ASDF Office Hours Friday 12-1pm ET

Looking to better under Roman's ASDF file format? The ASDF development team at the SOC has extended an invitation to the community for monthly ASDF Office Hours. These are open to everyone and will be held every first Friday of the month (starting next Friday, Oct 4) from 12-1pm ET. The session will start with a short (~10 min) presentation on a topic related to ASDF and will be open for questions and discussions. The goal is to provide an opportunity to directly interact with the development team, answer questions about ASDF, Roman use of ASDF, and get feedback from the community.

Suggestions for topics or questions can be added to the wiki page or as Github issues to this repository. More information about the planned topics and how to connect is on Github. 

Dial-In Info: https://stsci.webex.com/stsci/j.php?MTID=mbed95a143f00acaac6c228bfbfd22e33




Type Ia SN Cosmology PIT Hosts a Webinar on DEIA Planning

As part of the SN Cosmology PIT’s DEIA plan, they recently hosted a session led by Duke’s Office of Inclusion on ‘Equitable Hiring Practices: Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Your Unit and Beginning to Create a Positive Climate in Which to Bring New Staff’ (screenshot below).  Given a number of Roman teams are hiring this fall, they thought it would be good to advertise this broadly and all are welcome. They are tracking participation numbers, so please take a moment to watch.

The full recording can be found here.



ROSES Call for Input By October 1: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunities

NASA ROSES will have another funding opportunity for Roman related tools and research in 2025. A draft solicitation is currently available and comments on the details and scope of work are being requested by October 1, 2024. The scope of the program is currently written as follows:

Wide Field Science (WFS)

  • Supports investigations that prepare for and/or enhance the science return of
    Roman that can be addressed with its Wide Field Instrument (WFI)
  • Two different scales of project: Regular (two-year term, up to $150K/year) and
    Large (two-year term, ≲$500K/year)
  • Expect to award ≈12 WFS proposals with a roughly 2:1 balance of
    Regular:Large, subject to budgetary limits and sufficient meritorious proposals

Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP)

  • Solicits individuals or very small teams to work with the Coronagraph Instrument
    team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
  • Selected proposals will have three-year terms; available funding can support
    ≲$200K/year awards
  • Expect to select two or three CPP proposals, which will join the single team that
    plans and exec


For details on the entire solicitation and how to submit comments, please go to the NASA ROSES website: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=%7B13570A2B-EE5C-553E-B73A-6312B84CFDAA%7D&path=open


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