SGAA/SSAA News No 50 11/02/2022
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1. Christoph Mordasini will step down as Treasurer of the SSAA
2. Registration online to the Society
3. Annual membership payment through the webpage
4. Travel support SSAA – invitation to apply for grants
5. Call for “Astronomy Outreach” projects
6. Call for MERAC Funding and Travel Awards
7. The Edith Alice Müller Award 2022
8. ISSI /ISSI-BJ Joint Call 2022 for International Teams
9. Next General Assembly of the SSAA in 2022
10. NEW: job opportunities
11. European Astronomical Society (EAS) MEMBERSHIP
12. General information on the Society
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1. Christoph Mordasini will step down as Treasurer of the SSAA
Any member from the Swiss astrophysics and astronomy community interested to take on this role on the committee, please send a message to the secretary of SSAA:
Marina Battaglia, FHNW
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2. Registration online to the Society
Each member of the SSAA is asked to register to provide his/her contact details.
If you have changed your affiliation/e-mail please change the information accordingly.
This will ensure that the SSAA has your correct contact information.
You can directly access the registration page here
https://ssaa.ch/the-society/membership-join/membership-registration
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3. Annual membership payment through the webpage
The 30 CHF annual SSAA membership payment for 2021 can be made online:
https://ssaa.ch/the-society/membership-join/membership-registration/payment
Please pay any late membership fee as well.
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4. Travel support SSAA – invitation to apply for grants (total amount to distribute CHF 5000.-)
In 2021 the SSAA (Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy) will
have some money from the Scnat available for travel money for young scientists.
The SSAA now invites applicants to apply until March 31st 2022.
A form has to be filled here
https://ssaa.ch/funding/young-scientist-support
The request should provide the date, place, and the reason for the
travel, as well as the cost to be covered by the SSAA.
Travel money for young scientists is given preferentially to Ph.D.
students but also young Post-Docs, whereby the money may be used for
observing runs, visits to other institutions, conferences, research
schools etc. In the application it should be clarified in a few words
why this travel is important for the research project of the applicant.
Particularly encouraged to apply are young researchers who are in a
situation where it is not so easy to get the money from other
institutions.
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5. Call for “Astronomy Outreach” projects
In 2021, the SSAA offers financial support of up to 5000 CHF for projects on Astronomy Outreach.
Funding is possible for diverse outreach projects, including support for
exhibitions, the preparation of material for schools, the organization
of events, and alike. Projects will be funded on a competitive basis.
Please send a brief project description and your budget request
to president∂ssaa.ch with copy secretary∂ssaa.ch.
The deadline for the call is: March 31st 2022.
Requests may also be supported outside this call, if funding permits.
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6. Call for MERAC Funding and Travel Awards
The SSAA is pleased to announce the call for MERAC awards.
Since 2013 the SSAA committee distributes Funding and Travel
Awards (20’000 Euro in total) sponsored by Foundation MERAC (Mobilising
European Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology), a nonprofit foundation
in Switzerland to recognize, encourage and promote the research and
mobility of young European Astrophysicists and Cosmologists.
The recipients of the MERAC awards are listed here:
https://ssaa.ch/funding/merac/past-merac-awards
The objectives of the grants are to cover travel costs, participation
at international conferences, short stays abroad, costs for collaborations,
or alike, to support the development of research projects by young
astrophysicists. The grants do not cover expenses for scientific apparatus
or equipment.
The grants are subject to the following conditions:
– The grantee must be employed by or affiliated with a Swiss research
institute or University.
– The grants must be used to cover project costs, not or only partially
covered by other institutions.
– The grant has to be used within two years, after which unused funding
must be reimbursed to the SSAA.
– The grantee provides the SSAA with a financial report and short final
report on the use of the grant.
– The grantee allows the MERAC Foundation to make his/her biography and
project summary public.
Applications will be received twice per year (March 31st, and September 30th).
They must include
1) a short biography,
2) a research project description with a summary,
3) and a budget estimate.
4) In case of a multiple applications, the list of other solicited funds shall be given.
The applications should be limited to a maximum of 5 pages,
in a single pdf file, to be sent to
to president∂ssaa.ch with copy secretary∂ssaa.ch.
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7. The Edith Alice Müller Award 2022
In order to celebrate, in 2018, the half-century of the Swiss Society of Astronomy
and Astrophysics (SSAA), the SSAA Committee decided to create a yearly
award rewarding one astronomer, author of an excellent PhD thesis.
It is named the Edith Alice Müller Award in recognition for the scientific
research done by Edith Alice Müller (1918-1995) on the composition of the Sun
and for her involvement in promoting Astrophysics at the international level.
She was the first woman to be appointed General Secretary of the International
Astronomical Union.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Students having presented a PhD thesis in Switzerland in 2021 (for the Award in 2022).
OBJECTIVE
To promote high quality astrophysical thesis in Switzerland and support the
access to this field of science for both female and male young researchers.
OFFER
The awardee will receive a sum of CHF 1 000.– and a diploma.
MORE INFORMATION
Submission for the Edith Alice Müller Award must be sent to the following
address :
Deadline for receiving applications is June 15th 2022.
Documents needed :
1. A letter of the thesis supervisor that describes the thesis
2. The thesis manuscript
3. A CV of the candidate
4. A list of publications of the candidate
The SSAA will contact the applicants during the third week of
September to give them the result of the evaluation process.
The award will be officially delivered at the yearly General Assembly
of the Society.
The list of the awards from previous years can be found below
https://ssaa.ch/edith-alice-muller-award/
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8. ISSI /ISSI-BJ Joint Call 2022 for International Teams
The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern (Switzerland) and ISSI-BJ in Beijing (China) invite proposals
for establishing International Teams to conduct, at their respective meeting facilities, research in the Space Sciences.
Deadline for proposals: March 17, 2022
To be eligible, research projects must involve the interdisciplinary analysis and evaluation of spacecraft data.
They may also draw on complementary ground-based data and/or theoretical modelling where this adds scientific value.
This call is open to all scientists, regardless of nationality or institutional affiliation, who are actively involved in any of the following research fields:
Space Sciences: Magnetospheric and Space Plasma Physics, Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Planetary Sciences,
Astrobiology, Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Fundamental Physics in Space
Earth Sciences using space data. This includes understanding and modelling Earth system processes, as well as climate change projections.
See https://www.issibern.ch/callteam-proposals-2022/ for details
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9. Next General Assembly of the SSAA in 2022
The next General Assembly will be held on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 October 2022 at a central location in Switzerland.
Details will follow.
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10. NEW: job opportunities
If you would like to make some job announcement in the next e-news.
please send an e-mail to secretary∂ssaa.ch
with the appropriate information.
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11. European Astronomical Society (EAS) MEMBERSHIP
The EAS offers free membership to any member of the SSAA working as a researcher in astrophysics in Switzerland. You can opt in during the registration process to SSAA, or later in your profile interface. By ticking the box–> YES, I want to be an EAS member via the SSAA–, you agree that the SSAA transmits your detailed information to the EAS Office, and you agree that the EAS will make use of these data for EAS-related matters only. The EAS will also publish your first and last names, institution, and country on its EAS website, behind a login. The EAS Office will send login details at the beginning of each year.
SSAA members that are currently ordinary members of the EAS need also to tick this box in the SSAA profile interface if they wish to have the free membership via the SSAA. Otherwise, they will be considered as EAS paying members (40 EUR).
The benefits of EAS membership can be found at:
https://eas.unige.ch//members.jsp?tab=benefits
In particular, EAS members profit from discount registration fees for the EAS annual meeting (formerly EWASS). The membership is, however, not immediate, so in case you plan to attend an EAS annual meeting please be sure to tick the box to accept the EAS membership well in advance of your registration to an EAS annual meeting.
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12. General information on the Society
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Dr. Marina Battaglia
Secretary SSAA
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
Institut für Data Science
Bahnhofstrasse 6
5210 Windisch
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