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| Hel.A.S. Newsletter 266 - April 2020 |
| APRIL 2020 - TOPICS |
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- Short News
- Elections of Hel.A.S.
- Petros Rovithis (1938-2020) Obituary
- Members of our Society awarded AAS Fellow Status
- Call for proposals for Aristarchos Telescope
- Student and Postdoctoral Research Opportunities Abroad
- Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece
- About this Newsletter
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| 1. Short News |
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Dear members of our Society. I hope that this message finds you in good health and high spirits. We are experiencing difficulties with the preparation of the Society's elections because there is no postal service between Greece and some countries such as the USA where many of our members reside. Moreover, the Society's summer school, that was to take place during autumn, will have to be postponed. In view of the fluid circumstances, we will be keeping you up to date concerning the elections and any other events.
The Society would like to congratulate Prof. Lia Athanassoula who was recently elected as corresponding member of the Academy of Athens in the field of dynamical astronomy. The Society extends its best wishes to Prof. Athanassoula for further successes in her professional pursuits.
We wish to congratulate Dr. Manolis Georgoulis who was recently appointed a Science Editor for the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Journals in 'The Sun and the Heliosphere' corridor. AAS Journals include The Astrophysical Journal, Letters and Supplement Series, The Astronomical Journal and others. The Society extends its best wishes to Dr. Georgoulis for further successes in his professional endeavors.
We wish to congratulate Dr. Kostas Moraitis who received an Individual Marie Curie fellowship in order to work at the department of Physics at the University of Ioannina. The Society extends its best wishes to Dr. Moraitis for further successes in his professional endeavors.
We wish to congratulate Dr. Georgios Vernardos who received an Individual Marie Curie fellowship in order to work at the Laboratory of Astrophysics, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. The Society extends its best wishes to Dr. Vernardos for further successes in his professional endeavors.
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2. 38th General Assembly and Elections of Hel.A.S.
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The Governing Council of Hel.A.S. announces that the next, 38th General Assembly of the Society will take place on Friday, June 19, 2020 at the Society's legal base, namely the Section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics of the Physics Department of the University of Athens. The General Assembly will convene at 09:30, in case a quorum consisting of 40%+1 of Ordinary and Junior Members is achieved. If no quorum is achieved by 09:30, the General Assembly will convene at the same location at 13:30 of the same day, regardless of quorum, in accordance with the Society's Constitution.
The Society's elections for the Governing Council of the 2020 - 2022 service term will be taking place in the course of the forthcoming General Assembly. As per Articles 27 - 39 of the Society's Constitution, election-pertinent material, instructions and guidelines will be forwarded by ordinary mail to all Ordinary and Junior Members by April 10, 2020. Envelopes will also include an invitation and tentative agenda for the General Assembly. The names and short CVs of the candidates for the Governing Council and the Auditors will be uploaded online in due time, under "Announcements" in the News and Events Section of the Society's website. The financial report for the 2018 - 2020 term will also be uploaded in the same online location in due time and will be presented and discussed during the General Assembly. The Governing Council takes this opportunity to remind all Ordinary and Junior Members who wish to vote in the upcoming elections to fulfill the financial requirements for this action: according to Articles 14 and 27 of the Society's Constitution, no Member can vote in person or via an absentee ballot if not in good membership standing. This means that membership fees including the year 2019 should be covered by the election date in order to be eligible to vote. Both the Society's future and standing rely on a robust election turnout; for this reason, Members are strongly encouraged to fulfill this financial requirement that will validate their voting rights. You will be informed of any possible change of the announced dates.
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3. Petros Rovithis (1938-2020) Obituary
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Dr. Rovithis was born in Crete, Greece, on January 2, 1938 and passed away in Athens on March 11, 2020. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Athens University, Greece, (1963), and his Ph.D., from the same University (1976). He joined for three months as Visiting Research Fellow the Univ. of Manchester and the Haute Province Observatory. He has worked as Assistant at the Univ. of Athens, Greece (1960-1963), Astronomer at the Athens Planetarium of Eugenides Foundation (1967-1971), Assistant and Chief Assistant of the Astronomical Institute, of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Researcher, Chief Researcher of the same Institute, and in charge of the Kryonerion Station of NOA (1994-2001). He retired in 2001 and became Emeritus Chief Researcher, at then Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. His areas of expertise and research interests included Observational Astrophysics and in particular the sun, diffuse nebulae, SN remnants, photometric and spectroscopic observations of variable stars such as CVs, eclipsing binaries and symbiotic stars. On these subjects he has published many scientific papers as well as 5 monographs and a large number of popular articles in Greek. He was also interested in the history of the astronomy and has written 8 popular books on various subjects. He has been permanent fellow in two popular scientific journals, of the encyclopaedia YDRIA. Moreover, for many years he was presenting all important observational events during the year in the Journal Uranus, published by the Society for Space and Astronomy at Volos, in which he was also an honorary member. He was member of IAU and founding member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society.
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4. Members of our Society awarded AAS Fellow Status
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The American Astronomical Society (AAS) established in 2019 a new accolade, Fellow of the AAS, to honor members for extraordinary achievement and service. AAS Fellows are recognized for original research and publication, innovative contributions to astronomical techniques or instrumentation, significant contributions to education and public outreach, and noteworthy service to astronomy as well as to AAS.
The GC Hel.A.S. is happy to inform you that among the initial group of 232 AAS Fellows, were included three members Hel.A.S.: Dr. Lia Athanassoula, Prof. Vicky Kalogera and Prof. Chryssa Kouveliotou.
The GC would like to congratulate them for this significant significant recognition and would like to wish them further successes in their professional pursuits.
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5. Call for proposals for Aristarchos Telescope
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A Call for Proposals for the observing period July 1 - October 31, 2020, has been announced. The deadline for submitting proposals is May 15, 2020. The observing period and the schedule may change due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The announcement can by found here.
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6. Student and Postdoctoral Research Opportunities Abroad
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The list below may be refreshed or updated with further established lists:
- A postdoc position on outreach, within CERN's Fellowship programme. For more info look here.
- The "Applied Galactic Dynamics Summer School" will take place at the Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, (July 6th-August 14th). Interested Phd students can found more information here.
- The ESO Summer Research Programme provides an opportunity to students, not yet enrolled into a PhD programme, to carry out a research project at the ESO Headquarters in Garching (Germany) from 2nd July to 11th August. For more info consult here.
Contact: summerresearch @eso.org
Any Member of the Society who wishes to contribute another credible link with opportunities, or individual opportunities that will, however, be shown in a single-liner format as above, is encouraged to contact the Secretary of the Society.
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| 7. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece |
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| 8. 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 May 1, 2020. Please send your announcements (e.g., appointments / departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before April 25, 2020. 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.
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