***IAU Division D Newsletter, June 2023***
INDEX
* IAU Shaw Prizes 2023
* IAU Gruber Fellowship Awards 2023
* Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Workshops
* In memoriam
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* IAU Shaw Prizes 2023
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2023 was awarded in equal shares to: Matthew Bailes, Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Duncan Lorimer, Professor and Interim Chair of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Dean for Research at Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, USA and Maura McLaughlin, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, USA, for the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs).
On behalf of the Division D we congratulate the award winners for their achievements!
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* IAU Gruber Fellowships 2023
The Gruber Foundation Fellowships 2023 have been awarded to Mohit Bhardwaj from McGill Univesity, Marina Bianchin from the Federal University of Santa Maria, and Pooneh Nazari from Leiden University.
On behalf of the Division D we congratulate the award winners for their achievements!
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* Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Workshops
AGN winds on the Chesapeake
June 11-16, 2023
Tidewater Inn, Easton MD, USA
https://physics.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/iacs/agn-winds-conf/index.html
Towards LISA Catalogs
June 12-14, 2023
Campus Valrose, Nice, France
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29764/
X-ray Universe 2023
June 12-16, 2023
Athens, Greece
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2023-symposium
Timing and Imaging of compact sources with SKA pathfinders and precursors
June 12-16, 2023
Kerastari, Greece
https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/conferences/2023/Kerastari2023/
The first Vasto accretion meeting
June 19-23, 2023
Vasto, Italy
http://astro.dur.ac.uk/vam2023/
2023 Summer School for Astro-statistics
June 19-23, 2023
Heraklion, Greece
http://astro.physics.uoc.gr/Conferences/Astrostatistics_School_Crete_2023/
Astrophysical black Holes: a rapidly moving field
June 23-26, 2023
Hong Kong, China
https://astrobh.physics.hku.hk/event/3/
The restless nature of AGN: 10 years later
June 26-30, 2023
Naples, Italy
https://forms.gle/iYuGoLvwCvHFCkpW6
International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ICGAC15)
July 3-7, 2023
Gyeongju, South Korea
https://www.apctp.org/theme/d/html/activities/activities01_read-pop.php?id=1801
Second MaNiTou Summer School on Gravitational Waves: A new window to the Universe July 3-8, 2023 Nice, France https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29050/
Gravitational Wave Populations: what’s next?
July 10-14, 2023
Milan, Italy https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/gwpopnext
COST CA18108 Fourth Annual Meeting: Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach
July 11-14, 2023
Rijeka, Croatia https://indico.capa.unizar.es/event/31/
Massive Binaries 2023
July 17-21, 2023
Leuven, Belgium
http://ster.kuleuven.be/massivebinaries2023
European Astronomical Society 2023 Annual Meeting
Special Session: Circumbinary disks across all binary systems
July 12, 2023
Krakov, Poland
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/
European Astronomical Society 2023 Annual Meeting
Special Session: Black-Hole accretion disks 50 years on
July 14, 2023
Krakov, Poland
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/
European Astronomical Society 2023 Annual Meeting
Symposium: Baryonic feedback, magnetic fields and cosmic rays in galaxy evolution
July 13-14, 2023
Krakov, Poland
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/
15th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves
July 17-21, 2023
Fully online (with no fee, but registration required by July 14)
https://amaldi15.org/
International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)
July 26-August 3, 2023
Nagoya, Japan
https://www.icrc2023.org/
High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy: a chandra workshop
August 1-3, 2023
Cambridge, USA
https://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/hrxs2023/
Astrophysics & Particle Physics Conference announcement: "Windows on the Universe"
August 6-12, 2023
ICISE, Quy Nhon, Central Vietnam
https://www.icisequynhon.com/
Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM 2023)
August 7-11, 2023,
Koriyama, Japan (hybrid)
https://www.aprim2023.org/
IAU Symposium 384: Planetary Nebulae: a Universal Toolbox in the Era of Precision Astrophysics
September 4-8, 2023
Cracow, Poland
https://iaus384-pne.ncac.torun.pl
5th International Workshop on AM CVn binaries
September 5-8, 2023
Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
https://www.armagh.space/meetings-conferences/5th-international-workshop-on-am-cvn-binaries
AGN on the beach - The many facets of fuelling and feedback in jetted AGN
September 10-15, 2023
Tropea, Italy
http://agnonthebeach.space/
XX International workshop on Neutrino Telescopes
October 23-27, 2023
Venezia, Italy
https://agenda.infn.it/event/33107/
HEPRO VIII: High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows VIlI
October 23-26, 2023
Paris, France
https://hepro8.sciencesconf.org/
32nd Texas symposium on relativistic astrophysics
11-15, December, 2023
Shanghai, China
texasinshanghai.org
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*In memoriam
We are sorry to learn of the passing of:
Dr. Héctor Vucetich from Universidad Nacional de La Plata
https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/7876/
Dr. Stephen A. Drake from USRA/CRESST & GSFC
https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/6031/
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If you wish to share with IAU Division D any information about matters that may be relevant to the activities of Div D Members, please send an e-mail to rea@ice.csic.es . This will appear in the next Newsletter, which will be sent out around July 1, 2023. Thank you in advance for your inputs, and best regards.
Prof. Nanda Rea, acting Scientific Secretary of IAU Division D Steering Committee
Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC, IEEC; Barcelona, Spain)
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Contact: rea@ice.csic.es