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.

Focus Group Members

Lists of focus group 'membership', as copied from the black board at the Lorentz center, were posted on the focus group blogs (all of which are linked on the panel at the left).

JWST workshops and webinars

From Tracy Beck (28/Oct/2016):

The special STScI newsletter focusing on JWST community education workshops:

http://newsletter.stsci.edu/james-webb-space-telescope-community-education/

Community webinar online series is ongoing: 

• Tuesday, November 1: JWST IFU capabilities
  https://confluence.stsci.edu/display/JWSTLC/JWST+Community+Lectures

• All lectures are logged and recorded and can be accessed at any time.