1. Double Anniversary: 100 Years Astronomical Institute – 200 Years Uraniae
2. Update from the GA
3. Reminder to pay the 2022 membership fee
4. 53rd Saas-Fee Course for 2024 selected
5. Submission deadlines for SSAA Awards (March 1, June 15, and Sept 1, 2022)
6. The committee has reviewed the MERAC proposals
7. Picture Competition by SNSF (Deadline 31 January 2023)
8. Europlanet – vacant seats
9. General information on the Society
With our best wishes towards the end of Year 2022.
Marc Audard, Brice-Olivier Demory, Oliver Müller, and Margit Haberreiter
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1. Double Anniversary: 100 Years Astronomical Institute – 200 Years Uraniae
The SSAA congratulates the University of Bern for 100 Years Astronomical Institute and 200 Years Uraniae.
https://www.aiub.unibe.ch/about_us/news__events/double_anniversary/index_eng.html
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2. Update from the SSAA:
We thank all presenters for their excellent science talks.
Brice-Olivier Demory has been elected as Treasurer.
Oliver Müller has been elected as Secretary.
Marc Audard has been confirmed as Vice-President.
The SSAA financial report was approved;
Date and place of the next GA: 5-6th October 2023 in Geneva; details will be announced closer to the meeting.
The minutes, slides, short reports of the GA can be found at this link:
https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/SDm2qJWAS7hosqQ
The science talks will also be made available on the same repository.
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3. Reminder to pay the 2022 membership fee
The 30 CHF annual SSAA membership payment can be made online:
https://ssaa.ch/the-society/membership-join/membership-registration/payment
You can also set an automatic annual payment by clicking on the “Subscribe” button (but in that case you need to have a PayPal account).
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4. 53rd Saas-Fee Course for 2024 selected
Title: From stars to planets in the space-based photometry eras
Scientific Organizers: Vincent Bourrier, Patrick Eggenberger, Gael Buldgen, and Svetlana Berdyugina.
Congratulations to the Team!
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5. Submission deadlines for recurrent SSAA Awards
– Deadline for MERAC Awards: March 1 and September 1, 2023
– Deadline for Travel Awards: March 1, 2023
– Deadline for Outreach Awards: March 1, 2023
– Deadline for Edith Alice Müller Award 2023: June 15, 2023
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6. The committee has reviewed the MERAC proposals of Call 2 in 2022.
We warmly congratulate Anna Lueber, Julia Roquette, and Kathryn Dawn Jones for receiving the MERAC Awards.
All MERAC awardees can be found under:
https://saa.phys.ethz.ch/funding/merac/past-merac-awards
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7. Picture Competition by SNSF (Deadline 31 January 2023)
The Swiss National Science Foundation is inviting Swiss researchers to send their best photographs, images and short videos to the SNSF Scientific Image Competition.
The winning images will be exhibited at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in May 2023.
Useful links:
Submission form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewUuAxaBiXDJHA6BUKYp9sCg9t6wHojfdB8tZH9oZz627OlA/closedform
SNF Video trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEcEdqprZ8I
Online gallery of all submissions (2017–2022)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/snsf_image_competition/albums
Exhibition at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography (2022)
https://bielerfototage.ch/en/Exhibition/a-new-look-at-science/
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8. Europlanet – vacant seats
The Swiss hub of Europlanet (European association for planetary scientists) has currently a few seats vacant, including the chair of the hub. Europlanet is looking for volunteers!
Most of the roles consist mainly in relaying information between the Swiss community and Europlanet, such as funding opportunities, etc.
More about on Europlanet see https://www.europlanet-society.org.
To know more about the vacant positions please contact Thibaut Roger: thibaut.roger∂unibe.ch.
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9. General information on the Society
For more information concerning the SGAA/SSAA, astronomy in Switzerland, and related topics visit our Website https://ssaa.ch.
For any information and messages to be circulated via the SGAA/SSAA mailing list please e-mail your text to the secretary: secretary∂ssaa.ch in plain ASCII.
Thank you!
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