(Astrobiology Graduates in Europe)
After the success of the event at BEACON 2023, AbGradE will be back for a second time this year with a workshop!
We would like to invite you to the beautiful capital of Spain Madrid for a one-day event on September 18th (just before EANA’23).
Registration is now open, and you can find more info on the event’s page.
🇪🇸We look forward to seeing you soon!🇪🇸
Both taking place in Angra do Heroismo (Azores Islands, Portugal) in October, the deadline for application to the Summer school “Volcanism, Plate Tectonics, Hydrothermal vents and life” and the deadline for registration and abstract submission for the Conference “Life in the sub-surface” are on the 1st of July (in just 4 days!!)
You will be able to apply and/or register at the following links:
• Summer school (11 – 21 October 2023) •
• Conference (25 – 27 October 2023) •
Running in Tartu (Estonia) from the 1st to the 8th of August 2023, this workshop will enable students and early career scientists to design micro- and nanosatellite missions tackling scientific themes and target objects they have chosen themselves previously. The workshop will consist of three parts:
In order to plan missions involving such small satellites successfully, intensive interaction and cooperation between scientists and space technologists are necessary, which is still lacking in some potential key applications. The workshop school aims to:
The work on the mission designs will continue after the workshop, thus ensuring a long-term impact.
The European Astrobiology Institute, University of Tartu and Stockholm University Astrobiology Centre will function as co-organisers of the workshop.
The workshop will consist of lectures by leading scientists, planning for different micro- or nanosatellite projects in small groups, as well as open discussions. Participants will also have the possibility to display their own research results in a poster session. Furthermore, a one-day excursion to South Estonia and a walk around Tartu are included as a social programme.
For further information, please check the website.
The summer school organised by the EAI will focus on which role volcanism, plate tectonics and hydrothermal vents played in the emergence and evolution of life.
There will be lectures by leading scientists in the field, sampling excursions to lava caves and solfatares, exercises on the genetic characterisation of
extremophiles populations in those habitats, as well as on cultivation of
bacteria.
The summer school will take place in Angra (in the Azores Islands, Portugal) from the 11th to the 21st of October 2023. There
are flights to the close Terceira Lajes airport from both Europe
mainland, the US and Canada.
The summer school will include:
>> The deadline for applications is July 1st, 2023 <<
Please check the EAI website for more info
The course organised by the EAI will give the participants a thorough introduction into
how meteorite, comet and asteroid impacts participate in shaping
life on Earth. The following subjects will be covered by the lecture:
The lecture programme will be complemented by practical exercises concerning:
The summer school will be held in Nördlingen (Germany), the centre of the Ries Crater impact, from the 5th to the 14th of September 2023.
Lectures will cover a cornucopia of subjects ranging
from properties of impactors, physics of impacts, ecological
consequences of impacts, impact geology to impacts on Mars. Exercises
will comprise geological field studies at the Ries and the
neighbouring Steinheim crater as well as palynological and
petrographic microscopy studies.
Many leading scientists will teach a
the school.
Bursaries are available for students and early-career scientists.
Nördlingen is a very nice medieval city situated on the
“Romantic Road” with an intact city wall and offers good
accommodation and meals. It is easy to reach from the international
airports from Munich and Frankfurt as well as by train.
>> The deadline for applications is 15 June 2023 <<
Please check the EAI website for more info
The ESWN has two events planed that might be of interest to you!
1 – ESWN Academic Faculty Interviews Event
Are you considering applying for a faculty position in the USA? Would you like to learn about the interview process, what you should prepare for, what to expect, and who you will meet?
The Earth Science Women’s Network will be hosting a webinar on April 18, 2023, from 16:00 – 17:30 UTC to answer all these questions and many others. A panel of assistant professors & professors within multiple earth science disciplines will share their experiences and “lessons learned”, and answer your questions. This workshop is geared towards graduate students and postdoctoral researchers considering an academic career in the USA.
You will be joined by:
Panellist biographies are available here.
There will also be an opportunity to network with the speakers after the panel discussion.
> Register here <
2 – ESWN Navigating a Workplace Hierarchy Event
Have you experienced hierarchy in your workplace? Unsure how to navigate it?
Registration is now open ESWN’s upcoming event on Friday May 19th at 15:30 UTC!
You will be joined by 5 fantastic speakers who will share their experiences & provide insights on what to do:
Panellist biographies are available here.
> Register here <
If you have any questions about ESWN’s events, you can email them at events[at]eswnonline[dot]org
The “International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy &
Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg” (IMPRS-HD)
announces the
>> 18th Heidelberg Summer School <<
“Unraveling Galaxy Evolution with JWST”
The school is organized for early-career scientists and will take place on September 4 – 8.
It will focus on the most relevant aspects of galaxy evolution addressed by JWST, from nearby to the most distant galaxies.
JWST revealed surprises from its first images and is already
revolutionizing many fields of astrophysics.
The school will give the participants an overview of what we have learned about galaxy evolution in the first year of JWST observations, the emerging challenges, and the opportunity to work with JWST data guided by world-renowned experts.
The topics include an overview of JWST, the physics of nearby galaxies, the role of AGN feedback, the cosmic noon, and the high-z Universe.
The lectures will be accompanied by hands-on sessions and talks highlighting recent scientific results.
Invited lecturers are:
Steve Finkelstein (Univ. Texas Austin)
Adam Leroy (Ohio State Univ.)
Nora Lützgendorf (ESA)
Alice Shapley (UCLA)
Andrey Vayner (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Hands-on session tutors are:
James Davies (MPIA)
Oleg Egorov (ARI)
The school SOC is:
E.Banados (MPIA), L.Boogaard (MPIA), F.Davies (MPIA), A.de Graaff (MPIA),
I.Momcheva (MPIA), N.Neumayer (MPIA), D.Wylezalek (ZAH)
>> Deadline for applications is June 15, 2023 <<
The 2023 session of the Rencontres Exobiologiques pour Doctorants (RED’23 / Astrobiology Introductory Course) will take place, if sanitary conditions allow, from March 12 to 18, 2022 at the Reserve Ornithologique du Teich (France).
These meetings are organized for:
The RED’23 / Astrobiology Introductory Course program is complementary to the RED’22 program, however it is not necessary to have attended in 2022 to participate in this new school.
Lectures will be held in English.
Registrations are open until January 31, 2023. Some grants to participate are available, more about it on the website.
Discover the program and the speakers of this session on the school website
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