Prof Gabriele Giovannini will retire at the beginning of the Academic Year 2020/21. His accomplishments in research, teaching, and tutoring will be celebrated with many of his friends, collaborators, and former students in Bologna, on 2020 October 21-22. Initial information is available here. Further details will be made available in late March
Please send nominations for the 2020 award to Jessica Utley latest March 20, 2020. Nominations should be concise (~1 page) and address both the nominee’s contribution to the advancement of radio astronomy and their potential to increase public appreciation through the Jansky Lecture. The 2020 Jansky Lecturer will have made significant contributions related to radio astronomy, [...]
The 5th IUCAF School on Spectrum Management co-sponsored by RADIONET, IUCAF, SARAO, CRAF, CORF, NSF and RAFCAP will take place in Stellenbosch, South Africa in the period 2-6 March 2020. The school will offer a comprehensive view of both technical and regulatory issues related to radio astronomers' use of the spectrum. Spectrum management is a [...]
Call for Proposals on IRAM Telescopes open. The deadline for submission of observing proposals on IRAM telescopes, both the NOEMA interferometer and the 30-meter telescope, covering the scheduling period 1 June to 30 November 2020, is March 12, 2020. More details on the call here. IRAM proposals should be submitted through the Proposal Management System [...]
Open Call for the International LOFAR Telescope - Proposal Call to the Worldwide Community LONG-TERM: 01 June 2020 – 31 May 2022 AND Cycle 14: 01 June 2020 – 30 November 2020 Submission deadline Wednesday 04 March 2020. Submission only via the online tool NorthStar . Proposers must ensure that their justification files adhere to the instructions [...]
Proposals for APEX observing requests for the period from 28 April to 13 August 2020 are solicited. Deadline for submission 19 March 2020. More details here
The RadioNet Technical Dissemination Workshop “New Trends in Radio Astronomy Instrumentation” will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, 21-22 September 2020. It will focus on discussing future trends and presenting new ideas. Eventpage
Final Announcement of the COSPAR 2020 E1.17:“The space view of radio galaxies”, 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Sydney, Australia, 15-23 August 2020. With highly energetic relativistic jets that sometimes reach a few Megaparsecs, radio galaxies are fundamental actors in theories of black hole growth and downsizing, and in the evolution of their host galaxies. This event is [...]
The 6th LOFAR Data Processing School will take place at ASTRON, 21-25 September 2020. The registration will open at the beginning of March. The aim of this School is to introduce the LOFAR system to new members of the community who will analyze both interferometric and high time resolution beam formed LOFAR data. Hands-on sessions will [...]
RadioNet is co-sponsoring the 15th European VLBI Network Symposium, “Providing the Sharpest View of the Universe,” and the EVN Users Meeting, hosted by University College Cork (Ireland) on behalf of the EVN Consortium Board of Directors. The meeting will take place on July 6-10, 2020. This biennial meeting is the main forum for discussion of [...]