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Special Announcements:

We are very proud to announce that two of our members have received prestigious honorary URSI awards.

The URSI John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal has been awarded to Alan Rogers of MIT Haystack Observatory, with the following citation:

"For his outstanding contributions to instrumentation in radio astronomy and its use to make fundamental discoveries about interstellar masers, superluminal expansion of quasars, deuterium abundance in the galaxy, and plate tectonics."

The Medal will be handed over during the Opening Ceremony of the URSI General Assembly in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 10 August 2008 at 3 p.m. I hope many of you will be able to attend to honour Alan's achievement.

The Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal has been awarded to Jack Welch (University of California at Berkeley) with the following citation:

"Pioneer of millimeter wavelength interferometry to investigate astronomical objects ranging from solar system planets to galaxies at the edge of the
Universe with spectral and angular resolution."

The Medal will be handed over during the Opening Ceremony of the URSI General Assembly in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 10 August 2008 at 3 p.m. I
hope many of you will be able to attend to honour Jack's achievement

 

 

Upcoming Meetings

XXIX General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science: August 07-16, 2008 Chicago, Illinois, USA

2009 USNC/URSI annual meeting: January 5-8 Boulder, CO

Full schedule

(note that there will be additional papers in the J4 Terahertz session Tuesday afternoon from

Gordon Stacy, Rolf Guston, Jonathan Kawamura and Chris Walker)

Commission J abstracts for 2009

 

Commission J topics

(a) Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies

session chair: Ray Blundell (rblundell@cfa.harvard.edu)

(b) ALMA Technology, Science and Status 

session chair: Al Wooten (awootten@nrao.edu)

(c) Wideband Astronomy Instrumentation

session chair: Tim Bastian (tbastian@nrao.edu)

(d) Long Baseline Interferometry

session chair: Craig Walker (cwalker@aoc.nrao.edu)

(e) New Telescopes, Techniques and Observations 

session chair: Jim Cordes (cordes@astro.cornell.edu)

 

View talks and presentations:

2009 Commission J presentations at the winter meeting in Boulder

2008 Commission J presentations at the winter meeting in Boulder

2007 Commission J presentations at the USNC/CNC/URSI North American Radio Science Meeting in Ottawa

2005 Commission J presentations at the USNC/URSI winter meeting in Boulder

Past sessions/topics

 

USNC/URSI Commission J information:

 

USNC/URSI Commission J Officers:

Chair, David Woody (dwoody@caltech.edu)

Vice-Chair, Jim Cordes  (cordes@spacenet.tn.cornell.edu)

 

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    Job openings

    There is a position of Domain Specialist in Signal 
    Processing in the Central Design Integration Team. 
    The CDIT is funded by the PrepSKA program. Under the direction of the 
    International Project Engineer, Peter Dewdney, the CDIT and R&D specialists 
    in the national and regional programs will, over the next 4 years, generate 
    the SKA design for the first phase of construction, and an implementation 
    plan for construction of the full SKA at low and mid-band frequencies. The 
    successful candidate will play a key role in the system design in the 
    crucial area of signal processing. This is an excellent opportunity for 
    someone with a good understanding of the issues involved and a desire to be 
    centrally involved in this global project. 
    Further details can be found at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/jobs/academic
    
    The Remote Sensing Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is seeking postdoctoral applications.  
    The successful candidate will be  expected to carry out innovative research programs in 1. Any area of  astrophysics 
    where existing or planned low-frequency radio observations (e.g., with [E]VLA, VLBA, Arecibo, GMRT, GBT, LWA, LOFAR)
     may contribute; 2. Radio astronomy hardware development, such as  antenna and receiver design and development, 
    digital signal  processing, or radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation  techniques; or 3. Imaging and calibration 
    algorithm development for the emerging suite of telescopes, including the Long Wavelength Array
     (LWA) and the EVLA.  Contact Joseph Lazio Joseph.Lazio@nrl.navy.mil  for more information.

    There are two openings for postdocs at Case Western Reserve University;  one working on the South Pole Telescope, the other on the SPIDER balloon-borne instrument being built to search for B-mode polarization in the CMB.  Please contact John Ruhl, ruhl@case.edu, for more information.

    Approximately 20 engineering, software and astronomical positions are available at NRAO in Charlottesville, VA, Socorro, NM, Green Bank, WV and Santiago, Chile.  The job descriptions and application information are listed in
    http://www.nrao.edu/administration/personnel_office/careers.shtml

    Postdoctoral Fellow in Radio Astronomy Calibration and Imaging at the University of California at Berkeley http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gbower/tdp/

    Epoch of Reionization postdoc with the MWA. The successful candidate will help lead the EOR power spectrum analysis with me at the University of Washington, Seattle. Much of the work will focus on precision foreground subtraction, along with a significant role in instrument commissioning. The advertisement is at: http://careers.aps.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=2672345&keywords=&ref=1
    Please contact Miguel Morales at mmorales@phys.washington.edu for more information.

     


    Related links

    Spectrum management, Endangered Hertz

    NSF frequency agreements

    SETI

    Amateur radio astronomy

    Ham radio

    Radio astronomy/radio science in the classroom

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    David Woody, Chair 2006-2008
    Owens Valley Radio Observatory

    Caltech

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    dwoody@caltech.edu
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