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Your input can help transform it into a vibrant and useful resource for our community by contributing to its content and keeping it up to date.
We are seeking to keep the following updated:

Fellowships – Grants – link
Mentors – link
Seminar speaker list – link
Prizes and Awards – link
List of Online Solar Related Seminars – link
Public Outreach – link
UKSP Nuggets – link
Institutions – link

Also, please feel free to contact us if you have any ideas about what should be included or updated on our community website.

Mailing list:

Dear Group Leaders, Supervisors, and Colleagues,

Please encourage your new colleagues, from PhD students to senior researchers, to subscribe to our newsletter. Our newsletter is very welcoming, and it will be much happier if it can reach more people!

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Science Board (PPAN): https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/work-for-us/join-an-advisory-committee-panel-or-network/stfc-science-board-ppan-member-in-astronomy/

• Science Board (PPAN) is seeking one member in astronomy, specifically in: galaxy formation, inter-stellar medium, millimetre and sub-millimetre observing.
• Member of Science Board (PPAN) must be based at UK-based institutions.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 23 October 2024.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact susanna.mitolo@stfc.ukri.org… continue to the full article

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SKAO releases the first image and video from observations using one complete SKA-Low station:
https://www.skao.int/en/news/560/first-image-released-one-ska-low-station

Note the sunrise around ~23 UT in Australia.… continue to the full article

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The EUI and SWAP/LYRA PI teams welcome research proposals for the 2025 round of their Guest Investigator Program for research based on EUI, SWAP and/or LYRA data analysis by scientists outside the PI teams.

Selected proposers will be invited to spend a few weeks with the PI team at the Royal Observatory in Brussels to obtain expert knowledge on the instruments, to participate in the planning of observations according to the needs of their proposal, and conduct their research.

Each Guest Investigator may receive reimbursement for travel, accommodation, and living expenses.

Proposals must be received by November 1, 2024 (23:59 CET) and visits should be scheduled in 2025.

Details on the 2025 Guest Investigator Call can be found on this webpage: https://www.sidc.be/GuestInvestigator/GI_call_2025… continue to the full article

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The first Aad van Ballegooijen annual lecture, established in Aad’s honour and memory by his family, will take place on Tuesday, October 22nd, with Prof. Gary Zank as the speaker (please see the link below).

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/calendar/event/10833

There will be a zoom link to the lecture. – visit the above link… continue to the full article

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The Digital Telescope is a concept designed to enable high cadence photometric monitoring of a large area of the sky (potential the whole visible sky) for objects as faint as 21st magnitude, potentially fainter. Objects brighter than about 15th mag should be observable with sub-second time resolution. The faintest objects will require a few hundred seconds of stacked images.

The instrument itself is a compact array of commercially available telescopes with CMOS detectors. The telescopes are stationary and the detectors are run at a cadence <<1sec, minimising trailing. As the data rate is high it is analysed in a real time pipeline.

In this design astronomical objects move with sidereal motion while solar system or satellites move on different vectors. Correcting for sidereal motion is straightforward while searching non-sidereal vectors needs more sophisticated algorithms.

The ERC have supported the construction of a prototype instrument composed of 52 telescopes and with an instantaneous field of 130×7 deg. Negotiations are underway to locate the instrument on La Palma and we expect the first data to be available within 2 years. Typical projects will be the “instantaneous” detection of explosive events (and maybe triggering other observations), photometry of populations of objects etc.

We intend to hold a community meeting at the RAS on 25th September from 11am to gauge community interest. We will show in greater detail how the instrument works and some of the science that will be possible. Our aim for this meeting is to start exploring the diversity of science cases that are of interest to the community. We would like to explore the requirements they would place on pipeline. We would also like to explore the interest in a deeper system. While we have a baseline system we may be able to explore larger optics.

If you are interested in attending this meeting (or even if you cannot make the meeting but would like to stay in touch with project progress), then please register by mailing Don Pollacco (d.pollacco@warwick.ac.uk). This list would also be used to setup an information email distribution list.

Further details of the Digital Telescope concept are available on
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/research/digit/

Meeting agenda will be sent to those registering a few days before the meeting.… continue to the full article

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As part of the UKRI – Digital Research Infrastructure programme, EPSRC on behalf of UKRI have just launched two calls.

The first is looking at delivering the skills needed for accelerated compute from Research Software Engineers through to Data Stewards to SysOps. These are vital roles for the productivity of UK plc that create a competitive advantage through an efficient and optimised compute ecosystem.

UKRI DRI: digital research infrastructure skills hubs for accelerated compute – UKRI

The second is building on one of the successes of the ExCALIBUR programme in Knowledge Exchange and is looking at setting up a Network+ to enhance knowledge exchange of computational research for the benefit of UK research across the UKRI remit.

UKRI DRI: Championing knowledge exchange for UK computational science – UKRI

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STFC’s Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) is delighted to announce the release of a new funding opportunity: Collaborative Computational Communities: towards new CCPs. The call is now live, with a closing date of 24 October. Subject to quality, funding of up to £1.3 million is available through this opportunity and the FEC of each funded project can be up to £260,000. STFC will fund 80% of the FEC.

This funding is to develop and proliferate the Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) model across research communities within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), creating a strong and stable landscape of communities to support the concept of research computing software as an infrastructure.

This funding comes via STFC from UKRI’s Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) programme and is curated by CoSeC. The expectation is that CoSeC will be a part of the plans and activities within each community, providing a collaborative relationship between them.

The purpose of this funding is to enable community scoping to identify and define viable new CCPs that can be incorporated into the existing and rich community landscape, expanding its overall research remit and the reach of the collaborations it can provide.

Anyone who has an idea for a potential new community is encouraged to apply; or if anyone has contacts from eligible institutions that could be interested in forming a new community, please encourage them to apply.

If you have any questions or require further information please refer to the call website in the first instance. If you are unable to find an answer or would like to discuss an idea in more detail then you can contact us at CoSeC@stfc.ac.uk. … continue to the full article

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The EUI and SWAP/LYRA PI teams welcome research proposals for the 2025 round of their Guest Investigator Program for research based on EUI, SWAP and/or LYRA data analysis by scientists outside the PI teams.

Selected proposers will be invited to spend a few weeks with the PI team at the Royal Observatory in Brussels to obtain expert knowledge on the instruments, to participate in the planning of observations according to the needs of their proposal, and to conduct their research.
Each Guest Investigator may receive reimbursement for travel, accommodation and living expenses.

Proposals must be received by November 1, 2024 (23:59 CET) and visits should be scheduled in 2025.

Details on the 2025 Guest Investigator Call can be found on this webpage: https://www.sidc.be/GuestInvestigator/GI_call_2025… continue to the full article

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Dear Colleagues

I am pleased to invite you to respond to the 24th Announcement of Opportunity to submit proposals for observations to be performed with the XMM-Newton observatory.
This Announcement solicits proposals to be carried out between May 2025 and April 2026. Proposers from institutes located worldwide are welcome to participate. All proposals will be subject to peer review by the XMM-Newton Observing Time Allocation Committee.

The detailed schedule of milestones of the announcement, the required software tools and the documentation are available from:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/ao24

I would appreciate if you would distribute this invitation to interested colleagues.
I wish you every success in using the XMM-Newton observatory.

Email sent on behalf of Prof. Carole Mundell, Director of Science… continue to the full article

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