July 2024 - TOPICS

Short News The 43rd General Assembly of Hel.A.S. Elections of Hel.A.S. Summer School of Hel.A.S. 2024 NEON Observing School Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

The Society would like to congratulate Nikos Sioulas, recent graduate of the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA, for his new postdoctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits.

2. The 43rd General Assembly

The 43rd General Assembly (GA) took place in hybrid mode on June 28, 2024 at the Department of Physics of the University of Athens. The GA was preceded by a colloquium of Prof. Vlahakis entitled "Open questions in astrophysical jets". During the GA 7 new junior members 4 new ordinary members and 1 new associate member of the Society were elected, bringing the total membership to an all time high of 311 members.

3.The 2024-2026 Elections of Hel.A.S.

During the elections that took place electronically via the platform "Zeus" on June 28, 2024, the President of the Society, as well as a new Council and Auditors for the 2024-2026 term were elected. Of the 165 ordinary and junior members of the Society eligible to vote a total of 109 ballots were cast. The results of the elections were: Elected President of Hel.A.S.: Hatzidimitriou Despina Elected Members of the Governing Council: Antoniadis Ioannis Archontis Vasilios Balasis Georgios Gkolias Ioannis Papaioannou Athanasios Petropoulou Maria Elected Auditors: Boumis Panagiotis Diaz-Santos Tanio Vasilopoulos Georgios The minutes prepared by the Elections Committee, which include the votes each person received are available here and they will be appended at the minutes of the 43rd General Assembly when these will become available.

4. Summer School of Hel.A.S.

The 5th summer school of the Society, entitled "Magnetohydrodynamics in Astrophysics", will take place in Ioannina during 16-20 September 2024. The deadline for registration and recommendation letter submission has been extended to July 15, 2024. More information about the summer school, which is also sponsored by the Univ. of Ioannina, is available here.

5. 2024 NEON Observing School

The 2024 NEON Observing school will take place in Greece at the facilities of the National Observatory of Athens 13 - 25 October 2024. During the school we will use in person the 2.3 meter Aristarchos telescope and 1.2 metre Kryoneri telescope. In addition we will obtain data also from the 2 meter Liverpool Telescope. Liverpool Telescope is a robotic telescope located on La Palma in Spain.  More information about the school is available here.

6. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece

"4th Summer School for AstroStatistics in Crete" 8-12 July 2024, Heraklion, Crete "Gamma-Ray Burst Forum 2024" 8-12 July 2024, Athens "Tidal Disruption Events and Nuclear Transients: Entering the Data-Rich Era" 2-6 September 2024, Heraklion, Crete The Nature and the Dynamics of Structures Observed in Galactic Disks (a WE Heraeus-EAS Early Career Researchers in Astronomy Workshop) 15-20 September 2024, Academy of Athens, Athens The 5th Summer School of Hel.A.S. 16-20 September 2024, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 2024 NEON Observing School 13-25 October 2024, National Observatory of Athens, Athens

7. 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 August 1, 2024. Please send your announcements (e.g., appointments / departures, job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or comments before July 25, 2024. 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.