Presentations from the Brno workshop

The BigSkyEarth workshop in Brno was a success as many new ideas for collaborations emerged from the meeting. Here we publish presentations given at the meeting.

BigSkyEarth Workshop in Brno

BigSkyEarth COST Action organizes its first workshop, with the topic “Research Matchmaking – Building Bridges Between Disciplines“, in Brno, Czech Republic, on April 14-16, 2016. The workshop participants will have an opportunity to present their research in astroinformatics, geoinformatics, Big Data, data visualization or Big Data outreach, suggest how to expand their work into larger collaborations and seek potential research partners among the workshop participants.

The third call for Short Term Scientific Missions

This is the third call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) within BigSkyEarth COST Action. Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are exchange visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering collaboration between researchers. A STSM should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action, whilst at the same time allowing those partaking in the missions to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and/or methods not available in their own institutions/organisations.
STSM applicants must be engaged in an official research programme as a PhD Student or postdoctoral fellow or can be employed by, or affiliated to, an Institution or legal entity which has within its remit a clear association with performing research. The institutions/organisations where applicants pursue their main strand of research are considered as Home institutions. The Host institution is the institution/organisation that will host the successful applicant.

Open positions related to the LSST Data Management at the University of Washington

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project is a 10-year survey of the sky that will deliver a 200 petabyte set of images and data products. Its Data Management team has postdoc and research staff positions open at the University of Washington:

PhD position: Content Merge from Crowd-Sourced Spatial Information

Content Merge from Crowd-Sourced Spatial Information
Dr. Bianca Schoen-­‐Phelan

Application Deadline: 11 January 2016
Application Documents: Academic CV, Cover letter, any other documents that the applicant considers relevant
Start Date: February 2016
Application Method: Email to [email protected]

Apply to the BIGSKYEARTH Training School

The 1^st BigSkyEarth Training School will take place at the German Aerospace Center facilities in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 4-9 April, 2016.

It will gather around 30 researchers for hands-on training on Big Data analytics in astronomy and Earth observation with six expert instructors from the EU and the USA.

The COST Action BigSkyEarth provides grants to 18 trainees from BigSkyEarth member countries for travel and costs of the school attendance.

WG3 and WG4 meeting in Dubrovnik

Dates: October 5 & 6, 2015.

If you plan to attend the meeting, please register HERE.

The meeting is collocated with Astroinformatics 2015 conference. Information about the venue and hotel reservation are available HERE.

Contact person: Dejan Vinkovic (dejan  at  iszd.hr).