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The 247th AAS meeting (joint with the Historical Astronomy Division) will be held 4-8 January in Phoenix, Arizona at the Phoenix Convention Center. Join us in the exhibit hall at the NASA booth and attend the NASA sessions. Please ask…

JAX Speaker Philip Cargile (Harvard CfA) Meeting Connection Join the Meeting

PyTorch and Autodifferentiation Speaker Philip Cargile (Harvard CfA) Meeting Connection Join the Meeting

ROSES-2025 is an omnibus or umbrella solicitation that contains many program element appendices (listed in Tables 2 and 3) and the ROSES-25 Summary of Solicitation (SoS) lays out the backstop rules that apply by default to those program element appendices. ROSES-2025 Amendment 30 makes a…

Express your interest in joining the astrophysics program offices and the Cosmic Pathfinders program for a networking lunch event with NASA Astrophysics leadership during the upcoming 247th American Astronomical Society meeting in January.

The next AI & ML STIG lecture will be held today, December 15th (Monday) at 4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT and will cover deep learning basics – PyTorch and auto differentiation. The presentation will be given by Phil Cargile from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The link…

OVI Absorption in the Halos of Local Group Galaxies Speaker Andy Fox

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Project is pleased to announce that the Cycle 1 Call for Proposals opens today.  The Cycle 1 Call for Proposals marks the first opportunity to submit proposals to conduct scientific investigations with Roman’s Wide…

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Building on our last lecture about AI as a research agent, I’ll be covering something that’s been making waves lately: MCP, or Model Context Protocol. Much like HTTP did for the web, MCP is quickly becoming…

This email is to notify potential proposers to F.10 PRISM that 1) a bullet was added to the list of information in Section 4.1 that proposers must provide if leveraging survive-the-night services, 2) the FAQ has been updated.

The next AI / ML STIG lecture will be held on December 8th (Monday) at 4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT

The 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (joint with the Historical Astronomy Division) will be held January 4th-8th 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona. A tentative listing of all the COPAG affiliated sessions is below.

To enhance the scientific return on NASA mission investments, ROSES D.2 the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) provides support for investigations whose focus is on the analysis of archival data from NASA space astrophysics missions. ROSES-2025 Amendment 26 announces the release of final text for…

November 2025 Rescheduled to December 11, 2025 Time: 9:00am – 5:30pm ET About the series: Astronomy and Astrophysics AC The Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee is a federal advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act at the recommendation of the…

Simulations Meet Space Telescopes to Understand AGN at Cosmic Dawn Speaker Sabrina Berger (University of Melbourne) Abstract For the first time, JWST lets us directly see the stellar light from galaxies hosting luminous quasars at z > 6. Early stellar…

We would like to invite you to our next virtual seminar: Wednesday, December 3rd, at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm BST / 7:00 pm CET. This is an excellent opportunity to stay informed on the…

We will have two presentations this month from Ben Mazin (University of California Santa Barbara) and Lindsey Wiser (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory).  Dr. Mazin will share MKID development progress and Dr. Wiser will discuss the study of exoplanet atmospheres through…

Additionally, check out the research opportunities page here for an exhaustive listing of other proposal and fellowship opportunities aligned with NASA astrophysics science: https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/cosmic-origins/opportunities/ Hyperlinks on the proposal name will take you to the solicitation. Before you begin writing a…

If you’re an early-career or senior scientist, apply to the NASA Postdoctoral Program to help pursue NASA’s mission and experience the world’s most diverse technology and expertise. Become a part of the NPP and experience this unique educational program that…

We will have two presentations this month from Ben Mazin (University of California Santa Barbara) and Lindsey Wiser (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory).  Dr. Mazin will share MKID development progress and Dr. Wiser will discuss the study of exoplanet atmospheres through…

LLM as Agent Speaker Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Flatiron Meeting Recording

F.9 The Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) aims to incubate citizen science projects as they are being conceived or during critical transitions, like the year when they are first launched or beta tested (i.e., when the first group of…

AAS Splinter Session Tuesday, January 6th, 10:00am – 2:00pm Erika Hamden (University of Arizona) and the Eos Team are soliciting for 15-minute talks on the subject of: Cycles of galaxy growth and star formation in the FUV. . This session will…

The next AI & ML STIG lecture will be held on November 24th (Monday) at 4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT and will cover Large Language Models (LLM) as Autonomous Agents (Module 1) — LLM as Agent. The presentation will be given by Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro…