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              BOLETIM ELETRÔNICO SAB N. 421 - 07/05/2008 
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SEÇÃO: EVENTOS - INFORMES

Responsável: Vera Ap.F. Martin        (vmartin1963@gmail.com) 
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1. THE ONASSIS FOUNDATION SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES 2008 IN PHYSICS
   COSMOLOGY: AN ASTROPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE
2. NOTA DE FALECIMENTO
3. GEMINI NORTH ACCEPTING POOR WEATHER PROPOLSALS FOR 2008A

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1. THE ONASSIS FOUNDATION SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES 2008 IN PHYSICS
   COSMOLOGY: AN ASTROPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE
   (comunicado por Alberto Martins)

THE ONASSIS FOUNDATION SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES 2008 IN PHYSICS
COSMOLOGY: AN ASTROPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE

Heraklion, Crete,Greece, June 30 - July 4, 2008


Dear Colleague,

I would like to inform you that this year's Onassis Summer School in 
Physics is devoted to: "COSMOLOGY: AN ASTROPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE". 
Lecturers are: John Mather (NASA, Nobel Prize 2006 in Physics), 
Tom Abel (Stanford University), Wayne Hu (University of Chicago), 
Robert Kirshner (Harvard University), Jim Peebles (Princeton University), 
Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University), J. Craig Wheeler (University of Texas).
I would also like to inform you that the Onassis Foundation provides financial 
support for up to 50 Greek and 30 International qualified students 
(postgraduate and advanced undergraduate) for their travel and local 
expenses. I would like to ask you to encourage excellent students and 
young scientists from your institution to apply.
Online application through our website 
http://www.forth.gr/onassis/lectures/2008-06-30/

Sincerely,    Professor I. Papamastorakis
Chairman of the Organizing Committee

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2. NOTA DE FALECIMENTO
   (comunicado por Guillermo Gimenez de Castro)

É com profunda tristeza que venho comunicar aos associados o 
falecimento no dia 4 de maio último de quem fora várias vezes diretor 
do Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR) e presidente da Asociación 
Argentina de Astronomía  (AAA) o Dr. Fernando Raúl Colomb. Nos últimos 
tempos ele estava se desempenhando em um cargo de direção da Comisión 
Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) da Argentina. Na posição de 
diretor do IAR sempre alentou as iniciativas dos mais jóvens mesmo em 
áreas não tradicionais da astronomia.  A ciência argentina perde um 
referente de importância. Os que desfrutamos de sua orientação e amizade
sentiremos a sua falta.

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3. GEMINI NORTH ACCEPTING POOR WEATHER PROPOLSALS FOR 2008A
   (comunicado por Marilia J. Sartori)

Gemini North is again accepting poor weather proposals for cloudy 
conditions for 2008A. 
In response to completion of poor weather programs in the queue, 
Gemini North is now inviting poor weather proposals. The specific 
opportunity is for observations in the RA range 9hrs - 17hrs that 
can be executed in CC90 conditions. Thus both science target and 
guide star must be able to tolerate CC90. The definition for CC90 
is extinction due to clouds of 2 magnitudes or greater, and variable. 
Reliable guiding with the peripheral wave-front sensor (P2) at the 
optimum frequency requires a star brighter than R~13.5 in clear, dark 
skies, so in cloudy conditions we can observe only programs with 
R<11.5 guide-stars. For the GMOS OIWFS the same limit applies.

Poor weather programs can be submitted at any time in the semester. 
Use the Phase I tool (http://www.gemini.edu/sciops/P1help/p1Index.html) 
to submit your proposal, selecting "Poor weather" from the drop down 
menu in the Submit tab. Such programs will be automatically placed in 
the Band 4 "Poor Weather Queue".

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