APRIL 2016 - TOPICS

Short News Candidates for the upcoming elections of Hel.A.S. The 2nd Hel.A.S. Astrophysics Summer School - Program The 11th Heidelberg Summer School Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

We have been informed that Dr. Maria Petropoulou, a member of our Society, will be awarded the "2016 Merac Prize" for best PhD by the European Astronomical Society at this year's EWASS. As most of you will recall, Maria had already received the "2015 Best PhD Award" of Hel.A.S during our 12th Conference in Thessaloniki. The Council of Hel.A.S. is happy to congratulate Dr. Petroploulou for her achievement and expresses its wishes for a fruitful future career.

2. Candidates for the upcoming elections of Hel.A.S.

We remind our members that the next elections for the GC and Auditors of Hel.A.S. will take place on June the 17th, 2016. The 34th General Assembly (GA) of the Society will also take place at the University of Athens, on the same day. The GC has reviewed all nominations sent by our Ordinary Members, in accordance to the rules described in our Constitution. Hence, we are happy to announce that the candidates for the next Governing Council and Auditing Committee of our Society are: Candidate for President of Hel.A.S: Apostolos Mastichiadis (Un. of Athens) Candidates for the Governing Council: Manolis Georgoulis (RCAAM, Academy of Athens) Manolis Xilouris (IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens) Panos Patsis (RCAAM, Academy of Athens) Vassiliki Pavlidou (Un. of Crete) Pablo Reig (Un. of Crete) Nick Stergioulas (Un. of Thessaloniki) Candidates for Auditors: Kosmas Gazeas (Un. of Athens) Spyros Patsourakos (Un. of Ioannina) George Voyatzis (Un. of Thessaloniki) Short CVs of all candidates wiil be posted on our web-site (under  "News & Events") in the following week. Ballots will be distributed to all Hel.A.S. members by post by April 10th.

3. The 2nd Hel.A.S. Astrophysics Summer School - Program

We remind our members that registration for the 2nd Hel.A.S. Astrophysics Summer School is now open. The School will take place in Athens, on July 11-15, 2016. The scientific program has been announced and can be found here.

4. The 11th Heidelberg Summer School

The "International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy & Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg" (IMPRS-HD) announces the "11th Heidelberg Summer School on Astrostatistics & Data Mining", to be held on September 12-16, 2016. IMPRS Heidelberg invites graduate students and postdocs to apply. The deadline for application is July 10, 2015. The school will look at the principles of inference and methods of astronomical data analysis and data mining and will cover a range of numerical and statistical techniques and their application to different types of astronomical data. Please find more information, the school's poster, and the application forms under www.imprs-hd.mpg.de/ and www.imprs-hd.mpg.de/3880/Summer-School

5. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece

The following meetings are scheduled to take place in Greece during 2016: Escape of Lyman radiation from galactic labyrinths OAC, Kolymbari, Crete, 26-29 April, 2016 Astronomical Data Analysis 2016 Summer School Chania, 22-24 May, 2016 Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology Chania, 24-27 May, 2016 Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar Death Chania, Crete, 6-11 June, 2016 Hot spots in the XMM sky: Cosmology from X-ray to Radio Mykonos, 15-18 June, 2016 The 2016 NEON Observing School  Greece June 19- July 2, 2016 European Week of Astronomy and Space Science Athens, 4-8 July, 2016 2nd Hel.A.S. Summer School Athens, 11-15 July, 2016 17th NEB conference on “Recent Developments in Gravity” Mykonos, September 19-22, 2016 The ISM-SPP Olympian School of Astrophysics  Paralia Katerinis, October 3-7, 2016

6. 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 May 1st, 2016. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before April 26, 2016. 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.