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400 Year of Stellar Rotation

Posted by baffa on Jan 21, 2013 - 03:28 PM
To celebrate the 400 years of the public announcement of Sun's Rotation by Galileo Galilei, the workshop 400 Years of Stellar Rotation, co-sponsored by the European Southern Observatory and the International Institute of Physics of Natal, will be held in Natal, Brazil on November 17-22 2013.

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Fedora 18

Posted by baffa on Jan 20, 2013 - 12:20 PM
Fedora 18 has been released. It features a new installer UI, GNOME 3.6, Clojure, DragonEgg, KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.9, MATE Desktop, Samba 4, Secure Boot, and updated major packages versions.

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Linux 3.7 is out

Posted by baffa on Jan 08, 2013 - 04:56 PM
Linux kernel 3.7 has been released.

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Samba 4.0 Released

Posted by baffa on Jan 08, 2013 - 04:47 PM
Samba 4.0 has been released and comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory.

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Conference on "Physics at the Magnetospheric Boundary"

Posted by baffa on Jan 08, 2013 - 11:55 AM
The international conference Physics at the Magnetospheric Boundary will be held at Geneva, Switzerland, 25 - 28 June 2013.

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International Conference on Brown Dwarfs

Posted by baffa on Dec 17, 2012 - 05:22 PM
The international conference Brown Dwarfs come of Age, will be held from May 20 to May 24, 2013 in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (Spain).

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Linux Mint 14 Is Out

Posted by baffa on Dec 14, 2012 - 05:00 PM
Linux Mint 14 has been released. The list of new features includes MATE 1.4, as well as Cinnamon 1.6.

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Multiwavelength AGN surveys and studies

Posted by baffa on Dec 13, 2012 - 05:41 PM
The IAU Symposium 304, Multiwavelength AGN surveys and studies will be held on 7-11 October 2013, at Byurakan, Armenia

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Marco Polo-R International Symposium

Posted by baffa on Dec 02, 2012 - 01:00 PM
The Marco Polo-R International Symposium titled Astrobiological and cosmochemical implications of Marco Polo-R sampling of a primitive asteroid will be held at Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on 16-17 January 2013.

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DTN Protocol: towards Interplanetary Internet

Posted by baffa on Nov 26, 2012 - 06:11 PM
Vint Cerf developed the BP protocol which is the heart of NASA's Delay-Tolerant Networking, better known as DTN.

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ICSIT 2013

Posted by baffa on Nov 25, 2012 - 10:00 AM
The 4th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, ICSIT 2013, will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on March 19 - 22, 2013.

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Symposium on "Setting the Scene For Gaia and LAMOST"

Posted by baffa on Nov 23, 2012 - 05:37 PM
The IAU Symposium 298 titled Setting the Scene For Gaia and LAMOST will be held at Lijiang, China, on 20 - 24 May 2013

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Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation

Posted by baffa on Nov 22, 2012 - 03:37 PM
The open access Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation (JAI) is a new forum in which the international astronomical community can rapidly communicate the latest developments in instrumentation.

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ICETI 2013

Posted by baffa on Nov 19, 2012 - 10:02 AM
The 4th International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics: ICETI 2013 will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on March 19 - 22, 2013.

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Wanderer Planet Spotted?

Posted by baffa on Nov 15, 2012 - 12:22 PM
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have identified a body that is very probably a planet wandering through space without a parent star.

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Windows 8 is out

Posted by baffa on Nov 07, 2012 - 12:23 PM
Microsoft announced the global availability of Windows 8. There is also a new member of the Windows family — Windows RT — designed for ARM-based tablets.

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WMSCI 2013

Posted by baffa on Oct 31, 2012 - 05:32 PM
The 17th World Multi-Conference, Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics will be held on July 9 - 12, 2013 at Orlando, Florida, USA.

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Ubuntu 12.10

Posted by baffa on Oct 31, 2012 - 04:12 PM
Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal has been released. It sports some new characteristics as WebApps — treats online services as if they are desktop apps; Online Services — control logins to all your services from a single window; Dash Preview — right click any icon, get a detailed preview of what it is; Linux kernel 3.5.4; GNOME 3.6; Nautilus 3.4; latest Unity.

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Second Cherenkov Telescope Array LINK Meeting

Posted by baffa on Oct 23, 2012 - 10:20 AM
The Second Cherenkov Telescope Array LINK Meeting will be held on November 19-21, 2012, at Palacio San Martín in downtown Buenos Aires (Argentina).

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International Meeting on Globular Clusters

Posted by baffa on Oct 22, 2012 - 08:45 AM
The International Astrophysics Meeting Reading the book of globular clusters with the lens of stellar evolution, will be held at the Astronomical Observatory of Rome, (Rome, Italy), from November 26 to 28, 2012.

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Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri B

Posted by baffa on Oct 17, 2012 - 08:16 AM
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting Alpha Centauri B, the nearest star system. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.

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ADASS 2012

Posted by baffa on Oct 15, 2012 - 10:15 AM
The 22nd annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) will be held on 4-8 November 2012 in Champaign, Illinois, USA.

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Marco Polo-R International Symposium

Posted by baffa on Oct 10, 2012 - 01:00 PM
The Marco Polo-R International Symposium titled Astrobiological and cosmochemical implications of Marco Polo-R sampling of a primitive asteroid will be held at Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on 16-17 January 2013.

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Conference on "Physics at the Magnetospheric Boundary"

Posted by baffa on Oct 08, 2012 - 11:58 AM
The international conference Physics at the Magnetospheric Boundary will be held at Geneva, Switzerland, 25 - 28 June 2013

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New advance in batteries

Posted by baffa on Oct 04, 2012 - 01:00 PM
Tokyo University of Science developed a sodium-carbon battery which can substitute the lithium-ion battery, using more common and cipher materials.

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