JANUARY  2023 - TOPICS
Short News Job Opportunities in Greece The 16th Conference of Hel.A.S. The 2023 "Best PhD thesis Prize - Emilios Harlaftis" Monthly Colloquium of Hel.A.S. EGU General Assembly - call for abstracts Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece About this Newsletter
1. Short News
The GC wishes to all members of Hel.A.S. a Happy, Healthy and Productive NEW YEAR 2023! We would like to congratulate Dr. Eva Ntormousi who was recently elected as tenure researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, in Italy. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits. We would like to congratulate Constantina M. Fotopoulou who has recently successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "The multiphase interstellar medium in a high resolution simulation of a dwarf starburst " at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich under the supervision of  Dr. Thorsten Naab and Prof. Dr. Volker Springel.  The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits.
2. Job opportunities in Greece
One (1) PhD or one (1) post-doctoral position on high-energy astrophysics at the Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will be announced in the upcoming months. The position will be funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) scheme under the grant entitled "ASTRAPE" with PI Dr. Georgios Vasilopoulos. The selected candidate will work on topics related to extreme accretion in X-ray binaries and Ultra luminous X-ray sources under the supervision of the PI and in collaboration with international researchers. Expected starting date is between February-April 2023, for a duration of up to 24 months. For the PhD position, applicants should hold a masters degree in Astrophysics or to graduate early in 2023. Depending on the available candidates the position could be also offered on a post-doctoral level. Interested parties should contact Dr. Vasilopoulos (georgios.vasilopoulos@astro.unistra.fr) for more details. One (1) post-doctoral position on high-energy computational astrophysics at the Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will be announced in the upcoming months. The position will be funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) scheme under the grant entitled "UNTRAPHOB" with PI Prof. Maria Petropoulou. The selected candidate will work on code development and modeling of multi-messenger emission from relativistic jets in collaboration with international researchers. He/she will also be involved in the mentoring of PhD and MSc students working on the project. Interested parties should contact Prof. Petropoulou (mpetropo@phys.uoa.gr) for more details.
3. The 16th Conference of HelAS.
We would like to inform all members that the 16th Conference of HelAS, which will take place in Athens from 25-28 of June 2023. The venue will be the historic buildings of the University of Athens and the Academy of Athens, located at the city center. During the conference we will celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the Society. We anticipate that the conference will be in hybrid format in order to allow participants who can not make it to Athens to also attend and present their results. Details regarding the plenary speakers, registration and abstract submission will be announced on February 1st, 2023.
4. The 2023 "Best PhD thesis Prize - Emilios Harlaftis"
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 "2023 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, 2021 and December 31, 2022. The application deadline is January 31, 2023. Additional information is available here.
5. Monthly Colloquium of Hel.A.S.
We are happy to announce that the January 2023 colloquium speaker is Prof. Gina Panopoulou. As usual, videos of all past colloquia are available in the Youtube channel of the Society. Details of the upcoming colloquium follow: 22nd Monthly Colloquium of HelAS - 10 January 2023 "Observations of magnetic fields in the ISM" by Prof. Gina Panopoulou, Chalmers Univ., Sweden Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 15:00 Athens time (UTC + 2:00) Click for ZOOM link (Meeting ID: 884 6796 7761 and Passcode: 031881) Abstract: The magnetic field is one of the most elusive components of the interstellar medium. It affects galactic processes on a wide range of scales: from the formation of stars to the launching of galactic outflows. Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in observations of the magnetic field in our own Galaxy and beyond. Ground-based and orbital experiments from the optical to the radio have generated datasets of unprecedented variety and volume, that probe the magnetic field. Drawing from this wealth of studies in the recent decade, I will summarize key insights about the nature of the magnetized ISM. I will also discuss exciting future prospects enabled by new observational surveys - with emphasis on mapping the Milky Way's magnetic field in three dimensions.
6. EGU General Assembly - call for abstracts
This year, the EGU General Assembly will be held once again in Vienna, Austria and online in 23-28 April 2023. The Planetary and Space Sciences (PS) division, with 9 distinct sessions/themes, is awaiting your contribution. Submission guidelines can be found at:  https://egu23.eu/programme/how_to_submit.html The abstract submission deadline is Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 13:00 CET.
7. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece
The Olympian Symposium 2023: Star formation in the era of JWST May 29 - June 2, 2023, Paralia Katerini's olympiansymposium.org 16th Hellenic Astronomical Conference Athens, 25-28 June 2023 The 10th Microquasar Workshop: the various facets of extreme gravity 22-25 May 2023, Island of Crete
8. 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 February 1, 2023. Please send your announcements (e.g., appointments / departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before January 25, 2023. 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.