The Irish Star Formation community are delighted to announce the conference "Jets and Young Stars: The Passage from Discovery to JWST and Beyond" in celebration of the career of Tom Ray. The conference will take place in Westport in Co. Mayo, Ireland, from 2nd to 5th September 2024. You can find more information here https://www.dias.ie/jetsandbeyond/index.html and register for updates. It is expected that the conference will be limited to 100 participants. This number will be made up of invited speakers, those giving contributed talks and members of the community. We plan to open the meeting for registrations from the community in late 2023. Please feel free to circulate this announcement to interested colleagues. Looking forward to welcoming you in Ireland! Rubén Fedriani on behalf of the LOC

From our origins, humans have been inspired by pinpoints of light in the night sky. They cause us to wonder about our existence. Who are we? What are we doing here? Where did we come from? And, where are we going? Despite impressive investment and activity in space exploration over the years, the question remains unanswered. This decade sees a once-in-a-lifetime investment into the ‘Search for Life Beyond Earth.’ Research communities, governments and philanthropists alike are set to explore. NASA’s Apollo program showed that sufficient commitment of resources can lead to breakthroughs. Their progress, culminating in the Moon landing, inspired many to become astronomers. Both NASA and ESA have active and planned missions focused on the detection and characterisation of exoplanets. Most large observatories have invested in planetary astronomy and “Big Data” approaches, including the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin observatory and the radio Square Kilometer Array (SKA). Meanwhile, new Machine Learning (ML) algorithms will make the search for technosignatures feasible at scale. We still do not know if there is life beyond Earth or how probable it may be. But if it exists, we might find it (or it us) as early as tomorrow. And, there or not, found or not, the search itself has a profound impact on humanity. Beyond science, the ‘Search for Life Beyond Earth’ raises complex questions of policy, law, philosophy, and theology. It challenges us to think critically about life as a category and as a thing of value. But we are not prepared for a discovery. This multi-disciplinary symposium will bring together diverse expertise to investigate and plan how we will assess evidence and communicate what we know (and don’t know) with the public. We should plan early, setting out impact assessments, protocols, procedures and treaties that allow us to act responsibly as individuals and communities and as a species. Any outcome will have to be presented to ‘Planet Earth.’ Deadlines: Registration for in-person participation by March 15, 2024 and for virtual participation by March 31, 2024. Applications for a contributed talk by November 1, 2023. Applications for IAU Travel Grants by November 1, 2023. Reply-To Contact & Email kavli-iau-2024@durham.ac.uk

We are very happy to announce the international conference “Magnetic fields from clouds to stars” that will be held at NAOJ, Tokyo, Japan, from 25 to 29 March, 2024. The aim of the conference is to share and discuss recent observational and theoretical results on the magnetic properties from clouds to molecular filaments, cores, disks, and stars. In particular, the conference will provide the opportunity for researchers in both fields of star formation and stellar evolution to meet and discuss the interconnection between magnetic fields and the various physical processes at different scales from clouds to stars. Organizers: Doris Arzoumanian, Zsolt Keszthelyi, Patricio Sanhueza (NAOJ). Information about the scientific rationale, conference sessions, invited speakers, and abstract submission process are available at: https://bfields2024.wixsite.com/bfields2024. The registration to the conference and abstract submission are now open. The deadline for abstract submission is September 30, 2023. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us (bfields2024@gmail.com). Looking forward to seeing you next March at NAOJ.

The Spanish SKA team would like to advertise the “MeerKAT@5” conference, marking the five years since the first MeerKAT science paper, aiming to "celebrate the telescope’s achievements in the scientific, engineering, and human capacity development domains". The conference will be in-person only, set in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 20-23 February 2024. It will be a unique occasion to discuss the high-impact science results from Meerkat, one of the four SKA precursor telescopes, and their broader impacts. Further details will be shared in a 2nd announcement, but for now we ask you to save the dates. See below the organizers’ original email, the conference flyer and website. Have a great day, Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, on behalf of the Spanish SKA coordination team.

This is the official announcement that our portal for Splinter Session submissions is now open for Cool Stars 22! The CS22 SOC invites the community to propose splinter sessions on current popular and important topics. Proposals for splinter sessions can be made by individuals or groups of individuals. At this time, we are planning on approximately 9 splinter sessions, having no more than 3 in parallel, with the option of hosting a 90 or 180 (2x90) minute session. The splinter organizers will have access to abstracts of potential contributions submitted on the abstract form. Splinter organizers should be prepared to produce and maintain a website that includes the schedule and speakers, and describes opportunities for people to participate in the session. The splinter websites will be linked from the main CS22 website, so all meeting participants are aware of the splinter sessions and can make informed choices about which sessions they wish to attend. A complete program for each splinter should be online six weeks prior to the meeting, that is by May 6th, 2024 (hopefully earlier). Any splinter session proposal should include the following: Splinter Session Title; Names of the session organizer(s) with primary contact information; names of co-organizer(s) if appropriate; Estimate of small (50-100 people), medium (100-200 people), or large (200+ people) session; Selection of time allocation, either 90 or 180 minutes; Two page summary of the goal of the session, including discussion on why this is a timely and relevant topic for CS22, List of potential speakers, and a plan for how additional speakers will be solicited (Note that CS22 follows a "one person - one talk" rule. Plenary speakers cannot give a talk in a splinter session, nor can one person present in more than one splinters session). Proposed Splinter format that includes a description on how the audience will be involved. Commitment to set up a website in support of the splinter, with a complete program online by May 6th, 2024. Commitment to contribute a summary of the session for the proceedings. Deadline for splinter session proposals is November 17, 2023. Instructions for splinter proposal submissions can be found at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoHDsjtd_oOlzJU2LfZpuJQAs9IKPfTKHlQuCGGaD3hcSzxQ/viewform. We plan to announce accepted splinter sessions by mid-December, 2023, and will provide links to accepted splinter session websites for attendees to submit contributions. Please do not propose splinters that are too similar to the five main morning sessions (see the conference program) if you wish to maximize your chances of success.

Reminder that the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) is hosting an ALMA Data Reduction Party on Data Combination at the NAASC Headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia. During this 3-day event, NAASC scientists and data analysts will provide focused information and individualized support to a cohort of North American PI or Archival ALMA users who want support to image ALMA data from multiple arrays that include 7-m and/or Total Power observations. To facilitate data processing, attendees will be provided access to NRAO computing resources both during and after the workshop. The event is fully in-person, and travel support can be provided upon request. There are no registration fees and we can pay for your visit! Attendees will be encouraged to define their individual objectives ahead of the event and can expect outcomes such as: 1) Understanding the importance of short spacings (compact configurations or single dish) for interferometric imaging with ALMA data; 2) Obtaining an image for at least a subset (i.e. spectral window, channel range, or portion of the image) of their dataset; 3) Developing a recipe for image combination techniques they can apply to their dataset; 4) Quantitative assessment of imaging quality before and after adding short spacing information. Attendance is limited to 10 researchers based at institutions in North America. Applicants should have experience with general interferometric imaging, have their data in hand at the time of the application deadline, and be prepared to join an online preparation session prior to the event. If you are interested in this opportunity, please fill out this applicatio form by the deadline of September 25 at 15:00 ET: https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/alma/naasc-workshops/nrao-drp23/registration. We will select applicants based on the complexity of their projects and scientific goals. Applicants who do not get selected for this event may instead be invited for an individual face-to-face visit. This announcement and other details can also be found on the NAASC webpage at: https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/alma/naasc-workshops/nrao-drp23/index.

The e-MERLIN Operations Team are happy to announce the opening of registration for the e-MERLIN Data School taking place at the University of Manchester from 23-25 October 2023. The purpose of this school is to show participants how to reduce e-MERLIN data using the e-MERLIN CASA Pipeline. The school is designed for those with some radio astronomy knowledge. We only have limited space, so priority will be given to MSc, PhD students and early career researchers. The three-day school will include calibration, imaging and self-calibration tutorials, with an opportunity to bring your own data (BYOD) to get expert help with your own e-MERLIN projects. We expect to be able to have space for up to 10 participants. You can register for this event using the event webpage. Logistically details including accommodation, a workshop programme and materials are including on the webpage. For information, please contact David Williams-Baldwin at david.williams-7@manchester.ac.uk. Kind regards, e-MERLIN Operations + Support Team

The Institute for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) cordially invite you to an NRAO Community Day at IRyA UNAM in Morelia, Mexico on September 28 and 29, 2023. This event is designed for all astronomers, and in particular for those who do not regularly utilize radio data in their research. The workshop will provide an overview of NRAO instruments (VLA, ALMA) including new capabilities, a discussion of data reduction, pipelines, including aspects of polarimetry and self-calibration. The second day will also include hands-on tutorials for ALMA and VLA data reduction and imaging. The registration is now open. Special in-campus catering service will be arranged (at no cost) for lunch on both days. A list of hotels that offer a special price to the attendees at the ngVLA event and NRAO Community Days is shared at: https://science.nrao.edu/science/meetings/2023/morelia23/logistics. Due to the capacity of the IRyA´s Seminar Room, this workshop will be limited to 40 people. For more information either contact Frank Schinzel (fschinze_at_nrao.edu) for NRAO related inquiries or the LOC for logistics questions (radioworkshops_at_irya.unam.mx). We remind you that this community day will be preceded by the First Mexican meeting en route to the Next Generation Very Large Array.

The ngVLA, led by the National Radioastronomy Observatory (NRAO), will be the largest radio interferometer ever built in the northern hemisphere. With more than 200 antennas distributed across the US, Canada, and Mexico, the array will reach spatial resolutions and sensitivities without precedents. Importantly, the new radio telescope aspires to give access to the worldwide scientific community and to provide science-ready scientific products. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) formally became a member from this multinational project through a cooperation agreement signed with NRAO in November 2022. This will allow the Mexican community to continue first-class research in numerous astrophysical fields in the coming decades. To promote and drive the participation of Mexico in the ngVLA, the Institute of Radioastronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA-UNAM) is inviting the community to a kick-start meeting! A variety of invited and contributed talks will be presented, focusing on design and performance aspects of the telescope and its relevance to astronomy through main scientific drivers. The community is encouraged to bring scientific cases that could benefit from the ngVLA and discuss them with presenters and local staff. Meeting to be held in the UNAM Campus Morelia from 25th to 27th September, 2023. The event has a capacity limit of 80 people and no fee. During the meeting lunch and coffee breaks will be offered by the institute, while social dinner will be at the expense of each attendee. Opportunities to request financial support to attend the meeting will be available, with the reservation of a hotel room for students and postdocs; priority will be given to students.The financial support will be subject to budget availability.

There is a dedicated radio telescope session in URSI commission J, titled "New telescopes and major upgrades to existing telescopes", in the upcoming URSI GASS meeting this August, in SAPPORO, JAPAN. The paper submission deadline is Jan 25. The paper submission link: https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/login.form?A1c4fbc04-5ebf-4a04-a174-0447a681f5d9. For more general information about sessions: https://cloud.ilabt.imec.be/index.php/s/6jp5tnASX5DbY2n.

Del 17 de julio al 4 de agosto de este año tendremos en el INAOE la 43 Escuela Internacional de Jóvenes Astrónomos de la IAU (43rd ISYA-2023). La escuela de jóvenes astrónomos está dirigida tanto a estudiantes de Maestría y Doctorado en Astrofísica como a los de último año de licenciatura que tengan interés en continuar estudios en astronomía, siempre que estudien en países de Centroamérica, Sudamérica y Caribe. Mas información sobre la escuela pueden encontrala en el documento adjunto y en la página web de la misma: https://www.inaoep.mx/~isya2023/. Les pedimos el favor de distribuir la información entre sus estudiantes e instituciones, así como entre sus conocidos en instituciones de otros países y que consideren que les puede interesar.

Astrochemistry VIII - From the First Galaxies to the Formation of Habitable Worlds. Deadline for abstract submission *and registration* is January 31st, 2023.

This Summer School is focused on the understanding and characterization of the life cycle of the dust from its formation in dying stars to the assembly to form meteorites and planets. The prime objective is to provide junior astronomers with a foundation in the field of dust astrophysics through lectures by prominent researchers in the field. We will cover a wide scope of topics, ranging from laboratory and computational perspectives on dust: formation of dust in stars, supernovae, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and dust in high-redshift galaxies; the distribution and properties of dust in the Milky Way; grain growth; molecular chemistry on dust surfaces; presolar dust and contemporary dust in the Solar System; and the role of the dust in star and planet formation.

It is our great pleasure to announce that the Conference STAR@LYON will finally take place in Lyon. Important dates: March 1st : Deadline for abstract submission; April 10th: Notification of acceptance for presentations. Program: 1/ Physic and numerics for star formation: Invited review: Shu-Ichiro Inutsuka; 2/ Isolated star formation: from brown dwarfs to massive stars: Invited reviews: James Di Francesco, Kengo Tomida; 3/ Cluster formation: Invited reviews: Ivan Cabrera-Ziri, Alison Sills; 4/ Protostellar disc formation and evolution: Invited reviews: Anaëlle Maury, Yusuke Tsukamoto; 5/ Initial Mass Function and Star Formation Rate: Invited reviews: Patrick Hennebelle, Mark Krumholz; 6/ Molecular cloud evolution: Invited reviews: Adam Leroy, Stefanie Walch; 7/ Galactic disc formation and evolution: Invited reviews: Reinhard Genzel, TBC; 8/ Star and galactic disc formation across redshift: Invited reviews: Avishai Dekel, Raffaella Schneider

The 19th NRAO Synthesis Imaging Workshop will be held on June 13-21, 2023 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The workshop will consist of lectures on aperture synthesis theory and techniques at a level appropriate for graduate students in astrophysics. The program will include discussion groups, and tutorials demonstrating data collection, calibration, and imaging of various types of observations, including new data from the Very Large Array (VLA), Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and Long Wavelength Array (LWA). Per-registration is open! Let us know you are interested in attending. This workshop will be limited in capacity and it fills every year. Pre-registration will ensure that you are the first to know when registration opens and that you receive all updates and information. If you have any questions, please contact the meeting organizers (siw@nrao.edu).

We are happy to announce that the registration and abstract submission for the Olympian Symposium 2023 “Star formation in the era of JWST”, are now open! OS2023 will take place during 29 May - 2 June, 2023, in Paralia Katerini, Greece. This is the third meeting of the Olympian Symposium series, dedicated to the topic of Star Formation. We would be grateful if you could circulate this announcement to your group and to your collaborators. With best wishes, Anna Rosen & Thomas Bisbas, on behalf of the OS2023 organizers

We are delighted to release this First Announcement for the 2023 Submillimeter Array Interferometry School. The school will be held on May 15-19th 2023, fully in-person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is organized by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian, in conjunction with the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) and the University of Hawaii (UH). A limited number of slots will also be made available for virtual participation. The goal of the school is to provide a broad knowledge of interferometry and data reduction techniques at (sub)millimeter wavelengths for graduate students, postdocs and scientists outside the field of sub-mm interferometry. The workshop will provide a series of lectures on the fundamentals of radio interferometry with a special emphasis on observations at (sub)millimeter wavelengths. The school will extensively utilize the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii and its new capabilities. This will be a hands-on school where participants actively perform observations and data reduction for their own proposed projects. Applicants will submit a short 1 page proposal for their school project. Further details and updates on the program and the logistics will be provided on the School’s website (www.cfa.harvard.edu/sma-school, or email at sma-school@cfa.harvard.edu) through a Second Announcement coinciding with the opening of applications in December. Stay tuned and, for now, save the date!

The Galactic Center has often been called a "unique astrophysical laboratory”. This is as true as ever and the Galactic Center keeps providing rich inspiration and data to study an impressive number of science questions. In this conference we will review the progress in our field over that past four years and focus on some spectacular results. We will also link the physics of the Galactic Center to other galactic nuclei and galaxy evolution in general. The last meeting of the Galactic Center community took place in Yokohama in October 2019 (GCWS 2019 http://aysheaia.phys.keio.ac.jp/GCWS2019/index.html). It is high time for the next edition of this series of conferences, which will be held in Granada, Spain, at the end of April 2023.

Registration is now open, and the deadline is on January 8th. Current blank sections in the website will be update as the starting date of the workshop comes closer (e.g., list of participants, schedule, accommodation options, etc). As the main purpose for the workshop is to have lively discussions, there will be a limited number of participants on-site. If the number of registrants and/or submitted abstracts for contributions is too large, the SOC will select the participants from the registrations received. We plan to announce the accepted contributions and registrations by the end of January / beginning of February. We are especially interested in contributions from early-career scientists. All talks will be in person, but they will be streamed so that interested people can follow them remotely (the link will be shared in the website as the dates come closer). Note that if you plan to follow the workshop remotely you do not need to register. Due to logistic limitations, the discussions will not be streamed. Best regards, Jose, on behalf of the LOC and SOC.

2nd announcement of International Astronomical Union Symposium 380, onsite+online (hybrid mode). TOPICS: 1) Cosmic Distance Scale and the Hubble Constant, 2) Black Hole Masses and the M-sigma Relation, 3) Structure of the Milky Way, 4) Dynamics of Formation of Massive Stars, 5) Pulsation and Outflows in Evolved Stars, 6) Theory of Masers and Maser Sources, 7) New Projects and Future Telescopes. REGISTRATION: Registration, abstract submission, VISA application, and grant application is open. Deadlines: The schedule is subject to change depending on the COVID-19 situation. VISA application deadline: 2022/10/26; Early deadline (travel support, abstract): 2022/11/01; Normal registration deadline (payment): 2023/01/10. CONTACT: iaus_maser2023_contactml.nao.ac.jp

We are pleased to announce that abstract submissions for contributed talks and posters are now being accepted for the SKA & ngVLA conference "New Eyes on the Universe", to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 1-5 May 2023. This meeting will review and discuss the cutting-edge science opportunities enabled by the unprecedented SKA-ngVLA coverage across three decades of radio frequency (50 MHz to 116 GHz). Plenary talks will feature the highest-priority science for these observatories, striving to determine where new scientific understandings are most likely to result from access to both observatories. Please consider submitting an abstract for one of the main science themes for the meeting. We are seeking contributions that will best highlight each facility's strengths and/or discuss how both facilities are needed to make significant progress in a specific science area: The Habitable Universe. The Nearby Universe. The Distant Universe. The Energetic Universe. In addition we seek contributions that discuss aspects of operations, for example (but not limited to) : Joint Observations, Interoperability, Data Products, Data Processing, Archival Science, and Analysis Tools. Abstract submission page: http://go.nrao.edu/ngVLASKA-abstract. Registration will open in about mid-January. Best Wishes, Eric Murphy (ngVLA Project Scientist) and Tyler Bourke (SKA Project Scientist)

Se acaba de abrir el registro para el programa de verano de ASTRON/JIVE (Dwingeloo, Países Bajos), recomendado para estudiantes de entre los últimos años de carrera, máster, o inicio de doctorado, con interés en radio astronomía, física, o ciencias computacionales.

La inscripción para la primera conferencia de resultados del Webb está abierta online hasta el 15 de Noviembre. ¡¡ Tiene componente virtual por sólo $30 !! Abajo incluyo el programa.

https://www.stsci.edu/contents/events/stsci/2022/december/first-science-results-from-jwst

The rationale behind the meeting is to exchange recent results on accretion-ejection in young stars, from low to high mass and from early to more evolved stages. We hope to make this a fruitful and discussion-oriented, post-pandemic, in-person meeting with the aim to establish a platform for students and early-career scientists to share their results in the field in addition to including a limited number of invited review talks. Deadline for abstract submission: 16 Sep 2022. SOC: Evgenia Koumpia, Miguel Vioque, Alejando Santamaría-Miranda, Willem-Jan de Wit, et al. Contact info: accrete_and_eject2022(at)eso.org

Applications accepted until 1 Sep 2022. The school is intended for students, post-docs and scientists who want to acquire a good knowledge of interferometry and data reduction techniques at millimeter wavelengths, with a special emphasis on the NOEMA interferometer and its new capabilities. In addition to presentation of the basics of millimeter interferometry observations, data calibration and imaging, the program will also include practical tutorials on interferometric data reduction and imaging techniques. For any inquiry, please contact the organizing committee at school2022@iram.fr.

The registration is now open. You can follow the link below to fill the form and submit your contribution. July, 8th is the abstract submission deadline. We encourage you to browse our website where you will find some information about the specific science topics, the rationale, the invited speakers, and the venue. We are looking forward to meeting again after our first 2018 edition (https://www.arcetri.inaf.it/cosmicrays/) to talk about all the achievements made over the last four years and share new ideas and challenges for the coming future! Please share this information with anyone you think might be interested and send an e-mail to cosmicrays2florence@gmail.com for all requests. Marco Padovani and Víctor M. Rivilla on behalf of the SOC and the LOC.

The EAS is starting a new workshop program for young European scientists, funded by the Heraeus Foundation. The idea is for young scientists within 5 years after their PhD to meet at a European research center, interact with scientists at that center and learn about the activities there, talk to each other, present their research and start new collaborations. There are still some open slots. Please feel free to register if you wish to participate or advertise this workshop within your insitutes.

To the PIs and Co-Is of successful VLA proposals in recent semesters: the NRAO is pleased to announce the opening of registration for in-person participation for the 9th VLA Data Reduction Workshop to be held 11 - 20 October, 2022 in Socorro, NM, USA. Space is limited to about 30 in-person participants, so please register early. There will be a virtual participation option for presentations only (not the data reduction portion). Registration for which will be made available closer in time to the workshop.

Deadline to submit applications: 31 Jan 2022.

We have extended the registration deadline with applications for contributed talks (to be selected by the SOC) until May 22nd, 2022. After that, you still can register for attendance with a poster contribution (as long as the poster space allows); and you can register for attendance without a poster or talk contribution until early September.

Workshop on K-band science, past, present, and future with the Green Bank Telescope. From ammonia surveys to maser studies, to the astrochemistry of star formation regions and beyond — K-band has enabled a wealth of science in Green Bank! Registration for this workshop will be open on our website until August 15 2022. We are anticipating an in-person registration fee of USD $550, which will include ground transport to the GBO site from Washington Dulles (if necessary), lodging, and meals. We hope to provide virtual access to all contributed and invited talks, although other aspects of the workshop (i.e. panels and evening lectures) may remain in-person only. The workshop will be held over ~3 days, and the total number of participants will be limited to ~50 people which allows for candid discussions.

Abstract submission deadline extended to 30 May 2022!

Cool Stars 21 Splinter Session. Deadline to submit abstracts and discussion questions: 15 May 2022.

Cool Stars 21 Splinter Session, Toulouse, France. Deadline for abstract submission: 15 May 2022.

NRAO, New York. Abstraction Submission Deadline for Oral Presentations: 1st Apr 2022.

NRAO on-line workshop.

La escuela del Observatorio Virtual tendrá lugar en el marco del proyecto H2020 ESCAPE en Estrasburgo en febrero de 2022.

The school will be held virtually between 18-22 January 2022, and is organized by the Center for Astrophysics, in conjunction with the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the University of Hawaii.

On-line registration will open shortly. As in previous editions, the school will combine lectures on millimetre astronomy with observations using the 30-meter telescope. Lectures will be given by experienced scientists and 30-meter observers, covering a wide range of topics, including the study of the chemistry of interstellar clouds, low and high mass star formation, in the Milky Way, in nearby galaxies, and at high-redshifts. In addition, the school will include lectures on instrumentation, observing techniques, and data processing. This edition will highlight the synergies with the IRAM NOrthern Extended Millimetre Array (NOEMA). The lectures will be complemented by practical work using the 30-meter telescope. As usual, students, lecturers and technical assistants will form small groups, to work on one topic, preparing a science case, conducting the observations with the 30-meter telescope, reducing the data, and presenting first results on the last day of the school. However, unlike previous schools, where trainers and students performed their observations at the telescope site, in this edition all observations will be conducted in remote mode. The school is aimed at attracting new scientists to current and future single-dish millimetre and submillimetre facilities. The school is primarily meant for young researchers with little previous experience in mm-astronomy. Due to the constraints imposed by the practices at the telescope (even in remote mode), the school attendance will be limited to about 60 students who will be selected on the basis of their interests, experience, and references. Other considerations will be taken into account. In particular, we will strive to achieve balance in gender and geographical origin for attendees and lecturers.

This School aims at having a highly interactive character and physical participation is therefore strongly encouraged. We may provide the possibility of limited remote participation in case of strong demand or necessity (vulnerable persons, insuperable travel restrictions), but please be aware that the conference will not be optimised for this mode. The registration deadline is September 30th. You will be informed whether you have been accepted no later than October 15th. Payment of the fee (250 EUR) should then be made within one week. In case of over-subscription, participants will be selected by the organisers, considering factors such as gender, background, geography, or working at IAA.

Abstract submission is now open until March 2nd 2021 at: https://kuonicongress.eventsair.com/eas-2021/abstractsubmission

Abstract submission is now open until March 2nd 2021 at: https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/abstract_submission.jsp

The Astrochemistry Group invites you to the 2021 annual meeting, to be held virtually and hosted by the University of Leeds, from 16th to 18th June 2021. The meeting, on the topic of “Astrochemistry in the JWST era” will also include the annual general meeting (AGM) of the Astrochemistry Group on 17th June 2021. We welcome all contributions on the theme of astrochemistry including observations, modelling, experiments, and instrumentation. There are 12 contributed talk slots available over the course of the meeting and abstract submission is due by 1 June.

The meeting SKA Science 2021 “A precursor view of the SKA sky” will take place next week, between the 15th and 19th of March: https://skao.eventsair.com/science2. The SKA science meeting is held every two years, and it covers a wide variety of science topics represented by different Science Working Groups. Throughout the week there will be plenary sessions and splinter sessions on different topics: Pulsars, Cosmology, Transients, AGN physics, HI Galaxy science, Cosmic Particles, Solar Physics, VLBI, Cosmic Dawn/Epoch of Reionization, Cradle of Life, Extragalactic Continuum, Extragalactic Spectral Line, Magnetism, Our Galaxy, Continuum Surveys, Data analysis, Exoplanets, and additionally other discussions on Astrochemistry, trans-Neptunian Objects and Centaurs, Solar System and SETI and data challenges. There is something for everyone! The complete agenda can be found here: https://skao.eventsair.com/science21/agenda. All plenary sessions are scheduled twice with a time difference of 12h, to allow participation from different time zones. Because this is an online event, the registration is still open.

The school will be held virtually between March 14-19th 2021, and is organized by the Center for Astrophysics, in conjunction with the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the University of Hawaii. The goals of the school are to provide graduate students, postdocs and scientists with a broad knowledge of interferometry and data reduction techniques at (sub)millimeter wavelengths. The workshop will provide a series of online lectures on the fundamentals of radio interferometry with a special emphasis on observations at (sub)millimeter wavelengths along with data reduction tutorials with SMA observations. The school will extensively utilize the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii and its new capabilities. Multiple sessions will be organized daily to accommodate participants from all time zones. We particularly stress the interactive nature of this School, where participants will be able to experience real-time data reduction for their own proposed projects. Questions can be sent to the School’s email at sma-school@cfa.harvard.edu. Stay tuned and, for now, save the date! SOC: Garrett ‘Karto’ Keating (Chair; CfA), Geoff Bower (ASIAA), Andrew Burkhardt (CfA), Mark Gurwell (CfA), María J. Jímenez-Donaire (OAN), Eric Koch (CfA), Feng Long (CfA), Luca Matrà (NUI Galway), Simon Radford (CfA), Ram Rao (ASIAA), Shelbi Schimpf (CfA), Richard Teague (CfA), Wei-Hao Wang (ASIAA), Jonathan Williams (UH), David Wilner (CfA), Qizhou Zhang (CfA)

Science at the Horizon: The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope, February 22-26, 2021

ESO/NRAO workshop. Our understanding of planet formation has been significantly challenged by recent observations during these last years. Recent high-resolution observations by ALMA and SPHERE/VLT have found compelling evidence of planet signatures much earlier than what was typically assumed, questioning the time at which planet formation takes place... Registration is free of charge. To accommodate the large number of participants and talks, we have adopted a mixed format for the conference: each day, there will be 3-4 hours of live sessions with invited talks, Q&A sessions, and moderated discussions, while contributed talks will be pre-recorded. Due to the online nature of the conference, it is not possible to find a schedule that is appropriate for all timezones. Based on the locations of most pre-registered participants, we have preliminarily set the time of the daily live sessions from 15:00 to 18:30/19:00 UTC, but live sessions will also be recorded and available on Youtube so that everyone can access them regardless of their time zones. Deadline to request a contribution: November 15; Registration closes: November 29. SOC: Álvaro Ribas (co-chair), Antonio Hales (co-chair), Enrique Macías (co-chair), John Carpenter (co-chair), Bill Dent, Catherine Espaillat, Inga Kamp, Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Joan Najita, Julien Milli, Laura Pérez, Lucas Cieza, Misato Fukagawa, Viviana Guzmán

Astrophysics is without doubt entering at present the century of data. Machine learning and data analysis technologies have already become an integral part of daily life, with data scientists building more and more sophisticated systems to select and examine large volumes of data. The radio community is not extraneous to such a problem since the amount of data available in current and future facilities is growing at a rate that will impose new approaches to the concepts of 'user support' and 'interface efficiency'. In this context, the main goal of this workshop is to give an overview of the capabilities, development, and user support for archival research in the main worldwide radio facilities. The registration is open, through the IA website until the 15th of November. SOC: Ciro Pappalardo, Jose Afonso, Israel Matute, Alasdair Thomson, Robert Beswick, Anita Richards.

The CASA data processing package is growing in its use for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). In the last years VLBI functionality in CASA has significantly expanded and improved, and this has been advertised globally in meetings, schools and tutorials. To educate new and existing VLBI astronomers in the use of CASA for data processing, JIVE is hosting a second CASA-VLBI workshop from 2-6 November 2020. This will be a fully online event, since due to the current COVID-19 situation it is not possible to host participants locally. There will be no registration fee for this workshop, but registration is required to obtain access to the live lectures, interactive sessions and discussion platform. Registration is possible until 30 October, 17:00 UT.