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'>section PPGF FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME.

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'>The deadline for submitting applications to the 
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'>IAU General Secretary (Karel van der Hucht)
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'>***************************************************************
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'> 

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'>2. ERC starting grants 

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'> 

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'>I would like to call your attention to the coming deadline of the 
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'>1st call for applications for the ERC Starting Grants. =



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'>These grants aim to foster early independence of outstanding <=


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'>young scientists and scholars, of any nationality, European and 
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'>non-European, who are working in or moving to Europe.
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'>Prospective grantees will need to make proposals of exceptional 
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'>quality and, if awarded these prestigious grants, they will have 
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'>scientific independence, to choose their co-workers, decide on 
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'>the evolving directions of their work, re-allocate resources as 
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'>necessary, and publish their scientific work without restrictions 
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'>and independently.

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'>It is a challenge as well as an opportunity, both to them and =



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'>to their respective host institutions.

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'>For more information see:  <=


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'>

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'>The ERC Starting Grants are open to any field of knowledge and 
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'>I do hope Astronomy will have a lot of excellent applications.=



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'>Best regards

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'>Teresa Lago

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'> 

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'>Deadline for Applications: April 25th, 2007

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'> 

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'>******************************************************************
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'> 

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'>3. The Neon observing school in 2007 

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'> 

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'>The 2007 edition of the NEON observing school will take place =

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'>in Asiago observatory from Sept. 4 to 18th, 2007. <=


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'>This school intends to provide the basics necessary to conduct an 
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'>of experienced observers. 

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'>It is open in priority to PhD students and post-docs with no, =



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'>or little, previous observational experience. The costs will be 
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'>covered by the school for EU citizen. 

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'>Details of the program and the application form can be found at: 
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'> www.astro.unipd.it/Neon07/N=


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'> 

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'>Applications will be received until April 27th, 2007
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'> 

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'>Here are several new announcements which we hope will interest 
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'>many of you. 

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'>Please do not hesitate to forward the information to other colleagues. 
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'>Note in particular the second announcement and opening of registration 
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'>for Jenam 2007, and the possibility to still
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'>Vision" exercise initiated  
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'> (you will note the change of adress, but the 
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'>old one is redirected automatically).&nb=


sp; 

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'>With best regards, 

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'>Michel Dennefeld

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'> 

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'>Content

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'> 

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'>1. JENAM 2007 second announcement, and registration 
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'>2. The NEON 2007 observing school in Asiago (Italy)=



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'>3. Contributions to "Science Vision" until Feb. 15th=



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'>4. Call for proposals for the International Time in the Canarian 
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'>Islands

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'>5. Starlight 2007 conference in 
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'>6. Call for proposals at ISSI

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'> 

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'>*****************************************************************
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'> 

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'>1. JENAM 2007

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'> 

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'>The second announcement for the JENAM 
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now 

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'>available at: http://www.aras.am/JENAM-2007/index.htm, =



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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>and
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 web site at 
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://eas.iap.fr/meetings.html
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lang=3DEN-US>

style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>
=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> The registration is open on the Web site=


 also. 

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'> 

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'>Please note the important deadlines: 
=



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'>May  1, 2007
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lications

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'>June 1, 2007  Early Registra=


tion (with reduced fee)  and H=


otel 

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'>Reservation

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'> 

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'>We encourage all of you to submit contributions directly to the 
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'>convenors of the various EAS Symposia and Special Sessions. 
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'>Here is the reminder of the topics:

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'> 

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'>EAS SYMPOSIA

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'> 

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'>EAS S1: Extrasolar Planets

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'>EAS S2: Stellar Evolution and Asteroseismology
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'>EAS S3: Violent Phenomena in Young Stars
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'>EAS S4: High-Energy Astrophysics: the keV-TeV connection
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'>EAS S5: Activity in Galaxies

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'>EAS S6: Dynamics of Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei
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'>EAS S7: Cosmology: New Facts and New Problems
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'>EAS S8: Science with Virtual Observatories

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'> 

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'>JENAM-2007 SPECIAL SESSIONS (SPS)

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'> 

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'>SPS1: European Large Facilities for Astronomy
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'>SPS2: Numerical Astrophysics

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'>SPS3: Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
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'>SPS4: Astronomy from the Antarctic plateau

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'>SPS5: Astronomy Education in Europe

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'>SPS6: Archaeoastronomy

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'> 

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'>****************************************************************
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'> 

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'>2. The NEON observing school in 2007
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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>The NEON observing school in 2007 will take place in Asiago 
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>observatory (Italy) from Sept. 4 to 18th . 

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lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>The school provides opportunity for PhD students or PostDocs in 
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'>astrophysics to gain practical experience in observations and data <=


/o:p>

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'>reductions, as well as use of archival data. 
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'>Work is organised in small groups under supervision of a tutor. 
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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>For more details, see the school Web page at: 
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>www.astro.unipd.it/Neon07/Neon07.html 

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ponding EAS page at 
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target=3D"_blank">http=


://eas.iap.fr/schools.html
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'>

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'> 

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'>Deadline for applications is April 15th, 2007
=



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'> 

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'>****************************************************************
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'> 

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'>3. Contributions to the European Science Vision
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'> 

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'>Following the recent Astronet symposium in Poitiers about 
an>

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'>"A Science Vision for European Astronomy in the next 20 years"<=


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'>and the presentation and discussion of the Science Vision draft, 
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'>it is still possible to contribute scientifically by submitting 
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'>additionnal contributions to the Chairs of the thematic
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'> 

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'>Deadline for input: February 15th, 2007 
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'>For details about the meeting and the panels, please see:
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'>

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'> 

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'>Details about Astronet in general can be found at: =



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target=3D"_blank">http=


://www.astronet-eu.org/
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'> 

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'>**************************************************************=



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'> 

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'>4. International time in the Canarian Observatories 
>

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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>The International Scientific Committee (CCI) of the Canarian <=


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'>Observatories (Obs. Roque de los Muchachos, 
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'>on night-time telescopes installed at these Observatories. 
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'>The ITP offers up to 5% of the observing time (15 nights).
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'>Details about the offered instruments, and practicalities can be 
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href=3D"http://www.iac.es/gabinete/cci/tinoc1.htm" target=3D"_blank">
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ci/tinoc1.htm
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'>

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'> 

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'>Deadline for applications is February 28th, 2007
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'> 

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'> 

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'>5. Starlight 2007 conference in 
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o:p>

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'> 

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arias, together with the 
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'>and the Spanish Ministry of the Environment, are launching 
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'>the STARLIGHT initiative in defence of the 

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'>The first phase will culminate in April 2007 with the International =



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'>Conference "Starlight 2007". Among the main objectives of the c=


onference is

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'>the approval of a World Declaration on the
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'>Right to Starlight as one of mankind's common heritages. 
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'> 

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'>More details about the conference can be found at: =



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'>

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'>Deadline for Abstracts submission: February 24, 2007
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'> 

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'>6. ISSI call for proposals 

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'> 

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'>The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, 
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'>invites proposals from International Teams to conduct on its premises
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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>Detailed information on the format and contents of the proposal, 
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'>on the ISSI site, at

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'>

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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>Letter of Intent:    =


;         February 19, 2007<=


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'>Deadline for proposals:   =


;    March 27. 2007
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'> 

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'>For further questions and informations please contact the 
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'>Programme manager, Vittorio Manno

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o you the best 

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 the Council of the European Astronomical Society. 
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Be it a fruitfull and prosperous New Year for you,=


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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>and professionnally. 
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nt you whenever 

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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>possible in your professionnal endeavours. Besides=


 classical EAS 

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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>events like the JENAM (which is taking place this =


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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>), 

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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>2007 will also see wider
n:yes'>  activities like the International Polar 
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Year and  
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>astronomy should take all its share.
'mso-spacerun:yes'>  And to set-up the long term 
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>perspective, there is already in january the Astro=


net meeting in 

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US'>Poitiers
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> "A science vision for European astronomy in =


the next 20 

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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>years" where we hope to see many of you parti=


cipate (for details, 

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eetings/SciChall07/
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>). 

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ial greetings 

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ur Bulgarian and Roumanian colleagues =


; who are entering the EU: 

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 are since long active members of the EAS, but new possibilities 
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> 

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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>With  
>best regards,

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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Michel Dennefeld, Webmaster<=


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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>   30
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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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language:


EN-US'>Dear Colleagues,

US


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lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>Since the summer, many important developments have taken place,
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>details of which you will find below. The ESFRI roadmap has been
p>

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>published (including an ELT and SKA, under others); a european-wide<=


/o:p>

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'>conference is organised by Astronet in january to establish a common=



lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>Science Vision for the next 20 years; the NUVA astronomers are=



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'>preparing a similar exercise for UV astronomy; and last, but not
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'>least, and at shorter timescale, the first announcement of the=



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'>Jenam 2007 is available also, promising a very dense and interesting=



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'>meeting. We expect that EAS members will participate massively=



lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>in all those events.

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>With best regards,

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>Michel Dennefeld

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'> 

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'>*************************************************************<=


/span>

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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>1. The ESFRI road-map avaiable

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'>2. Science Vision for Astronomy meeting (Poitiers, January 2007)
p>

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>3. UV astronomy meeting in  =


El Escorial (May 2007)

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'>4. JENAM 
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gust 2007) , First announcement available
<=


b>
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'>5. European ELT conference (Marseille, France, Nov.27-Dec.1, 2006)
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lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>6. PhD positions available at the IMPRS (Garching/Munich, Germany)
o:p>

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'> 

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'>**************************************************************=



lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>1. The ESFRI road-map available.

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>ESFRI has now published its Road Map, which can be downloaded at:
:p>

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'> 
style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
href=3D"http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/roadmap.htm" target=3D"_blank">
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i/roadmap.htm
lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>and clicking on European Roadmap on Research Infrastructures
span>

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>(Report 2006). This is a fundamental step for the construction of
:p>

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'>a European ELT and for SKA under others.
=



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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>Those wanting more information about ESFRI itself,<=


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lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>which covers ALL disciplines, not just the physical sciences,<=


/span>

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href=3D"http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/home.html" target=3D"_blank">
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i/home.html
lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>

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'> 

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'>*********************************************************
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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>2. Science Vision for Astronomy meeeting
=



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'> 

lang=3DEN-US style=3D'font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US=


'>A european-wide meeting to prepare a Science Vision for astronomy
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'>for the next 20 years is organised by Astronet in:<=


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2007

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'> This 2.5 day Symposium on "future scientific challenges in
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'>Astronomy" is aimed at getting precious feedback from the=



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'> scientific goals of European Astronomy for the next two decades.
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'>More details can be found in the enclosed announcement, and also
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'>3. NUVA meeting on UV astronomy in El Escorial (Spain)<=


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'>The network for UV astronomy (NUVA) is defining a road map for=



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p;   SPACE ASTRONOMY: THE UV WINDOW TO THE UNIVERSE
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'>is organized to provide a discussion forum on the scientific needs
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p;            
>20-25 August 2007, Yerevan, Armenia

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'>JENAM-2007 (Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting) will
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'>take place in Yerevan (Armenia) and will be the 15th Annual Meeting<=


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'>of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) and the 6th Annual<=


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'>Meeting of the Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS).
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'>JENAM-2007 will consist of 6 Plenary sessions (invited reviews on
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'>hot topics of modern astrophysics, 8 EAS Symposia,<=


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'>and 7 Special Sessions (SPS).

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'>The EAS symposia will last 2-3 days each, 4 symposia in parallel.
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'>The SPS will last 2 days each, 3 or 4 SPS in parallel.<=


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'>Poster sessions will be organized as well for each of the symposia
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'>and SPS.

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'> 

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'>EAS SYMPOSIA

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'> 

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'>EAS S1: Extrasolar Planets

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'>EAS S2: Searching for Proto-Planets around Young Stars<=


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'>EAS S3: Violent Phenomena in Young Stars
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'>EAS S4: High-Energy Astrophysics

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'>EAS S5: Activity in Galaxies

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'>EAS S6: Dynamics of Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei
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'>EAS S7: Observational Cosmology

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'>EAS S8: Science with Virtual Observatories

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'>JENAM-2007 SPECIAL SESSIONS (SPS)

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'>SPS1: Stellar Structure and Evolution
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'>SPS2: New Developments in Asteroseismology

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'>SPS3: Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
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'>SPS4: Astronomy from the Antarctic plateau

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'>SPS5: Astronomy Education in Europe

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'>SPS6: Archaeoastronomy

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'>SPS7: Numerical Astrophysics

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'> 

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'>Note: some of the SPS may be cancelled if there is not enough<=


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'>interest from the pre-registered participants.
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'> 

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'>Full details can be found on the Armenian Web site at:<=


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'>   
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'>To overcome possible connexion problems, a mirror Web site will
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'>also be established on the EAS site in the near future.=



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'> 

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'>Deadline for pre-registration: December 31th, 2006<=


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'>***************************************************************
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'> 

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'>5. European ELT Conference in Marseille (France)
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'> 

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'>Reminder

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'> 

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sp;         27 November=


 - 1st December 2006

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'> 

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'>This meeting will offer the European astronomical community at large=



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'>the opportunity to provide precious feedback to the goals and means<=


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'>of the ambitious European ELT programme. The Meeting is organised
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'>in 3 main sessions: Science (1.5 day), Presentation by ESO of the E-ELT
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'>status and discussion (1.5 day), Instrumentation (1 day).
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'> 

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'>The program is now available on the web site www.elt2006.org
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'> 

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'>If you wish to attend, please register before November 15th.
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'> 

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'>Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Isobel Hook, Guy Monnet
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'> 

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'>***************************************************************
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'> 

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'>6. PhD positions at the IMPRS in Munich/Garching, Germany
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'> 

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'> For the 7th time, the International Max-Planck Research School on
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'>Astrophysics (IMPRS) is soliciting applications for its PhD program.=



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'> 

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'> IMPRS offers a highly competitive PhD program, including lectures,<=


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'>seminars, and a research project supervised by scientists at one of<=


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'>the  participating instituti=


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'>    * The Max-Plan=


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'>    * The Max-Plan=


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'>    * The European=


 Southern Observatory (ESO)

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'>  Course language is English=


.

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'>In general, applicants should have a Masters or Diploma in Physics
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'>Ph.D. fellowship.

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'>Applications for the program are open to students from all countries.
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'>More details on the IMPRS program and the admission requirements
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'>The closing date for applications for the program starting
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>With best regards,

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mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Michel Dennefeld

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ARA for Early Stage Training

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ER SCHOOL FOR YOUNG ASTRONOMERS

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