The RadioNet Board meeting is taking place today in the Harnack House in Berlin. A group of very dedicated and experienced scientists/radio astronomers meeting in an amicable atmosphere, reporting on the last year's achievements and developing ideas for the future of Radio Astronomy. First time with the RadioNet Board, by videoconference is Mina Koleva, the new RadioNet [...]
On September 5, 2019 the Breakthrough prize in fundamental Physics was awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration. The EHT revealed on April 10, 2019 - the first ever image of the black hole, which shows the 6 billion solar masses black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 located around 55 [...]
e-Merlin is searching for two Research Support Scientists to join the e-MERLIN/VLBI National Facility Science Operations and User Support group within the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA). The focus is on candidates with expertise in radio interferometric science and observations, observatory operations and/or data processing techniques. Both positions will provide support for scientific users [...]
Postdoc position available at INAF, at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory in Florence/Italy. Focus will be on Instrumental calibration of the low frequency aperture array of SKA. Deadline for application submission is September 13, 2019. Read more here.
The EVN Call for Proposals is open, deadline for proposal submission is October 1, 2019 - 23:59:59 UTC. See the full call text here. The EVN facility is open to all astronomers, astronomers with limited or no VLBI experience are particularly encouraged to apply for observing time. Student proposals are judged favorably. RadioNet, funded by [...]
The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy & Astrophysics is a joint doctoral program between the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (Bonn) and the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. Everybody with talent and ambition for an outstanding research career, a background in Astrophysics and about to finish a master’s (or equivalent) thesis and who [...]
The issue 8/2019 of the RadioNet newsletter has been just issued.
The Young European Radio Astronomers Conference 2019 kicked off on 26th August in Dublin - hosted by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, held at Trinity College Dublin and funded by RadioNet / H2020, to promote the work, and professional development, of young radio astronomers in Europe. Social media: @YERAC2019 & @RadioNet_EU Eventpage here.
Share here your views with the European Commission about the way of implementation of the new EU funded research and innovation programme and about how the legal documents, processes and tools for Horizon Europe should look like to properly support the policy objectives of the programme. The Commission invites anyone with an interest in this [...]
The science conference titled "Compact Objects and Energetic Phenomena in the Multi-Messenger Era" will take place 14-16 July 2020 in Saint Paul, Minnesota,USA. Details and deadlines will be posted in the coming weeks here.