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Announcements of Upcoming Summer Schools
Notice that this list is not meant to be all-inclusive, but concentrates
on summer schools of potential interest to X-ray, gamma-ray, cosmic-ray, and
gravitational astrophysicists. The HEASARC also maintains a list of upcoming (mostly high-energy
astrophysics) meetings, as well as a list of on-line proceedings
of high-energy astrophysics summer schools.
Updates, corrections, and/or suggestions about summmer schools
should be sent to the
HEASARC Help Desk.
High Energy Astrophysics Summer Schools
2025 Jan 27 - 31:
Saas Fee Course 2025: Galaxies and Black Holes in the First Billion Years as seen with the JWST
2025 Jul 21 - Aug 1:
2025 International Summer School on the Interstellar
Medium of Galaxies
Other Astrophysics-Related Summer Schools
2025 Jan 6 - 10:
2025 Submillimeter Array Interferometry School
Details of High Energy Astrophysics Summer
Schools
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Saas Fee Course
2025: Galaxies and Black Holes in the First Billion Years as seen with the JWST
- Meeting Dates: 2025 Jan 27 - 31
- Meeting Location: Saas Fee, Switzerland
- Application Deadline: 2024 Oct 20
The 54th "Saas-Fee Advanced Course" of the Swiss Society for
Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA) will be held from January 27-31
2025 in the Hotel Allalin in Saas Fee, in the Swiss Alps. This
course is primarily targeted at Ph.D. and advanced M.Sc. students,
but can also be valuable to young postdoctoral researchers who would
like to start exploring the field. The "Saas-Fee Advanced Course"
has taken place annually since 1971 and in 2025 it will be devoted
to
Galaxies and Black Holes in the First Billion Years
as seen with the JWST
Understanding how the first galaxies and black holes formed and evolved is one of the major topics of research in modern astrophysics. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operational since summer 2022, is revolutionizing the field by providing access to galaxies at an early cosmic epoch, when the Universe was only a few hundred million years old, and by probing galaxy properties at much improved sensitivity. Large observational and theoretical efforts are ongoing to understand the emergence of the first galaxies and black holes, with new and surprising discoveries announced on a monthly basis. This Saas-Fee Advanced Course will provide the opportunity for early career researchers to get a comprehensive view of our knowledge of the early Universe after two years of JWST. The program includes a series of lectures by distinguished lectures who will put the recent JWST results in the context of decades of astronomical research into the First Billion Years.
Formal lectures will be complemented by poster presentations and coffee+poster sessions, as well as interactive peer-learning sessions, where the participants will have the opportunity to learn best practices with observational and simulated JWST data. A several-hour-long afternoon break is scheduled, when the participants are encouraged to do winter sports or simply interact with each other.
Due to logistical aspects, the number of participants will be limited
to 60 people. The school will be in-person only.
Topics Include:
- Prof. Rachel Somerville —
Theoretical Modelling of High-z Galaxies
- Prof. Richard Ellis —
Observations of High-z Galaxies
- Prof. Marta Volonteri —
Theoretical Modelling of Early Black Holes
- Dr. Eduardo Banados —
Observations of Early Black Holes
Organizing Committee: saasfee2025_at_unige.ch
Romain Meyer, Michaela Hirschmann, Pascal Oesch
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
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2025 International Summer School on the Interstellar Medium of Galaxies
- Meeting Dates: 2025 Jul 21 - Aug 1
- Meeting Location: Banyuls-sur-mer, France
- Registration Application Deadline: 2025 Apr 18
- Registration Early Payment Deadline: 2025 May 30
- Registration Payment Deadline: 2025 Jun 13
Recent observations of interstellar regions of the Milky Way and of nearby galaxies, by the James Webb and Euclid space telescopes, have demonstrated the wealth of information that we can currently obtain on the InterStellar Medium (ISM) and on its intricate relation with star formation. We are entering an age where the amount and complexity of the data on the ISM calls for dedicated methods for processing observations, extracting the physical information they contain and comparing them to numerical simulations.
The present summer school will address the following outstanding questions.
- What are the new methods needed to analyze the data collected by modern observatories in our field?
- Which new concepts (observations, models) are required to bridge the remaining gap in angular resolution between the Milky Way and external galaxies?
- How can we apply our knowledge of the Galactic ISM to other galaxies? What are the limitations?
- How peculiar is the ISM of the Milky Way? How representative are nearby systems to understand the cosmic evolution of galaxies?
This summer school will be the third edition of the GISM (Galaxies'
ISM) series. It will center around high-level lectures covering the
different aspects of this field. This year, about one third of the
lectures will be devoted to presenting modern data analysis methods,
and will be accompanied with a dedicated hands-on application. In
parallel, each participant will work, in a small group, on a project
whose results will be presented at the end of the school. Finally,
there will be a few round table discussions on open questions,
state-of-the-art methods and on practical aspects of careers in
astrophysics.
Confirmed speakers:
- Dalya BARON (Carnegie Observatories, USA)
- Danielle BERG (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
- Emmanuel DARTOIS (ISMO, Orsay, France)
- Simon GLOVER (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
- Javier GOICOECHEA (CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
- Adeline PAIEMENT (Université de Toulon, France)
- Donatella ROMANO (INAF, Bologna, Italy)
- Antoine ROUEFF (Université de Toulon, France)
- Serena VITI (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Organizing Committee
- Francesco BELFIORE (INAF, Arcetri, Italy)
- Frédéric GALLIANO (AIM, CEA Paris-Saclay, France; chair)
- Annie HUGHES (IRAP, Toulouse, France)
- Chiaki KOBAYASHI (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
- Evangelia NTORMOUSI (SNS, Pisa, Italy)
- Jérôme PETY (IRAM, Grenoble, France)
- Antoine ROUEFF (Université de Toulon, France)
- Patrice THEULÉ (LAM, Marseille, France)
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
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Details of Other Astrophysics-Related Summer
schools
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2025 Submillimeter Array Interferometry School
- Meeting Dates: 2025 Jan 6 - 10
- Meeting Location: Hilo, Hawaii, USA
- Applicaation Deadline: 2024 Sep 30
The school will be held in person at the SAO Offices in Hilo, HI from 6-10 January 2025, with limited space for virtual participation. The workshop will provide a series of lectures focusing on the fundamentals of radio interferometry, with a special emphasis on the Submillimeter Array (SMA) interferometer and its new capabilities. The school will also extensively utilize the SMA, located on Maunakea, providing a hands-on experience of performing observations and data reduction for projects proposed by school participants.
The school will be held in Hilo, HI from 6-10 January 2025. The main goals of the school are to provide advanced undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and scientists outside the field with a broad knowledge of interferometry and data reduction techniques at (sub)millimeter wavelengths.
The workshop will provide a series of lectures focusing on
fundamentals of radio interferometry, with a special emphasis on
the Submillimeter Array (SMA) interferometer and its new
capabilities. The school will also extensively utilize the SMA,
located on Maunakea, providing experience with performing
observations, with data reduction training utilizing projects
proposed by school participants.
Further details and updates on the program and the logistics will be
provided on the School's website
(https://cfa.harvard.edu/sma-school/).
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