Evropská astronomická společnost informuje

Please find hereby the latest news we hope to be of interest to you. With kind regards, Michel Dennefeld

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1. EAS change of secretariat
2. EARA doctoral fellowships available
3. IRAM millimeter interferometry school
4. VLBI call for proposals
5. JENAM 2004: deadline for grant applications

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1. Changes in the EAS Office

Please note that the EAS office has changed location: it is now hosted at the Integral Science Data Centre in Geneva Observatory. The new EAS Executive Secretary is Ms. Martine Logossou, who is taking over from Edith Thomas and takes care of the same tasks. It is a pleasure to take this opportunity to welcome our new secretary and to thank Edith for her many years of good collaboration.
The new adress is now:
EAS SecretariatTel: +41 22 950 91 10, +41 22 950 91 00
c/o INTEGRAL Science Data Centre Fax: +41 22 950 91 33
Chemin d'Ecogia 16
CH - 1290 VERSOIX
e-mail: eas@obs.unige.ch
Switzerland

More details about the move in the next Newsletter
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2. EARA doctoral fellowships

The European Association for Research in Astronomy (EARA) has been designated by the EU as a joint Marie Curie Training Site within the 6th Framework Programme for Research and Devlopment.
It is offering 3-years doctoral fellowships (starting in Sept. 2004) in three of the five EARA institutes:
* the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (1 fellowship)
* the Sterrewacht Leiden of Leiden University (3 fellowships)
* the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (2 or 3 fellowships)

Candidates need to have the equivalent of a Masters
degree. Applications should include a curriculum vitae,a brief statement of research experience (if any),and the names of two people who can serve as a reference.

The deadline for application is June 28, 2004.

For more Information on the proposed PhD projects see theEARA web page (http://www2.iap.fr/eara/mcurie.html) or contact Dr. Robert Mochkovitch (mochko@iap.fr).
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3. IRAM millimeter interferometry school

IRAM organizes this year its Fourth Millimeter Interferometry School.
The school will take place at the IRAM headquarters (Grenoble,France) from November 22 to 27. The registration is open now: deadline is September 15th. For more details, see at:
http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/IS/school.htm
The school is intended for PhD students, post-docs and scientists who want to acquire a good knowledge of interferometry techniques at mm wavelengths. In the same spirit as the previous three interferometry schools, the courses will be focused on the Plateau de Bure interferometer, with an outlook to the next generation interferometer ALMA. Demonstration sessions will help the participants to become familiar with the reduction and imaging of Plateau de Bure data and the related technology.
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4. VLBI call for proposals

Observing proposals are invited for the EVN, a VLBI network of radio telescopes spread throughout Europe and beyond, operated by an international Consortium of institutes (http://www.evlbi.org/).

The deadline is 1 June 2004

The full text is available on the web at:
http://www.obs.u-bordeaux1.fr/vlbi/EVN/call.html
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5. JENAM 2004: availability of grants

As in previous years, the EAS is sponsoring a limited number of grants to help young people (age < 35) to attend the JENAM. You will find all the instructions on the Jenam Web page, at :
http://www.iaa.es/jenam2004/fs.html

Please note that the deadline for applications is May 31th,the same deadline which applies for submission of scientific contributions.