*************************************************************************** BOLETIM ELETRONICO SAB N. 251 - 15/09/2004 *************************************************************************** SECAO: INFORMES/OPORTUNIDADES Responsavel: Vera Ap.F.Martin (vmartin@uefs.br) *************************************************************************** 1. CURSO DE EXTENSAO UNIVERSITARIA DO IAG/USP EM 2005 2. 4th SOCHIAS ANNUAL MEETING - 1st ANNOUNCEMENT 3. GEMINI SUL - SV DO MICHELLE E MODO DE OPERACAO DO PHOENIX 4. VAGAS PARA ASTRONOMOS NO PLANETARIO DE BRASILIA **************************************************************************** 1. CURSO DE EXTENSAO UNIVERSITARIA DO IAG/USP EM 2005 (comunicado pela socia Jane Gregorio-Hetem) Prezados(as) Socios(as), Solicitamos que divulguem amplamente em suas Instituicoes a abertura de inscricoes para o Curso de Extensao Universitaria "Introducao a Astronomia e a Astrofisica" no verao de 2005, oferecido pelo Departamento de Astronomia do IAG/USP. Maiores informacoes e um arquivo contendo o cartaz do curso encontram-se em: www.astro.iag.usp.br/~ceu Gratas por sua colaboracao, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira e Jane Gregorio-Hetem Organizadoras ============================================================================= 2. 4th SOCHIAS ANNUAL MEETING - 1st ANNOUNCEMENT (comunicado pelo socio Marcio Catelan) FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING SOCIEDAD CHILENA DE ASTRONOMIA Introduction: ------------- This is the first announcement of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Sociedad Chilena de Astronomia (SOCHIAS), to be held in Concepcion, Chile, between the 12th and 14th of January, 2005. The Meeting will consist of invited review talks, contributed talks and posters, a conference banquet on Thursday the 13th, a talk open to the general public and an assembly for SOCHIAS members. The presentations will cover many areas of astronomy, including star clusters, stellar abundances and evolution, the distance scale, galaxies, AGNs, and cosmology. Invited speakers include D. Spergel, C. Thompson, J. Forte, V. Smith, A. Damineli, M. Zoccali, A. Clocchiati, W. Gieren and M.T. Ruiz (to be confirmed). A preliminary program, as well as other relevant information, will be posted shortly in the Meeting web-page: http://www.sochias.cl Venue and Registration: ----------------------- The venue for the Meeting will be the Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas de la Universidad de Concepcion, located in the Barrio Universitario S/N, Concepcion, Chile Use the following e-mail address to register for the meeting: rmennick@surnet.cl The following informaction is requested (cut and paste and fill this form please): ------------------------------------------------ SOCHIAS 2005 ANNUAL MEETING Registration Form Name: Institute: Are you planning to give an oral presentation?: Title of the presentation: Are you planning to present a poster?: Title of the poster: Are you a student requesting support? If yes, please send a brief note explaining your situation: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration is due NOVEMBER 1, 2004 If you are considering contributing to the program, please send your title and abstract to the above address BEFORE NOVEMBER 15, 2004. We encourage astronomy students (undergraduates and graduates) to attend the meeting. No registration fee will be charged to students. Students can apply to CONICYT "PROGRAMA DE APOYO A LA PARTICIPACION DE ESTUDIANTES DE DOCTORADO EN CONGRESOS NACIONALES DE SOCIEDADES CIENTIFICAS CHILENAS", deadline october 1: http://www.conicyt.cl/dri/prog-intercambios/ficha-est-doct-a-congresos-nacionales.html For all other participants the registration fee is $15.000 and can be paid at the registration desk on Wednesday the 12th. SOCHIAS members with their annual dues paid are exempted from the registration fee. Annual dues can be paid at the registration desk during the meeting. Applications to become a member of SOCHIAS are available in the web Other Relevant Information: --------------------------- We have funding to assist people from outside Concepcion with their traveling expenses. Please apply when you fill in the registration form but we urge graduate students to apply for the above Conicyt program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scientific Organizing Committee: Doug Geisler, Director Marcio Catelan Sebastian Lopez Rodolfo Barba Michel Cure Local Organizing Committe: Ronald Mennickent, Director Maria Eugenia Barraza Matias Gomez Feel free to distribute this announcement to other interested scientists and students. ============================================================================= 3. GEMINI SUL - SV DO MICHELLE E MODO DE OPERACAO DO PHOENIX (comunicado pelo socio Max Faundez-Abans) Observatorio Gemini A Secretaria das Comissoes de Programas - SECOP, em nome da NGO/LNA, comunica: (1) a oportunidade de chamada para propostas do Observatorio Gemini no System Verification (SV) do instrumento MICHELLE; (2) cambios no modo de operacao do Phoenix no Gemini Sul para o semestre 2005A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1)System Verification (SV) programs for MICHELLE SPECTROSCOPY Dear Colleagues, MICHELLE, a 10-20 microns imager and spectrograph is now permanently moved from UKIRT to Gemini. Queue observing in imaging mode is already under way. Although work remains to improve its performance at Gemini, MICHELLE's spectroscopic observing modes are now working well enough that we feel that they can be made available to the Gemini community. Therefore we are pleased to invite the Gemini community to propose System Verification (SV) programs for MICHELLE SPECTROSCOPY. We anticipate 4 nights of SV time will be made available during January 2005. There is a possibility that a limited number of programs could be observed in early October 2004. (Note that no MICHELLE observing time is scheduled between early October and January). You are receiving this because you are either Gemini staff or a member of a National Gemini Office. Collaborations within the Gemini partner countries are highly encouraged as we have a limited number of observing nights and cannot do a large number of projects. Please circulate this call within your community. System verification is the final step of testing prior to general use of the instrument by the Gemini community. It is intended to be "end-to-end" testing, verifying the readiness of the entire system from observation definition to data reduction. It is also intended to exercise the various modes of an instrument and demonstrate to the community, through interesting and challenging science programs, the potential of MICHELLE spectroscopy. The following summary is extracted from the Gemini SV web page: "SV observations will be selected by SV team members and approved by the Gemini Director. They will span a wide range of targets and perspectives and the SV teams will be responsible for providing written, in depth assessments of SV observations and mode verification within two months of data acquisition. The data obtained during SV will be made available by ftp to the international Gemini community and the assessments will be published on the Gemini SV web pages. Community participation.will help ensure that Gemini+MICHELLE spectroscopy is a success from the first date of scheduled observations." MICHELLE spectroscopy on Gemini can be considered as having two observing modes: 1. Low resolution (100