***IAU Division D Newsletter, January 2023***
INDEX
* JWST Cycle 2 GO Proposal: deadline January 27, 2023
* Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Workshops
* In memoriam
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* JWST Cycle 2 GO Proposal: deadline January 27, 2023
We invite scientists to participate in Cycle 2 of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The telescope and its instruments were built under the auspices of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Management of JWST's scientific program is carried out by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). We anticipate allocating up to 5,000 hours in this cycle, including 2,900 hours for Small programs (≤ 25 hours), 1,250 for Medium programs (> 25 and ≤ 75 hours), and 850 for Large programs (> 75 hours).
Proposing calendar and deadlines
Cycle 2 dates: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024
Cycle 2 proposal deadline: January 27, 2023 by 8:00pm US Eastern Standard Time
Cycle 2 Peer Review meeting: April 17 - 27, 2023
Cycle 2 Budget submission deadline: June 29, 2023 by 5:00pm US Eastern Daylight Time
Notification of the outcome of the selection process will be sent to all proposers by Mid-May 2023.
More info can be found here:
https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportunities-and-policies/jwst-call-for-proposals-for-cycle-2
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* Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Workshops
JWST Cycle 2 proposal planning workshop
January 6-5, 2023
University of Hertfordshire, UK
https://webbfellow.wixsite.com/prop-planning
Magnetism and Accretion
January 16-19, 2023
Cape town, South Africa
http://ma2020.saao.ac.za/
Timescales in Astrophysics Conference
January 16-10, 2023
Abu Dhabi, UAE
https://www.nyuadtimescales.com/
Testing Gravity 2023
January 18-21, 2023
Vancouver, Canada
https://www.sfu.ca/physics/cosmology/TestingGravity2023/
SNEX: Supernovae Explosions - theory and observations
January 31 - February 4, 2023
Technion Institute, Israel
https://hagaiperets.wixsite.com/snex
X-ray Vision of the Energetic Universe (X-VISION 2023), a joint IAU I-HOW and COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop
February 6-17, 2023
Potchefstroom, South Africa
https://xvisionastro2023.github.io/
Variable Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources (VI)
April 12-14, 2023
Innsbruck, Austria
https://www2.rikkyo.ac.jp/web/vggrs/2023/index.html
Galactic Center Workshop 2023
April 24-28, 2023
Granada, Spain
https://www.granadacongresos.com/gcw2023
Black hole winds at all scales
May 12-16, 2023
Haifa, Israel
https://phsites.technion.ac.il/iaus378/
10th Micro-quasar Workshop
May 22-26, 2023
Crete, Greece
https://sites.google.com/view/microquasar-workshop2023/home?pli=1
Bologna-VLBI: Life begins at 40!
May 22-26, 2023
Bologna, Italy
https://vlbi-40.ira.inaf.it
X-ray Universe 2023
June 12-16, 2023
Athens, Greece
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2023-symposium
The first Vasto accretion meeting
June 19-23, 2023
Vasto, Italy
http://astro.dur.ac.uk/vam2023/
The restless nature of AGN: 10 years later
June 26-30, 2023
Naples, Italy
https://forms.gle/iYuGoLvwCvHFCkpW6
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* In memoriam
We are sorry to learn of the passing of:
- Prof. Attilio Ferrari from INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino
https://www.oato.inaf.it/attilio-ferrari-1941-2022/
- Prof. Tom Marsch from the University of Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/prof/tribute/
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If you wish to share with IAU Division D any information about matters that may be relevant to the activities of Div D Members, please send an e-mail to rea@ice.csic.es . This will appear in the next Newsletter, which will be sent out around February 1, 2023. Thank you in advance for your inputs, and best regards.
Dr. Nanda Rea, acting Scientific Secretary of IAU Division D Steering Committee
Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC, IEEC; Barcelona, Spain)
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