DECEMBER 2015 - TOPICS

Short News Hipparchos: Call for articles ESO conference on AGN PhD position at Manchester in collaboration with IAASARS/NOA Hot spots in the XMM sky Conference PhD Positions at the University of Crete / FORTH PhD position in Computing/Computer Science at Cyprus Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

The Council of the Hel.A.S. would like to wish to all members of our Society and their families Merry Christmas, and a Happy, Healthy, and Productive New Year. Professor Yervant Terzian, one of the founding members of our Society, has been honored by the US National Council of Space Grant Directors with a "Lifetime Achievement Award", at the Fall 2015 NASA Space Grant national meeting. Professor Terzian was director of the New York Space Grant Consortium for 15+ years and contributed in various leadership roles at the US national level. On behalf of all Hel.A.S. members, the GC wishes to congratulate Professor Terzian, for receiving this highly prestigious award. Please be sure to check out the proceedings (links for "Oral" and "Poster" presentations) and some photographs (link "Social Events") from our latest (12th) Conference at http://www.helas.gr/conf/2015 . If your presentation is missing and/or you want to submit it now, please send it as a PDF file to Dr. Alceste Bonanos (bonanos@astro.noa.gr).

2. Hipparchos: Call for articles

The Editorial Board of Hipparchos wishes to invite Hel.A.S. members to submit articles or announcements that could be included in the forthcoming issue. Those interested should contact the Editor of Hipparchos, Dr. Manolis Georgoulis, directly (manolis.georgoulis@academyofathens.gr).

3. ESO conference on AGN

The First Announcement of the Conference, entitled "Active Galactic Nuclei: What's in a name?", organised by ESO has been released. The conference will take place at ESO, Garching (Germany) between June 27 and July 1, 2016. For more information please visit the conference's web-site.

4. PhD position at Manchester in collaboration with IAASARS/NOA

Applications are invited for a PhD position at the University of Manchester (UK) in collaboration with IAASARS/NOA, in the field of Observational Astrophysics and instrumentation, to work on the project "First observations of the Galaxy with the Manchester-Athens Wide-Field Camera (MAWFC)". The successful candidate will spend a significant fraction of time in Greece, working with Dr. P. Boumis (IAASARS/NOA) both in observations and instrumentation and the rest of the time in Manchester working with Prof. C. Dickinson, Dr. L. Lloyd and Prof. J. Meaburn. The work is expected to start in October 2016. Information about the position can be found at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics' web page (PhD projects 2016) at: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/study/postgrad/proj.html (primary supervisor: Dr. C. Dickinson). For more information on the project, please go here. Interested candidates can also contact Dr. P. Boumis (ptb@astro.noa.gr).

5. Hot spots in the XMM sky Conference

The First Announcement of the Conference, entitled "Hot spots in the XMM sky: Cosmology from X-ray to Radio", to be held at Mykonos Island in June 2016, has been released (LOC Chair: M. Plionis). The meeting aims at (1) reviewing state-of-the art studies of the cosmic web, as revealed in X-rays in partnership with observations across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, (2) providing a framework to discuss holistic pictures of structure formation with the aid of numerical simulations, and (3) exploring the scientific potential and feasibility of future extra-large, community-based surveys with XMM. One of the meeting highlights will be the presentation of recent results from the XXL survey, the largest XMM programme undertaken to date. For more information please visit: http://www.astro.auth.gr/~xmmcosmo16

6. PhD Positions at the University of Crete / FORTH

Applications are invited for two PhD positions at the University of Crete / FORTH, funded by the ERC program A-BINGOS (Accreting Binaries in Nearby Galaxies: Observations and Simulations). One position is related to multi-wavelength studies of nearby galaxies, with special focus on the connection between their X-ray emission from accreting binaries and their stellar populations, and the other position is related to multi-wavelength studies of Galactic and Extragalactic Supernova Remnants. The deadline for applications is February 1st. Interested candidates should contact Andreas Zezas (azezas@physics.uoc.gr). More information can be found at: http://astro.physics.uoc.gr/files/A-BINGOS_PhD.pdf

7. PhD position in Computing/Computer Science at Cyprus

The Astrophysics and High Performance Computing group (http://ahpc.euc.ac.cy/) of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of European University Cyprus is delighted to invite applications for a fully-funded PhD scholarship in Computing/Computer Science. For more information please visit this web-site. The deadline for applications is December 15, 2015.

8. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece

The following meetings are scheduled to take place in Greece during 2015-2016: Escape of Lyman radiation from galactic labyrinths OAC, Kolymbari, Crete, 26-29 April, 2016 Astronomical Data Analysis 2016 Summer School Chania, 22-24 May, 2016 Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology Chania, 24-27 May, 2016 Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar Death Chania, Crete, 6-11 June, 2016 Hot spots in the XMM sky: Cosmology from X-ray to Radio Mykonos, 15-18 June, 2016 European Week of Astronomy and Space Science Athens, 4-8 July, 2016 2nd Hel.A.S. Summer School Athens, 11-15 July, 2016 17th NEB conference on “Recent Developments in Gravity” Mykonos, September 19-22, 2016

9. About this Newsletter

This Newsletter was sent to all members of Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access. The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around January 1st, 2016. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before December 26, 2015. If you do not wish to receive future issues of this Newsletter or the e-mail address to which it was sent is not your preferred one, please inform the Secretary of Hel.A.S.