The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... The submission of a formal application to the Board of Graduate Studies for admission as a graduate student in the University of Cambridge in Physics. ... Your application must be completed and submitted to the Board of Graduate Studies as soon as possible; students who are applying for admission in October 2016 should make sure it arrives sufficiently early that we can assess it at the same time as we receive our internal Astrophysics Group application form (i.e. by March 2016, see below). ...

... ICND-96, Saratov, Russia. ... And though a number of efficient methods of digital sound compression is developed by far, there is still a need in new efficient methods. In this report we study a possibility of application of fractal methods to compression of speech signals. ... In this method, a speech frame is divided into larger pieces called domains, and smaller ones called regions, and an optimal set of affine transformations of domains into regions is calculated. ...

... This section describes some special kinds of dialog that exist for your convenience, and for UI consistency. ... GtkWidget* gnome_about_new (const gchar* title , const gchar* version , const gchar* copyright , const gchar** authors , const gchar* comments , const gchar* logo ); . ... Gnome provides several "types" of message box; they have different icons next to the text, and corresponding titles. ... GtkWidget* gnome_message_box_new (const gchar* message , const gchar* messagebox_type , .. ...

... International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics -- Call for applications . ... Тема: International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics -- Call for applications . Call for applications - please forward to potential students *** Dear Colleague, The International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics (IMPRS) in Garching/Munich (Bavaria, Germany) is soliciting applications for its PhD program. ... International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics . ... MAO NASU . ...

... The algorithm has been successfully applied to both real and simulated astronomical data (Jefferies , 1993; Jefferies 1993) and its ability to accurately preserve photometry in the observed image has been demonstrated. ... In order to investigate the algorithm's performance without the influence of detector and photon noise we took the ``truth'' data set and convolved it with the given PSF to generate a noiseless image. ... The restored object and the two restored PSF's are shown in Fig. ...

Optical characteristics of non-spherical scatterers . ... A list of reviews (under preparation) and links to the databases of Hovenier's and Gustafson's groups on the visible/infrared and microwave light scattering experiments, respectively. ... Light scattering codes . ... Benchmarks in optical properties . Tables of different light scattering characteristics carefully calculated by different codes (methods). Dependence of optical properties on scatterer parameters . ...

... We present several applications of the AIPS++ environment as applied to the development of the Green Bank Telescope as well as current astrophysical problems. ... In particular, the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) project requires AIPS++ as an analysis environment. To accommodate and facilitate the GBT development, several sets of tools have been fashioned within AIPS++ at several points along the data path, from general calibration routines and data quality assessment to analysis and modeling. ...

... Arithmetic Geometry: Explicit Methods and Applications, Program . ... Marc Hindry (Paris) . ... Coffee break . ... Groups of points arising from elliptic curves . ... On CM genus 3 curves . ... Richard Griffon (Paris) . Analogues of the Brauer-Siegel theorem for elliptic curves over function fields . ... Julie Desjardins (Paris) . ... Algorithms for Curves and Jacobians . ... Conference dinner . ... The distribution of the trace in the compact group of type G 2 and applications . ...

The SAO Summer Intern Program . APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1 st , 23:59 ET (Before midnight), 2016 THE 2016 DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS IS . FEBRUARY 1 st , 2016. THE ELECTRONIC APP