Hel.A.S. Newsletter 66 - August 2003

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                       HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                           ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
             NUMBER 66                              August 2003

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  E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr      WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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  TOPICS:

  1. The Programm of the 6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference 
  2. Short News
  3. New solar observations with VAULT
  4. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  5. About this newsletter...

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 1. THE PROGRAMM OF THE 6th HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE
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   Attached to this newsletter is the preliminary general programm of 
 the 6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference and the available detailed 
 programs with the corresponding talks and posters of most sessions. 
 
 2. SHORT NEWS
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  We would like to congratulate MariLiza Koukouli who recently
  received her PhD enttiled "Remote sensising of water vapour in
  Venus' middle atmosphere" from the Dept. of Atmospheric Oceanic and
  Planetary Physics of Oxford University (UK). Dr, Koukouli will be
  moving as a Marie Curie Fellow to the Instituto di Astrofisica di
  Andalusia, in Granada (Spain).


 3. NEW SOLAR OBSERVATIONS WITH VAULT
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   VAULT (Dr. C.M. Korendyke, PI) is an imaging instrument that
 obtains narrowband images of the solar atmosphere in the Lyman a line
 (1216A) with the unprecedented resolution of 0.3 arcseconds (or 220
 km).  VAULT has flown twice as a sounding rocket payload and is the
 successor of the NRL's highly successful High Resolution Telescope
 and Spectrograph (HRTS). We have taken care to make the VAULT web
 site accessible and interesting to both the general public and the
 solar physics community. The public can find an extensive collection
 of information, visualizations and images that describe the concept
 of sounding rockets, the VAULT instrument and its scientific
 objectives and of course the spectacular images obtained during the
 flights.For more information :

	     http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/rockets/vault/

 The site also contains the full set of data (in FITS format)
 from the first flight of the instrument. They are freely available to
 all interested parties for further scientific analysis. We welcome
 comments and suggestions for improving the site. Please visit often.

 Angelos Vourlidas (Project Scientist)
 vourlidas@nrl.navy.mil

    
 4. UPCOMING ASTRONOMY MEETINGS IN GREECE
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    The following meetings will take place in Greece in the coming
  months. Please check the corresponding web pages or contact the
  organizers by e-mail for more information.



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              International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics
                 ``Complex Plasmas in the New Millennium''
                   Santorini Island, 8-12 September 2003

              Pre-registration at http://itcpp.conferences.gr  

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                   6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
                        Athens, 15-17 September 2003
 
                             More information at:
                   http://www.astro.noa.gr/Hel.A.S.2003

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                              Summer School on 
                  "Basic Processes of Turbulent Plasmas"
                  Palini, Chalkidiki 22-27 September 2003

                             More information at:
                http://www.astro.auth.gr/~vlahos/school.html

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                 3rd Conference of Greek Amateur Astronomers
                 "Astronomy from ancient times to the future"
                   Paliouri, Chalkidiki 17-19 October 2003

                             More information at:
                         http://www.ofa.gr/synedrio/

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 4. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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   This Newsletter was edited by Vassilis Charmandaris and Kanaris
 Tsinganos. It was forwarded to the 219, out of the 237, members of
 Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access.

   The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around September 1st 
 2003. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
 job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
 or comments before August 25, 2003. All correspondence concerning
 the Newsletter should be addressed to:

          elaset@astro.auth.gr, or, tsingan@phys.uoa.gr

   If you do not wish to receive future issues of this Newsletter or the
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