June 2015 - Cosmo-pl - cosmo.torun.pl

Cosmo School@Kielce 15.07-25.07.2015: reg **deadline 30.06.2015**
by Boud Roukema 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cosmology School - Introduction to Cosmology Kielce, Poland 15.07-25.07.2015 http://www.cosmology-school.ujk.edu.pl/deadlines.html > The deadline for late registration is 1st July 2015. Payment of the > registration fee (400 PLN) can be made via bank transfer to the > following account until 30 June... http://www.cosmology-school.ujk.edu.pl/ The general purpose of the First Cosmology School in Kielce is to give an introduction to the current knowledge in cosmology, both in theory and observations. This School is intended for undergraduate and PhD students, as well as young postdoctoral researchers, interested in these fields. Topics: Cosmic Microwave Background - spectrum and anisotropies; Cosmological parameters from Planck data; Galaxy formation; Galaxy evolution; Introduction to Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Present and future deep galaxy surveys; Cosmology from Gamma Ray Bursts; Magnetic fields in the Universe; Dark matter and dark energy; Radio galaxies across the Universe; Cosmic Web; Computer simulations; Cosmological Observations Lecturers: Marek Biesiada (US, Katowice); Łukasz Bratek (IFJ, Krakow); Veronique Buat (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille); Denis Burgarella (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille); Guido Chincarini (Milano); Gianfranco De Zotti (Padowa, Trieste); Michał Hanasz (UMK, Torun); Wojciech Hellwing (Durham University); Joanna Jałocha-Bratek (IFJ, Krakow); Marek Jamrozy (UJ, Krakow); Jacek Krełowski (UMK, Torun); Jerzy Krzesiński (UP, Krakow); Elena Panko (OA, Nikolaev); Agnieszka Pollo (UJ, Krakow and NCBJ, Warszawa); Andrzej Sołtan (CAMK, Warszawa); Tsutomu Takeuchi (Nagoya University); Rien van de Weijgaert (Greningen) Organisers: PTA, UJK, UJ SOC: P. Flin (UJK, Kielce), A. Pollo (UJ, Krakow and NCBJ, Warszawa) LOC: M. Drabik, M. Biernacka, J. Krywult, P. Kankiewicz - UJK, Kielce ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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PoToR2: 100 yrs of GR, @Warsaw 23.11-28.11.2015
by Boud Roukema 28 Jun '15

28 Jun '15

---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2nd Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity: 100 Years of General Relativity 23-28 November 2015 Warsaw, Poland at Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center (Śniadeckich 8) and Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw (Pasteura 5) http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~potor/potor15.html LOC: Andrzej Królak, Jerzy Lewandowski, Adam Szereszewski, Piotr Sułkowski, Andrzej Okołów, Wojciech Kamiński, Ryszard Kostecki SOC: Piotr Jaranowski, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Jerzy Lewandowski, Jacek Tafel, Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski, Andrzej Królak, Andrzej Trautman Aims and Scope The scientific program covers broad range of topics from the mathematical structure of General Relativity (GR) and fundamental issues of the classical gravity, through the mathematical models of quantum gravity, to gravitational waves and their detection. Because of the 100 anniversary of GR there will be an additional day of the conference (11/28/2015) organized at the Faculty of Physics of University of Warsaw that will have a special, historical character. The goal of the conference is giving an account of achievements of GR. This theory was being developed in many different directions. All of them will be included in the conference. We will invite experts from the leading world centers of mathematical relativity and gravitational physics who will present the state of art in our knowledge and understanding of the various areas of General Relativity: Global Structure of space-time, Properties of Einstein's equations and evolution of initial data, Methods of deriving and properties of exact solutions, Numerical analysis of Einstein's equations, Black holes, Cosmology, relativistic astrophysics, Detection and analysis of gravitational waves, Models of quantum gravity, Higher dimensional generalizations of GR, History of General Relativity, Alternative theories of gravity. Invited speakers include: Jan Ambjorn (University of Copenhagen); Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (La Sapienza, Rome); Piotr Bizoń (Jagiellonian University, Cracow); Piotr Chruściel (University of Vienna); Marek Demiański (University of Warsaw); Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge); George Ellis (University of Cape Town); Helmut Friedrich (MPI Golm); Hanoch Gutfreund (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Michał Heller (Copernicus Center, Cracow); Stefan Hollands* (Universitaet Leipzig); Roy Kerr*; Jerzy Kijowski (CFT, Warsaw); Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman (University of Wrocław); Andrzej Krasiński (Centrum Astronomiczne Mikołaja Kopernika, Warsaw); Jerzy Lukierski (University of Wrocław); Yongge Ma (Beijing Normal University); Paweł Mazur (University of South Carolina); Ezra T. Newman (University of Pittsburgh); Paweł Nurowski (University of Warsaw); Roger Penrose (Oxford University); Jürgen Renn (MPI Berlin); Martin Reuter (Universitaet Mainz); Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff University); Gerhard Schäfer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena); John Stachel (Boston University); Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena); Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (University of Warsaw) * TBC The conference will be organised jointly by: Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Polish Society on Relativity, and Uniwersytet Warszawski. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Two cosmology postdoctoral positions at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) (fwd)
by Boud Roukema 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

Postdoctoral Positions in Cosmology at KASI The cosmology group at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, Korea invite applications for up to 2 postdoctoral fellow positions in theoretical/observational cosmology to work with Dr. Arman Shafieloo. One position is available as early as November 2015 and another position will be available from April 2016. Cosmology group at KASI consist of Drs. Yong-Seon Song (PI), Ki Young Choi, Arman Shafieloo, Eric Linder (as a visiting professor) and currently 5 postdoctoral researchers and a PhD student. The group is consistently growing and is active in various fields of cosmology including observational cosmology, primordial inflation, cosmological perturbation, large scale structure and dark energy. Our group at KASI is a member of major wide-deep field surveys such as DESI (and soon LSST) and have close connections to other KASI survey involvements including KMTnet, JCMT, ALMA and GMT. For one of the positions we are particularly interested to a young and enthusiastic researcher to work on large scale structure data (real data and future data simulations) to test and study different early universe scenarios. For another position, we are interested to an applicant to work on advanced statistical methods of data analysis and their applications in studying various cosmological observations. This could involve working on innovative algorithms to deal with large flow of data from future cosmological surveys (Cosmology Big Data) such as LSST. The positions are initially for two years, with the possibility of a third year depending on the research performance, mutual agreement or funding situation. The starting date of the appointments are negotiable. Interested applicants should submit their CV, a list of publications, and a statement of research interests to icapadmin at kasi.re.kr and CC to Dr. Arman Shafieloo - shafieloo at kasi.re.kr. They should mention in the subject of their email that they are applying for cosmology postdoctoral positions. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same addresses. First position can be filled by November 2015 in case of availability of a suitable applicant and deadline is 30th of June 2015. Those who have strong backgrounds in astrophysics, observational cosmology, theoretical cosmology and/or have expertise in advanced statistical methods of data analysis are encouraged to apply.

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