1. Françoise Combes, lauréate du prix international L’Oréal-Unesco Pour les Femmes et la Science 2021
2. CNES APR 2022
3. Concours CNAP 2021: ouverture de concours
4. European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2021 (28 June – 2 July 2021, virtual)
5. IAU ECA Online Discourse Series 2021
6. Post-doctoral position on X-ray source detection (CEA, Saclay, France)
7. Harvard CMB Postdoctoral Fellow (Harvard, USA)
Envoyez svp vos propositions d’annonces à l’adresse : pncg@iap.fr
Pour vous inscrire ou gérer votre abonnement à la liste PNCG: https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/info/pncg
1. Françoise Combes, lauréate du prix international L’Oréal-Unesco Pour les Femmes et la Science 2021
Françoise Combes, astrophysicienne, professeure du Collège de France sur la chaire Galaxies et cosmologie depuis 2014 et chercheuse à l’Observatoire de Paris – PSL, est lauréate du prix international L’Oréal-Unesco Pour les Femmes et la Science 2021.
Françoise Combes a été récompensée pour « sa remarquable contribution en astrophysique, de la découverte de molécules dans l’espace intersidéral aux simulations de la formation des galaxies par superordinateur. Son travail a été crucial pour notre compréhension de la naissance et de l’évolution des étoiles et des galaxies, y compris le rôle joué par les trous noirs supermassifs dans les centres galactiques ».
Le palmarès du 23e prix international Pour les Femmes et la Science a été révélé à l’occasion de la Journée internationale des femmes de science par la Fondation L’Oréal et l’Unesco. Il met à l’honneur cinq éminentes femmes scientifiques aux parcours d’exception. Issues du monde entier, elles sont récompensées pour l’excellence de leurs travaux de recherche en sciences de la matière, mathématiques et informatique.
En octobre 2020, à l’occasion de la remise de la médaille d’or du CNRS, Françoise Combes rappelait sur le site internet du Collège de France l’attention qu’elle porte à une meilleure parité au sein du monde scientifique : « La recherche demande beaucoup de travail, mais apporte aussi beaucoup de satisfactions, et la joie de la découverte. J’encourage plus particulièrement les jeunes femmes à persévérer, car elles sont souvent plus sensibles aux incertitudes concernant leur avenir et leur famille ».
Selon le dernier Rapport de l’Unesco sur la science paru le 11 février, si le nombre de femmes qui mènent des carrières scientifiques tend à progresser pour atteindre dans le monde un peu plus de 33 % des chercheurs, cette évolution reste trop lente, en particulier en sciences de la matière, mathématiques, informatique et ingénierie.
Depuis la création en 1998 du programme Pour les Femmes et la Science par la Fondation L’Oréal et l’Unesco, 117 Lauréates et plus de 3 500 jeunes scientifiques talentueuses, doctorantes et postdoctorantes, ont été accompagnées et honorées dans 117 pays.
https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/francoise-combes/Francoise-Combes-laureate-du-prix-international-LOreal-Unesco-Pour-les-Femmes-et-la-Science-2021.htm
2. CNES APR 2022
L’appel annuel à propositions de recherche pour préparer le programme de recherche scientifique spatiale du CNES pour l’année 2022 est ouvert !
Les équipes de recherche des laboratoires sont invitées à soumettre leurs propositions jusqu’au 9 avril 2021 minuit sur le site APR dédié: https://apr.cnes.fr/
Vous y retrouverez le texte de l’appel à propositions, le formulaire de réponse, les modalités de réponse ainsi que le manuel utilisateur.
Nous vous invitons à relayer ce message aux personnes de votre entourage susceptibles d’être intéressées.
Attention : les porteurs de projets OSTST ayant été récemment sélectionnés lors de l’appel à projets ROSES/CNES en 2020 sont invités à soumettre leurs propositions pour 2022 via le site APR dédié, en répondant a minima aux recommandations TOSCA et en mettant à jour la partie financière pour 2022.
Rappel : L’APR s’applique aussi bien à des propositions nouvelles qu’à la poursuite de projets APR engagés. Tout projet engagé doit faire l’objet, chaque année, d’une mise à jour de la proposition (en mettant en exergue la prise en compte des recommandations du comité TOSCA et l’état d’avancement du projet) et de la demande de financement.
Rappel : Dans le menu à gauche, « dupliquer une proposition » permet de créer une proposition à partir d’une proposition de l’année précédente. Il est ainsi possible de reprendre une proposition déjà engagée. La proposition ainsi clonée sera affichée avec les champs pré saisis de la proposition précédente qui pourront être mis à jour.
Pour de plus amples informations, merci d’adresser vos demandes à l’adresse générique suivante : AppelAPropositions@cnes.fr
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3. Concours CNAP 2021: ouverture de concours
Sous réserve du décret ministériel, nous annonçons l’ouverture du concours de recrutement à la fin du mois de février.
Nombre de postes :
– 4 postes d’Astronome
– 5 postes d’Astronome Adjoint (susceptibles d’être vacantes)
Calendrier :
– Date d’ouverture des candidatures : fin fevrier
– Date de clôture des candidatures : fin mars
– Jury d’admissibilité : mi-mai 2021
– Auditions et jury d’admission : fin juin
Coloriages INSU sur les services d’observations:
Nous rappelons que ces coloriages sont à portée pluriannuelle
– ANO 2, 5 et 6 : Outils et méthodes pour la météorologie de l’espace
– ANO 2 et 3 : Observation aux hautes énergies et des ondes gravitationnelles
– ANO 1 : Rotation de la Terre, systémes et repéres de référence
– ANO 4, 5 : Grands relevés et valorisation des données associées à Gaia et Euclid
– ANO 2, 4, 5 : Grands relevés et centres des données exoplanétes
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4. European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2021 (28 June – 2 July 2021, virtual)
The European Astronomical Society (EAS) Annual Meeting (formerly known as EWASS, and earlier JENAM) has more than 25 years of tradition and it has imposed itself as the largest conference for European astronomy. In addition to plenary sessions and the award of prestigious prizes, the conference hosts many symposia held in parallel, as well as special sessions and meetings.
The EAS, often together with one of its affiliated societies, organises its annual meeting to enhance its links with national communities, to broaden connections between individual members and to promote European networks.
After the shift to an EAS 2020 virtual meeting, EAS 2021 should have been held physically in Leiden, The Netherlands. Due to the uncertain COVID-19 situation in Europe and the world, the meeting has (again) been moved to a virtual meeting.
Announcement of virtual conference: 18 Dec 2020
Opening of Registration & Abstract submission: 18 January 2021
Abstract submission and fee waiver deadline: 2 March 2021
https://eas.unige.ch//EAS2021/
Sessions in relation with PNCG:
S1 : A holistic view of the Milky Way: linking ages, chemistry and kinematics
S2 : Exploring the high-redshift Universe with ALMA
S3 : Galaxy clusters and AGNs: advances in theoretical simulations and observations by next-generation surveys
S4 : Massive Galaxies: The Build-up of Monsters Through Cosmic History
S7 : Quasars at the reionization epoch
S11 : The outer reaches of galaxies: structure, kinematics, and accretion history
S12 : The Renaissance of the Low Surface Brightness Universe
S15 : Gaia: The (TWO) Billion Star Galaxy Census: The Science of EDR3 and the promise of DR3
SS10 : Extragalactic Globular Clusters with upcoming wide-field space-based surveys
SS12 : Gamma-ray bursts as cosmic probes: The next 10 years
SS13 : JWST, a great observatory nearing liftoff
SS14 : Legacy and stewardship of astronomical archives towards multi-instrument, multi-wavelength and multi-messenger science
SS16 : Probing New Physics with Gravitational Cluster Lenses
SS17 : Science with WEAVE, the WHT’s next-generation spectroscopic survey facility
SS21 : The Gaia revolution in Milky Way modelling
SS23 : The main sequence of star-forming galaxies
SS24 : The role of nurture on the Star Formation cycle of satellite galaxies
SS26 : Towards a Complete Census of Star-Formation in the Early Universe
SS28 : Variation of the stellar Initial Mass Function between and within galaxies
SS33 : Star clusters to the next scale: reading the Local and high-z Universe with new giant eyes
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5. IAU ECA Online Discourse Series 2021
The IAU Early Career Astronomer (ECA) Online Discourse Series is going to kick off for 2021 in just a few weeks! This virtual series contains career discussions in academia and industry, multifaceted science highlights, professional development trainings, and more. All events are tailored to early career astronomers. Two are held on EMEA-friendly and two on APAC-friendly time zones (recordings will be made).
- Thursday February 25th, 2021: 9:00-10:00 UTC / 10:00-11:00 CET
“Preparing for a new era in astronomy”
Dr. Philippa Hartley (SKA Organisation, Jodrell Bank Observatory)
- Thursday March 25th, 2021: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 17:00-18:00 CET
“Satellite Mega-Constellations and Astronomy: the phantom menace, or a new hope?”
Dr. Olivier Hainaut (ESO)
- Thursday April 29th, 2021: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM AEST
“Quantifying and Managing Uncertainty”
Dr Richard Scalzo (DARE, University of Sydney)
- Thursday May 27th, 2021: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM AEST
“Exploring the Universe Without Costing the Earth”
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University)
Participation is free. All you have to do is fill out the event registration form no later than 24h (UTC) in advance of the subsequent event:
https://forms.gle/sWoB7uxT2sWKEJQq8
The discourses will be made available to you via Zoom and Youtube. You will receive a confirmation upon registration directly from Google Forms with the connection information. Recordings of these upcoming events will be available alongside select past events on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZQsB5LY2Tv_tj9ddVdnPuw
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6. Post-doctoral position on X-ray source detection (CEA, Saclay, France)
Deadline: 7 March 2021
Selection: March 2021
Starting date: July 2021
Lab’s web site: http://irfu.cea.fr/dap/
4XMMs site: https://xmmssc.aip.de/cms/users-guide/index.html
We invite applications for a position to participate in the European H2020 XMM2ATHENA project. XMM2ATHENA is a collaboration of 9 European Institutes including members of the XMM-Newton Science ground segment along with key members of the Athena Science ground segment. The goal of the project is to develop new, innovative methods to maximise the return from the current X-ray Observatory XMM-Newton and prepare for the forthcoming X-ray mission Athena.
The main responsibility of the post-doc at CEA will be to develop software to improve the source catalog from stacked images (4XMMs) to reach ultimate sensitivity in XMM-Newton data, in close collaboration with AIP Potsdam. He/she will also contribute to spectral and timing characterization and is expected to actively take part in the scientific exploitation of the new resources. The post-doc needs good programming skills.
The astrophysics department at Saclay, which is situated 30 km south of Paris, is a major space astrophysics laboratory and is also involved in ground-based instrumentation.
At high energies, the institute provides important contributions to Integral, Fermi and the future SVOM and Athena missions, as well as the HESS and CTA TeV instruments. Our group has particular interests in clusters of galaxies, supernova remnants and X-ray binaries.
Other major projects are JWST/MIRI, Euclid, ELT/METIS, ARIEL.
The starting date is July 2021, but applications to start a few months later will be considered.
Funding is available for two years.
The net salary (before tax) is approximately 2200 euros/month (more if several years after PhD), including medical insurance.
To apply please submit to Jean Ballet (jballet@cea.fr) a curriculum vitae, a publication list, a summary of previous research, and a statement describing how you plan to get involved in the team.
In addition, please arrange for two letters of recommendation to be sent to the above address before the application deadline.
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7. Harvard CMB Postdoctoral Fellow (Harvard, USA)
Deadline: August 31, 2021
The Harvard CMB group invites applications for two Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow positions to pursue research related to cosmic microwave background measurements with the BICEP Array telescopes, the South Pole Observatory, and CMB Stage 4. The multi-institutional BICEP program produces extremely deep maps of polarization of the CMB at multiple frequencies from the South Pole, measuring gravitational lensing and galactic foregrounds and placing leading constraints on primordial gravitational waves. The BICEP Array project is upgrading the current program with new instrumentation to include over 30,000 detectors and five frequency bands, to be deployed and operated over the next five years. The program will continue to produce maps with groundbreaking sensitivity, while validating technologies and methodologies essential to Stage 3 and Stage 4 CMB science goals. A major focus is analysis of current and upcoming BICEP data, including joint analysis with data from the 10m South Pole Telescope and external datasets, to continue to improve lensing measurements, component separation, and constraints on primordial cosmology, as well as forecasting and design optimization for future efforts. These include the operational South Pole Observatory and the ongoing instrument development for the Small Aperture Telescopes of CMB Stage 4.
Successful candidates will play a variety of leading roles spanning receiver and telescope design, instrumentation development, deployment and operation, real time control code, optimization of data reduction and simulation on leading HPC infrastructure at Harvard and NERSC, and development of high-level analyses for survey combination and cosmological interpretation. Applicants should indicate which roles best match their experience and interest. Successful candidates will actively represent this research at conferences and take leading roles in preparation of results for publication. The postdoctoral fellow positions offer a highly competitive salary, an independent research fund and an allowance for relocation expense. The position will be renewed annually based on satisfactory performance, for an expected total length of three years. Joint appointments with collaborating institutions are possible and may be considered on a case by case basis.
For full consideration, applications should be submitted as soon as possible to the attention of Irene Coyle, Administrator for the Harvard CMB Group,via email: icoyle@cfa.harvard.edu, using subject line “CMB Postdoc”. Applications will be reviewed starting January 2021 and will continue to be accepted until all positions are filled. Applications consist of a curriculum vitae, publication list and a description of past research and future plans. Applicants should also arrange to have two or three letters of reference sent directly to Ms Coyle at icoyle@cfa.harvard.edu. Please ensure the candidate’s name is included in the subject line and that letters are on letterhead and signed. Start dates may be between January and September 2021, with earlier starts desirable; applicants should have a PhD before the anticipated start date.
Harvard University is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.
https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/a9bf7777
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Envoyez svp vos propositions d’annonces à l’adresse : pncg@iap.fr
Pour gérer votre abonnement à la liste PNCG: https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/info/pncg