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- Brief News
- Retirement of Prof. P. Preka-Papadima
- HelAS Annual Membership Fee
- The 2021 "Best PhD thesis Prize - Emilios Harlaftis"
- Monthly Colloquium of HelAS
- Nature Astronomy - Correction
- Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece
- About this Newsletter
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| 1. Brief News |
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We would like to congratulate Dr. Konstantina Anastasopoulou, who recently moved from the Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH to a postdoctoral researcher position at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (INAF) in Italy. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits.
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| 2. Retirement of Prof. P. Preka-Papadima |
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On September 1, 2020, a distinguished member of our Society, P. Preka-Papadima retired from her faculty position at the department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, Faculty of Physics, of the University of Athens.
On behalf of all Society members, the G.C. would like to thank P. Preka-Papadima for her contribution to the Society and to the advancement of astronomy in Greece. Furthermore, we wish her a fruitful continuation of her creative work for many years to come.
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| 3. HelAS Annual Membership Fee |
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We would like to remind all members of the Society, that the deadline for the payment of the annual membership fee for the year 2020 was August 31st. If your are uncertain about your payment status please contact the Secretary of the Society.
As it has been mentioned in the past, the preferred method of payment is online via the secure server of the Bank of Pireaus, using a direct bank transfer. For more details on this, as well as information on other methods of payment, please review the payment form listed bellow, or contact the Treasurer:
http://www.helas.gr/forms/dues.pdf
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| 4. The 2021 "Best PhD thesis Prize - Emilios Harlaftis" |
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On September 1, 2020 the Governing Council of Hel.A.S. accepted a generous offer by the family of Dr. Emilios Harlaftis, an active member of our Society who passed away at an early age in 2005, and unanimously decided to rename “Best PhD thesis Prize" awarded by the Society every two years, to “Best PhD thesis Prize- Emilios Harlaftis”. The statues and application procedure of the award remain as in the past.
Applications for the "2021 Best PhD thesis Prize - Emilios Harlaftis" are now open. They are restricted to Junior members of the Society, who have successfully defended their Ph.D. thesis between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020. The application deadline is January 31, 2021. Additional information is available here.
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| 5. Monthly Colloquium of HelAS |
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Motivated by the opportunities provided by modern technology, the GS of the Society decided to commence a "Monthly Colloquium of HelAS" in order to bring virtually together once a month all members of our Society from across Greece and all over the world, who wish to attend an exciting astronomy talk by a distinguished colleague and discuss about science. Moreover, we hope that this event will become a regular activity of the Society which will greatly benefit small astronomy groups (and their students), since it may be challenging for them to attract high quality speakers locally. Prof. Vlahakis, in collaboration with Prof. Patsourakos and Prof. Tassis are responsible for selecting our colloquium speakers. The colloquia will take place the second Tuesday of every month at 18:00-19:00.
We are happy to announce that the inaugural colloquium speaker is Dr. Jason Spyromilio (ESO, Germany). Details of his colloquium follow:
1st Monthly Colloquium of HelAS - October 2020
"The extremely Large telescope"
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Dr. Jason Spyromilio (ESO, Germany)
Tuesday, 13 October 2020 at 18:00
Click for ZOOM link
(Meeting ID: 953 8226 8643 and Passcode: 366991)
Abstract: The ELT will be the largest optical telescope on the ground. It is currently under construction at Armazones in the Atacama desert. The talk shall present the telescope design and some of the challenges that arise from its size. The first suite of instruments and their science capabilities shall be presented.
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6. Nature Astronomy - Correction
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In the September 2020 newsletter it was erroneously mentioned that publication in Nature Astronomy requires page charges. This is incorrect, since publishing in Nature Astronomy (an astronomy journal with an impact factor of 10.5) is based only on research excellence and it is free of charge. We would like to thank Dr. Marios Karouzos, Senior Editor of Nature Astronomy, for clarifying this.
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| 7. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece |
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| 8. About this Newsletter |
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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 November 1, 2020. Please send your announcements (e.g., appointments / departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before October 25, 2020. 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. at secretary@helas.gr.
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