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SGAA/SSAA News No 54 – 11/09/2023
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1. Prix Schläfli 2023 in Astronomy
2. Edith Alice Müller Awards 2023
3. MERAC Funding 2023 2nd call – Deadline: September 30, 2023
4. Invitation to the SSAA GA held Oct 5-6, 2023 at Geneva Observatory in Versoix
5. Proposals for Saas-Fee Course 2025 – Deadline October 1, 2023
6. Call for SSAA Webmaster – Deadline October 5, 2023 (at the GA)
7. Call for Sessions at EAS annual meeting 2024 – Deadline September 30, 2023
8. Call for EAS 2024 Prizes – Deadline October 31, 2023
9. Call for George Lake Technology Innovation Award – Deadline November 15, 2023
10. Annual membership payment through the webpage
11. General information on the Society
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1. Prix Schläfli 2023 in Astronomy
The Prix Schläfli 2023 in Astronomy is award to Simone Bavera for the first paper of his PhD thesis: Bavera, S. S., Fragos, T., Qin Y., Zapartas E., Neijssel C. J., Mandel, I., Batta, A., Gaebel, S.M., Kimball, C., and Stevenson, S., The origin of spin in binary black holes. Predicting the distributions of the main observables of Advanced LIGO. A&A,635:A97, 2020Our warm congratulations for Simone Bavera for this outstanding success. At the SSAA GA, after the business meeting, the Prix Schläfli will be handed over, followed by the Prix Schläfli talk by Simone Bavera, and an Apéro.———————————————————————————————————————
2. The Edith Alice Müller Awards 2023
We are delighted to announce that the Edith Alice Müller Award 2023 has been given to: Michael Cretignier, Uni Geneva, for the PhD Thesis: Improving the RV precision to detect the Earth’s twins around the Sun’s siblingand Simone Bavera, Uni Geneva, for the PhD Thesis: Unraveling the Origins of Stellar Mass Black Hole Mergers
Our warm congratulations for Simone and Michael for their outstanding achievement. The E.A. Müller Awards will be handed over at the GA
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3. 2nd call for MERAC Funding and Travel Awards – Deadline: September 30 The SSAA is pleased to announce the second 2023 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-awardsThe objectives of the grants are short project stays abroad within a dedicated project. The overall aim is 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 (31 March and 30 September). They must include the following information:
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 committee∂ssaac.h">committee∂ssaac.h
Deadline is September 30.
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4. Invitation to the SSAA GA held Oct 5-6, 2023 at Geneva Observatory in Versoix The SSAA committee kindly invites all SSAA members to this year’s General Assembly, which will be held from Thursday Oct 5, 13:30 until Friday Oct 6, 12:30 at the Geneva Observatory in Versoix. The agenda is available under the following link: https://ssaa.ch/the-society/general-assemblies/ga-2023
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5. Saas-Fee course 2025 – Deadline October 1, 2023 We kindly invite proposals for the Saas-Fee Course to be held in 2025 to be sent to committee∂ssaa.ch before October 1. At the upcoming GA the course topic will be selected.
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6. Call for SSAA Webmaster To help with the transfer of the SSAA website to SCNAT we are looking for a SSAA member willing to support the SSAA committee. For details please contact the SSAA committee via committee∂ssaa.ch.
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7. Call for Sessions at EAS annual meeting 2024 – Deadline September 30, 2023Call for sessions at the European Astronomical Society’s annual meeting 2024 in Padova (July 1-5, 2024). Deadline September 30, 2023. For more details: https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/call.jsp
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8. Call for EAS 2024 Prizes – Deadline October 31, 2023
SSAA members are invited to propose candidates for the MERAC Best PhD Prize, for the Tycho Brahel Medal, and for the Fritz Zwicky Prize. Deadline is October 31. For more details: https://eas.unige.ch/
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9. Call for George Lake Technology Innovation Award – Deadline November 15, 2023
Call for George Lake Technology Innovation Award by the MERAC Foundation to promote innovative astrophysics and cosmology research in the areas of New Technologies, Instrumentation and Computing. Deadline is November 15, 2023.
For more details: https://www.merac.ch/george-lake-award/about
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10. Annual membership payment through the webpage
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).Please note that SSAA members can also be member of EAS (at no additional cost) by ticking the box when registering. If you are unsure, please contact webmaster∂ssaa.ch.
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11. General information on the Society For more information concerning the SGAA/SSAA, astronomy in Switzerland, and related topics visit https://ssaa.ch.
For any information and messages to be circulated via the SGAA/SSAA mailing list please e-mail your input to: committee∂ssaa.ch.
Thank you!
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