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RAS E-CIRCULAR, 2006 January
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http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=781&Itemid=116
Happy New Year
* RAS January Meetings, plus
BGA abstract deadline (Jan 15)
RAS NAM 2006 (April 3-7)
Astrophysical Chemistry Group meeting: The Chemistry of Planets (Jan 5/6)
Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy of H3+ (Jan 16/17)
* RAS Grants alert (Feb 1 deadline)
* Reminders -
RAS Thesis Prizes offered (Jan 31 deadline)
RAS Council nominations sought (Feb 3 deadline)
IAU membership (Feb 15 deadline)
RAS Library Saturday openings
* Congratulations - RAS Prizewinners (and others)
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JANUARY RAS MEETINGS - Friday, Dec 13, Burlington House
http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=227#jan
The January Specialist Discussion Meetings are on:
*LISA: Gravitational-Wave Astronomy from Space
(2-day meeting, Thursday/Friday Jan 12/13, joint with IoP)
*Life and Death of Star Clusters
The A&G meeting at 16:00 features:
Dr Sheila Rowan (Glasgow) -
Current & future status of gravitational-wave astronomy
Prof. Mark Bailey (Armagh) -
The Armagh Observatory Human Orrery
Prof. Henny Lamers (Utrecht) -
The most metal poor stars in the universe,
the halo of our Galaxy, binary evolution,
interstellar depletion, mass loss from Sirius,
comets around Beta Pictoris,
and everything in between - in twenty minutes.
Prof. Gordon Bromage (UCLan) -
SALT: the Southern African Large Telescope
The A&G meeting is open to all, at no charge. Admission to the Specialist
Discussions is free to RAS Fellows, £5 to students, £15 to others.
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BGA DISCUSSION MEETING: SCALE INVARIANCE AND SCALE DEPENDENCE
IN EARTH STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS (March 9-10)
http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=227#mar
**The deadline for receipt of abstracts for the Meeting is 2006 Jan 15
RAS NATIONAL ASTRONOMY MEETING
http://www.nam2006.le.ac.uk/index.shtml
**Make sure it's in your diary (Monday 3 - Friday 7 April 2006)!
On-line registration will open shortly
THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANETS AND WHERE THEY COME FROM
http://phys.strath.ac.uk/astrochem_meet/
**Glasgow, Jan 5/6
PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND ASTRONOMY OF H3+
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/event.asp?id=3079&month=1,2006
**Royal Society, Jan 16/17
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RAS (and other) GRANTS
http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=233&Itemid=105
Fellows are invited to submit applications for grants, normally for
sums between £250 and £5000, for the 2006 Feb 1 deadline; applications
are particularly encouraged for undergraduate research bursaries.
The Nuffield Foundation is also offering undergraduate research
bursaries:
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/go/grants/sciurb/page_95.html
and astronomy research grants of up to US$5000 are available for
undergraduate and graduate students through Sigma Xi's "Grants-in-Aid
of Research" programme, for which the application deadline is Mar 15
http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/
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RAS THESIS PRIZES - JANUARY 31 DEADLINE
http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=244
The Royal Astronomical Society invites nominations for:
The Michael Penston Prize, awarded annually for the best doctoral
thesis in Astronomy or Astrophysics. The prize of £1000 is sponsored
jointly by PPARC and Wiley.
The RAS-Blackwell Prize, awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis in
Exploration Geophysics;
Physics of the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere or Magnetosphere;
Planetary Physics;
Solar Physics; or
Solid-Earth Geophysics
The prize of £1000 is sponsored by Blackwell Publishing.
The prizes are open to students of all nationalities submitting a doctoral
thesis to a United Kingdom university, and are not restricted to
Fellows of the RAS. Nominations should:
* be submitted a Fellow of the Society (normally the student's
examiner or supervisor)
* be in the form of a citation of not more than 500 words
* be accompanied by a copy of the thesis abstract
* gve the names of two referees familiar with the thesis, at least
one of whom should be affiliated to an academic or research
establishment other than that of the candidate. Suitable referees
would be the candidate's internal and external examiners for the
doctorate.
Nominations for the award must be received by the Executive Secretary
by January 31 of the year following that in which the thesis was
recommended for the award of a doctorate by the examiners.
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RAS COUNCIL NOMINATIONS
http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=873&Itemid=111
(Requires member's login)
Fellows are encouraged to submit nominations (or to consider having
themselves nominated) for the Council of the RAS. Nominations must be
sent to the RAS Executive Secretary, David Elliott, at Burlington
House, to arrive not later than noon on 2006 February 3.
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IAU MEMBERSHIP
http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=882
The RAS is the UK National Member of the International Astronomical
Union. As such it is responsible for maintaining an up-to-date list
of individual UK memebers (and for paying their IAU subscription).
New individual members are elected at the IAU General Assemblies. If
you, or any of your UK-based colleagues, want to be nominated for IAU
membership at the 2006 Prague General Assembly, the application form
on the RAS web site should be completed and returned to Burlington
House by 2006 Feb 15 at the latest.
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RAS LIBRARY: Saturday openings 2006
To allow those with day jobs to access the RAS library more easily, it
will be open on the first Saturday every month in 2006:
Jan 7 Apr 1 Jul 1 Oct 7
Feb 4 May 6 Aug 5 Nov 4
Mar 4 Jun 3 Sep 2 Dec 2
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CONGRATULATIONS
The RAS Awards for 2006 were announced at the December 2005 meeting:
The Gold Medal was awarded to
Professor Stan Cowley (Leicester; Geophysics)
Professor Simon White (MPI Astrophysics; Astronomy)
The Chapman Medal: Prof. Steve Schwartz (Imperial College)
The Herschel Medal: Prof. Govind Swarup (Indian National Science Academy)
The Jackson-Gwilt Medal: Dr Keith Taylor (CalTech)
RAS Award for Service to Astronomy & Geophysics: Dr Brian Marsden
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The Fowler Awards go to
Dr Clare Parnell (St. Andrews; Geophysics)
Dr Serena Viti (UCL; Astronomy)
The following scientists were awarded Associate Membership:
Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck (A)
Dr Francoise Genova (A)
Prof. James Liebert (A)
Prof. Oddbjorn Engvold (G)
Prof. Tuija Pulkinen (G)
Prof. Sami Solanki (G)
The winner of the 2005 RAS Blackwell Prize is: Dr Phillip Livermore
(Leeds), for his thesis on "Magnetic stability analysis for the
geodynamo"
We are aso pleased to note the following awards:
Liverpool John Moores University has been awarded a Queen's
Anniversary Prize (part of the honours system) for Higher and Further
Education, for the work of the Astrophysics Research Insitute.
Prof. David Gubbins (Leeds) has been awarded the IoP Chree Medal &
Prize.
The PULSE (Pulsar Science in Europe) collaboration, led by
Prof. Andrew Lyne (Manchester) has been awarded the European
Commission's 2005 Descartes Prize for research.
RAS Gold Medallist Prof. Stan Cowley (Leeds) has also been awarded the
Julius Bartels Medal of the EGU.
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