************************************************************************** BOLETIM ELETRÔNICO DA SAB N. 504 - 20/01/2010 ************************************************************************** Responsável: Helio J. Rocha-Pinto (helio@astro.ufrj.br) ************************************************************************** NESTA EDIÇÃO: OPORTUNIDADES ---------------- 1. Concurso Público para vaga de Físico na Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 2. Two year postdoctoral "Experienced Researcher" at The University of Hertfordshire EVENTOS ----------- 3. Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) 2010 4. Workshop - OPD, SOAR e Gemini, presente, passado e futuro -- Segunda circular 5. International School and Workshop on Supercomputing Techniques in Astronomy ************************************************************* OPORTUNIDADES ************************************************************* 1. Concurso Público para vaga de Físico na Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Comunicado por Vera Martin e Dagoberto Freitas em 05/01/2010) O Departamento de Física da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Uefs) realiza concurso público para área de Física Geral destinado a selecionar candidatos para o cargo de professor adjunto (Doutor). As inscrições devem ser feitas até 4 de fevereiro de 2010. Os interessados devem se dirigir à Coordenação de Seleção e Admissão, localizada no prédio da Reitoria, primeiro andar. A inscrição também pode ser feita pela internet, em conformidade com o edital, disponível no portal www.uefs.br, seção Editais. Outras informações através dos telefones (75) 3224-8030 e 32248157. O edital pode ser consultado em: http://www.uefs.br/portal/downloads/editais/abertura-de-inscricao/edital-concurso-professor-n04-2009.pdf/view ================================================================ 2. Two year postdoctoral "Experienced Researcher" at The University of Hertfordshire (Comunicado por Sylvio Ferraz Mello em 06/01/2010) The FP7 Initial Training Network RoPACS (Rocky Planets Around Cool Stars) is currently advertising four 2 year postdoctoral "Experienced Researcher" posts which will be based at The University of Hertfordshire, The Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, and The Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik. These posts are advertsied on the AAS job register (which includes more information and application instructions); http://members.aas.org/JobReg/JobDetailPage.cfm?JobID=26291 (the advert if also reproduced below) See also the RoPACS homepage; http://star.herts.ac.uk/RoPACS/index.html ************************************************************* EVENTOS ************************************************************* 3. Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) 2010 (Comunicado por Isabel Aleman em 07/10/2010) Astrobiology Graduate Conference 2010 Tällberg, Sweden - June 14-18, 2010. In 2010, AbGradCon, the foremost astrobiology meeting for early-career researchers, will be held in Europe for the first time in its history. Graduate students and early-career postdocs from all over the world will come together to present their research in a comfortable environment, to learn of the latest developments in astrobiology, to network and to forge new collaborations. The meeting will comprise oral and poster presentations, half-day workshops and a one-day field trip to geologically instructive sites in the astrobiologically interesting Siljan impact crater. Attendees are encouraged from the very wide range of subjects pertinent to astrobiology. Financial assistance will be available to invited attendees. Further information is available at the conference website: http://www.abgradcon2010.org ================================================================ 4. Workshop - OPD, SOAR e Gemini, presente, passado e futuro -- Segunda circular (Comunicado por Bruno Castilho em 15/01/2010) Workshop - OPD, SOAR e Gemini, presente, passado e futuro Local: Campos do Jordão, Hotel Orotur, Data: 7-10 de março de 2010 Inscrições: até 5 de fevereiro Informações: www.lna.br/OSG Em abril de 2010 faz trinta anos que o telescópio Perkin Elmer do OPD recebeu sua primeira luz. Neste momento a comunidade astronômica brasileira prepara um plano estratégico para a astronomia. Este workshop visa contribuir com a discussão do futuro da infraestrutura da astronomia ótica do país. A reunião tem o objetivo de revisar e discutir o papel futuro das principais facilidades brasileiras para a astronomia observacional no óptico e no infravermelho, nos seus aspectos operacionais, instrumentais, científicos e políticos. Para que o Workshop possa atingir seu objetivo, é fundamental uma ampla participação da comunidade astronômica! Inscreva-se já. ================================================================ 5. International School and Workshop on Supercomputing Techniques in Astronomy (Comunicado por Laerte Sodré em 19/01/2010) SUPERCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN ASTRONOMY international school and workshop Campus San Joaquín, U. Católica, Santiago, Chile 19-23 April, 2010 Astronomy is increasingly becoming a computationally intensive field due to the ever larger datasets delivered by observational efforts to map ever larger volumes of the Universe, and also to provide ever finer details of galaxies and their stellar, gas and dust content. As a result there are two computationally demanding, complementary approaches that need to be performed to uncover new findings and interpret them within a cosmological context: i) The processing of the observational data so that it can be used to answer particular problems of cosmology and galaxy formation. This includes computationally intensive statistical tools to be applied to datasets of hundreds of terabytes or even more. The study of the power spectrum of density fluctuations mapped by the galaxies in the largest survey to date, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, already requires parallel computing in order to be performed. In the near future several new surveys will demand orders of magnitude increase in the available data and therefore in data processing capabilities. ii) The appropriate construction and interpretation of theoretical models of galaxy formation within a cosmological framework. The simulations involve two general steps. The first one is to include the necessary physics to produce a reliable evolution and required observables; the second is the analysis of outputs which need to be at least as large or detailed as the observational datasets, with information on the underlying properties and complete evolution history across time of galaxies and their components. The School/Workshop will cover these topics as follows. 1) The school (Monday 19 to Wednesday 21 April, 2010) The school will concentrate on providing basic and advanced tools to perform parallel computing tasks in theoretical and observational astronomy. To do this international experts in different areas will cover the following topics: General parallel computing techniques: Gavin Pringle (Edinburgh) Data-base management: Gerard Lemson (MPE and Zurich) TBC Massively parallel handling of large observational datasets: Robert Lupton (Princeton) Massively parallel dark-matter numerical simulations: Raul Angulo (MPA Garching) Numerical simulations of galaxies: Ralf Klessen (Heidelberg) TBC SPH and gas simulations: Tom Theuns (Durham University) TBC The format of the school will consist on lectures and practical problem sessions which the attendees will be able to solve using the computing cluster at Católica. 2) The Workshop (Thursday 22 to Friday 23 April, 2010) The second part of the meeting will consist on a two-day workshop on the subject of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation from large astronomical datasets and state-of-the-art numerical simulations, with keynote and contributed talks. There will be poster sessions. Keynote speakers: Carlos Frenk (Durham University) Patricia Tissera (IAFE, Buenos Aires) Because of limited space the school/workshop will be limited to a total of 70 participants. Also, the number of contributed talks and posters will also be limited and those selected for presentation will be notified by 20 March 2010, after the registration closes on 10 March 2010. The registration form is available at the end of this announcement. The registration fee for the full meeting is us$400. There are limited funds to provide partial support for participants with contributed talks or posters upon request. Scientific organizing committee: Nelson Padilla, Andrés Escala, Carlos Frenk, Leopoldo Infante, Andrés Meza, Laerte Sodré Jr., Patricia Tissera. Local organizing committee: Carlos Oliva, Giselle Ulloa, Roberto González, Iván Lacerna, Lucia Guaita, Harold Francke, Jorge González, Nelson Padilla. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: To register please cut and paste the following form, and email it to Carlos Oliva (coliva@astro.puc.cl) with the subject "Supercomputing meeting". Deadline for Submission: 10 March 2010 NAME: INSTITUTION (full address): POSITION: REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT: PRESENTATION TYPE: Contributed talk/Poster/None PRESENTATION TITLE: PRESENTATION ABSTRACT: ************************************************************************** Participe da lista de discusssão FÓRUM-DA-SAB Para associar-se vá a http://groups.google.com/group/sabforum ************************************************************************** Blog da SAB : http://astronomiabrasileira.blogspot.com/ ************************************************************************** Agenda Eletrônica da SAB -- acesse-a pelos endereços abaixo: XML http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/soc.astro.bras%40gmail.com/public/basic iCal http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/soc.astro.bras%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics HTML http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=soc.astro.bras%40gmail.com&ctz=America/Sao_Paulo **************************************************************************