sci25002 — Announcement
JWST Summer School on High-Redshift Transients
20 March 2025
-By Chris Evans & Macarena Garcia Marin-
We are excited to share that the inaugural JWST Summer School will be held at STScI on 4–15 August 2025, on the topic of high-redshift transients with JWST.
With its superb sensitivity and infrared capabilities, JWST has opened a new and exciting window onto time-domain science. By detecting redder and fainter sources, JWST is allowing us to explore the early Universe better than ever before, including being able to probe the epoch of reionisation and the first stars. It is also providing us with insights into high-energy physics and explosion mechanisms.
This is a timely topic for the 2025 school as the year ahead will bring a wealth of new data relevant for time-domain astronomy, including the planned start of science operations with the Rubin Telescope, large new extragalactic JWST datasets becoming publicly available (e.g. from COSMOS-3D and NEXUS), and the expectation of further JWST follow-up and Target-of-Opportunity programmes.
The school will last two weeks, with the focus being:
- Week 1: High-redshift transient science, featuring lectures from experts in the field.
- Week 2: Observational and analytical techniques, during which you will learn to create a JWST programme and how to analyse and exploit JWST data of high-redshift transients.
Applications to join the Summer School are now open here, with a deadline of 4 April. We anticipate being able to provide partial support of travel costs for a limited number of early-career researchers from the ESA Member States. If your primary affiliation is in a Member State, and such support would help enable your participation in the school, please enter a brief justification in the relevant part of the registration form. We are looking forward to welcoming some of you in Baltimore this summer!
Contacts
Chris Evans
ESA/HST & ESA/JWST Project Scientist
ESA Office, STScI Baltimore, USA
Email: [email protected]
