Kurzmeldungen

1. September 2009: ESO Call for Proposals for Period 85 released. Deadline is 1 October 2009.

16. Juli 2009: ESO Director General Tim de Zeeuw is the 2009 recipient of the Dirk Brouwer Award from the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society. The Dirk Brouwer Award is granted to recognise outstanding contributions to the field of Dynamical Astronomy, including celestial mechanics, astrometry, geophysics, stellar systems, galactic and extragalactic dynamics. The citation for the award reads: "Tim de Zeeuw burst on the dynamical scene with an outstanding PhD thesis on the dynamics of triaxial stellar systems. His mathematically elegant description of the density profiles and orbits in separable Staeckel potentials invigorated the entire field and remains a cornerstone on which more recent understanding of elliptical galaxies is founded. Subsequently, he applied his physical understanding of orbital dynamics to the more complicated potentials of real galaxies that contain density cusps, black holes, etc. In more recent years he was one of the co-founders of the hugely successful SAURON ...

26. Juni 2009: A vacancy for a Director of Programmes has been opened.

17. Juni 2009: The ESO Annual Report 2008 is available for download

15. Juni 2009: ESO Exhibition at Seagate Young Innovators (Dublin) — 18 june

5. Juni 2009: ESO Messenger No. 136 is available for download.

29. Mai 2009: A new contract for the publication of the scientific journal Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A;) has been signed with EDP Sciences (EDPS), by Prof Tim de Zeeuw, Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and Dr Jean-Marc Quilbé, Managing Director of EDPS, at the ESO Headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany. “It is a great pleasure for the Board to announce that the contract for the production of A&A; from January 2010 has been signed at ESO with EDP Sciences. Thus, for a renewed period, EDPS will continue as the publisher of A&A;”, said Professor Georges Meynet, Chairman of the Board of Directors of A&A.; The Board is in charge of managing the journal. It consists of representatives of A&A;’s 23 member countries plus ESO, which has handled the legal matters of A&A; since the journal was established in 1969. “Astronomy & Astrophysics is owned by and operated for the ...

15. Mai 2009: Media Advisory: press conference on X-shooter — 25 May 2009.

15. Mai 2009: Follow the news about Hubble Servicing Mission 4 on its blog.

23. April 2009: The Portal to the Universe, hosted at ESO Headquarters, is live!

16. April 2009: ESO to announce major exoplanet finding and provide update on the E-ELT — 21 Apr. 2009

2. April 2009: VLT Interferometer image of young high-mass binary star.

25. März 2009: 10 Million Euro for RadioNet extension.

24. März 2009: First ALMA receiver system from European Front-End Integration Centre is shipped to Chile

12. März 2009: ESO exhibition at JENAM - 20 to 24 Apr. 2009

6. März 2009: ESO Messenger No. 135 is available for download

27. Februar 2009: ESO Call for Proposals for Period 84 released. Deadline is 1 April 2009

23. Februar 2009: Watch the ESOcast episode 4: 24 hours in the life of an ESO astronomer

6. Februar 2009: First North American antenna enables next phase in ALMA.

4. Februar 2009: ESO exhibition at the IYA2009 UNCOPUOUS meeting - 09 to 20 Feb. 2009