Just found out this week that the Lorentz Center proposal I submitted for a small workshop to bring the Sgr A* XVP collaboration (see post) together in January was accepted! So that’s good news.
I have to admit to being a bit “proposal’d out”, had four deadlines in four weeks basically, the one I just mentioned, plus along with Jacco Vink and others we submitted two proposals for funding for Dutch contributions for the next generation TeV (very high energy gamma-ray) facility, CTA. Then yesterday was a proposal to the Dutch national science foundation NWO, for a project to develop new jet models for black holes that are linked more self-consistently to the accretion flow. That won’t mean much to most of you but for me this would be a really nice step towards a much-improved model that captures the physics a lot better than we’ve been doing so far. Odds are low since it’s a popular program, sadly maybe in its last round because of cuts to funding of basic research, but cross your fingers!
