Today, November 26, the last RadioNet Board meeting is held. After a closed formal session, in the afternoon there is an open session with an interesting program & talks, friends of RadioNet and a look into the past and towards the future or Radio Astronomy and RadioNet.
The IAUS 367: Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy will be held 8-12 December 2020. It will be accessible online for free. The primary goal of this Symposium is to give a global vision of Education and Heritage in the frame of the goals of the IAU, taking into account the [...]
The European VLBI Network (EVN) is pleased to announce a new seminar from the series of online seminars “The sharpest view of the radio Universe: VLBI – Connecting Astronomers Worldwide”. Mareki Honma will talk on Wednesday 9 December at 10:00 CET about Galactic Maser Astrometry with Very Long Baseline Interferometry: Current Status and Beyond. The talk will be [...]
Great news for the radio and optical community! Under H2020-INFRAIA-2018-2020, the European Commission approved the new project OPTICON RadioNet Pilot (ORP), which mobilizes the two flagship communities of advanced radio and optical/infrared astronomy. Jean-Gabriel Cuby (CNRS) will be the coordinator of this prestigious project. Gerry Gilmore (University of Cambridge) will be scientific coordinator of the OPTICON [...]
From November 8 to 12, 2020, the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference, which was originally planned to be organized in Granada, Spain, was held online due to the restrictions imposed by the corona pandemic. RadioNet has contributed financial support to make this new format a success for the 580 registered participants. The [...]
The world-famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will be decommissioned and demolished after the conclusion that the facility is at risk of a collapse. This will bring an end to the popular 57-year-old telescope. The decision comes after two major cables failed at the facility within the last few months, causing significant damage to the observatory. The [...]
From 2-6 November, JIVE hosted the online CASA-VLBI workshop, over 200 people from around the world registered for this free workshop. The workshop was entirely educational. The lecture covered a broad range of topics and levels from the basics of CASA, through calibration of VLBI observations, imaging and data processing up to the future of [...]
The German presidency of the Council reached a political agreement with the European Parliament’s negotiators in talks aimed at securing the Parliament's consent to the next multiannual financial framework, the EU’s long-term budget. The agreement complements the comprehensive financial package of €1 824.3 billion negotiated by EU leaders in July, which combines the next multiannual financial framework – €1 074.3 billion – [...]
The ngVLA project is hiring a Science Support Research Associate, a call for proposals in the fourth of a series of the ngVLA Community Studies ProgramCommunity Studies Program will be opened and the ngVLATown Hall will take place on December 16, 2020. The ngVLA project is hiring a Science Support Research Associate. The successful candidate will be an essential part [...]
The first release of data from the Apertif imaging surveys has taken place today. The Apertif imaging team has released science data from the first year of science operations of WSRT-Apertif as the Apertif Data Release 1 (DR1). Now the entire astronomical community can access the data collected by Apertif in its first year of [...]