD POSITIONS IN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SOURCE MODELLING AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. PROGRESS ON OLD AND NEW THEMES IN COSMOLOGY – PONT 2023 (Avignon, 2 – 5 May 2023)
Dear Colleague,
we would like to bring to your attention the sixth edition of the international conference :
Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology – PONT 2023
https://indico.cern.ch/e/PONT2023
to be held in the Popes’ Palace in Avignon (France) on 2-5 May 2023.
The aim of the conference is to gather scientists working in cosmology and particle physics in order to address the cardinal issues of the dark universe today, in the inspiring and monumental setting of Avignon. The topics that will be the focus of this edition are: early and late universe cosmology, gravitational waves and astrophysical messengers of new physics.
The format will consist of a limited number of invited talks by leading experts in the field, followed by shorter selected contributed talks. Typically, each day will be devoted to a particular topic, with three or four keynote speakers reviewing the state of the art and fostering debates and discussions.
We encourage you to submit the abstract of your contribution on the conference page.
The abstract submission deadline is the 12th of March 2023. We will inform you before the end of March if your contribution has been accepted. The registration deadline is the 16th of April 2023.
Pending requested financial support, we expect to be able to waive the conference registration fees for all participants. We may have to ask for a contribution of 100 euros maximum to cover for the welcome cocktail, the banquet, all coffee breaks, the outreach event, the night visit to the Popes’ Palace and finally support the participation of students from developing countries. We will communicate the exact amount of the registration fees in January at the latest.
PONT 2023 is also pleased to announce the availability of free on-site child care for participants.
Avignon is only 2.5 hours from Paris by high-speed TGV train and is also easily reached by train from Lyon and Marseille.
The town boasts an exceptional number of historical monuments, including the Popes’ Palace, and beautiful surroundings which are known world-wide for their gastronomic and wine making tradition. A banquet is included in the registration fee for all participants.
Looking forward to meeting you in Avignon! Please encourage all your collaborators, especially the younger ones, to join us.
PS Apologies for cross-posting.
Philippe Brax, Francesca Calore, Marco Cirelli, Christian Marinoni, Vivian Poulin & Nicola Tamanini
(Local Organizing Committee: Institut de Physique Théorique CEA Saclay, LAPTh Annecy, LPTHE Jussieu Paris, CPT Marseille, LUPM Montpellier, L2IT Toulouse)
2. 2ND CIRCULAR OF THE 10TH MICROQUASAR WORKSHOP: ABSTRACT DEADLINE, INVITED SPEAKER LIST AND ACCOMODATION (Héraklion, Grèce, 22 – 26 May 2023)
Dear colleagues
This is the 2nd circular about the 10th Microquasar Workshop « The various
facets of extreme gravity » that will take place at Heraklion, Crete, Greece,
on 22-26 May 2023.
Please have a look at the conference webpage:
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/home
We would like to remind you that the deadline for the abstract submission is
approaching (20 January 2023). Please use the following link to submit an
abstract
https://forms.gle/5PedRuYCJiDVgZEQA
Note that the list of invited speakers has been updated and can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/program/invited-speakers
We remind you also the important deadlines:
– Abstract submission closes: 20 January 2023
– Communication of the selected contributions: 10 February 2023
– Registration fee (it includes coffee breaks, light lunches, and conference
dinner)
– early (through 10 March 2023): 380 euro
– normal (through 10 April 2023): 410 euro
– late (up to the conference time): 450 euro
Finally, Crete being a very popular tourist destination, we strongly recommend
that you book your flight and hotel as soon as possible. In late May, there
are direct flights to Heraklion from many European cities.
For the hotel reservation please have a look at:
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/practical-information/accomodation
Have a nice Christmas and New Year break.
Nick Kylafis & Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
3. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL “THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE 2023” (Cargèse, 30 mai au 9 juin)
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the international school “The Transient Universe 2023”, which will take place from May 30th to June 9th in Cargèse, Corsica (France).
Summary
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The “Transient Universe 2023” school will address the astrophysical topic of transient events in all its diversity, including photon and multi-messenger astronomy (radio, X and gamma rays, gravitational waves and neutrinos). It will cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from the death of massive stars, supernova explosions and their remnants, accretion and coalescence of binary systems to relativistic jets in AGNs and gamma-ray bursts.
The school is addressed to Ph.D students, post-docs and young researchers, and brings together international experts from different domains in order to prepare the future generation of young researchers to the upcoming revolution of time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy.
Registration opens January 30, 2023 and closes March 30. The school takes place from May 30, 2023 to June 9 at the Institute for Scientific Studies (IESC) in Cargèse, Corsica (France), with on-site lunches and lodging.
Scientific Rationale
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Cosmic bursts are the most violent and energetic events detected in the Universe. These transient phenomena can be linked to the death of a star (supernova or gamma-ray burst), to accretion processes in a binary system hosting a compact object (neutron star or black hole), to the coalescence of two compact objects producing gravitational waves or to active galactic nuclei.
These violent phenomena, which are detected even at the far edge of the Universe and therefore originate from its earliest ages, are by nature brief and unpredictable. They are most often linked to high-energy astrophysical phenomena, in particular accretion and ejection of matter at relativistic speeds. They are naturally detected in the X and gamma-ray energy range, and historically have been studied mainly in this domain of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, nowadays it is known that a lot of information can be obtained from other spectral ranges (from radio to high-energy gamma rays via the visible band), but also from the so-called « new messengers », notably neutrinos or gravitational waves produced by large masses and high velocities involved in these astrophysical objects, and from cosmic rays resulting from particle acceleration.
In this context of « transient sky astronomy » new observational facilities are emerging (such as SVOM, CTA, SKA, LSST and in the future Theseus, eXTP and Athena) and a large amount of data from operational astrophysical observatories (Swift, XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL, NuSTAR, MAXI, Fermi, HESS II, Nicer, etc.) are available at the time of this school.
The school aims to bring together international experts in these fields to give the future generation of researchers an overview of these themes, which will shape the future of astrophysics.
The school is mainly addressed to PhD students, post-docs and young researchers, and will be limited to 60 participants. The school will present astrophysical objects from a theoretical and observational point of view, the physical processes of radiation, and the observational facilities available. Special emphasis will be put on hands-on sessions with data analysis.
This school follows the series of astrophysics schools organized at IESC Cargèse in 2006, 2013, 2016 and 2019.
Main topics addressed
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* Observational properties of high-energy non-thermal sources, from keV to TeV.
* Detailed presentation of different classes of objects (massive stars, their evolution, supernova remnants, neutron stars, binary star systems, cosmic gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei).
* Radiative processes (synchrotron, inverse Compton, pair production, Bremsstrahlung).
* Particle acceleration mechanisms in astrophysics (Fermi I, Fermi II, magnetic reconnection, charge separation, Poynting flux, rotating magnetic fields, jets)
* Accretion Theory
* Gravitation and general relativity
* Detection techniques: X-rays, gamma rays, Radio, IR/Opt/UV, gravitational waves, neutrinos
* Future challenges: next missions, open questions.
* Open Science and FAIR data
Teaching methods
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Lectures will be held in English. Enough time is reserved per subject (between 1h30 and 3h) in order to allow a real deepening of the theme addressed. Teachers are selected among world references in the field by the SOC. Presentation materials will be accessible to all participants from the website at the end of the school.
Short presentations will be open to the participants to give them the opportunity to present in front of a scientific community.
Ample time will be reserved for scientific discussions, social activities and excursions.
Currently confirmed lecturers: V. Beckmann, R. Belmont, M. Branchesi, P. Cristofari, F. Daigne, R. Fender, D. Götz, I. Dvorkin, V. Grinberg, S. Guillot, S. Schanne, S. Vergani, J. Wilms, A. Zech.
Important dates
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– December 1, 2022 • First circular
– January 15, 2023 • Second circular
– January 30, 2023 • Registration opens
– March 30, 2023 • Registration closes
– May 30, 2023 • School
Logistics and contact
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Lodging will be provided in rooms on the site of the Institute in Cargèse or in the Cargèse village, as well as breakfasts, lunches, coffee breaks and bus transfer from and to Ajaccio, where the nearest airport is located. The transfer bus will be scheduled on 30th May and June 9th.
Web page: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/27295
Email: transientuniverse2023@gmail.com
Twitter: @TrUniverse2003 (TransientUniverse2023)
Looking forward to seeing you in Cargèse end of May 2023, during the most beautiful time of the year!
Stéphane Schanne on behalf of the LOC and SOC.
LOC: Fabio Acero, Volker Beckmann, Nicolas Dagoneau, Diego Götz, Jérôme Rodriguez, Stéphane Schanne, Susanna Vergani.
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT UNIVERSITA` DI MILANO BICOCCA, ITALY
Call of interest: FARE/ERC-funded postdoctoral position in massive black holes and gravitational wave astrophysics at Universita` di Milano Bicocca, Italy
The Universita` di Milano Bicocca invites for expressions of interest for a postdoctoral research position in the field of massive black hole and gravitational wave astrophysics, with a particular focus on massive black hole binaries and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).
The successful candidate will join Prof. Alberto Sesana and the ‘B Massive’ team, funded by an ERC CoG project aimed at tackling all the facets of the astrophysics of massive black hole binaries (MBHB).
We are particularly looking for candidates with strong background in MBHB astrophysical modelling, gravitational wave detection and/or data analysis and inference with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. But candidates with relevant expertise in all aspects of massive black hole binary astrophysics, theory and observations alike, and gravitational wave data analysis at large are warmly welcomed to apply.
The appointment is for up to 3 years, expected to start as soon as early next spring and no later than fall 2023. The FARE/ERC funding guarantees a generous salary, competitive with the highest European standards for this type of position.
The Bicocca astro group has a strong expertise in massive black hole astrophysics, dynamics and gravitational waves (Prof. Monica Colpi, Prof. Massimo Dotti, Prof. Davide Gerosa, Prof. Alberto Sesana and visiting Prof. Francesco Haardt), relativistic numerical simulations of compact objects (Prof. Bruno Giacomazzo), observations of high redshift galaxies and black holes (Prof Sebastiano Cantalupo, Prof. Michele Fumagalli, Dr. Matteo Fossati). It is a thriving, lively group currently supporting ~20 postdocs and ~15 PhD students. It also has tight connections with the observatories of Brera and Merate. It is located close to the centre of Milan, the most lively and international city in Italy, 1h away from the beautiful Como Lake and the stunning Alps.
Candidates must have a PhD degree in physics, astronomy or a related discipline. Applications should consist of a cover letter, a brief statement of research interests, a curriculum vitae including publication list, and at least two letters of recommendation. All materials should be sent electronically, as soon as possible to the attention of Prof. Alberto Sesana to the email address alberto.sesana@unimib.it, by January 8, 2023.
We strive to build a diverse and inclusive environment and welcome expressions of interest from traditionally underrepresented groups.
Transmitted by Alberto Sesana
2. PHD POSITION IN MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY AT UTRECHT UNIVERSITY
Dear all,
I would like to draw your attention to an opening for a PhD candidate in multi-messenger astronomy at Utrecht University, the Netherlands:
https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-candidate-in-multi-messenger-astronomy-and-astrophysics-10-fte
Please forward this to anyone who might be interested, and apologies if you get this message through multiple channels.
Best regards,
Chris Van Den Broeck
3. PHD IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
Dear colleagues,
allow me to inform you that we are offering multiple 4-year PhD positions in Prague, Czech Republic, in the fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology, Gravity, Mathematical Physics, String Theory, and Atomic and Molecular Physics. The areas of research focus on theory, but include also observation and instrumentation. The list of available projects is at http://physicsphd.cz/f1. This list of projects will be finalized by December 5 2022 when we will also open the Application form for submissions. The application deadline is January 15 2023 for positions beginning in the Fall semester of 2023.
PhD thesis research will be conducted at one of the participating institutions in Prague: Charles University (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomical Institute) and Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Physics, Astronomical Institute, Institute of Mathematics, and Nuclear Physics Institute). The PhD degrees are awarded by Charles University. The positions are funded by a combination of government stipend, individual grants (national or EU), and institutional fellowships. The positions are open to candidates of any nationality. Our PhD program is international with majority of students coming from abroad.
Benefits depend on the type of the working contract, but all PhD students receive subsidized meals, possibility of staying in student dormitories, and free “Czech as foreign language” classes. Prague remains cheaper than other comparable European cities while offering similar level of comforts and entertainments.
Kind regards.
Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos
4. POINCARÉ EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
Presentation of the program
The Henri Poincaré early-career researchers fellowship funded by the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur and the Idex Université Côte d’Azur JEDI offers a two-year post-doctoral contract aimed at early-career researchers who have completed their doctorate (or PhD) and post-doctorate elsewhere than at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur and wish to develop their research program around the theme of Earth and Universe sciences independently. The scientific excellence of the candidate, the relevance of the proposed research program as well as its adequacy with the scientific scope of the establishment are key elements in the selection of candidates.
Before submitting his(her) application file, the candidate will identify a scientific referent at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (https://www.oca.eu/fr/) to accompany them during his(her) stay within the establishment. The referent is responsible for submitting the file, writing a letter of support for the candidate and his/her scientific program, receiving the letters of recommendation and obtain the approval of the unit director.
Applications will be evaluated by the Poincaré committee, which emanates from the scientific council of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur.
Schedule
• closing on february 1st, 2023 – result on march 15, 2023 – start on october 1st, 2023 (flexibility is possible)
Remuneration elements
48k€ gross annual + 5k€ per year environment
Constitution of the application file
Constitution of a single file in pdf format including:
* 1 CV of 2 pages including the most significant publications * 1 summary of research activities of 2 pages maximum
* 1 research project of 3 pages
* 3 letters of recommendation
* the letter of support from the OCA sponsor * the approval of the director of the host unit
The complete application file will be sent to cabinet@oca.eu on february 1st, 2023 at midnight at the latest.
Any application file that is incomplete or received after the deadline will not be examined by the selection committee.
For any request for additional information, please send an email to cabinet@oca.eu.
Transmitted by Nelson Christensen
5. POST DOCTORAL POSITION OPENING IN THE FIELD OF THEORETICAL GRAVITY
There will be a post doctoral position opening in the field of theoretical gravity financed via the StronG Project (contract 252472) of the French ANR.
We are seeking a young researcher who has research experience and a very good track record on the following research subjects : modified gravity theories, gravity waves, compact objects. The themes involve analytic or numerical methods.
In the researched profile, there is a slight preference for younger candidates, having obtained their PhD less than two years ago.
The research will be carried out with members of the « Gravitation and Cosmology » team (Eugeny Babichev, Christos Charmousis and Karim Noui) from IJCLab at the University of Paris-Saclay and with members of the « Relativity and Objects Compacts » team (Laura Bernard, Eric Gourgoulhon, P. Grandclément) of LUTh at Meudon. Both institutions are in the south of Paris area.
The postdoc position is for two years and can be extended up to three.
Interested candidates must apply using the official website of CNRS
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9012-ALEHEN-049/Default.aspx
where they have to send (in a PDF format)
a detailed CV which contains the list of publications
a statement of past research and a research project (max. 5 pages in total)
Recommandation letters must be sent by email to karim.noui@ijclab.in2p3
with in the Title: « Post-Doc StronG (Name of Candidate) »
Best regard.
Transmitted by Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
6. POSTDOC AND PHD POSITIONS IN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SOURCE MODELLING AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
Job opening: Research Fellow in gravitational-wave source modelling
The Southampton Gravity Group is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position in gravitational-wave source modelling. The successful candidate will undertake research as part of Adam Pound’s Royal Society-funded programme to model waveforms from small-mass-ratio binaries.
The University of Southampton is home to a large research group in gravitational physics, currently comprising 15 staff members and a large number of postdocs and PhD students. Research in the group includes black-hole and neutron-star physics, gravitational-wave astronomy, gravitational self-force, numerical relativity, string theory, and holography. The group is involved in the LISA Consortium, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and the Einstein Telescope Observational Science Board, and the successful applicant will contribute to high-accuracy gravitational-wave model development for both current and future detectors.
The ideal candidate will have a track record in at least one of the following research areas: the relativistic two-body problem, gravitational self-force theory, black hole perturbation theory. The applicant will have, or be about to obtain, a relevant PhD degree in physics or mathematics.
The post is for 2 years, with a negotiable start date no later than September 2023 and the possibility of an extension upon satisfactory performance.
Applications should be made through the University of Southampton jobs portal at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=35879. A complete application should include (i) a CV, including a list of publications, (ii) a statement of research interests (no more than 1 page), and (iii) the names and contact information of two referees.
Informal enquiries may be made to Adam Pound at A.Pound@soton.ac.uk.
NATIONAL HIGH-ENERGY PROGRAM
Newsletter n°168
https://pnhe.cnrs.fr/en/welcome/
2023 January 2nd
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Best wishes to all!
— SUMMARY
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. PROGRESS ON OLD AND NEW THEMES IN COSMOLOGY – PONT 2023 (Avignon, 2 – 5 May 2023)
2. 2ND CIRCULAR OF THE 10TH MICROQUASAR WORKSHOP: ABSTRACT DEADLINE, INVITED SPEAKER LIST AND ACCOMODATION (Héraklion, Grèce, 22 – 26 May 2023)
3. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL “THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE 2023” (Cargèse, 30 May – 9 June)
POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT UNIVERSITA` DI MILANO BICOCCA, ITALY
2. PHD POSITION IN MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY AT UTRECHT UNIVERSITY
3. PHD IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
4. POINCARÉ EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
5. POST DOCTORAL POSITION OPENING IN THE FIELD OF THEORETICAL GRAVITY
6. POSTDOC AND PHD POSITIONS IN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SOURCE MODELLING AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
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EVENTS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SCHOOLS
1. PROGRESS ON OLD AND NEW THEMES IN COSMOLOGY – PONT 2023 (Avignon, 2 – 5 May 2023)
Dear Colleague,
we would like to bring to your attention the sixth edition of the international conference :
Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology – PONT 2023
https://indico.cern.ch/e/PONT2023
to be held in the Popes’ Palace in Avignon (France) on 2-5 May 2023.
The aim of the conference is to gather scientists working in cosmology and particle physics in order to address the cardinal issues of the dark universe today, in the inspiring and monumental setting of Avignon. The topics that will be the focus of this edition are: early and late universe cosmology, gravitational waves and astrophysical messengers of new physics.
The format will consist of a limited number of invited talks by leading experts in the field, followed by shorter selected contributed talks. Typically, each day will be devoted to a particular topic, with three or four keynote speakers reviewing the state of the art and fostering debates and discussions.
We encourage you to submit the abstract of your contribution on the conference page.
The abstract submission deadline is the 12th of March 2023. We will inform you before the end of March if your contribution has been accepted. The registration deadline is the 16th of April 2023.
Pending requested financial support, we expect to be able to waive the conference registration fees for all participants. We may have to ask for a contribution of 100 euros maximum to cover for the welcome cocktail, the banquet, all coffee breaks, the outreach event, the night visit to the Popes’ Palace and finally support the participation of students from developing countries. We will communicate the exact amount of the registration fees in January at the latest.
PONT 2023 is also pleased to announce the availability of free on-site child care for participants.
Avignon is only 2.5 hours from Paris by high-speed TGV train and is also easily reached by train from Lyon and Marseille.
The town boasts an exceptional number of historical monuments, including the Popes’ Palace, and beautiful surroundings which are known world-wide for their gastronomic and wine making tradition. A banquet is included in the registration fee for all participants.
Looking forward to meeting you in Avignon! Please encourage all your collaborators, especially the younger ones, to join us.
PS Apologies for cross-posting.
Philippe Brax, Francesca Calore, Marco Cirelli, Christian Marinoni, Vivian Poulin & Nicola Tamanini
(Local Organizing Committee: Institut de Physique Théorique CEA Saclay, LAPTh Annecy, LPTHE Jussieu Paris, CPT Marseille, LUPM Montpellier, L2IT Toulouse)
2. 2ND CIRCULAR OF THE 10TH MICROQUASAR WORKSHOP: ABSTRACT DEADLINE, INVITED SPEAKER LIST AND ACCOMODATION (Héraklion, Grèce, 22 – 26 May 2023)
Dear colleagues
This is the 2nd circular about the 10th Microquasar Workshop « The various
facets of extreme gravity » that will take place at Heraklion, Crete, Greece,
on 22-26 May 2023.
Please have a look at the conference webpage:
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/home
We would like to remind you that the deadline for the abstract submission is
approaching (20 January 2023). Please use the following link to submit an
abstract
https://forms.gle/5PedRuYCJiDVgZEQA
Note that the list of invited speakers has been updated and can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/program/invited-speakers
We remind you also the important deadlines:
– Abstract submission closes: 20 January 2023
– Communication of the selected contributions: 10 February 2023
– Registration fee (it includes coffee breaks, light lunches, and conference
dinner)
– early (through 10 March 2023): 380 euro
– normal (through 10 April 2023): 410 euro
– late (up to the conference time): 450 euro
Finally, Crete being a very popular tourist destination, we strongly recommend
that you book your flight and hotel as soon as possible. In late May, there
are direct flights to Heraklion from many European cities.
For the hotel reservation please have a look at:
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/practical-information/accomodation
Have a nice Christmas and New Year break.
Nick Kylafis & Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
3. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL “THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE 2023” (Cargèse, 30 mai au 9 juin)
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the international school “The Transient Universe 2023”, which will take place from May 30th to June 9th in Cargèse, Corsica (France).
Summary
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The “Transient Universe 2023” school will address the astrophysical topic of transient events in all its diversity, including photon and multi-messenger astronomy (radio, X and gamma rays, gravitational waves and neutrinos). It will cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from the death of massive stars, supernova explosions and their remnants, accretion and coalescence of binary systems to relativistic jets in AGNs and gamma-ray bursts.
The school is addressed to Ph.D students, post-docs and young researchers, and brings together international experts from different domains in order to prepare the future generation of young researchers to the upcoming revolution of time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy.
Registration opens January 30, 2023 and closes March 30. The school takes place from May 30, 2023 to June 9 at the Institute for Scientific Studies (IESC) in Cargèse, Corsica (France), with on-site lunches and lodging.
Scientific Rationale
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Cosmic bursts are the most violent and energetic events detected in the Universe. These transient phenomena can be linked to the death of a star (supernova or gamma-ray burst), to accretion processes in a binary system hosting a compact object (neutron star or black hole), to the coalescence of two compact objects producing gravitational waves or to active galactic nuclei.
These violent phenomena, which are detected even at the far edge of the Universe and therefore originate from its earliest ages, are by nature brief and unpredictable. They are most often linked to high-energy astrophysical phenomena, in particular accretion and ejection of matter at relativistic speeds. They are naturally detected in the X and gamma-ray energy range, and historically have been studied mainly in this domain of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, nowadays it is known that a lot of information can be obtained from other spectral ranges (from radio to high-energy gamma rays via the visible band), but also from the so-called « new messengers », notably neutrinos or gravitational waves produced by large masses and high velocities involved in these astrophysical objects, and from cosmic rays resulting from particle acceleration.
In this context of « transient sky astronomy » new observational facilities are emerging (such as SVOM, CTA, SKA, LSST and in the future Theseus, eXTP and Athena) and a large amount of data from operational astrophysical observatories (Swift, XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL, NuSTAR, MAXI, Fermi, HESS II, Nicer, etc.) are available at the time of this school.
The school aims to bring together international experts in these fields to give the future generation of researchers an overview of these themes, which will shape the future of astrophysics.
The school is mainly addressed to PhD students, post-docs and young researchers, and will be limited to 60 participants. The school will present astrophysical objects from a theoretical and observational point of view, the physical processes of radiation, and the observational facilities available. Special emphasis will be put on hands-on sessions with data analysis.
This school follows the series of astrophysics schools organized at IESC Cargèse in 2006, 2013, 2016 and 2019.
Main topics addressed
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* Observational properties of high-energy non-thermal sources, from keV to TeV.
* Detailed presentation of different classes of objects (massive stars, their evolution, supernova remnants, neutron stars, binary star systems, cosmic gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei).
* Radiative processes (synchrotron, inverse Compton, pair production, Bremsstrahlung).
* Particle acceleration mechanisms in astrophysics (Fermi I, Fermi II, magnetic reconnection, charge separation, Poynting flux, rotating magnetic fields, jets)
* Accretion Theory
* Gravitation and general relativity
* Detection techniques: X-rays, gamma rays, Radio, IR/Opt/UV, gravitational waves, neutrinos
* Future challenges: next missions, open questions.
* Open Science and FAIR data
Teaching methods
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Lectures will be held in English. Enough time is reserved per subject (between 1h30 and 3h) in order to allow a real deepening of the theme addressed. Teachers are selected among world references in the field by the SOC. Presentation materials will be accessible to all participants from the website at the end of the school.
Short presentations will be open to the participants to give them the opportunity to present in front of a scientific community.
Ample time will be reserved for scientific discussions, social activities and excursions.
Currently confirmed lecturers: V. Beckmann, R. Belmont, M. Branchesi, P. Cristofari, F. Daigne, R. Fender, D. Götz, I. Dvorkin, V. Grinberg, S. Guillot, S. Schanne, S. Vergani, J. Wilms, A. Zech.
Important dates
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– December 1, 2022 • First circular
– January 15, 2023 • Second circular
– January 30, 2023 • Registration opens
– March 30, 2023 • Registration closes
– May 30, 2023 • School
Logistics and contact
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Lodging will be provided in rooms on the site of the Institute in Cargèse or in the Cargèse village, as well as breakfasts, lunches, coffee breaks and bus transfer from and to Ajaccio, where the nearest airport is located. The transfer bus will be scheduled on 30th May and June 9th.
Web page: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/27295
Email: transientuniverse2023@gmail.com
Twitter: @TrUniverse2003 (TransientUniverse2023)
Looking forward to seeing you in Cargèse end of May 2023, during the most beautiful time of the year!
Stéphane Schanne on behalf of the LOC and SOC.
LOC: Fabio Acero, Volker Beckmann, Nicolas Dagoneau, Diego Götz, Jérôme Rodriguez, Stéphane Schanne, Susanna Vergani.
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POSITIONS, THESIS OFFERS, POST-DOCTORAL CONTRACTS
1. POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT UNIVERSITA` DI MILANO BICOCCA, ITALY
Call of interest: FARE/ERC-funded postdoctoral position in massive black holes and gravitational wave astrophysics at Universita` di Milano Bicocca, Italy
The Universita` di Milano Bicocca invites for expressions of interest for a postdoctoral research position in the field of massive black hole and gravitational wave astrophysics, with a particular focus on massive black hole binaries and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).
The successful candidate will join Prof. Alberto Sesana and the ‘B Massive’ team, funded by an ERC CoG project aimed at tackling all the facets of the astrophysics of massive black hole binaries (MBHB).
We are particularly looking for candidates with strong background in MBHB astrophysical modelling, gravitational wave detection and/or data analysis and inference with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. But candidates with relevant expertise in all aspects of massive black hole binary astrophysics, theory and observations alike, and gravitational wave data analysis at large are warmly welcomed to apply.
The appointment is for up to 3 years, expected to start as soon as early next spring and no later than fall 2023. The FARE/ERC funding guarantees a generous salary, competitive with the highest European standards for this type of position.
The Bicocca astro group has a strong expertise in massive black hole astrophysics, dynamics and gravitational waves (Prof. Monica Colpi, Prof. Massimo Dotti, Prof. Davide Gerosa, Prof. Alberto Sesana and visiting Prof. Francesco Haardt), relativistic numerical simulations of compact objects (Prof. Bruno Giacomazzo), observations of high redshift galaxies and black holes (Prof Sebastiano Cantalupo, Prof. Michele Fumagalli, Dr. Matteo Fossati). It is a thriving, lively group currently supporting ~20 postdocs and ~15 PhD students. It also has tight connections with the observatories of Brera and Merate. It is located close to the centre of Milan, the most lively and international city in Italy, 1h away from the beautiful Como Lake and the stunning Alps.
Candidates must have a PhD degree in physics, astronomy or a related discipline. Applications should consist of a cover letter, a brief statement of research interests, a curriculum vitae including publication list, and at least two letters of recommendation. All materials should be sent electronically, as soon as possible to the attention of Prof. Alberto Sesana to the email address alberto.sesana@unimib.it, by January 8, 2023.
We strive to build a diverse and inclusive environment and welcome expressions of interest from traditionally underrepresented groups.
Transmitted by Alberto Sesana
2. PHD POSITION IN MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY AT UTRECHT UNIVERSITY
Dear all,
I would like to draw your attention to an opening for a PhD candidate in multi-messenger astronomy at Utrecht University, the Netherlands:
https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-candidate-in-multi-messenger-astronomy-and-astrophysics-10-fte
Please forward this to anyone who might be interested, and apologies if you get this message through multiple channels.
Best regards,
Chris Van Den Broeck
3. PHD IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
Dear colleagues,
allow me to inform you that we are offering multiple 4-year PhD positions in Prague, Czech Republic, in the fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology, Gravity, Mathematical Physics, String Theory, and Atomic and Molecular Physics. The areas of research focus on theory, but include also observation and instrumentation. The list of available projects is at http://physicsphd.cz/f1. This list of projects will be finalized by December 5 2022 when we will also open the Application form for submissions. The application deadline is January 15 2023 for positions beginning in the Fall semester of 2023.
PhD thesis research will be conducted at one of the participating institutions in Prague: Charles University (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomical Institute) and Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Physics, Astronomical Institute, Institute of Mathematics, and Nuclear Physics Institute). The PhD degrees are awarded by Charles University. The positions are funded by a combination of government stipend, individual grants (national or EU), and institutional fellowships. The positions are open to candidates of any nationality. Our PhD program is international with majority of students coming from abroad.
Benefits depend on the type of the working contract, but all PhD students receive subsidized meals, possibility of staying in student dormitories, and free “Czech as foreign language” classes. Prague remains cheaper than other comparable European cities while offering similar level of comforts and entertainments.
Kind regards.
Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos
4. POINCARÉ EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
Presentation of the program
The Henri Poincaré early-career researchers fellowship funded by the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur and the Idex Université Côte d’Azur JEDI offers a two-year post-doctoral contract aimed at early-career researchers who have completed their doctorate (or PhD) and post-doctorate elsewhere than at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur and wish to develop their research program around the theme of Earth and Universe sciences independently. The scientific excellence of the candidate, the relevance of the proposed research program as well as its adequacy with the scientific scope of the establishment are key elements in the selection of candidates.
Before submitting his(her) application file, the candidate will identify a scientific referent at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (https://www.oca.eu/fr/) to accompany them during his(her) stay within the establishment. The referent is responsible for submitting the file, writing a letter of support for the candidate and his/her scientific program, receiving the letters of recommendation and obtain the approval of the unit director.
Applications will be evaluated by the Poincaré committee, which emanates from the scientific council of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur.
Schedule
• closing on february 1st, 2023 – result on march 15, 2023 – start on october 1st, 2023 (flexibility is possible)
Remuneration elements
48k€ gross annual + 5k€ per year environment
Constitution of the application file
Constitution of a single file in pdf format including:
* 1 CV of 2 pages including the most significant publications * 1 summary of research activities of 2 pages maximum
* 1 research project of 3 pages
* 3 letters of recommendation
* the letter of support from the OCA sponsor * the approval of the director of the host unit
The complete application file will be sent to cabinet@oca.eu on february 1st, 2023 at midnight at the latest.
Any application file that is incomplete or received after the deadline will not be examined by the selection committee.
For any request for additional information, please send an email to cabinet@oca.eu.
Transmitted by Nelson Christensen
5. POST DOCTORAL POSITION OPENING IN THE FIELD OF THEORETICAL GRAVITY
There will be a post doctoral position opening in the field of theoretical gravity financed via the StronG Project (contract 252472) of the French ANR.
We are seeking a young researcher who has research experience and a very good track record on the following research subjects : modified gravity theories, gravity waves, compact objects. The themes involve analytic or numerical methods.
In the researched profile, there is a slight preference for younger candidates, having obtained their PhD less than two years ago.
The research will be carried out with members of the « Gravitation and Cosmology » team (Eugeny Babichev, Christos Charmousis and Karim Noui) from IJCLab at the University of Paris-Saclay and with members of the « Relativity and Objects Compacts » team (Laura Bernard, Eric Gourgoulhon, P. Grandclément) of LUTh at Meudon. Both institutions are in the south of Paris area.
The postdoc position is for two years and can be extended up to three.
Interested candidates must apply using the official website of CNRS
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9012-ALEHEN-049/Default.aspx
where they have to send (in a PDF format)
a detailed CV which contains the list of publications
a statement of past research and a research project (max. 5 pages in total)
Recommandation letters must be sent by email to karim.noui@ijclab.in2p3
with in the Title: « Post-Doc StronG (Name of Candidate) »
Best regard.
Transmitted by Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
6. POSTDOC AND PHD POSITIONS IN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SOURCE MODELLING AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
Job opening: Research Fellow in gravitational-wave source modelling
The Southampton Gravity Group is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position in gravitational-wave source modelling. The successful candidate will undertake research as part of Adam Pound’s Royal Society-funded programme to model waveforms from small-mass-ratio binaries.
The University of Southampton is home to a large research group in gravitational physics, currently comprising 15 staff members and a large number of postdocs and PhD students. Research in the group includes black-hole and neutron-star physics, gravitational-wave astronomy, gravitational self-force, numerical relativity, string theory, and holography. The group is involved in the LISA Consortium, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and the Einstein Telescope Observational Science Board, and the successful applicant will contribute to high-accuracy gravitational-wave model development for both current and future detectors.
The ideal candidate will have a track record in at least one of the following research areas: the relativistic two-body problem, gravitational self-force theory, black hole perturbation theory. The applicant will have, or be about to obtain, a relevant PhD degree in physics or mathematics.
The post is for 2 years, with a negotiable start date no later than September 2023 and the possibility of an extension upon satisfactory performance.
Applications should be made through the University of Southampton jobs portal at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=35879. A complete application should include (i) a CV, including a list of publications, (ii) a statement of research interests (no more than 1 page), and (iii) the names and contact information of two referees.
Informal enquiries may be made to Adam Pound at A.Pound@soton.ac.uk.