************************************************************************** BOLETIM ELETRÔNICO DA SAB N. 475 - 03/06/2009 ************************************************************************** Responsável: Helio J. Rocha-Pinto             (helio@astro.ufrj.br) ************************************************************************** NESTA EDIÇÃO: OPORTUNIDADES ---------------- 1. Duas vagas para professor na UNIVAP EVENTOS --------- 2. High Performance Computing in Observational Astronomy: Requirements and Challenges ************************************************************* OPORTUNIDADES ************************************************************* 1. Duas vagas para professor na UNIVAP (Comunicado por Paulo Fagundes em 03/06/2009) Encontram-se abertas inscrições para contratação de dois (2) professores doutores ¶em tempo integral (docência e Pesquisa) no grupo de Física & Astronomia da ¶Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP) nas áreas: a)     Física Espacial (Física da ionosfera, alta atmosfera e magnetosfera), b) Física solar, c) Astrofísica. As inscrições estão abertas até 5 de julho de 2009. Os interessados podem enviar currículo LATES para fisica@univap.br. Além da análise do currículo será realizada uma entrevista com os candidatos pré-selecionados. Os professores contratados participaram do programa de mestrado e doutorado em Física e Astronomia da UNIVAP. ************************************************************* EVENTOS ************************************************************* 2. High Performance Computing in Observational Astronomy: Requirements and Challenges (Comunicado por Gastão Lima Neto em 02/06/2009) Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that we are organising a 5-day international workshop on "High Performance Computing in Observational Astronomy : Requirements and Challenges", from 12th to 16th October 2009, in  Pune,India. More details about the meeting are available at the website : http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/~hpc.astro We welcome your participation in this meeting and also request you to forward this message to any others who you think may be interested. The theme of this meeting will be to discuss computationally intensive techniques important for different branches of astronomy.  These techniques are increasingly being applied and planned for data collection, real-time and off-line analysis, and interpretation of results.  Examples of such techniques include, among many others, software correlation of interferometric signals, dynamic beam forming and interference rejection, adaptive optics control for multi-segment telescopes, coded mask image analysis, matched filtering of gravitational wave signal, deconvolution and foreground subtraction of CMB maps, automated transient search etc. Given the development and plans for large international astronomical facilities like the upgraded GMRT, eVLA, LOFAR, ASKAP, MeerKAT (and eventually the SKA) in radio, various new giant multi-segment mirror telescope projects in optical, new observatories like ASTROSAT in UV/x-ray, we feel that such a meeting will be well timed and will provide an appropriate forum for exchange of ideas and plans for handling the massive computing tasks associated with such large projects.  In particular, we feel that participants from different wave band regimes will benefit by possible cross-fertilization of ideas.  We expect significant participation from academia as well as the IT industry, and prominent researchers from both domains will be invited speakers at this meeting. Kindly note that the deadline for early registration, given as 15th June 2009 in the poster, has been extended to 1st July 2009. We look forward to your participation. With regards, Yours sincerely, Dipankar Bhattacharya  (SOC Chair) Yashwant Gupta  (SOC Co-hair) ************************************************************************** Participe da lista de discusssão FÓRUM-DA-SAB Para associar-se vá a http://groups.google.com/group/sabforum **************************************************************************