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| Hel.A.S. Newsletter 192 - February 2014 |
| FEBRUARY 2014 - TOPICS |
- Short News
- Elections of Hel.A.S.
- Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS)
- Undergraduate Research Scholarship at Yale
- ESA's Call for "L2" Mission
- Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece
- About this Newsletter
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| 1. SHORT NEWS |
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We would like to congratulate our members P. Boumis, I. Papadakis, and G. Tsiropoula, who were recently awarded an "Excellence II" ("Aristeia II") grant from the GSRT.
We would like to congratulate Dr. D. Rigopoulou and Dr. G. Magdis, who are members of the Herschel-SPIRE Consortium, that has been awarded the 2014 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award for achievement by a large consortium in Astronomy.
We would like to congratulate Dr. Titos Matsakos, who has recently moved to the University of Chicago for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship to work with Prof. Arieh Konigl.
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| 2. ELECTIONS OF HEL.A.S. |
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The next elections of Hel.A.S. will take place in the Physics Department of the University of Athens on Friday, June the 13th, 2014 (please note that the election's date announced in the previous newsletter was incorrect). According to our constitution, all ordinary members are eligible to nominate candidates for the elections. Please refer to the invitation letter and the nomination form, which are available at
Hel.A.S. News & Events (in Greek)
Hel.A.S. News & Events (in English)
for more information. Please also note that, if you wish to nominate a candidate for the elections, you must fill in the nomination form, and post it by surface mail, to the Secretary of the Society by February 28, 2014. Your letter must arrive no later than March 14 2014. |
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| 3. LEIDEN/ESA ASTROPHYSICS PROGRAM FOR SUMMER STUDENTS (LEAPS) |
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Leiden Observatory and the European Space Agency (ESA) are pleased to welcome applications for the second Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS). LEAPS is an opportunity for highly motivated students, with a keen interest in astronomy and space science, to carry out a 10-12 week summer project in the Netherlands, working with research scientists from Leiden Observatory or ESA/ESTEC in Noordwijk. The projects that are offered cover a wide variety of topics, from analysis of data from world-class telescopes and space missions (studying e.g. starburst galaxies, star formation, exoplanet atmospheres and planetary geology), to large computer simulations on cosmological scales, or hands-on work in the astrochemistry laboratories simulating interstellar conditions. For more information visit:
http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/summerstudents
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| 4. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP AT YALE |
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The Yale Astronomy Department has announced a call for applications for Undergraduate Physics students (who have completed their first year) to spend the summer at Yale working as a researcher in astronomy. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2014. For more information on this "Hoffleit Undergraduate Astronomy Research Scholarship at Yale" you can visit:
http://www.astro.yale.edu/vlg8/hoffleitfellowship.html
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| 5. ESA's CALL FOR L2 MISSION |
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ESA has released a call for mission concepts for the Large-size “L2” mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme. The deadline for the submission of concepts is on April 15, 2014, at 12:00 (noon) CET. The Call can be found at the URL:
http://sci.esa.int/2014_L2_Call
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| 6. UPCOMING ASTRONOMY MEETINGS IN GREECE |
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| 4. 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 March 1st, 2014. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before February 20, 2014. 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.
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