1. Programme scientifique de l’ESA – Appel à missions M et F
2. Appel à candidatures Doc et PostDoc CNES
3. Nouvel appel d’offre: CNRS: AAP « Sciences pour l’IA, l’IA pour les sciences »
4. Workshop “The next generation mid/far-IR space missions, formulating a European perspective” (19 – 21 Jan 2022, online)
5. 2022 SAZERAC gulp on the cosmological 21cm signal (14-17 March 2022, remote)
6. Workshop Cosmological Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 2022 (26-28 April 2022, Brusels)
7. Workshop “From Planck to the Future of the CMB: Challenges and Perspectives” (23 and 27 May 2022, Ferrara, Italy)
8. COSPAR 2022 Scientific Event E1.1: The Last Few Miles: Accreting Black Holes Between the Disk, Corona and Jet (16-24 July, 2022, Athens)
9. “Consensus Cosmic Shear in the 2020s” FM3 of IAUGA 2022 (August 10-11 2022, Busan, Republic of Korea)
10. Actes de congrès de la 2e édition de la conférence internationale mm Universe @ NIKA2
11. CMB cosmology Research Associate (Cardiff, UK)
12. Research Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence for Imaging (UCL, London)
13. 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in the context of the Rubin
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. Programme scientifique de l’ESA – Appel à missions M et F
L’ESA a récemment ouvert un appel pour deux nouvelles missions scientifiques, une mission de type M (Moyenne), et une mission de type F (Fast) (voir ici : https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/call-for-missions-2021).
Le processus, identique et synchrone pour les deux appels, prévoit deux étapes : Soumission de pré-propositions (« Phase-1 proposals ») pour le 14 février, puis, pour celles qui seront autorisées à poursuivre, propositions complètes (« Phase-2 proposals ») pour le 15 juillet. Des lettres d’endossement des agences nationales pour les contributions envisagées seront requises pour le 15 septembre.
Le CNES soutiendra et endossera les contributions françaises aux propositions soumises, en fonction de leur adéquation avec les priorités identifiées par le CERES notamment au séminaire de prospective, et après analyse des ressources impliquées. Une concertation avec les directions des laboratoires concernés ainsi qu’avec leurs principales tutelles sera également menée.
Afin de préparer ce soutien et cet endossement, un processus de collecte, de revue, et de support aux proposants des laboratoires nationaux est mis en place :
- Les thématiciens du CNES sont les points de contact des proposants. Toute équipe qui envisage de participer à une proposition (que ce soit en position de PI-ship ou non) est invitée à se manifester au plus tôt auprès du thématicien concerné, qui pourra lui donner toutes les précisions nécessaires. Le tableau ci-dessous rappelle la liste des thématiciens.
- Une revue en 2 temps des contributions françaises envisagées sera organisée : une 1ère audition des propositions de phase-1 autorisées à poursuivre par l’ESA, destinée à fournir aux proposants une première analyse et à prioriser le soutien CNES, puis une revue des propositions complètes après la soumission finale (Phase-2) pour consolider l’endossement. Les modalités de cette revue seront précisées ultérieurement.
- Le CNES pourra, dans la mesure des ressources disponibles et en fonction des priorités programmatiques, apporter un support technique à la préparation des propositions. Ce support pourra notamment concerner des évaluations de coûts, de risques, de maturité. Les équipes qui souhaitent un support du CNES sont invitées à le signaler au thématicien concerné au plus tôt.
| Thématique | Responsable thématique CNES | Adresse mail |
| Astronomie et astrophysique | Philippe Laudet | Philippe.Laudet@cnes.fr |
| Exobiologie, protection planétaire et exoplanètes | Christian Mustin | Christian.Mustin@cnes.fr |
| Physique fondamentale | Isabelle Petitbon | Isabelle.Petitbon@cnes.fr |
| Planètes et petits corps du système solaire | Francis Rocard | francis.rocard@cnes.fr |
| Soleil, héliosphère, magnétosphères, météo de l’espace | Kader Amsif | Kader.Amsif@cnes.fr |
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2. Appel à candidatures Doc et PostDoc CNES
Deadline: 31 mars 2022 minuit
Chaque année, le CNES accorde une centaine d’allocations de recherche doctorale et postdoctorale à des étudiants français et étrangers, dans les domaines des :
- sciences pour l’ingénieur (systèmes orbitaux, systèmes de transport spatial),
- sciences utilisatrices des moyens spatiaux (sciences de l’Univers, sciences de la Terre, sciences en micropesanteur)
- sciences humaines et sociales (juridique, histoire, économie, sociologie, psychologie, etc.).
Le CNES contribue ainsi à l’effort de formation par la recherche de jeunes chercheurs et ingénieurs dans des domaines d’intérêt pour le secteur spatial.
Nous vous informons que l’appel à candidatures CNES est ouvert. Toutes nos offres de doctorats et postdoctorats sont disponibles sur notre site internet à cette adresse:https://recrutement.cnes.fr/fr/annonces
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3. Nouvel appel d’offre: CNRS: AAP « Sciences pour l’IA, l’IA pour les sciences »
Deadline: lundi 14 mars 2022 à midi (heure de Paris)
Le CNRS, à travers la Mission pour les initiatives transverses et interdisciplinaires, lance l’appel à projets « Sciences pour l’IA, l’IA pour les sciences ».
Contexte et positionnement de l’appel
Les scientifiques aspirent à comprendre le fonctionnement de la nature et de la société. Pour ce faire, ils formulent des hypothèses, conçoivent des expériences et collectent des données, dans le but d’analyser et de mieux comprendre les phénomènes naturels, physiques et sociaux. La collecte et l’analyse des données sont un élément central de la méthode scientifique, et les scientifiques utilisent depuis longtemps des techniques statistiques pour extraire des informations à partir des données afin de tester la véracité de leurs hypothèses et d’extraire autant d’informations que possible à partir de données souvent coûteuses à générer et à collecter.
Le développement des techniques d’intelligence artificielle (IA) a offert des outils supplémentaires pour extraire des informations à partir des données. L’essor de l’IA moderne, en particulier l’apprentissage automatique, repose sur la disponibilité de grandes masses de données, associée à des modèles et des algorithmes de plus en plus complexes, et aidée par la mise au point d’architectures de calcul et d’environnements logiciels spécialisés et les nouvelles technologies de communication.
L’IA est devenue indéniablement un domaine de recherche pluridisciplinaire, qui est en pleine transformation théorique, méthodologique et algorithmique, et qui soulève de nombreux enjeux scientifiques, éthiques, épistémologiques, environnementaux et sociétaux. Dans le même temps, les méthodes de l’IA, en particulier l’apprentissage automatique, pénètrent l’ensemble des champs scientifiques et des Instituts du CNRS. Elles accélèrent les découvertes scientifiques et transforment les pratiques et les manières dont les connaissances sont produites. Toutefois, chaque domaine scientifique a ses propres défis, et il est rare qu’ils puissent être relevés par l’utilisation directe de méthodes d’IA disponibles sur étagère. En effet, ce qui peut apparaître comme une nouvelle application de l’IA ouvre en réalité de nouveaux domaines de recherche pour l’IA et pose des questions méthodologiques fondamentales, comme par exemple l’explicabilité, l’interprétabilité et la robustesse des résultats. Il est de plus devenu primordial et légitime de mieux comprendre les enjeux éthiques et épistémologiques posés par l’usage de l’IA dans la science et la société, ainsi que ses biais potentiels et ses conditions d’usage dans différents contextes.
Objectifs de l’appel
Pour répondre à ces défis identifiés dans son contrat d’objectifs et de performance (COP), le CNRS a décidé de mettre en place en 2022 un centre interdisciplinaire « Sciences pour l’IA, IA pour les Sciences ».
Le présent AAP s’inscrit dans le cadre de la mise en place de ce centre dont il constitue un élément programmatique.
L’objectif de cet AAP de la MITI est le développement d’une communauté de recherche interdisciplinaire qui concerne tous les laboratoires du CNRS, à la pointe de la fertilisation croisée entre IA et les autres champs scientifiques. Il vise à soutenir des projets de recherche interdisciplinaires innovants ciblant des grands enjeux de l’IA pour les sciences et des sciences pour l’IA (qu’ils soient d’ordre théorique, méthodologique, instrumental, algorithmique, numérique, éthique, épistémologique, etc.). La grande diversité des questions scientifiques, des données et des approches méthodologiques au sein des différents champs scientifiques peut nourrir la recherche en IA. D’autre part, l’IA peut être un moyen disruptif dans la conduite de la science en transcendant les frontières entre disciplines et en faisant émerger de nouvelles approches interdisciplinaires transformantes pour aborder de manière différente des grands enjeux scientifiques, environnementaux et sociétaux, et ainsi enrichir les disciplines.
Déposer une candidaturehttps://survey.cnrs.fr/index.php/289343?lang=fr
Pour obtenir des informations:
Responsables scientifiques de l’appel à projets: GERIN LASLIER Maryvonne et SIEGEL Anne et la Mission pour les initiatives transverses et interdisciplinaires
4. Workshop “The next generation mid/far-IR space missions, formulating a European perspective” (19 – 21 Jan 2022, online)
In light of the recent ESA call for Medium-size (M7) and Fast (F) mission proposals the SOC has made the decision to reorient and reschedule the workshop. The workshop has now been brought forward to January, in order to discuss potential next generation mid/far-IR space missions well in advance of the ESA M7/F Phase-1 proposal deadline of 14 February 2022. The workshop is open to the global community interested in mid/far-IR space astrophysics.
Workshop web site: https://spaceir.sciencesconf.org/
The workshop will take place as a fully online meeting during 19 – 21 January 2022. The SOC thanks everyone who had already saved the original dates, and we very much hope that you will be able to make the new dates. The scope of the workshop has been revised in order to make this workshop as useful a forum as possible, for potential proposers and the general community alike.
The goals of the JANUARY Workshop are as follows:
- Provide a broad overview of the key science questions that can be uniquely addressed through mid/far-IR observations
- Presentations of planned M/F missions in response to the ESA call
- Presentations of international missions and mission proposals in preparation
- Identify capabilities and limits of mid/far-IR facilities in operation (airplane observatories, balloons and ground based telescopes)
Mid/far-IR observations are crucial for addressing fundamental questions in astrophysics and (exo)planetary science, as they can uniquely unveil dust-obscured astrophysical phenomena, the main cooling mechanisms, ice composition, key atomic, ionic and molecular lines (e.g., water) and quantify the dust emission. Only with mid/far-IR observations can we fully answer many of the important astrophysical questions such as:
What are the processes that control the formation of galaxies, their clusters, stars and planetary systems?
What are the physical conditions for galaxy assembly from the dawn of time?
How has the chemical composition of the Universe evolved from primordial gas to habitable planets?
What is the origin of the coevolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes? What processes govern the different gas phases in the ISM cycle?
What is the role of the magnetic field in the evolution of the ISM and in the star and planet-formation processes? How does water trace the origin of our Solar System?
Over the past couple of decades, mid/far-IR space missions such as ISO, Spitzer, Herschel and Planck have revealed the intricate, dust-obscured interactions between stars and the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and external galaxies at all redshifts. These missions proved to be instrumental in refining our understanding of star formation as a function of cosmic time and of the role of AGNs in galaxy evolution. Ground-based and airborne submm/far-IR facilities, notably ALMA, IRAM and SOFIA, have continuously supported these quests. However, while the near-IR (< 5μm) and submm (> 800μm) wavelength ranges remain very well covered by these modern facilities and those to come on-line soon (JWST, ELT), we now need to discuss, define and propose the next generation of satellite missions in the mid/far-IR wavelength ranges.
Recognising the enormous progress that can be achieved using the mid/far-IR domain, initiatives like SPICA and the Origins Space Telescope were proposed. Unfortunately, neither of these will reach fruition as conceived, leaving a large void in our coverage of the electromagnetic spectrum for the coming decade. Indeed, both ESA’s Voyage 2050 and NASA’s Decadal Survey reports recognize the uniqueness of, and the need for, mid/far-IR missions to tackle the big questions in the cold and obscured universe. In this context, it is imperative to start planning the mid/far-IR space missions of the future.
The goals of the first Workshop have been updated in response to the release of the ESA call for Medium/Fast proposals (Phase-1 proposals due in February 2022; Phase-2 proposals due in July 2022). The new aim is to bring the mid/far-IR community together to discuss the science questions that we would like addressed, to be informed of the mid-/far-IR missions to be proposed, and to help them as much as possible for a successful proposal to ESA in response to the M7 (or F) call. In addition, European participation in other US/international-led proposals or concepts will also be discussed.
The SOC: Susanne Aalto, Denis Burgarella, Paola Caselli, Laure Ciesla, Maryvonne Gerin, Javier Goicoechea, Matt Griffin, Carlotta Gruppioni, Paul Hartogh, Shoko Jin, David T. Leisawitz, Jérôme Pety, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Peter Roelfsema, Marc Sauvage, Bernhard Schulz, Silvia Spezzano, Floris van der Tak, Martina C. Wiedner and Toru Yamada
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5. 2022 SAZERAC gulp on the cosmological 21cm signal (14-17 March 2022, remote)We are pleased to announce an upcoming 4-day SAZERAC meeting on the cosmological 21cm signal that will be held remotely from the 14th to the 17th of March 2022.The meeting will focus on a broad range of topics in low- and high-redshift 21 cm cosmology and aims to bring the 21 cm cosmology communities together to give updates, discuss the remaining challenges ahead and foster new ideas and collaborations. Talk sessions will be organised around the following topics:
- Updates on experiments and observations
- Analytical and numerical modelling of the signal
- Instrumental characterisation, modelling and calibration
- Characterisation and mitigation of foregrounds
- Theoretical and observational constraints
- Cross-correlations between the 21-cm line and other signals
- Prospects for lunar and space-based observations
Abstract submission is now open via https://forms.gle/yJjeQTLb7wBsKe9e7
The deadline for abstract submission is the 14th of February and selected talks will be announced by February 28th. We particularly encourage talk submissions from students and early-career scientists. Interest in chairing a session during the meeting can be registered via the same link.To accommodate a wide range of speakers and audience members, we plan to have up to 3 sessions per day so that as many speakers as possible can give their presentation live.
For further details and updates, including soon-to-be-announced invited speakers and overview talks, please see the meeting website:http://sazerac-conference.org/21cm_2022/
For queries about this meeting please email: sazerac21cm@gmail.com
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6. Workshop Cosmological Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 2022 (26-28 April 2022, Brusels)
This workshop is part of the `Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics’ series of annual workshops which rotate between the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada, the Laboratoire APC in Paris, and the International Solvay Institutes in Brussels. This 2022 edition in Brussels is a topical edition centered around the prospects for fundamental physics of observations of long-frequency gravitational waves. It is organized under the umbrella of the Fundamental Physics working group of LISA but the workshop is open to all interested scholars.
http://www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/workshop/cosmological_frontiers_2022/cosmological_frontiers_2022.html
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7. Workshop “From Planck to the Future of the CMB: Challenges and Perspectives” (23 and 27 May 2022, Ferrara, Italy)
We are happy to circulate the second announcement of the workshop entitled “From Planck to the Future of the CMB: Challenges and Perspectives” which will be held between 23 and 27 May 2022 in Ferrara (Italy).
You will find below (and in the workshop website: https://www.fe.infn.it/PlanckFutureCMB/) more detailed information on the conference and a preliminary list of confirmed invited speakers.
We remind you that submission for abstracts and grant applications is open up to 31st of January.
Looking forward to your presence in Ferrara and your contributions to a stimulating workshop in a hopefully pleasant post-CoVid setting !
Please note: the SOC believes that physical presence at the workshop is a very important ingredient for its success. Therefore registration and proposed contributions are initially being accepted from participants who intend to be present in Ferrara, up to ~100 participants. Nonetheless, the SOC is very conscious that the Covid pandemic may still produce surprises and specific travel and meeting restrictions, and will follow developments closely. For this reason, we encourage prospective participants not to make definite travel plans until their personal circumstances in this respect are clear. In the same spirit, payment of registration fees is decoupled from registration and abstract submission until a later time. The workshop will in any case support remote participation, with obvious limitations to interactivity. Contributions from remote participants may be proposed only after an initial programme has been established based on contributions from participants who intend to be physically present.
Background
Planck’s recent measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) have established a cosmological framework that will remain the standard for many years to come. From space, the LiteBIRD mission will pick up on this legacy in the next decade, with the aim to improve dramatically on polarization observations at large angular scales. In a later time frame, ESA’s recently issued future scientific programme – Voyage 2050 – has highlighted the need for a large space mission to focus on high-precision spectroscopy of the CMB. And both ground-based and balloon-borne observatories are also expected in the coming years to improve significantly on Planck’s observations of the polarized anisotropies of the CMB, especially on smaller angular scales.
In order to meet their ambitious objectives, all of these upcoming experiments will have to address and overcome very significant technical and data analysis challenges, some of which have already been revealed by Planck. It is therefore appropriate at this time to examine these challenges from the perspective of the experience accumulated by Planck in the design and operation of its instruments and in the preparation, conduct, and analysis of its all-sky surveys. In this context, the workshop is designed to bring together key members of the Planck and future experiment teams to foster discussion on some of the most challenging topics.
The workshop will start with a broad overview of the current goals of the field and foreseen experimental challenges. The remainder of the meeting will be structured around six major topics:
- detector and focal plane systems
- optical aspects, especially polarized beams and their modelling
- instrument characterization and calibration
- systematic effects and their impact on scientific analysis
- characterization and separation of foreground emissions
- inter-dependencies among the previous topics and approaches to “global analysis”
A small number of invited talks on the most challenging scientific goals will also be included in the programme.
A final session will allow participants to outline future directions, summarize conclusions, and highlight areas where most progress is required.
For each of the major topics to be addressed, invited review talks will survey the current status and understanding of the expected issues and challenges. Shorter contributed talks and posters will be solicited from interested participants. Adequate time will be reserved for both informal and structured discussions among participants.
We intend to carefully monitor the situation with the corona virus and take appropriate measures if needed. However, in order to enhance interactions between participants, the workshop will rely on physical presence as much as possible (physical attendance will be limited, however, to ~100 participants). We also intend to stream the sessions online to a broader audience. Our intention is to create a pleasant and collegial atmosphere for all attendees, and as part of this the workshop subscribes to the EAS Code of Conduct.
This workshop is sponsored by the ESA Gruber Fund, the University of Ferrara, and other regional organizations. We have funding to support travel to and participation in the workshop by a number of early-career scientists who can contribute to and profit from the discussions. A call for applications for funding is also being made through the registration site.
Milestones (a more detailed schedule is available on the workshop website)
Abstract submission deadline: 31 Jan 2022
Funding grant application deadline: 31 Jan 2022
Registration deadline: 2 May 2022
Publication of draft programme: 1 March
Note: registration for virtual attendance will be opened after the draft programme is established; we may at the stage also allow a few oral contributions by virtual attendees.
Scientific Organizing Committee
Belén Barreiro, Marco Bersanelli, Erminia Calabrese, Tadayasu Dotani, Masashi Hazumi, Ludovic Montier (Chair), Paolo Natoli, Bruce Partridge, Jan Tauber (Co-chair), Matthieu Tristram
Local Organizing Committee
Marco Bortolami, Martina Gerbino, Alessandro Gruppuso, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Luca Pagano, Paolo Natoli (Chair)
Invited Speakers
Nabila Aghanim, Paolo de Bernardis, Julian Borrill, François Bouchet, John Carlstrom, Jens Chluba, Loris Columbo, Francois-Xavier Desert, Jo Dunkley, Jon Gudmundsson, Masashi Hazumi, Stephane Ilic, Reijo Kesitalo, Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Charles Lawrence, Tomotake Matsumura, Marina Migliaccio, Matthieu Remazeilles, Suzanne Staggs
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8. COSPAR 2022 Scientific Event E1.1: The Last Few Miles: Accreting Black Holes Between the Disk, Corona and Jet (16-24 July, 2022, Athens)
Website: https://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/session_cospar.php?session=1060
Scientific Rationale:
The event is aimed at discussing two hotly debated topics in astrophysics of accreting black-hole binaries. One is the accretion geometry in the hard spectral state. A number of spectral results show thin accretion discs are truncated at tens of gravitational radii from the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) in the bright hard state; however, indications of the broad iron lines suggest the discs extend close to the ISCO already at relatively low luminosities. Most of the current timing results support the former picture. The second topic is the nature and role of the jet, present in the hard state. The jets are seen from the radio to the IR, but the radio and X-ray fluxes are often correlated, which motivated models with the bulk of the X-rays emitted by the jet. In this picture, Comptonization occurs within the jet rather than in the corona.
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Tomaso Belloni (INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy), Barbara De Marco (Departament de FÌsica, Universitat PolitËcnica de Catalunya, Spain), Nick Kylafis (University of Crete), Alexandra Veledina (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Finland), Andrzej Zdziarski (Copernicus Ctr, Warsaw).
Invited Speakers:
Phil Uttley (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Javier Garcia (Caltech, USA), Matteo Lucchini (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, USA), Federico Garcia (Instituto Argentino de RadioastronomÌa, Argentina), Magnus Axelsson (Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, Sweden), Amir Levinson (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Guglielmo Mastroserio (Caltech, USA), Benoit Cerutti (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France)
Registration and Abstract Submission are currently open, through the main COSPAR 2022 website:
https://www.cosparathens2022.org/attending/registration-abstract-submission
Note that registration provides access to the entire COSPAR Assembly meeting.
Further information can be found on the COSPAR 20222 main web site: https://www.cosparathens2022.org/
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: 11 February 2022
Early Registration deadline: 29 April 2022
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9. “Consensus Cosmic Shear in the 2020s” FM3 of IAUGA 2022 (August 10-11 2022, Busan, Republic of Korea)
General information:
Website: https://busan2021fm3.lam.fr/
Website of IAUGA 2022: http://www.iauga2022.org/
Abstract Submission Deadline: Mar. 31st 2022
Early Bird Registration: Jan. 1st – Feb 28th 2022
Regular Registration: Mar. 1st – May 31st 2022
Scientific rationale:
Recent measurements of the Hubble constant and (to a lesser extent) of the density and clustering strength of matter, hint at the possibility that cosmological parameters estimated at high- and low-redshift are inconsistent. Such a finding could be a sign that the highly successful Lambda CDM standard model of cosmology does not fully describe the true nature of our Universe, or could simply be a reflection of unrecognised systematics within one or more of these analyses. As a result, recent studies of low redshift probes utilising, in particular, the gravitational lensing of large scale structures (i.e. cosmic shear) have been particularly focused on the exploration and mitigation of systematic effects. At the sensitivity of current surveys, the community’s understanding of cosmic shear systematics is largely acceptable. However with the immense statistical power of next generation cosmic shear surveys, it will soon become paramount for the community to understand these systematic
s with unprecedented accuracy, particularly before proposing extensions to the standard LCDM paradigm: i.e. via dark energy, modified gravity, massive neutrinos, etc. Moreover, with the start of Rubin’s science operation and the launch of Euclid both in 2023, the IAU General Assembly 2022 is an extremely timely opportunity to address these questions. The aim of this focus meeting is therefore to bring together experts from the ongoing and future lensing surveys, thereby fostering collaboration between traditionally competitive teams, in order to build a consensus regarding cosmic shear methodologies, and identify the key systematics and cosmological models that will need to be tested in the 2020’s
Topics to be covered:
Calibration of the redshift distribution
Current weak lensing surveys
Weak-lensing systematics
Non-standard lensing probes
Tensions in cosmology
Modelling extensions to LCDM
Future weak-lensing analyses
Confirmed invited speakers:
Alexandra Amon (Cambridge, UK)
Marika Asgari (Hull, UK)
Matteo Cataneo (Bonn, Germany)
Tamara Davis (Queensland, Australia)
Hendrik Hildebrandt (Bochum, Germany)
Chris Hirata (Ohio State Univ., USA)
Renee Hlozek (Dunlap Institute, Canada)
Tomasz Kacprzak (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Francois Lanusse (CEA, France)
Jia Liu (Kavli IPMU, Japan)
Hironao Miyatake (KMI, Japan)
Sherry Suyu (MPIA Garching, Germany)
Jun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China)
Registration and Abstract Submission Deadlines:
Abstract Submission Deadline: Mar. 31st 2022
Early Bird Registration: Jan. 1st – Feb 28th 2022
Regular Registration: Mar. 1st – May 31st 2022
At this moment, the IAUGA 2022 is planned to be in “hybrid” format. Speakers will be encouraged to present their talks “in-person”. A few talks may present remotely, pending approval of SOC/LOC.
Registration can be performed from now on at the website of IAUGA 2022. Further important dates can be found in the website. In Submission Guideline under the Abstract tab, details for In-person Registrants and Virtual Registrants are given. In addition to the KAS and IAU grant supports, the LOC and IAU are providing us with a few registration fee waivers/discounts. Please contact the organizers of FM3 in case you would like to benefit from these.
The organizational details, including the format of sessions, will be further updated if necessary, depending on the COVID-19 situation.
SOC members:
Nicolas Martinet (LAM, France; co-chair)
Angus Wright (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; co-chair)
Chris Blake (Swinburne University, Australia)
Zuhui Fan (Peking University, China)
Catherine Heymans (ROE, UK)
Elisabeth Krause (Steward Observatory, USA)
Clotilde Laigle (IAP, France)
Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Peter Schneider (AIfA, Bonn, Germany)
Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU Tokyo, Japan)
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10. Actes de congrès de la 2e édition de la conférence internationale mm Universe @ NIKA2
Les actes de congrès de la 2e édition de la conférence internationale mm Universe @ NIKA2 ont été publiés :
EPJ Web of Conferences, volume 257 (2022), M. De Petris, A. Ferragamo and F. Mayet (Eds.)
Tous les articles publiés sont passés par le processus d’évaluation anonyme par les pairs. Ils sont accessibles gratuitement sur la page suivante
https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2022/01/contents/contents.html
Les deux premières éditions de la série de conférence mm Universe étaient consacrées à l’exploitation scientifique de la caméra NIKA2 au télescope de 30 m de l’IRAM. La 2e édition a eu lieu à Rome en juin 2021, en format virtuel. Elle a accueilli 145 participants qui ont pu assister à 65 présentations en session plénière. Les actes de congrès viennent parachever le succès de cette 2e édition.
La 3e édition aura lieu au LPSC en juin 2023. A cette occasion, la conférence s’ouvre plus largement aux autres instruments millimétriques (SPT, CMB-S4, …) ainsi qu’aux longueurs d’onde associées.
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11. CMB cosmology Research Associate (Cardiff, UK)
Deadline: January 31st
The ERC-funded project CMBforward at Cardiff University led by Prof. Erminia Calabrese is seeking applications to fill the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate in cosmology.
The research associates will work on characterization and interpretation of state-of-the-art Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory, and will engage with the current efforts in designing a new CMB satellite mission. We are seeking researchers with an established track record in characterization and cosmological exploitation of CMB data.
The research associates will fit within the active and diverse Cardiff Hub for Astrophysics Research and Technology https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/research/research-groups/chart .
Other members of the astronomy and instrumentation groups play leading roles in the search for signals from gamma-ray bursts, modelling and detecting gravitational waves, supernovae, cosmic dust, star formation and building the next generation ground and space-based telescopes.
The research associate position advertised here is for two years in first instance, with possibility of renewal. The funding is available for a flexible starting date in 2022 / early 2023.
This post is fixed term for 2 years and is full time.
https://tinyurl.com/jobCardiffCMB
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12. Research Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence for Imaging (UCL, London)
Application deadline: 21 February 2022
We have a vacancy for a Research Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence for Imaging to be hosted in the Department of Computer Science at UCL. The position is funded by Learned Exascale Computational Imaging (LEXCI) programme for the first two years with an option of subsequent employment as a staff scientist at UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) Centre.
The goal of LEXCI is to develop a new paradigm of exascale computational imaging, integrating hybrid model and data based approaches with uncertainty quantification at large scale and in distributed environments. During the project lifetime the team will focus on applications to imaging from observations of the next-generation of radio interferometric telescopes and imaging of neuronal pathways in the human brain through diffusion MRI.
LEXCI is driven by a multi-disciplinary team of experts in machine learning, statistics, applied mathematics, physics, high-performance computing, and software research engineering, led by Prof. Jason McEwen (UCL MSSL), Assoc. Prof. Marta Betcke (UCL CS), Rev. Dr Jeremy Yates (UCL CS), and Assoc. Prof. Marcelo Pereyra (Heriot-Watt University).
The successful candidate will be working with Assoc. Prof. Marta Betcke, Prof. Jason McEwen and Assoc. Prof. Marcelo Pereyra and will focus in particular on the development of statistical and numerical methods and algorithmic challenges in the context of big data and large scale, distributed hybrid architectures. They will also collaborate with Research Software Engineers in LEXCI team on deployment on modern and future high-performance computing infrastructure and with application domain specialists on knowledge transfer (astronomy, medical imaging and beyond).
This post is available to start as soon as possible but not later than September 2022 and is funded for 24 months in the first instance with the option of transitioning to an open-ended appointment as a staff scientist within UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) Centre at the end of this period, subject to satisfactory performance evaluation.
Further details and the application link (submission deadline 21 February 2022) are available here
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13. 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in the context of the Rubin Observatory’s LSST (LPC Clermont-Ferrand)
Deadline: February 8th 11:59 pm Paris time
The candidate is expected to be involved in the scientific preparation and commissioning of the time domain data from Rubin Observatory, in view of the start of the survey in 2024. The work will be conducted preferably within the DESC collaboration, including the possibility to develop scientific modules on the already operational Fink broker. The candidate will also be able to conduct independent research on preliminary data or commissioning data acquired in 2023. At least 50% of the time should be devoted to the scientific preparation and the commissioning of the Rubin Observatory, DESC or FINK.
The candidates should have a PhD in astronomy, astrophysics or in a related domain like HEP. A phD in computer science familiar with time domain astronomy or astrophysics may also be considered. They should have a strong academic background and record, including computing skills, and they should have demonstrated their ability to work within a team. Candidates with already existing expertise in supernovae cosmology, photometry, image processing, machine learning, and/or time domain analysis are especially encouraged to apply.
The LPC team is part of the active IN2P3 effort on Rubin Observatory’s LSST. It counts 5 permanent researchers, 2 supporting IT staff, 1 post-doc and 2 PHD students. Its activities are included within a rich national context, with many active collaborations at the national level. Its primary focus is the supernovae cosmology , within the Time Domain Working Group of the LSST-DESC collaboration and the ZTF II survey. It is also a founder of the Fink broker, with an emphasis on advanced machine learning techniques, including classification and novelty detection.
The team strives to provide an inclusive work environment, and welcomes diversity of any kind. The working language of the team is English. Team members have ample resources for travel and computing including access to the IN2P3 Computing Center. The position comes with no teaching duties. The posted salary is after deductions, and includes the full benefits of the comprehensive French social welfare system: universal public health care, vacations, pension, unemployment, family support, education…
To apply, please send CV, research proposal, publication list, and arrange for 3 recommendation letters to be sent through the CNRS recruitment portal. Enquiries should be directly addressed to emmanuel.gangler or emille.ishida at clermont.in2p3.fr.
A starting date in October 2022 would be fine, but any date between March 2022 and December 2022 is possible.
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR6533-EMMGAN-002/Default.aspx?lang=EN
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