AUGUST  2023 - TOPICS
Short News EAS Membership for HelAS Members ESA astronomy archives user survey Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece About this Newsletter
1. Short News
The Society would like to congratulate Dimitris Souropanis who has recently successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "On the interaction of accreting white dwarfs with their ambient medium" at the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Athens, under the supervision of Dr. Panos Boumis and Dr. Alexandros Chiotellis (IAASARS/NOA). The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits. The Society would like to congratulate Dr. Evangelia Samara who has recently completed her PhD at KU Leuven, entitled "Understanding and modeling the solar wind: challenges, limitations and solutions towards better predictions" under the supervision of Prof. Stefaan Poedts. Dr. Samara moved as a postdoctoral fellow to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (USA). The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits. The Society would like to congratulate Dr. Kosmas Gazeas for having his name assigned to the asteroid 30278 by the Working Group for Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of IAU. Dr. Gazeas has contributed to the study of the most ancient asteroids and to the outreach and public engagement activities relevant to solar system science (link). The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional  pursuits. The Society would like to congratulate Dr. Raphael Skalidis who has recently received the 2023 "Astronomy & Astrophysics PhD prize for his paper entitled "Why take the square root? An assessment of interstellar magnetic field strength estimation methods." The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits.
2. EAS Membership for HelAS members
We would like to remind all our members that the European Astronomical Society (EAS) is offering free membership to all junior and ordinary members of HelAS, as well as members of all EAS affiliated societies. As a result, with just the HelAS annual membership fee, one may also receive all EAS member benefits, presented here. As of today 219 Ordinary/Junior members of HelAS, listed here, have become members of EAS. Once a year we have the possibility to update this list so new members of HelAS, as well as old members who did not take advantage of this opportunity can benefit from the EAS membership. EAS may use the members’ data for EAS-only matters, such as sending e-mails with various information, as well as the EAS newsletter, logging on the EAS website, etc. The EAS will never sell or otherwise make available the members’ data to commercial or non-commercial third parties. Members that leave the EAS can request that their data be erased from the EAS database. All members of HelAS who are not already EAS members and wish to join may send an e-mail to president@helas.gr with the following sentence as the Subject line. “I am an Ordinary/Junior member of HelAS and I wish to join EAS for free!” The e-mail must be received by September 30, 2023.
3. ESA astronomy archives user survey
The ESAC Science Data Centre is conducting an anonymous short survey in an effort to ensure that astronomers have the best possible experiences when using the European Space Agency Astronomy Science Archives and ESASky. We encourage you tto spend a few minutes of your time filling in this survey.
4. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece
School on Observational Astrophysics 15-17 September 2023, Kryoneri 10th Astronomical Data Analysis Summer School 18-22 September 2023, Hersonissos, island of Crete "Supernova Remnants III: An Odyssey in Space After Stellar Death" 9-15 June 2024, Platanias Chania, Crete
5. 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 September 1, 2023. Please send your announcements (e.g., appointments / departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before August 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.