Job vacancy at Observatoire de Paris: Research Engineer in Scientific Computing
The Observatoire de Paris is looking for a Research Engineer in Scientific Computing. Find out more here.
EAS 2021: Symposium SS5 – Data-intensive radio astronomy: bringing astrophysics to the exabyte era
The special session SS5 ‘Data-intensive radio astronomy: bringing astrophysics to the exabyte era’ of the European Astronomical Society virtual meeting EAS 2021 will be held on June 28, 2021. The deadline for abstract submission is March 2, 2021. The SS5 session will cover the challenges and current state faced by radio astronomy in handling large [...]
The EVN: New seminar from the series “The sharpest view of the radio Universe: VLBI – Connecting Astronomers Worldwide”
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”. On Friday 5 February at 15:00 CET, Sandra Etoka (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics & University of Manchester) will talk about Distance of optically-obscured evolved [...]
SKA job vacancies: Product Assurance Engineer & Senior Contracts Specialist
SKA is looking for a Product Assurance Engineer (deadline February 1, 2021) and a Senior Contracts Specialist (deadline February 22, 2021). Find here the full job advertisements: Product Assurance Engineer Senior Contracts Specialist
CatRIS Portal has been upgraded
The CatRIS Portal has been upgraded to fully operational version 3.0 with a new user-friendly interface. More than 100 Research Infrastructures have been registered over than 130 services and have improved their discoverability all over Europe. You can now take advantage of its new interface and its new supportive features to facilitate the onboarding process: Online Presentations of tutorialsand guidelines placed at CatRIS landing page under the support button. One-to-One webinarsessions [...]
ESO: Publication “ESO’s Benefits to Society” published
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) issued the new publication “ESO’s Benefits to Society”. It explores ESO’s impact on society and ESO´s contributions to its Member States across five areas: science and engineering, economy and innovation, talent development, education and outreach, and international collaboration and policy. This Brochure is not available for sale.
Annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society – virtual meeting from June 28 -July 2, 2021
The annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society will take place from June 28 -July 2, 2021 in virtual space. Special session 11 is scheduled for Tuesday 29 June. This is a call for abstracts for contributed talks and posters. Join for "Extreme astrophysics at extremely high resolution" at EAS2021 special session 11. This session demonstrates the [...]
RadioNet Newsletter issue 01/2021 published
Please finde the new 01/2021 issue or the RadioNet Newsletter here.
The SKA Convention officially entered into force
Concluding five years of negotiations, signatures and ratifications, the Convention establishing the SKA Observatory (SKAO) entered into force on January 15, 2021, with the official launch of the new intergovernmental organization scheduled for February 3-4 , 2021 at the first SKAO Council meeting. This follows the ratifications of Portugal and the UK in December 2021. Find full information here. [...]
Contact – The SKA Magazine: Latest issue available
Contact, the SKA Magazine, is a quarterly public-friendly publication produced by SKAO’s Communications team. It covers the broad range of SKA-related activities taking place around the world in a single publication. Contact was designed for the digital age from the start, and is only available in electronic format. It is published via the electronic publishing platform Issuu, and [...]