1. Fellowships Garching: 4 Fellows have accepted: –Luigi (Rolly) Bedin –Andres Jordan –Maria Messineo –Joel Vernet –three rejections –one offers still outstanding

2. DGDF All applicants have been informed about the outcome. The letters received before Christmas should be taken as final. For student and post-doc contracts you have to contact Nathalie Kastelyn (for Chile) or Barbara Ounnas (Garching) Contact Christina Stoffer about office space in Garching (only very limited space available)

3. Workshops Planetary Nebulae beyond the Milky Way –19.-21. May; Jeremy Walsh Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context –21. -25. June MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Garching summer workshop; Rashid Sunyaev The NEON Archive Observing School –14.-24. July; Harald Kuntschner Chemical Abundances and Mixing in Stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and its Satellites –13.-17. September, Castiglione della Pescaia; Luca Pasquini

4. ESO Workshops 2005 Call for Proposals to be sent out in March Deadline: 13. April

5. Short-term students/Practica ESO regularly receives requests to host students for practica (weeks to months). Interested people should contact B. Leibundgut.