November 2025 - TOPICS
Short News A&A Awards 2026 ACME Centres of Expertise: Remote Tutorials and Hands-On Sessions Honorary Event "Stefanos Trachanas: The Student and the Teacher" Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece About this Newsletter
1. Short News
We would like to congratulate Konstantinos Antoniadis for successfully completing his PhD thesis entitled "The mass loss of red supergiants"  at the Physics Department of the University of Athens under the supervision of Dr. Alceste Bonanos. The Society extends its best wishes to Dr. Antoniadis for further successes in his professional pursuits. The Laboratory of Astronomy of the Department of Physics at the University of Ioannina announces its new web-page.
2. A&A Awards 2026
The Board of Directors of Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) attributes two yearly Awards for outstanding research published in A&A by individuals in the initial stages of their careers. With these two Awards, the Board aims to recognise and contribute to the enthusiasm of the new generation of researchers who will shape the future of astronomy for decades to come. The deadline for applications is 31 December 2025. For more details about the application, please visit this page.
3. ACME Centres of Expertise: Remote Tutorials and Hands-On Sessions
We would like to inform our members about a series of remote tutorials and hands-on sessions organized over the next three months by multi-messenger experts from the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) project - Joint Centres of Expertise. These sessions aim to provide participants with  introductory knowledge and practical exercises in observational techniques, data analysis, and theoretical software packages and tools in the multi-messenger context.  Details on dates, times, and specific session topics can be found here. Registration is required up to five days prior to each event.
4. Honorary Event "Stefanos Trachanas: The Student and the Teacher"
On the occasion of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, the University of Crete Press cordially invites you to the honorary event “Stefanos Trachanas: The Student and the Teacher,” which will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at 18:30 at the French Institute of Greece (31 Sina Street, Athens).
5. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece
MuMeNTA: Multi-Messenger Numerical Techniques in Astrophysics 2-4 March 2026, Athens, Harokopeio University 5th Olympian Symposium: The Evolution of Interstellar Medium Across Cosmic Times 18-22 May 2026, Paralia Katerini 16th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium 1-5 June 2026, Thessaloniki Note: The weekend before the conference a school for young scientists will be held.
6. About this Newsletter
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