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| Hel.A.S. Newsletter 297 - November 2022 |
| NOVEMBER 2022 - TOPICS |
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- Short News
- Job Opportunities in Greece
- The 2023 "Best PhD thesis Prize - Emilios Harlaftis"
- Astronomy & Astrophysics Awards 2023
- Monthly Colloquium of Hel.A.S.
- Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece
- About this Newsletter
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| 1. Short News |
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The Society wishes to remind its Junior Members of the December 15 travel grant deadline for meeting trips planned for the first half of 2023. Notice that every PhD student and every meeting (Conference, Workshop or School) is eligible for partial reimbursement of expenses, provided that the meeting is deemed paramount for the completion of the student's PhD Thesis.
We would like to congratulate Ms. Georgia Loukaidou who has recently defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled "Stellar evolution towards merging in contact binary systems" at the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Athens, under the supervision of Lect. K. Gazeas and Prof. D. Hatzidimitriou. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits.
We would like to congratulate Ms. Dimitra Lingri who has recently defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled "Precursory signal of the forbush decreases of the cosmic ray intensity by using neutron monitors and satellites data" at the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Athens, under the supervision of Prof. H. Mavromichalaki and Prof. I. Daglis. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in her professional pursuits.
We would like to congratulate Mr. Dimitrios Kantzas who has recently defended successfully his PhD thesis entitled "Exploring the implications of hadronic particle acceleration in X-ray binaries" at the Anton Pannekoek Institute of the Univ. of Amsterdam under the supervision of Prof. Dr. S. B. Markoff. Dr. Kantzas is moving to the Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTh) as a postdoctoral researcher. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits.
We would like to congratulate Dr. Kostas Karampelas who has recently moved to the Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven, as Junior FWO Fellow, under the support of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional career.
We would like to congratulate Dr. Thomas Bisbas who has recently moved to the Research Center for Intelligent Computing Platforms, Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, China to work as Principal Investigator of Astrophysics at the level of Professor. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional career.
All members are encouraged to review the minutes of the 3rd meeting of the Governing Council of HelAS, which took place on Oct 4, 2022.
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2. Job Opportunities in Greece
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Two (2) promotion-related positions with academic subject "Theoretical Astrophysics" at the level of Professor have opened at the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Crete. Interested parties are invited to submit all the required supporting documents electronically through the information system "APELLA", (codes APP30040 & APP30040 ) at the web address https://apella.minedu.gov.gr. The deadline for submission of applications is December 13, 2022.
Two (2) PhD positions as well as two (2) postdoctoral researcher positions, associated with the ERA Chair in "Astro-Informatics" of Dr. Jean-Luc Starck, are available at the Institute of Computer Science and the Institute of Astrophysics at FORTH. More information can be found in the following links:
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| 3. The 2023 "Best PhD thesis Prize - Emilios Harlaftis" |
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On September 1, 2020 the Governing Council of Hel.A.S. accepted a generous offer by the family of Dr. Emilios Harlaftis, an active member of our Society who passed away at an early age in 2005, and unanimously decided to rename “Best PhD thesis Prize" awarded by the Society every two years, to “Best PhD thesis Prize- Emilios Harlaftis”. The statues and application procedure of the award remain as in the past.
Applications for the "2023 Best PhD thesis Prize - Emilios Harlaftis" are now open. They are restricted to Junior members of the Society, who have successfully defended their Ph.D. thesis between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022. The application deadline is January 31, 2023. Additional information is available here.
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4. Astronomy & Astrophysics Awards 2023
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The Board of Directors of 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 wishes to express its appreciation, and contribute to the enthusiasm, of the new generation of researchers who will be shaping astronomy for the decades to come. These are the "Best PhD Thesis Award" and the "Early Career Award". More information is available here. The deadline for submission of applications is November 30, 2022.
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| 5. Monthly Colloquium of Hel.A.S. |
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We are happy to announce that the November 2022 colloquium speaker is Dr. Christina Plainaki. As usual, videos of all past colloquia are available in the Youtube channel of the Society. Details of the upcoming colloquium follow:
20th Monthly Colloquium of HelAS - 8 November 2022
"Space Weather in the Solar System: from key science drivers to exploration"
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Dr. Christina Plainaki, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy
Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 15:00 Athens time (UTC + 2:00)
Click for ZOOM link
(Meeting ID: 844 5808 9737 and Passcode: 311692)
Abstract: Circumterrestrial space weather is predominantly driven by the effects of the variability of the solar activity in the Earth’s magnetosphere and upper atmosphere.
The concept of space weather can be expanded also to other environments within our Solar System, spanning a wide variety of phenomena and physical mechanisms that interest, among others, the Planetary Sciences, Heliophysics, and Life Sciences disciplines. Indeed, with increasing efforts in space exploration, the need for a comparative understanding of the variability of space environments, around different solar system bodies, emerges. The space weather conditions around a planetary body are strongly driven by the interactions between the body itself and its local space environment, where perturbations of solar or non-solar origin may occur. In particular, the study of planetary space weather in the outer Solar System is of paramount importance not only for understanding the evolution, structure and dynamics of giant planetary systems but also for getting clues on similar (in their nature) phenomena that take place also in the circumterrestrial space, nevertheless, in different temporal and spatial scales. In addition, knowledge on the variability of planetary environments allows the design and manufacturing of satellites, components and payloads that are resistant to hazardous environments as well as the definition of a space weather preparedness strategy.
During this talk I will discuss some examples of space weather science approaches, especially in the context of Solar System exploration. I will focus my talk on the outer Solar System case with particular attention to the role of theoretical and/or data-driven modeling. The importance of current space-based measurements during ongoing scientific missions will be discussed together with some future perspectives for exploration.
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| 6. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece |
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22-25 May 2023, Island of Crete
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| 7. 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 December 1, 2022. Please send your announcements (e.g., appointments / departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before November 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.
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