JUNE 2019 - TOPICS

Short News Student and Postdoctoral Research Opportunities Abroad Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

In case the Greek national election will take place on Sunday 7 July 2019 which is the starting date of our conference, there will be no activities associated with the conference during Sunday 7 July. The conference will start the next day according to the program that will be announced. We would like to congratulate ordinary member S. Basilakos, and his colleagues N. Mavromatos (Kings College) and J. Sola (Un. of Barcelona), for earning Honorable Mention in the 2018 competition organized by the Gravity Research Foundation (GRF – USA). The Society extends its best wishes to Dr. Basilakos and to his colleagues for further success in their professional pursuits. We would like to congratulate ordinary member G. Chintzoglou for becoming project scientist at LMSAL and UCAR. The Society extends its best wishes to Dr. Chintzoglou for further successes in his career pursuits.

2. Student and Postdoctoral Research Opportunities Abroad

The list below may be refreshed or updated with further established lists: The XXXI edition of the Canary Islands Winter School in Astrophysics is dedicated to the Computational Fluid Dynamics in astrophysics (La Laguna, Tenerife, 19-20 November 2019), in order to overview CFD simulations in many astrophysical regimes. For more information look here The Institute of Theoretical Physics IFT CSIC/UAM welcomes applications to a postdoctoral position in astroparticle phenomenology (1+1 years). The position starts in fall 2019, the candidate should have the PhD before June 30, 2019. For more info look here The first ever ESO Summer Research Programme provides the unique opportunity to students, not yet enrolled into a PhD programme, to carry out a 6-week long research project at the ESO Headquarters in Garching (Germany). For more info look here Any Member of the Society who wishes to contribute another credible link with opportunities, or individual opportunities that will, however, be shown in a single-liner format as above, is encouraged to contact the Secretary of the Society.

3. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece

Zooming in on Star Formation, a conference dedicated to celebrate the career of Prof. Ake Nordlund 10th-14th June, Nafplio, Greece Summer School for Astrostatistics 18th-21th June, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Registration deadline on 26th April Supernova Remnants II, and odyssey in space after stellar death 3th-8th June 2019, Chania, Crete, Greece Supermassive black holes environment and evolution 19th-22th June 2019, Corfu Town Feedback and its role in Galaxy formation 25th-29th June 2019, AKSS, Spetses, Greece, 4th OBSPM/LAM Summer School Galaxy Formation and Evolution in a Cosmological Context Spetses 28th August – 5th September 2019.

4. About this Newsletter

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