Issue 16-10, April 10, 2016
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- MAVERICKS LAB: GRAD STUDENT AND POST DOC OPPORTUNITY
- COURSE ON PLANETARY INTERIORS
- EARLY CAREER TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR SBAG 15 MEETING
- SOLAR SYSTEM SUBGROUP PARTICIPATION FOR FAR-IR SURVEYOR STDT
- JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
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MAVERICKS LAB: GRAD STUDENT AND POST DOC OPPORTUNITY
The SETI Institute has partnered with NASA HQ, NVIDIA and the Asteroid
Grand Challenge for a summer research project aimed at pairing young
planetary scientists with early-career machine learning software
developers to “hack” various datasets pertaining to the tracking
and cataloging of NEO’s. The idea is to see what can be gleaned
from such datasets by applying some of the latest developments in
machine learning to analyze the data in new and innovative ways.
The project is called “Mavericks Lab” and it has its own website at:
We are looking for more applicants to the project from the planetary
science community, where the target is PhD candidates or postdocs.
The project will run for ~6 weeks this summer, and will be hosted
here at SETI Institute. Participants will be housed at dormitories
at NASA Ames. Applications due April 24.
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COURSE ON PLANETARY INTERIORS
The International School of Space Science of the Consorzio Interuniversitario
per la Fisica Spaziale organizes a Course on “Planetary Interiors”, to be held
in L’Aquila, Italy, September 12-16, 2016, directed by L. Iess, T. Van Hoolst,
W. Pecorella.
The school is designed for PhD students, young post-doctoral researchers, and
engineers working in planetary sciences or instrument development for
planetary missions. The school will provide an integrated overview of our
current understanding of the interior structure and evolution of planets and
satellites, focusing on three complementary modules: 1) theoretical models,
2) observational methods and measurements, 3) space instrumentation.
The school intends to contribute to the development of a new generation
of planetary scientists and engineers motivated by two major upcoming missions
of the European Space Agency, BepiColombo to Mercury in 2018 and JUICE
to Jupiter and its satellites in 2022, and several other planetary missions
(including NASA’s JUNO and InSight missions to Jupiter and Mars)
designed to probe the interior of planets and moons. Based on an
interdisciplinary approach, the school will explain how current and future
planetary missions will be able to broaden our knowledge of the interior
structure, dynamics, and evolution of solar system bodies. Mission
perspectives and challenges on short and longer term will be discussed,
and links with exoplanetary research will be explored.
Applications are due before June 12, 2016.
For more information visit http://www.cifs-isss.org/ or send an e-mail
Best regards,
Luciano Iess ([email protected])
Tim Van Hoolst ([email protected])
Walter Pecorella ([email protected])
Secretary: Paola Solini/Anna Rita Leone
CIFS – International School of Space Science
c/o Dip. di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche
Università degli Studi L’Aquila – Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.cifs-isss.org
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EARLY CAREER TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR SBAG 15 MEETING
ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
The 15th meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group will be help at
the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory June 28-30, 2016. A draft agenda
can be found at:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/jun2016/draft_agenda_20160401.pdf
We are now accepting applications for early-career travel support to attend
the upcoming SBAG meeting. Please pass the information on to any students,
post-docs or early career scientists/engineers that may be interested in
attending the meeting.
The details are below.
Early career travel support: We are planning to offer limited U.S. travel support
for early career scientists to participate in the SBAG 15 meeting. Interested
undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and other early career
scientists (within 3 years of PhD/MS/BS) should submit a letter and a
CV to SBAG Early Career Secretary Angela Stickle ([email protected])
by COB (5 pm Eastern time) April 29, 2016. Included in the letter, which must
not exceed 2 pages, should be a demonstration of financial need and an
explanation of how the applicant’s work relates to the purposes of the SBAG.
The letter and CV should be combined into a single PDF document for
submission by e-mail attachment. Recipients of travel support will be expected
to give a short presentation of their SBAG-relevant work at the SBAG 15
meeting.
Thanks,
Angela Stickle
SBAG Early Career Secretary
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SOLAR SYSTEM SUBGROUP PARTICIPATION FOR FAR-IR
SURVEYOR STDT
Dear Colleagues:
NASA initiated a community-based process to identify Mission Concepts
for candidate large missions to follow the James Webb Space Telescope
(JWST) and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). The
Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT) has been organized for
the Far-IR Surveyor (http://cor.gsfc.nasa.gov/studies/far-ir/) and has a
charter to deliver a competitive mission concept for the next Astrophysics
decadal survey (http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2016/01/04/Mission_Concept_Study_and_Definition_Team_Charter-V1_2015-12-28.pdf ).
I, Stefanie Milam, have been appointed as the lead for the Solar System
subgroup of the Far-IR STDT. I am soliciting members of this subgroup
to actively participate and contribute to this study over the next few years.
If you are interested in working with this group, please email me
directly to be included in future correspondence.
Sincerely,
Stefanie Milam, NASA GSFC
[email protected]
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JOBS, POSITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
A) POSTDOC MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY ROVER MISSION
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
content/postdoc-mars-science-laboratory-rover-mission
Application Deadline: May 6, 2016
B) PLANETARY SCIENTIST
Department of Heliospheric and Planetary Science
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Application Deadline: July 1, 2016
C) POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTIST
NAIC
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
https://usra-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&jobid=405
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