EAS News
A word from the President
Sara Lucatello

It is a great honor and a privilege to take over the role of President of the EAS. I wish to start this first message to the membership in my new capacity with an acknowledgement of the tremendous contribution that my predecessor, Roger Davies, has made to the Society. Roger guided the EAS for seven years with exceptional leadership and dedication, during which the society has enjoyed an incredible growth both in size and in stature. Individual members have quintupled, and there was a significant increase in the number of organizational members and national affiliated societies, which now expand beyond the limits of the European Union, making the EAS a truly pan-European organization.  The EAS annual meetings have established themselves as the largest yearly astronomy-focused event in Europe, regularly attended by over 1,500 scientists and are particularly popular with early career researchers, whose energy, enthusiasm, and fresh ideas are crucial to the future of our field. Read more


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New Councilors starting at the GA 2024 during Padova Annual Meeting
Ignacio Ferreras and Sven Wedemeyer

In the course of the past year two council positions had become vacant. Elections were held in May and Ignacio Ferreras from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, Spain, and Sven Wedemeyer from the Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, University of Oslo, Norway have started their four year term in early July. Ferreras will act as liaison with the European Parliament and help as deputy with the Newsletter. Wedemeyer will join the Annual Meetings Board and he will be a liaison to the solar physics community. Nabila Aghanim, EAS Councillor since 2022, will be one of the two Vice-presidents, along with Lex Kaper, who chairs the EAS Annual Meetings Board. Council responsibilities are revised on a regular basis, for up-to-date. Further information about the roles of all Council members can be found on EAS webpage. 


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EAS Annual Meeting 1-5 July 2024 in Padova, Italy
Summary

This year we were happy to welcome again a large number of participants to the EAS annual meeting: 1600 participants came to the Padova Congress Centre in person, and an additional 200 attended the meeting remotely. This was the first annual meeting in which all sessions were accessible in full hybrid mode. Roughly half of the online attendants contributed with a talk. About 50% of those attending in person had student and postdoc status, a most welcome group, as these events strive to help students in meeting new colleagues and establishing future collaborations. The packed programme included nearly 1200 talks and over 800 e-posters, and covered a wide range of subjects. The contributions were divided over 15 Symposia, 41 Special Sessions and 8 Lunch Sessions. Read more


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EAS 2024 Annual meeting attendees; we need your feedback!
Your input will inform our choices in the planning of future annual meetings

Year by year we do our best to improve the quality of the Annual Meetings. Feedback from the attendees is extremely helpful to improve our next gatherings. Therefore,  we kindly ask you to take part in the post-attendance survey prepared by the Council. The result of this survey will help us shape future meetings according to the needs of all members, taking into account the aspects of sustainability and inclusion. The link to the survey poll can be found here. 


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HERA workshop in 2025
Pisa, Italy

The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation continues its support of astrophysics research and young scientists with the organization and funding of workshops geared towards early career scientists, an initiative proposed by the EAS. The 2025 workshop, organized by Andrea Ferrara, will focus on early galaxy formation, to be held at the SNS (Scuola Normale Superiore) in Pisa, Italy. The workshop will likely take place around the end of September 2025. A preliminary title is "Physics of the Universe at Cosmic Dawn". Given the extremely positive reactions and interest, we plan to continue the HERA series for 2026-2028, and the EAS is now preparing the application for funding by the Foundation. Astronomical institutions interested in hosting a HERA workshop should please contact eas@unige.ch.


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EAS 2025 Annual Meeting, University College Cork, Ireland
Call for symposia and sessions

The 2025 EAS Annual Meeting will be held in Cork, Ireland, and will be hosted by University College Cork. The huge campus offers accommodation for lodging a significant fraction of the participants. Paul Callanan and Matt Redman agreed to serve as co-chairs of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the EAS 2025. Please consider the EAS Annual Meeting to organize your scientific meeting, taking advantage of all logistics being arranged by the meeting organizers. Individuals within the Astronomy and Space Science communities, as well as European networks, are strongly encouraged to propose and organise sessions. Astronomers not associated with any European institution are also welcome to propose sessions, but should plan to involve a European collaborator. Read more


About the EAS and the e-Newsletter

The European Astronomical Society (EAS) is a society of professional astronomers founded in 1990 and aiming at promoting and advancing astronomy in Europe. Its contact point is the EAS Office, located at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Started in 2016, the e-Newsletter is a prime communication tool between the society and its members, and it is issued three to four times per year.

If you would like to contribute, please contact Agata Różańska (CAMK PAN, Poland), the EAS e-Newsletter editor.

Composition of the EAS Council

President:
Sara Lucatello, Italy
Vice-President:
Lex Kaper, The Netherlands
Nabila Aghanim, France
Secretary:
Andreja Gomboc, Slovenia
Treasurer:
Nick Kylafis, Greece
Councillors:
Antoaneta Antonova, Bulgaria
Jarle Brinchmann, Portugal
Andreas Burkert, Germany
Agata Różańska, Poland
Mariya Lyubenova, Germany
Sven Wedemeyer, Norway
Ignacio Ferreras, Spain
Executive Secretary:
Marc Audard, Switzerland