Dr. Stefan Kraus has been awarded the Max-Planck-Society's Otto Hahn Medal for young scientists. He will receive the medal during the Society's annual meeting in June 2009 in Mainz.
Dr. Kraus receives this prize for his scientific research that employs infrared interferometry to investigate the physical processes in the spectacular environments of young massive stars. Two weeks ago, his results on the heart of the Orion Nebula were highlighted in a Max-Planck-Society press release:
The academic semester has recently started and all students are encouraged to sit in the lecture courses. Especially, if you feel you could enhance the knowledge on some basic astrophysics background.
Check out the program at:
www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~edanne/vorlesung/ss09.html
ERIS will provide a week of lectures and hands-on tutorials on how to get scientific results from radio interferometry. Topics covered include:
* Choosing the right instrument, configuration and observing plan for your project
* Calibration and imaging continuum, spectral line and polarization data
* Extracting and interpreting measurements
* Example data drawn from observations of Galactic and extragalactic sources, the Sun, transient and variable objects.
Students will be helped to use their own laptops to install and use the most widely-used packages such as AIPS, CASA and Parseltongue. Most examples will be drawn from cm-wave instruments such as MERLIN and the EVN but experts will be available on arrays from LOFAR to ALMA.
Limited financial support is available from RadioNet.
Please see here for more details including Registration and Accomodation Forms or email eris2009@physics.ox.ac.uk
