August 2024 - TOPICS

Short News EAS membership for Hel.A.S. members Summer School of Hel.A.S. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece About this Newsletter

1. Short News

The Society would like to congratulate Georgios Vernardos for  accepting an Assistant Professor Position at CUNY's Lehman College, NY, USA. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits. The Society would like to congratulate Nikolaos Karnesis for becoming an ESA appointed member of the LISA Science Team (LST) for the period 2024-2027. Members of the LST are expected to monitor the development and operations of the mission, and give advice on all aspects that affect its scientific performance. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits. The Society would like to congratulate George Korkidis, who has successfully completed his PhD at the Univ. of Crete, entitled “Signatures of the Hubble flow around galaxy clusters and their significance for cosmology”, under the supervision of Prof. V. Pavlidou. The Society extends its best wishes for further success in his professional pursuits. All members are encouraged to review the minutes of the 43rd General Assembly, as well as the minutes of July 3, and July 10, 2024 of the GC of HelAS.

2. EAS Membership for Hel.A.S. members We would like to remind all our members that the European Astronomical Society (EAS) is offering free membership to all junior and ordinary members of Hel.A.S., as well as members of all EAS affiliated societies. As a result, with just the Hel.A.S. annual membership fee, one may also receive all EAS member benefits, presented here.  Once a year we have the possibility to update this list so new members of Hel.A.S., as well as old members who did not take advantage of this opportunity can benefit from the EAS membership. EAS may use the members’ data for EAS-only matters, such as sending e-mails with various information, as well as the EAS newsletter, logging on the EAS website, etc. The EAS will never sell or otherwise make available the members’ data to commercial or non-commercial third parties. Members that leave the EAS can request that their data be erased from the EAS database. All members of HelAS who are not already EAS members and wish to join may send an e-mail to secretary@helas.gr with the following sentence as the Subject line. “I am an Ordinary/Junior member of HelAS and I wish to join EAS for free!” The e-mail must be received by September 1, 2024.

3. 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. More information about the summer school, which is also sponsored by the Univ. of Ioannina, is available here.

4. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings and Schools in Greece

"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

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