Hi all,

Quick note that the JWST preparatory community lectures are continuing today:

Speaker: Jay Anderson (STScI)
Title: Distortion Calibration Made Easy
Date: November 29, 2016 @ 3 pm ET
Location: STScI Muller Bacall Auditorium

This talk will present some information on how we plan to calibrate the JWST field distortion for all instruments - this is particularly important for NIRSpec and the process of using NIRCam imaging for planning MOS observations.

You can watch Jay's talk via
(1) live streaming (https://webcast.stsci.edu/webcast/#) or
(2) Webex (Webex connection information included below).

The schedule for the lecture series, along with recordings, abstracts, and slides, can be found at:
https://jwst.stsci.edu/science-planning/jwst-community-lectures

I hope this helps,

tracy

ACS Astrochemistry Meeting April 2017 San Francisco

From Reggie Hudson (23/Oct/2016):

The topic of the next ACS Astrochemstry meeting (April 2017, San Francisco) will be electron-transfer reactions, oxidation-reduction, and catalysis, all in solids.  Please see

    http://astro.phys-acs.org/symposia/Spring2017.html

Please Give Examples for Laboratory Needs for JWST

Request from Stefanie Milam (27/Oct/2016):

I have taken a personal mission, as a JWST project scientist, to ensure
laboratory studies will be supported through the JWST program as they were
for Spitzer and Herschel.  I am coordinating with the JSTAC (advisory
committee) to present this case and the Science Working Group of JWST.  I am
writing you all to request some sample cases that can demonstrate laboratory
needs for the analysis and interpretation of JWST data.  The Leiden workshop
had many examples.  I only need a few.  If you could get this to me by early
next week - in any format you want (pdf, jpeg, ppt, etc) I will happily put
something together.  The JSTAC meets in just a few weeks, so the sooner the
better.

 I really appreciate any help you can offer.