About 1800 scientists from around the globe attended the European Astronomical Society (EAS 2022) Annual Meeting in Valencia. Opticon RadioNet Pilot project (ORP) was subject of several presentations on the special session European Forum of Astronomical Communities on 30 June 2022, a special platform at the EAS meetings launched at the EAS Meeting in 2017 [...]
On 30 September 2022, the inauguration of the NOEMA Observatory by Antoine Petit (CNRS President), Martin Stratmann (MPG President) and Karl Schuster (IRAM Director) will take place; official addresses with an introductory statement by Prof. Reinhard Genzel, Physics Nobel Laureate 2020, in the Superdévoluy ski resort.
Applications are invited for multiple research positions focused on exploiting high angular resolution radio astronomy. The scientific goals of the project are to study the properties of dark matter, understand black hole activity and resolve star-formation processes in galaxies across cosmic time. The positions are part of a new initiative to develop Very Long Baseline [...]
The Opticon RadioNet Pilot (ORP) project brings together two mature communities, optical/IR and radio/sub-mm to work towards the harmonization and improvement of services of astronomical infrastructures and of the access to them. ORP offers access to many of the world’s premier optical/IR and radio telescopes and arrays and aims to develop various services to aid scientific [...]
On June 13, 2022, ESA’s Gaia mission released its new treasure trove of data about Milky Way. Astronomers describe strange ‘starquakes’, stellar DNA, asymmetric motions and other fascinating insights in this most detailed Milky Way survey to date. Gaia is ESA’s mission to create the most accurate and complete multi-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Gaia’s [...]
Horizon Europe uses lump sum funding to reduce administration and financial errors and to make the programme simpler by removing the need to report actual costs. This makes the access to the programme easier, especially for small organisations and newcomers. Here you find the EC page with all information on lump sum funding in Horizon Europe. It is updated [...]
The NIAS-Lorentz Program calls for coordinators for the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group (NLTG) 2023/2024. The deadline for application with a pre-proposal is September 1, 2022. The NIAS-Lorentz Program is a collaboration established in 2006 by NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam) and the Lorentz Center (workshop center for all scientific disciplines, [...]
RadioNet newsletter 5/2022 issued. Read here.
The European ALMA Regional Centre Network organises, co-funded by the ORP, the ALMA Science Archive School at the Italian ARC node headquarters in Bologna ITaly) on 5-7 October 2022. This school will present an overview of the most advanced tools to exploit the archive content for science, and a discussion of possible tricks to address mining [...]
The JIVE diretor position is initially for five years, with possible renewal. Deadline for applicaction is July 31, 2022 - 23:59 UTC. Read more details here.