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5) Public release of the VVDS-DEEP first epoch spectra

6) ESO Workshop on "Science with the VLT in the ELT era" Garching near Munich, Germany, 8-12 October 2007 7) Workshop, From Quantum to Cosmos II,Bremen, Germany, June 10-13, 2007. " Space-based Research in Fundamental Physics and Quantum Technologies" 8) XXIIIrd IAP Colloque, in Honour of Bernard Fort "From giant arcs to CMB lensing: 20 years of gravitational distortion" July 2 to Friday July 6, 2007 , IAP Paris 9) Conference ,Château de Blois, France, May 20-May 26 2007 "Matter and Energy in the Universe: from nucleosynthesis to cosmology" 10) Conference : "Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics" (FNP 2007) w Nizhny Novgorod July 3 to July 9, 2007.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNC PNC PNC http://www.iap.fr/pnc/ PNC PNC PNC PNC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Public release of the VVDS-DEEP first epoch spectra

The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey team (http://www.oamp.fr/virmos/) is pleased to annonce the public release of a catalogue of 8981 spectra of galaxies, stars and QSOs, selected to have 17.5 < I(AB) < 24.0 in the VVDS 0226-04 field. The spectroscopic redshifts are measured in the range 0 < z < 5, with a median redshift of about 0.76. The sample covers 0.5 deg2 of sky area. The on-line database gives access to the redshifts and quality flags, to the multi-wavelength photometric information, as well as to the images and VIMOS spectra. The data can be accessed via http://cencosw.oamp.fr

Reference papers for the data are about: (a) the spectroscopy: Le Fevre et al., 2005, AA, 439, 845, and Le Fevre et al., 2004, AA, 428, 1023, (b) the imaging and photometry: Le Fevre et al., AA, 417, 839, McCracken et al., 2003 , AA, 410, 17, Radovich et al., 2004, AA, 417, 51 and Iovino et al., 2005, 442, 423, (c) the information system: Le Brun et al., 2007, AA, in preparation.

For further information please contact: vincent.lebrun at oamp.fr, laurence.tresse at oamp.fr.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNC PNC PNC http://www.iap.fr/pnc/ PNC PNC PNC PNC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) ESO Workshop on "Science with the VLT in the ELT era" Garching near Munich, Germany, 8-12 October 2007

RATIONALE: The first of the ELTs (Extremely Large Telescopes) now under study could see first light in around 10 years when the ESO VLT will still be fully operational and receiving new 2nd generation instrumentation and upgrades. Even before then we will also have entered the ALMA (and JWST) era. This Workshop will provide a forum for the ESO community to debate and provide valuable feedback on how it expects the scientific use and required instrumentation of the VLT and VLTI to evolve over this period. It is expected that the results will have a major impact on the priorities to be set in the next ESO Call for VLT Instrument Proposals planned to be issued in 2008.

Amongst the topics envisaged are:

-Science highlights illustrating unique VLT and VLTI capabilities

-Future research priorities recommended by Astronet,ESA/ESO Working Groups etc.

- New science capabilities offered by instruments to be installed in 2008-2012 (HAWK-I, X-Shooter, KMOS, SPHERE, MUSE, PRIMA, 2nd gen. VLTI)

- ELT science priorities and possible first light instruments

- VLT and VLTI synergies with ELT, ALMA, JWST...

- VLT and VLTI science priorities beyond 2014 and consequences for possible specialization of telescopes, operational modes etc.

- Available resources and concepts for new 2nd generation VLT instruments to be installed beyond 2014

FORMAT:

- Invited review/overview talks

- Contributed papers and posters

- Discussion sessions following each major topic

More details and registration at http://www.eso.org/vlt07

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNC PNC PNC http://www.iap.fr/pnc/ PNC PNC PNC PNC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) Workshop, From Quantum to Cosmos II,Bremen, Germany, June 10-13, 2007. " Space-based Research in Fundamental Physics and Quantum Technologies"

The purpose of this workshop is to highlight the emerging discipline of space-based research in fundamental physics and demonstrate how this area of modern science can provide the knowledge needed to address outstanding questions at the intersection of physics, astronomy, and cosmology, thereby leading to major advances in these fields.

More details at http://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/Q2C2/.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNC PNC PNC http://www.iap.fr/pnc/ PNC PNC PNC PNC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) XXIIIrd IAP Colloque, in Honour of Bernard Fort "From giant arcs to CMB lensing: 20 years of gravitational distortion" July 2 to Friday July 6, 2007 , IAP Paris

We are please to announce the XXIIIrd IAP colloquium that will held at IAP between July 2 and 6. Each year, The Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris organizes a colloquium on a different topic in cosmology and astrophysics 2007 will be the 65th anniversary of Prof. Bernard Fort and the 20th anniversary of the first papers on the discovery of giant arcs. To celebrate ths event, the XXIIIrd IAP colloquium will focus on gravitational distortion: rings, giant arcs, weak lensing and cosmic shear, distortion of CMB anisotropy maps.

More details on the meeting will be published soon. But we invite you to register already at the following registration page http://www.iap.fr/scripts/colloques/iap2007/regmenu.asp

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNC PNC PNC http://www.iap.fr/pnc/ PNC PNC PNC PNC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) Conference ,Château de Blois, France, May 20-May 26 2007 "Matter and Energy in the Universe: from nucleosynthesis to cosmology"

http://confs.obspm.fr/Blois2007/index.htm

This is an announcement and call for papers for an international conference which will be held in the Château of Blois, in France's Loire Valley.

Matter and Energy in the Universe: from nucleosynthesis to cosmology is articulated around our increasingly detailed understanding of the processes involved in the creation of the elements and about our increasingly confused picture of the content of the Universe. The year 2007 fmarks the fiftieth anniversary of two groundbreaking papers (the famous B2FH paper, and also a slightly less well known paper by A. Cameron) which finally put stellar nucleosynthesis on the map, and almost the sixtieth anniversary of the first quantitative calculations of big bang nucleosynthesis; although this latter paper turned out to be fundamentally flawed insofar as nucleosynthesis is concerned, it did lead directly to Alpher and Hermann's prediction of the ubiquitous cosmic microwave background radiation, whose detailed study using instruments on the COBE satellite earned this year's Nobel prize for physics.

It thus seems appropriate to "stand back" and survey what has been achieved, and (especially) to highlight the puzzles which remain to be solved.

Matter and energy in the Universe? will be organised around a number of basic themes, including: - the contents of the Universe - abundance determinations - primordial nucleosynthesis - stellar thermonuclear nucleosynthesis - the nucleidic evolution of galaxies - cosmological cosmic rays, galactic cosmic rays and stellar energetic particles - dark matter, dark energy: what do we really know, and what can we surmise - the future.

The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited indepth oral presentations (review talks and talks on specific specialised topics), and contributed papers, in the form of relatively short oral papers or posters. We will aim to achieve a balance between review talks, provocative talks given by recognized specialists, and shorter contributions, special emphasis being placed on participation by younger researchers and post-docs. If the need arises (i.e. if so many short papers are proposed that plenary sessions are insufficient), parallel sessions will be organised - please do not hesitate to contribute your work - time can always be found!

This conference will be the 19th in a series of international mulitidisciplinary meetings which have in the past covered many topics in physics, astronomy and biology. All sessions take place in the Château of Blois, a beautiful renaissance castle which has housed many French kings, and notably François 1st. Meals are served in the castle to all participants, in order to encourage interaction between scientists at all levels. Participation is limited to about 150 persons.

The detailed scientific programme is currently under development; on the web site http://confs.obspm.fr/Blois2007/index.htm you will find the latest information, and if you urgently need information which is currently not available on this site, you may contact L. M. Celnikier, at the email address: blois.confs at obspm.fr

The web site will be updated regularly, as new information becomes available. Please login regularly.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNC PNC PNC http://www.iap.fr/pnc/ PNC PNC PNC PNC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) Conference : "Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics" (FNP 2007) w Nizhny Novgorod July 3 to July 9, 2007.

The Conference is focused on recent progress in the interrelated fields of nonlinear dynamics with applications to physical systems of different origins. Conference scope covers the following subjects, including both basic aspects and advanced applications:

* Nonlinear dynamics: Coherent and stochastic processes * General problems of nonlinear waves: Solitons, collapses, and turbulence * Nonlinear processes in plasmas and laser-plasma interactions * Nonlinear and high-field optics * Nonlinear acoustics * Nonlinear processes and turbulence in fluid dynamics * Nonlinear problems in geophysics * Nonlinear problems in astrophysics and cosmology * Nonlinearities and coherent phenomena in quantum systems

The conference program will include topical oral and poster sessions, and a set of plenary lectures on interrelated topics.

The list of proposed MINI-SYMPOSIA includes:

* Physics of Cold Gases and Bose-Einstein Condensates * Large Nonlinear Water Waves, with a Special Focus on Rogue Waves, Wave Breaking and Remote Sensing * Physics of Extreme Light: Novel Particle and Radiation Sources * Turbulence in Fluids and Plasmas * Nonlinear Processes in Photonic Crystals and Periodic Structures * Quantum, Coherent, and Nonlinear Optics * Laser Dynamics * Supernovae and Shocks * Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Teraherts Physics

The Conference will be held on board a comfortable boat cruising along the Volga river from Nizhny Novgorod to Saratov and back from July 3 to July 9, 2007.

All the relevant information concerned with our meeting, the form for on-line pre-registration included, is also available at the FNP 2007 Web-site: htt://www.fnp.sci-nnov.ru