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Announcements of Upcoming Meetings
Notice that this list is not meant to be all-inclusive, but concentrates
on meetings of potential interest to X-ray, gamma-ray, cosmic-ray, and
gravitational astrophysicists. The HEASARC also maintains a list of upcoming
high-energy astrophysics summer schools, a list of on-line proceedings
of high-energy astrophysics meetings, as well as a list of on-line proceedings
of high-energy astrophysics summer schools.
Updates, corrections, and/or suggestions about meetings should be sent to
the
HEASARC Help Desk.
Other Sources of Information on Upcoming
Meetings
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List of International Astronomy meetings maintained by the Canadian
Astronomy Data Center
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Space Calendar
- 2021 Jan 18-22 [both virtual and in person]:
NTHU/NCTS Astronomy Winter School: High-Energy Astrophysics
- 2021 March 23 - 26:
THESEUS Conference 2020
- 2021 April 12 - 16: The 9th Fermi Symposium
- 2021 April 18 - 23:
Growing Black Holes: Accretion and Mergers
- 2021 Sep 5 - 11:
IWARA 2021
2020 August 15 - 23 [POSTPONED TO 2021
28 Jan - 4 Feb] August 15 - 23:
43rd Scientific Assembly of
the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events "COSPAR 2020"
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NTHU/NCTS Astronomy Winter School: High-Energy Astrophysics
- Meeting Dates: 2021 Jan 18-22
- Meeting Location: Online and at the National Center for Theoretical Science, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Early registration deadline: 2020 Dec 20
The purpose of this winter school is to present an overview of the progress in major areas of cosmic ray astrophysics and gamma-ray astronomy in recent years, and to provide an introduction to the essential physics and concepts. It will also be an opportunity to bring together both new and established researchers in the field for discussion and exchange of ideas.
The programme will cover a broad range of topics within cosmic ray astrophysics and gamma-ray astronomy, ranging from theory/modelling & simulation to instrumentation & observation.
The school is intended for graduate research (PhD and Masters) students and post-docs with an interest in becoming involved in high energy astrophysics (in particular, topics relating to cosmic rays and gamma-rays), as well as early-career scientists already active in the field looking to broaden their understanding. It will comprise of a keynote lecture and six primary lecture series from international experts, plus five highlight science talks to complement the programme. The keynote lecture will be given by Prof Werner Hofmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany).
Please see the website for detailed information about the lecturers, courses and highlight talks:
http://phys.cts.nthu.edu.tw/actnews/content.php?Sn=505
Remote attendance is encouraged, particularly for those wishing to attend from outside of Taiwan.
Due to limited availability of seats, those wishing to attend in person should register as early as possible to ensure on-site participation. After on-site spaces are filled, online registration will remain open until 20th December 2020.
Topics :
Cosmic rays, gamma-ray astronomy, particle acceleration and interactions, instrumentation
Keynote talk:
Invited lecturers :
Invited lecturers :
- Jim Hinton (MPIK)
- Yoshiyuki Inoue (Osaka)
- Albert Kong (NTHU)
- Frank Rieger (ZAH, Heidelberg/MPIK)
- Kinwah Wu (UCL/MSSL)
- Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang (NTHU)
Highlight speakers:
- Hsiang-Kuang Chang (NTHU)
- Kwan Lok Li (NCKU)
- Alison Mitchell (Adelaide/Zurich)
- Ellis Owen (NTHU)
- Pooja Surajbali (MPIK)
There is no registration fee. Registration is open now. The registration deadline will be 20th December 2020. Note that on-site participation will be limited to 50 people. Due to the limited availability of seats, interested parties wishing to attend on-site please visit our website and sign up to register as early as possible to ensure your participation. There will be no limitation on the number of people wishing to join remotely.
Financial support for transportation and accommodation expenses is available for the on-site attendees who have no other means of funding support.
For more information please visit the
website.
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THESEUS
Conference 2020
- Meeting Dates: 2021 March 23 - 26
- Meeting Location: Malaga, Spain
- Abstract deadline: TBA
The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is
a space mission concept aiming at fully exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts
for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial
advancement of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics,
currently under Phase A study by the European Space Agency (ESA) as
candidate M5 mission in view of a launch opportunity in 2032 (https://www.isdc.unige.ch/theseus).
During this dedicated scientific conference, the THESEUS science case will be presented through review talks that highlight the state-of-the-art knowledge on GRB science, early Universe studies, gravitational wave physics, and transient Universe phenomena. The development status of the instruments on-board THESEUS will be reported and discussed, together with the current assumptions for the mission profile. Contributed talks are expected to enrich the program and suggest further exploitations of the THESEUS instrumentation in many other fields of the modern Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, and fundamental physics. Through this conference, we aim at strengthening the involvement of the community in the project and boost even more the synergies being developed between THESEUS and other facilities operational in the 2030s in the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger domains. The possible use of THESEUS as a general purpose guest observer facility will also be discussed.
The event is promoted by the THESEUS consortium and the Science Study Team, appointed by ESA in 2018, plus the leading scientific Spanish representatives of the THESEUS collaboration.
Science Organizing Committee:
L. Amati (INAF-IASF Bologna, IT; CHAIR); D. Gotz (CEA Saclay, FR; co-chair); P. O'Brien (Univ. Leicester, UK; co-chair); S. Basa (LAM Marseille, FR); M. D. Caballero-Garcia (IAA-CSIC, Spain); A. Castro-Tirado (IAA Granada, ES); L. Christensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); M. Guainazzi (ESA/ESTEC); L. Hanlon (UCD, IE); S. Paltani (Univ. Geneva, CH); V. Reglero (Univ. Valencia, ES); A. Santangelo (Univ. Tubingen, DE); G. Stratta (INAF-OAS Bologna, IT); N. Tanvir (Univ. Leicester, UK).
Local Organizing Committee:
E. Bozzo (Univ. Geneva, CH); I. Carrasco (UMA); A. Castro-Tirado (IAA Granada, ES); E. Fernández-García (IAA-CSIC); Y.-D. Hu (IAA-CSIC); C. Pérez del Pulgar (UMA); A. Reina (UMA)
For more information, please visit the conference website or email to: theseus2020 [AT] unige [DOT] ch
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The 9th Fermi Symposium
- Meeting Dates: 2021 April 12 - 16
- Meeting Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
This symposium follows previous Fermi Symposia at Stanford, CA
(February 2007), Washington, DC (November 2009), Rome, Italy (May
2011), Monterey, CA (November 2012), Nagoya, Japan (October 2014),
Arlington, VA (November 2015), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
(October 2017), and Baltimore, MD (October 2018).
The two Fermi instruments have been surveying the high-energy sky
since August 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) has discovered
more than a thousand new sources and many new source classes,
bringing the importance of gamma-ray astrophysics to an
ever-broadening community. The LAT catalog includes supernova
remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, pulsars, binary systems, novae,
several classes of active galaxies, starburst galaxies, normal
galaxies, and a large number of unidentified sources. Continuous
monitoring of the high-energy gamma-ray sky has uncovered numerous
outbursts from a wide range of transients. Fermi LAT's study of
diffuse gamma-ray emission in our galaxy revealed giant bubbles
shining in gamma rays. The direct measurement of a
harder-than-expected cosmic-ray electron spectrum may imply the
presence of nearby cosmic-ray accelerators. LAT data have provided
stringent constraints on new phenomena such as supersymmetric
dark-matter annihilations as well as tests of fundamental
physics. The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) continues to be a
prolific detector of gamma-ray transients: magnetars, solar flares,
terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and gamma-ray bursts at keV to MeV
energies, complementing the higher energy LAT observations of those
sources in addition to providing valuable science return in their
own right.
All gamma-ray data are made immediately available at the Fermi Science
Support Center. These publicly available data and Fermi analysis
tools have enabled a large number of important studies. We
especially encourage guest investigators worldwide to participate in
this symposium to share results and to learn about upcoming
opportunities.
This meeting will focus on the new scientific investigations and results enabled by Fermi, the mission and instrument characteristics, future opportunities, and coordinated observations and analyses.
For more information please visit the
symposium website.
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Growing Black Holes: Accretion and Mergers
- Meeting Dates: 2021 April 18 - 23
- Meeting Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
- Registration and Abstract Deadline:
2020 Jan 1
[Will be updated]
- Discounted Hotel Deadline:
2020 Mar 1 [Will be updated]
Growing Black Holes: Accretion and mergers, 18-23 April 2021, is the seventh in a series of astrophysical conferences held in Kathmandu (Nepal). The meeting will focus on various aspects on accretion onto black holes, mergers of compact objects forming black holes, and jets formed in those systems. Emission of those systems/events in electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves and neutrinos will be also addressed.
This conference will be in memory of Sergio Colafrancesco.
Sergio has been among the conference organizers for most of the previous conference editions. He was an internationally recognized scientist, expert in cosmology and astrophysics and a Nepal lover.
Main Topics:
- Black holes of all masses
- Compact object mergers at all scales (stellar mass & supermassive), EM and GW signatures
- Physics of accretion, disc winds and jets -- Galactic systems, IMBHs, and AGN
- Stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs)
- Large-scale feedback: jets and outflows
- Galaxy -- BH scaling relations
- Collapsars: black hole formation and GRBs
- Multimessenger astrophysics
- Mission Highlights and upcoming missions
Conference Site:
The conference will be held at the five star Hotel Radisson in Kathmandu, Nepal. The hotel is close to the Royal Palace and within walking distance to the center of the city.
Conference Fee:
The conference fee will be 350 EUR (including lunches, coffee breaks, welcome reception and conference banquet, use of the hotel conference facilities and a sightseeing) if registered before the deadline of 2020.01.01. After that, late registration will only be possible, if any space is left. The fee then is 400 EUR. We strongly encourage early registration and flight booking.
A reduced fee of 250 EUR is foreseen for Indian/SAARC scientists and a further reduced fee of 200 EUR is foreseen for students (PhD, master degrees).
Pre-conference school for local students:
A two-day school for local students (April 17-19), which introduces the conference topics, is planned.
Trekkings/Excursions:
There is the option of booking a few post-conference trips, including
trekking in Nepal with Everest/Himalaya views, and a one-week
excursion to Bhutan. These are not part of the conference, but are
organized by external trekking agencies. Strict booking deadlines
apply. More information is available here
Scientific Organizing Committee:
G. Beck (South Africa), K. Belczynski (Poland), M. Branchesi (Italy), M. Colpi (Italy), M. Elvis (US), A. Gopakumar (India), K. Holley-Bockelmann (US), A. Ingram (UK), S. Komossa (chair; Germany), J.-P. Lasota (France), R. Morganti (Netherlands), C. Mundell (UK), E. Palazzi (Italy), E. Pian (Italy), L. Piro (Italy), L. Rezzolla (Germany), G. Sivakoff (Canada), A. Tchekhovskoy (US), M. Trenti (Australia), D.R. Upadhyay (Tribhuvan Univ., Nepal), A. Veledina (Finland), A. Zdziarski (Poland), S.-N. Zhang (China)
Local Organizing Committee
S. Komossa (Bonn, Germany), E. Palazzi (INAF/OAS-Bologna, Italy), M. Trenti (Melbourne Univ., Australia), A. Zdziarski (chair, NCAC, Poland)
Contact
nepal2020[AT]iasfbo[DOT]inaf[DOT]it
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IWARA2021 -
10th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic
Astrophysics
- Meeting Dates: 2021 Sep 5 - 11
- Meeting Location: Mexico City, Mexico
The event is the tenth in a series of meetings gathering scientists
working on astroparticle physics, cosmology, gravitation, nuclear
physics, and related fields. As in previous years, the IWARA2021
meeting sessions will consist of invited and contributed talks,
poster sessions, and will cover recent developments in the following
topics:
- New phenomena and new states of matter in the Universe
- General relativity, gravitation, cosmology
- New directions for general relativity: past, present and future of general relativity
- FRW cosmologies
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
- First stars, hypernovae, and faint supernovae in the early Universe
- Quantum gravity and quantum cosmology
- Gravity and the unification of fundamental interactions
- Supersymmetry and Inflation
- String theory
- White dwarfs, neutron stars and pulsars
- Black hole physics and astrophysics
- Gamma-ray emission in the Universe
- High energy cosmic rays
- Gravitational waves
- Dark energy and dark matter
- Strange matter and strange stars
- Antimatter in the Universe
- High-energy cosmic neutrinos
- Blazars
- Quantum chromodynamics, nuclear and particle physics and new states of matter in the Universe. Heavy ion collisions and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions and in the first instants of the Universe
- Strong magnetic fields in the Universe, strong magnetic fields in compact stars and in galaxies, ultra-strong magnetic fields in neutron star mergers, quark stars and magnetars, strong magnetic fields and the cosmic microwave background
- Laboratories, observatories, telescopes and other experimental
and observational facilities that will define the future
directions of astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, nuclear and
astroparticle physics as well as the future of physics at the
energy frontiers, and topics related to these.
For more information, please visit the
workshop website.
Other Selected Astronomy, Physics and Space Science
meetings
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43rd Scientific Assembly of
the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events "COSPAR 2020"
- Meeting Dates: 2020
August 15 - 23 [POSTPONED TO 2021
28 Jan - 4 Feb]
- Meeting Location: Sydney, Australia
Selected Astronomy-related Technology (e.g.,
Instrumentation) Meetings
- None
Selected Astronomy-related Physics, Computational,
Data Analysis, Software or Statistics Meetings
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Selected Space Science-related Education and Public
Outreach Meetings
- None
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