MARCH  2022 - TOPICS

Short News Elections of Hel.A.S. Elections of an EAS Councilor Summer School of Hel.A.S. Two post-doctoral positions at IAASARS-NOA Post-doctoral and PhD positions at IA-FORTH ESA Archival Research Visitor Programme (autumn 2022, winter 2023) Monthly Colloquium of Hel.A.S. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

The Governing Council of HelAS would like to congratulate Prof. Stavros Avgoloupis, a founding member of our Society, who has been recently elected Emeritus Professor at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Thessaloniki. We would like to congratulate Dr. Evangelia Tremou who recently moved to a permanent position of Assistant Scientist at National Radio Astronomy Observatory, in Soccoro, NM (USA). The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits. We would like to congratulate Dr. Maria Kopsachili who recently accepted a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Kopsachili will start her new position in August 2022. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits. We would like to congratulate Dr. Konstantinos Kovlakas who recently accepted a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Kovlakas will start his new position in October 2022. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits. We would like to congratulate Dr. Athina Meli who was elected, for three years, as a member of the NASA's Executive Committee for the 'Physics of the Cosmos'  Program analysis group and will be chairing also the 'Physics of the Cosmos' Cosmic-Ray Science Interest Group (CR SIG). The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits.

2. Elections to Hel.A.S.

The Governing Council of the Hel.A.S. would like to remind all members that the next elections for the Council of the Society for the 2022-2024 term will take place on Friday June 24 2022, along with the 41th General Assembly (GA). The deadline for nominations ended on February 28, 2022. The proposed candidates will be approved by the Council of HelAS and they will be announced in the April Newsletter.

3. Elections of an EAS Councilor

All members of Hel.A.S. who are also members of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) must have received on January 10, 2022 an e-mail from the EAS Office. The e-mail informed us about elections that are in progress for EAS Council members. The positions of President, one Vice-president, Treasurer and two Councillors are the positions that will be replaced. A Nomination Committee was appointed to identify nominees and provide recommendations. Here are the Committee propositions: Prof. Roger L. Davies is the sole candidate for President. Dr. Sara Lucatello is the sole candidate for Vice-President. Prof. Nick Kylafis is the sole candidate for Treasurer. Prof. Andi Burkert is the sole candidate for Councillor. The previous candidates are automatically re-elected with an effect at GA-2022 until the GA-2026. For second Councillor position there are three candidates: Dr Nabila Aghanim (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, France) Prof. Jarle Brinchmann (Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Porto, Portugal ) Dr Urlike Heiter (Uppsala University, Sweden) The EAS invite us to participate in the elections and cast a vote for 1 Councilor position no later than March 10, 2022. To cast your vote you must first login with you EAS account at: https://eas.unige.ch/login.jsp If you do not remember your username or password you may request them via the online interface.

4. Summer School of Hel.A.S.

After a two year delay due to the pandemic, the 4th summer school of the Society, entitled "The Milky Way Galaxy - Formation and Evolution", will take place in Athens during 25-27 July 2022. More information for the summer school, which is also sponsored by the Univ. of Athens, is available here.

5. Two post-doctoral positions at IAASARS-NOA

Two post-doctoral positions on extragalactic astrophysics are available at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) of the National Observatory Athens funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. The expected starting date of the posts is Autumn 2022 for a duration of up to 30 months. Interested parties contact Dr. Antonis Georgakakis (age@noa.gr) for more details.

6. Positions in extragalactic astrophysics at IA-FORTH

Two (2) postdoctoral researcher and two (2) PhD student positions on extragalactic astrophysics with emphasis on radio data analysis, are available at the Institute of Astrophysics, FORTH. The selected individuals will be funded by the ERC project "SMILE: Search for milli-lenses to discriminate between dark matter models" and they will work under the supervision of Dr. Carolina Casadio. The expected starting date of the posts is September 2022. More information is available here. Interested parties may contact Dr. Carolina Casadio for more details.

7. ESA Archival Research Visitor Programme (autumn 2022, winter 2023)

The European Space Agency (ESA) welcomes applications from scientists interested in pursuing research projects based on data publicly available in the ESA Space Science Archive https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc. The ESA Archival Research Visitor Programme is open to scientists, at all career levels, affiliated with institutes in ESA Member States and Collaborating States. Early-career scientists (within 10 years of the PhD) are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications by PhD students are also welcome. Residence lasts typically between one and three months. Research projects can be carried out at ESAC (Madrid, Spain) and at ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands). Applications received by 30 April 2022 will be considered for visits in autumn/winter 2022/2023. For further details, including areas of research and contact information, please refer to https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/visitor-programme

8. Monthly Colloquium of Hel.A.S.

We are happy to announce that the March 2022 colloquium speaker is Dr. Chistophe Sauty. As usual, videos of all past colloquia are available in the Youtube channel of the Society. Details of the upcoming colloquium follow: 15th Monthly Colloquium of HelAS - 8 March 2022 " Jets from YSOs and AGNs, from analytical models to simulations, going into the microphysics" by Prof. Christophe Sauty, Observatoire de Paris, France Tuesday, 8 March 2022 at 18:00 Athens time (UTC + 2:00) Click for ZOOM link (Meeting ID: 835 1765 3009 and Passcode: 068964) Abstract: In a long standing international collaboration including Greece, France, Portugal and Italy, we have developed analytical, self-similar, models for inner jets either stellar jets in YSOs or spine jets from black holes. These models are complementary to disk wind models. We are now at a stage of combining both components to study multicomponent jets through MHD simulations, in particular with the PLUTO code. The idea is to prescribe the heating sources in the simulations rather than using an ad hoc polytropic prescription, to be able to study more realistic sources. In particular, one issue is to consider how energetic particles produced in flares and shocks may affect the whole evolution of the outflows.

9. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece

COSPAR 2022 44th Scientific Assembly 16-24 July 2022, Athens.

10. 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 April 1, 2022.  Please send your announcements (e.g., appointments / departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before March 25, 2022. 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.