Dear colleagues,
Please find attached to this e-mail information about the International School for Advanced Instrumentation (IScAI).
Please, forward it to those people that may be interested in it.
Best regards,

Mercedes Franqueira
Consolider-GTC Project Manager http://www.iac.es/consolider-ingenio-gtc/
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
C/ Vía Láctea s/n, E38205 La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain

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               *** Call for applications for  IScAI 2012**
*** Please forward to potential students or interested departments***

       Important: DEADLINE 2012 March 1st

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and partner institutions announce the 2012 edition of the International School for Advanced Instrumentation (IScAI).

The IScAI is a collaborative international initiative in higher education that allows acquiring expertise in all areas related to the construction of cutting-edge scientific instrumentation, with a particular emphasis on astronomical instrumentation. The IScAI offers a highly specialized set of courses and laboratory work to be held in research institutions with world-class instrumentation programs and high-tech companies with
expertise in design and construction of scientific instrumentation.

The programme consists of five weeks of intensive course work on five different subjects (optics, mechanics, electronics, software and management) related to the design and construction of astronomical instrumentation. These will be held at the headquarters of the *Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)* in La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The IScAI will start in May 2012 and is open to astronomers, physicists and engineers worldwide. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2012. Enrolled students may be eligible for financial aid.

The IScAI 2012 is funded by the grant "First Science with the GTC", under the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

For more information about the IScAI and the registration procedure, please check our web site at: http://iscai.iac.es <http://iscai.iac.es/>.

IScAI2012.pdf