***IAU Division D Bulletin, February 2019***

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*IAU Office of Astronomy for Development newsletter
*Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Workshops and Schools

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*  IAU Office of Astronomy for Development newsletter

The latest newsletter of the IAU OAD is now online. Some of the highlights are:

-Applications open for RAS-OAD grant, deadline: Feb 28
--Results of 2018 OAD annual call for proposals
IAU100 opportunities, latest news at https://www.iau-100.org/news

You can read the full newsletter at: https://iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann19003/

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*Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Workshops and Schools

Gravitational-wave Open Data Workshop #2
April 8-10, 2019
Paris, France
https://indico.in2p3.fr/e/gw-odw2

3rd ASTERICS-OBELICS International School on Advanced Software Programming for Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics
April 8-12, 2019
Annecy, Francy
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/18333/

1st CTA Science Symposium- Exploring the High-Energy Universe with CTA
May 6th-9th, 2019
Bologna, Italy
https://www.cta-symposium.com/

4th Nuclear Science Summer School (NS3) for undergraduates
May 12-18, 2019
Michigan State University, USA 
http://nscl.msu.edu/researchers/NS3.html

SPINS-UK 2019
May 29-31, 2019
London, UK
http://www.spins-uk.net

Supernova Remnants II: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar Death
June 3-8, 2019
Chania, Crete, Greece
http://snr2019.astro.noa.gr

Astrophysics of Hot Plasma in Extended X-ray Sources
June 12-14, 2019
Madrid, Spain
http://xmmworkshop.esa.int

Cosmology and multi-messenger astrophysics with Gamma-Ray Bursts (EWASS 2019)
June 24-25 2019
Lyon, France
https://eas.unige.ch//EWASS/session.jsp?id=S4

Neutron stars as multi-messenger laboratories for dense matter physics (EWASS 2019)
June 26
Lyon, France.
https://eas.unige.ch/EWASS2019/session.jsp?id=SS26

Doctoral Training Programme ‘Effective Field Theory Techniques'
June 24 - July 12, 2019
Trento, Italy
http://www.ectstar.eu/node/4468

XCalibur 2019:  International workshop on High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy
July 15-18, 201
Winchester, UK
http://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/xcal2019/

PHYSTAT-DM, focusing on statistical issues in direct detection of particle dark matter.
July 31-August 2, 2018
Stockholm, Sweden
https://indico.cern.ch/event/769726/

High Energy Astrophysics school
August 5-16, 2019
São Paulo, Brazil
http://www.ictp-saifr.org/school-on-high-energy-astrophysics/

Hot-wiring the transient universe
August 19-22, 2019
Evanston, USA
https://sites.northwestern.edu/hotwired6/

Multi-Messenger Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Era
September 24 - October 25, 2019
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mmgw2019/index.php

Black Holes and Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves
October 7 - October 11, 2019
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~mmgw2019/YKIS/index.php

IAUS358 - Astronomy for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
November 12 - 15, 2019
Tokyo, Japan
https://iau-oao.nao.ac.jp/iaus358/

 

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If you wish to share with IAU Div D any information about matters that may be relevant to the activities of Div D Members, please send an e-mail to A.L.Watts@uva.nl . This will appear in the next Bulletin, which will be sent out on March 1, 2019. Thank you in advance for your inputs, and best regards.

Dr Anna Watts, Secretary of IAU Div D Steering Committee
Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
Email:  A.L.Watts@uva.nl
http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.l.watts