ESA has recently issued a call for white papers on the science themes of the L2 and L3 missions of its Cosmic Vision programme. All information related to this call is in the section Agency calls>ESA L2/L3 white paper.
The latest version (currently 2.02) of the Blue Dots report is available here for download. This version has been approved by the Working Group coordinators.
At the initiative of Blue Dots and other sponsors, exoplanet scientists from around the world gathered in Barcelona on September 14th-18th, 2009, to debate and reach a consensus on defining guidelines for a new roadmap with the ultimate objective of finding habitable, and potentially inhabited, (...)
2010 SAGAN FELLOWSHIPS
The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute announces the 2010 Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and solicits applications for fellowships to begin in the fall of 2010.
The Sagan Fellowships support outstanding recent postdoctoral scientists to conduct independent research (...)
The next Blue Dots meeting will be hosted at ISSI in Bern on March 25th and 26th, in conjunction with the meeting of the ISSI team led by Helmut Lammer.
Participants:
Roy Alonso
Vincent Coudé du Foresto
Stefan Dieters (for Jean-Philippe Beaulieu)
Malcolm Fridlund
Lisa (...)
A position at ESA has just opened for a Coordinator for Astronomy and Fundamental Physics Missions, who will play a major role in the implementation of the Cosmic Vision program. See here for details. Deadline for applications is Feb. 16th, (...)
The next Blue Dots meeting was held at Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (Council Room) on November 17-18th, 2008:
Participants:
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (on-and-off, preparing the Molecules workshop)
Anthony Boccaletti
James Cho (Planetary atmospheres, Monday only)
Vincent Coudé du (...)
The "Pathways Towards Habitable Planets" conference is announced here. It will be held in Barcelona between Sep. 14-18th, 2009, and is sponsored in part by the Blue Dots initiative.
The second Blue Dots meeting was held last September 16-17 at the University College London, with the participation of:
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu
Anthony Boccaletti
Vincent Coudé du Foresto
Marc Ollivier (by video link)
Ignasi Ribas
Misato Fukagawa (for H. Shibai)
Alessandro (...)