Liz Bryson's list of International Astronomy meetings

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Space Calendar

High Energy Astrophysics meetings

Other Selected Astronomy, Physics and Space Science meetings

Selected Astronomy-related Physics, Computational, Data Analysis, Software or Statistics meetings

High Energy Astrophysics meetings

2013 High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) Meeting

Dates: 2013 April 7 - 11

Abstract Submission: Now Open

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2013 January 17, 9:00pm EST

Deadline for Late Abstract Submission: 2013 March 4, 9:00pm EST

Deadline for Early Registration: 2013 March 7

Deadline for Hotel Reservations: 2013 March 11

Deadline for Regular Registration: 2013 March 28 (on-site only after this date)

Place: Monterey, California, USA

There will be special science sessions on NuSTAR, Charge Exchange, Extragalactic backgrounds, AGN Jets, Black Holes in Globular Clusters, and a first-ever session organized by the newly-formed Lab Astro Division, as well as special programmatic sessions on Future X-ray and Gravity Wave missions, plus a Town Hall from the NASA PCOS office and, notably, a Public Policy discussion on how to make international projects happen -- including discussions with all of the key players.

Huntsville in Nashville: The Seventh Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium

Dates: 2013 April 14 - 18

Deadline for Early Registration: 2013 January 31

Deadline for Hotel Reservations at Conference Rate: 2013 March 15, pending availability

Deadline for Standard Registration: 2013 March 31

Start of Late/Onsite Registration: 2013 April 1

Place: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, and are thought to be the birth signatures of black holes, arising from both the collapse of massive stars and the merger of compact objects in a binary system. With X-ray and gamma-ray observations from active space missions such as Fermi, Swift, AGILE, MAXI, INTEGRAL, Konus, Suzaku, and NuSTAR, this is an exciting time for GRB physics.

Afterglow observations at optical and radio energies continue to provide clues as to the nature and cosmological evolution of the GRB hosts. We have also entered a vibrant era for multi-messenger GRB astronomy, and prospects for detecting gravitational wave, neutrino, and very-high energy emissions from GRBs are improving greatly with the next-generation instrumentation such as CTA and Advanced LIGO/VIRGO.

The 7th in the Huntsville series of GRB meetings will be held in order to discuss current and future observations and analyses covering these topics, in addition to the theories that bring them all together.

9th Chandra/CIAO Workshop

Cancelled

Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Jets and Shocks in the Universe: The 2nd PANDA Symposium on Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Dates: 2013 April 22 - 26

Deadline for Early Registration: 2013 February 15

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2013 February 20

Place: Xi'an, China

The symposium aims to give a state of the art overview of the research on some of the most energetic astrophysical sources, using both 'classic' multi-wavelength observations and new messengers such as cosmic rays, neutrinos, and gravitational waves combined with the latest insights in theoretical understanding of the underlying mechanisms and source physics. Furthermore, the PANDA Symposium series aims at establishing and fostering collaborations among young scientists (0-6 years from graduation) from the Pacific/Asian scientific community with their peers across the globe. To do so, the organizers follow the successful 4-day format of the first PANDA symposium: the first day will have lectures from senior lecturers setting the stage on the subject matter with comprehensive reviews. The next three days are independent mini-workshops in three scientific sub-areas, organized by experts in these areas: particle acceleration, high-energy sources, and transient surveys. During these workshops, graduate students and young post-doctoral fellows will present their results on ongoing projects to their peers.

STARS2013 - 2nd Caribbean Symposium on Cosmology, Gravitation, Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics

Dates: 2013 May 4 - 10

Place: Havana, Cuba

See entry for SMFNS2013 below.

SMFNS2013 - 3rd International Symposium on Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars

Dates: 2013 May 4 - 10

Place: Varadero, Cuba

The events are the second and third in a series of meetings gathering scientists working on astroparticle physics, cosmology, gravitation, nuclear physics, and related fields. As in previous years, the meeting sessions will consist of invited and contributed talks and will cover recent developments in the following topics:

STARS2013 - New phenomena and new states of matter in the Universe, general relativity, gravitation, cosmology, heavy ion collisions and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma, white dwarfs, neutron stars and pulsars, black holes, gamma-ray emission in the Universe, high energy cosmic rays, gravitational waves, dark energy and dark matter, strange matter and strange stars, antimatter in the Universe, and topics related to these.

SMFNS2013 - Strong magnetic fields in the Universe, strong magnetic fields in compact stars and in galaxies, ultra-strong magnetic fields in neutron star mergers, quark stars and magnetars, strong magnetic fields and the cosmic microwave background, and topics related to these.

RICAP'13: Roma International Conference on Astro-Particle Physics 2013

Dates: 2013 May 22 - 24

Place: Rome, Italy

RICAP'13 will be the fourth edition of the RICAP Conference. The acronym stands for Roma International Conference on Astro-Particle physics. The Conference is entirely dedicated to high energy cosmic rays study and it is organized by the three public Universities of Roma (University "Roma Tre", University "La Sapienza" and University "Tor Vergata"). These Institutions provide both theoretical and experimental contributions, and participate in major experimental projects in the field (AGILE, AMS, ANTARES, ARGO, Auger, Fermi, KM3NeT, NEMO, PAMELA, ...). The Conference is held every two years. The first edition was held at the University "La Sapienza", the second edition was hosted by University "Tor Vergata", and the third by the University "Roma Tre".

The Fast and the Furious: Energetic Phenomena in Isolated Neutron Stars, Pulsar Wind Nebulae and Supernova Remnants (XMM-Newton Science Workshop 2013)

Dates: 2013 May 22 - 24

Opening of Registration and Abstract Submission: 2013 February 13

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2013 April 2

Decision about Accepted Presentations: 2013 April 19

Deadline for Hotel Bookings: 2013 April 22

Deadline for Registration: 2013 April 26

Place: Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain

High-energy observations have strongly changed our view of isolated neutron stars, the nebulae powered by the relativistic winds of energetic pulsars and the non-thermal emission from supernova remnants. The study of these objects in the last few years has taken advantage of a multiwavelength approach, thanks to the combination of powerful X-ray satellites, with facilities operating in the gamma-ray range and up to the highest energies covered by ground based Cherenkov telescopes.

The purpose of this Workshop is to discuss the most recent results on the high-energy phenomena occurring in isolated neutron stars and related objects like pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants and gamma-ray binaries.

Contact e-mail address: xmmws2013@sciops.esa.int

Fermi Summer School 2013

Dates: May 28 - June 7

Application Deadline: 2013 March 8

Place: Lewes, Delaware

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has initiated an era of very broad energy coverage in the gamma-ray band. The combination of Fermi GBM and LAT provide observations of gamma-ray bursts and transients from 8 keV to >300 GeV. The combination of Fermi-LAT and ground-based gamma-ray observatories currently allows us to probe the high-energy emission from astrophysical sources over at least five orders of magnitude, including the previously unexplored territory from 10 to 100 GeV. These combinations of telescopes allow the measurement of broad-band spectra, the study of energy-dependent source morphologies, and correlated observations of time-variable sources, both within the gamma-ray energy range and with observations at longer wavelengths. These measurements provide critical diagnostics with which to identify source characteristics, particle acceleration and photon emission mechanisms.

The Fermi Summer School emphasizes the analysis of data from Fermi through lectures and hands-on workshops. Students spend time working directly with experts in instrumentation, analysis, theory and modeling to develop and extend their own research projects. Topics range across the gamma-ray band from Fermi's GBM up to the highest energies observed by the LAT and beyond to very high energies observed by ground-based gamma-ray telescopes.

Material will be aimed at graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. Topics will include particle acceleration and gamma-ray production mechanisms; space-based and ground-based gamma-ray instrumentation; spectral, spatial, and time-based analysis of gamma-ray data; modeling and interpretation of gamma-ray data; and astrophysical source classes such as AGN, GRBs, Galactic pulsars and binary systems, supernova remnants, and pulsar wind nebulae as well as searches for dark matter and new physics.

13th XMM-Newton SAS Workshop

Dates: 2013 June 10 - 14

Place: Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain

The XMM-Newton SOC announces the 13th SAS Workshop, which will be held at the European Space Astronomy Centre of ESA, Madrid, Spain, between the 10th and the 14th of June 2013.

SAS Workshops aim at providing XMM users with a basic introduction to the procedures and techniques to successfully reduce and analyse XMM-Newton data. The 5-day workshop is organised around 5 half-days of presentations and 5 half-days of practical training sessions. The sessions cover all aspects of data reduction and data analysis for all the X-ray cameras and the Optical Monitor on-board XMM-Newton.

Physics at the Magnetospheric Boundary

Dates: 2013 June 25 - 28

Registration and Abstract Submission: Open

Grant Application Deadline: 2013 March 15

Deadline for Early Registration: 2013 April 08

Deadline for Early Registration: 2013 May 27

Publication of the Conference Program: 2013 May 13

Place: Geneva, Switzerland

The "Physics at the Magnetospheric Boundary" conference is aimed at bringing together specialists working theoretically, numerically and observationally on processes occurring at the limit of the magnetically dominated region around accreting objects such as neutron stars, white dwarfs, and T Tauri stars, where the surrounding hot plasma is finally captured.

Different manifestations of similar physical processes occur in this wide variety of celestial sources and have been investigated since the 1960s by different scientific communities. The conference represents a precious opportunity of exchange between research groups working on the topic of accretion, across different wavelengths and source types. It poses the basis for the next steps forward in our understanding of the physics at the magnetospheric boundary.

Planned sessions for this conference include:

Theory of accretion onto magnetized stars
Numerical modelling of plasma-field interaction: accretion and jets production
Observational clues to the physics at the magnetosphere
Future perspectives in theory and observations

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27th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics: "Celebrating 50 Years of Relativistic Astrophysics"

Dates: 2013 December 8 - 13

Deadline for Early Registration: 2013 August 26

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2013 October 1

Deadline for Regular Registration: 2013 October 14

Deadline for Late Abstract Submission (Posters Only): 2013 November 8

Place: Dallas, Texas, USA

40th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events: COSPAR 2014

Dates: 2014 August 2 - 10

Scientific Program Chair: Prof. M.I. Panasyuk, Moscow State University

Deadline for Abstracts: 2014 mid-February

Place: Moscow, Russia

Topics:

Approximately 120 meetings covering the fields of COSPAR Scientific Commissions (SC) and Panels:

- SC A:  The Earth's Surface, Meteorology and Climate
- SC B:  The Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System
- SC C:  The Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets Including Reference Atmospheres
- SC D:  Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Planetary Magnetospheres
- SC E:  Research in Astrophysics from Space
- SC F:  Life Sciences as Related to Space
- SC G:  Materials Sciences in Space
- SC H:  Fundamental Physics in Space
- Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD)
- Panel on Scientific Ballooning (PSB)
- Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS)
- Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modelling (PRBEM)
- Panel on Space Weather (PSW)
- Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP)
- Panel on Capacity Building (PCB)

- Panel on Education (PE)

- Panel on Exploration (PEX)

- Special events:  interdisciplinary lectures, round table, etc.

Selected papers published in Advances in Space Research, a fully refereed journal with no deadlines open to all submissions in relevant fields.

Contact COSPAR Secretariat, c/o CNES, 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, France: Tel: +33 1 44 76 75 10, Fax: +33 1 44 76 74 37, or via e-mail at cospar@cosparhq.cnes.fr.

High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the AAS Meeting

Dates: 2014 August

Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the AAS Meeting

Dates: 2016 Spring

place: TBD, USA

High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the AAS Meeting

Dates: 2017 August

Place: Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA

Other Selected Astronomy, Physics and Space Science meetings

ESLAB 2013: The Universe as Seen by Planck

Dates: 2013 April 2 - 5:

Pre-Registration Opens: 2012 October 15

Place: Noordwijk, The Netherlands

This conference will be dedicated to present and discuss the initial science results from Planck, ESA's mission to map the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background. It is the first scientific forum where these results will be addressed, following Planck's first major release of data products and scientific papers in early 2013. It will cover both cosmology (based on analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background) and astrophysics (based on analysis of foreground emission sources).

The Planck satellite was launched on 14 May 2009, and has been surveying the sky continuously since August 2009. The nominal duration of the mission was completed in November of 2010, but Planck still continues to gather data. Data processing has been progressing and a first set of cosmological-grade data products will be released to the astronomical community in early 2013. These products will consist mainly of temperature maps of the whole sky at nine frequencies between 30 GHz and 857 GHz, which allow us to extract a map of the temperature anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background, as well as maps of many astrophysical foregrounds. The latter most importantly include synchrotron, free-free and dust emission from the Milky Way, radio and far-infrared emission from external galaxies, the characteristic signatures due to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in clusters of galaxies, and the Cosmic Infrared Background. The Planck data therefore provide for an extremely broad range of cosmological and astrophysical science.

2013 STScI Calibration Workshop

Dates: 2013 April 8 - 11

Abstract submission deadline: 2013 March 22

On-line registration deadline: 2013 March 29

Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been operating with its final complement of instruments since 2009. In addition, three of the instruments to be flown onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have just been delivered, and the final two will be completed soon. It is therefore a perfect time to hold a workshop emphasizing calibrations that are required to maximally exploit the capabilities of both observatories. This is also an opportunity to assess any additional calibrations needed to ensure that the current HST and future JWST archives are robust, and as scientifically valuable as possible.

In addition to these observatory specific themes, the workshop will address topics that apply broadly to astronomical calibration in general, and to more focused cross-observatory calibration. The goal is to foster the sharing of information and techniques between observers, instrument support teams, and instrument developers.

Cluster Lensing: Peering into the Past, Planning for the Future

Dates: 2013 April 15 - 17

Deadline for Abstract Submission: Extended to 2013 February 15

Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

The cluster environment offers a valuable laboratory to investigate astrophysical processes and examine the underlying cosmological model. In addition, clusters can act as powerful gravitational telescopes and magnify galaxy populations in the very distant universe. Clusters are therefore unique probes of the evolution of mass assembly over a wide range of spatial scales and epochs in cosmic history.

In recent years, there has been tremendous theoretical and observational progress in deriving the mass distributions of clusters through combining weak and strong gravitational lensing data. Excellent HST and ground-based datasets are becoming increasingly available. Many powerful techniques have been developed to map the dark matter distribution from lensing data. However, to fully exploit cluster lensing and combine it with other mass-estimation techniques such as studies of kinematics, X-ray temperatures and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect will require understanding and characterizing the uncertainties in lensing models.

This workshop is an opportunity to discuss what we have learned from cluster lenses thus far, and discuss future directions for progress:

New observational results from space and ground-based surveys,
Astrophysical implications from lensing-based mass distributions and highly-magnified objects,
Comparisons between different cluster mass estimators and lens modeling methods,
Comparisons between cluster lens observations and theoretical predictions from N-body simulations.

In order to promote discussion, the workshop will be limited to about fifty individuals. Therefore, if you are interested in attending, send email to st.cluster.workshop@gmail.com. Please include your name, institution and position (student/postdoc/faculty/research staff/civil servant).

Habitable Worlds Across Time and Space (2013 STScI Spring Symposium)

Dates: 2013 April 29 - May 2

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2013 March 15

Deadline for On-line Registration: 2013 March 29

Place: Baltomore, Maryland, USA

Within a matter of years, humanity will know for the first time the frequency of terrestrial planets in orbit around other stars. This knowledge will pave the way for joining research from astronomy, Earth science, and biology to understand the past, present, and future of the Earth within its larger context as one of many habitable worlds throughout the Galaxy. Such work seeks to understand the formation and fate of the Earth as well as predict where and when different bodies will be suitable for both simple and complex forms of life.

In this four-day symposium, scientists from diverse fields will discuss the formation and long-term evolution of terrestrial bodies throughout the various phases of stellar and Galactic evolution. A particular focus will be in how the specific conditions and challenges for habitability on Earth extend to other bodies in the Solar System and beyond. This symposium will include discussions about sites for Galactic habitability that have not yet been given much attention. The existence of these overlooked environments may provide motivation for novel astronomical observations with existing and next g eneration ground and space-based observatories.

Invited speakers will cover the following topics:

Terrestrial planet formation, volatile delivery, and the formation of moons
Early Earth geochemistry, atmosphere, and the origins of life
The frequency of terrestrial planets across stellar mass
The limits to Earth-like life
Habitability of planets and moons during all phases of stellar evolution
Habitability in low-luminosity environments

The Restless Nature of AGNs: Variability as a Probe of the Central Engine

Dates: 2013 May 20 - 23

Deadline for Registration: 2013 March 24

Placxe: Naples, Italy

It is widely accepted that variability provides important information on the nature of the emission mechanisms and the geometry of the central source in Active Galactic Nuclei. This is an exciting time in the field of AGN variability, due to the wealth of new results produced in the last few years. This conference intends to focus on radio-quiet sources, discussing our current understanding of the central source variability across the IR, optical, and UV regimes up to hard X-rays, and the clues that variability provides about the physics and structure of the AGN phenomena. The contributions are intended to address the problem of AGN variability both from the observational and theoretical point of view, on short and long time scales, presenting results and expectations from wide-field/deep surveys, pointed observations, ground-based and space observatories.

The topics will include:

- X-ray flux and spectral variability,
- UV emission/absorption variability, correlations and SED variability,
- Variability in the optical band: reverberation, the continuum and the full sky surveys,
- AGN variability analysis methods,
- Variability constraints on theoretical models: from the MRI to the X-ray corona.

2013 Spring International Conference on Advances in Physics (CAP-S)

Dates: 2013 May 31 - June 2

Deadline for Full Paper or Abstract Submission: 2013 February 4

Place: Wuhan, China

This conference is dedicated to creating a stage for exchanging the latest research results and sharing the advanced research methods. This conference will cover issues on:

Computational Physics
Astrophysics
High Energy Physics/Nuclear Physics
Photonics and Optoelectronics Electromagnetics
Semiconductor physics and devices
Other related topics

American Astronomical Society Meeting 222

Dates: 2013 June 2 - 6

Deadline for Early Registration: 2013 February 13

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2013 March 4

Place: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Massive Stars: From Alpha to Omega

Dates: 2013 June 10 - 14

Deadline for Abstract Submission for Contributed Talks: 2013 February 28

Deadline for Early Registration and Payment: 2013 April 20

Deadline for Abstract Submission for Posters: 2013 April 20

Deadline for Hotel Reservation with Guaranteed Special Meeting Prices: 2013 May 10

Deadline for Late Registration and Payment: 2013 May 20

Place: Rhodes, Greece

The conference will build on results from ongoing large-scale multi-wavelength surveys of massive stars which are being coupled with new theoretical advances dealing with stellar evolution and the processes which affect that evolution: mass-loss, rotation, convection, magnetic fields, multiplicity and environment. It will tackle important problems from birth, through main sequence evolution and until core collapse.

There will be a strong focus on relating the major theoretical uncertainties afflicting stellar evolution through these phases to the current observational picture. The impetus for this focus is derived from the realization that our understanding of massive star evolution is severely challenged by new observations powered largely by technological advances in telescopes and instrumentation. This has enabled new ways of looking at old long-standing problems enabling large-scale high-quality surveys of resolved stellar populations. As theoretical approaches try to keep pace with this increase in information the cracks in our assumptions concerning stellar evolution have become more apparent, even glaring. Whereas before it might have been possible to understand some of the stars some of the time it is now clear that understanding stellar populations is a considerable challenge and will require substantial efforts to resolve.

The detailed scientific topics of this meeting on massive stars include:

New observational & theoretical results from large-scale surveys (FLAMES, MiMeS, PanSTARRS, PTF), techniques (astrometry) and computation.
Consequences of zero-age conditions on stellar evolution
Massive star environments, massive clusters, dynamical evolution, runaway stars and mergers
The importance of binaries for populations of massive stars
The upper end of the IMF and the role of mergers
Massive-star magnetism and pulsation, evolutionary consequences
The role and evolution of stellar rotation across the H-R diagram
Mass-loss across the H-R diagram and episodic mass-loss from LBVs and other transients
Constraints from endpoints
Massive stars at very low metallicity

Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson

Dates: 2013 August 26 - 29

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2013 April 30

Deadline for Registration: 2013 June 30

Place: Singapore

The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore will be hosting a conference in honour of the 90th Birthday of Professor Freeman Dyson, the eminent English-born American physicist, mathematician, and futurist. He is famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering, as well as a renowned and best-selling author. He has spent most of his life as a professor of physics at the IAS in Princeton, taking time off to advise the US government and write books for the public. He has won numerous notable awards including the Enrico Fermi Award, Templeton Prize, Wolf Prize, Pomeranchuk Prize, and Henri Poincaré Prize. The conference will cover a wide range of topics. Distinguished scientists from around the world, including several Nobel Laureates, will join Professor Dyson in the celebration with a festival of lectures.

For enquiries, please email the organisers at iasevents@ntu.edu.sg.

The Galactic Center: Feeding and Feedback in a Normal Galactic Nucleus (IAU Symposium 303)

Dates: 2013 September 30 - October 4

Pre-Registration: Now Open

Deadline for Early Registration: 2013 April

Deadline for IAU Travel grant Applications: 2013 April 19

Deadline for Regular Registration: 2013 July

Place: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

The organizers' aim is to bring together Galactic Center researchers who are focused on trying to answer the following outstanding questions related to feeding and feedback in our Galactic nucleus and the nuclei of other normal galaxies. Talks and topics of discussion include:

- What are the detailed physical properties of the clouds in the Central Molecular Zone and what is the potential for forming stars in this environment?
- What is the role of stellar feedback in our Galactic Center and in starbursts?
- How well do we understand the accretion processes around Sgr A*, and the inner parcsecs of the Galactic Center?
- What tracers do we have of Sgr A*'s prior AGN-like history? Are the Fermi bubbles related, or due to stellar processes?
- What are we learning about the Galactic Center environment from observations with new facilities such as ALMA, Fermi, NuSTAR, and new multiwavelength campaigns?

IAU 303 Symposium builds upon a tradition in the Galactic Center community of holding a series of regular international workshops. Previous meetings were held in Los Angeles, USA; La Serena, Chile; Bad Honnef, Germany; Honolulu, USA; and Shanghai, China.

The IAU will provide limited travel funds for early-career researchers and others in need of support in order to attend the symposium. The deadline for funding requests will be 19 April 2013. Please contact iau303@nrao.edu for more details.

The Metre Wavelength Sky: Celebrating 50 years of Radio Astronomy at TIFR

Dates: 2013 December 9 - 13

Place: Pune, India

This conference is being organized to mark 50 years of radio astronomy research at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as 10 years of operation of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) as an international observatory. The main aim of the conference is to bring together leading researchers in a variety of fields, covering all areas of active research at low radio frequencies. The GMRT was the first of a new generation of low frequency radio telescopes that have led to a renaissance in the field over the last few years. New telescopes (LOFAR, MWA, ASKAP, MEERKAT) are now coming on line and the GMRT is itself going through a major upgrade.

Although part of the aim of the conference is to look back at the achievements of the group over last 50 years, the principal emphasis will be on recent results and new developments in instrumentation. The broad themes that will be covered are listed below, but abstracts are invited in all astrophysical topics for which low frequency radio observations are important. Historical developments at NCRA-TIFR will be covered in a separate session (that will be more celebratory in nature), to be held at the GMRT campus, at Khodad near Pune on the last day of the conference

MAJOR THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE

    Radio emission from the Sun, stars and planets
    Pulsars and transient sources
    HI through cosmic time
    Cosmic magnetic fields
    SNRs, HII regions, star forming galaxies
    AGN and Galaxy clusters
    New developments in instrumentation and techniques

American Astronomical Society Meeting 223

Dates: 2014 January 5 - 9

Place: National Harbor (near Washington, DC), Maryland, USA

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11th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas (ASOS-11)

Dates: 2013 August 5 - 9

2nd Announcement: 2013 February

Abstract Deadline: 2013 April 30

Registration deadline: 2013 May 31

Place: Mons, Belgium

The purpose of the meeting will be, in line with tradition, to bring together 'producers' and 'users' of atomic data so as to ensure optimal coordination. Atomic physicists who study the structure of atoms and their radiative and collisional properties will be invited to explain the development of their work while astrophysicists and laboratory plasma physicists will be invited to review their present research interests and the context in which atomic data are needed. The meeting will be organized by the Astrophysics and Spectroscopy (ASPECT) group on the campus of University of Mons (UMONS) and will include invited and contributed talks along with poster presentations. The conference will be the eleventh meeting in a series started in 1983 and taking place every three years.

The scientific program will cover the following areas:

-  Atomic lifetime and oscillator strength determination

-  Hyperfine structure and isotope shifts

-  Theoretical modeling and computational approaches

-  Laboratory techniques

-  High resolution spectroscopy

-  Trapped ions

-  Tests of fundamental constants

-  Highly charged ions

-  Collisional processes

-  Atomic databases and related topics

-  Astrophysical and laboratory plasmas : atomic data needs

-  Spectroscopic diagnostics of fusion plasmas

-  Topics in astrophysics including elemental abundance determination

-  Atomic spectra from HED plasmas and polarization

-  ....

More detailed information may be found by emailing the following contact address: asos11@umons.ac.be.

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