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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY/MARCH 1998
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TOPICS:
0. Introduction
1. Short news
2. Hel.A.S. forthcoming elections
3. Membership fees
4. Astronomy meetings in Greece
5. New Ph.D. degrees
6. Members elected in new positions
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0. INTRODUCTION
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Dear Colleague,
This is the first edition of the electronic newsletter of the
Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). We hope that this newsletter
will provide a new way of diffusing useful information more rapidly.
The newsletter will be compiled and published monthly if enough
material comes to our attention.
If you haven't already done so, please take time to look at the
Hellenic Astronomical Society Web pages
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/
You may find some useful information, including full addresses and web
pages of all our members, the latest news about Astronomy in Greece,
job announcements, conferences held in Greece and much more. If you
notice any mistakes (in particular in the online version of the
directory) or have suggestions on how to improve these web pages do
not hesitate to contact the webmanagers.
The next edition of this Newsletter will be circulated around April
1998. Please send your announcements or comments before March 25, 1998.
All correspondence concerning this Newsletter should be addressed to:
elaset@astro.auth.gr
If you do not wish to receive future issues of this Newsletter or the
e-mail address to which this Newsletter was addressed is not your main
address, please let us know.
This Newsletter was compiled and forwarded to all Hel.A.S. members,
that can be reached electronically, by
John H. Seiradakis and Vassilis Charmandaris
1. SHORT NEWS
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- The "JENAM-97 Highlights" have been published. All members that
attended the meeting have either received or are going to receive soon the
small volume published by our Society. A few extra copies are still
available. If you would like to receive one please send us a short
message. The remaining volumes will be sent on a first-come-first-served
basis.
- A few volumes of the "Proceedings of the 2nd Hellenic Astronomical
Conference" (held in 1995 at Perea, Thessaloniki) are also available.
Please send us a message if your Library would like a copy. Indicate the
full address of your Library in your message. If there are still some
copies left, personal requests will be taken into account.
- Information about the following Conferences has reached our Society.
Please check the corresponding web pages or contact the organizers by
E-mail if you are interested.
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Euroconference:
Extrasolar Planets: Formation, Detection and Modeling
Lisbon, Portugal: April 27, 1998 - May 1, 1998
E-mail: Jean.Schneider@obspm.fr
URL: http://oal.cc.fc.ul.pt/~planets/planets.html
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34th International Astronomical Youth Camp, 1998 (IAYC 1998)
Klingenthal, Germany: July 18, 1998 - August 8, 1998
E-mail: Sam Vereecke
URL: http://www.ster.kuleuven.ac.be/~bart/iayc
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2. Hel.A.S. FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS
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Please note the following deadlines for the forthcoming elections of our
Society. Further deadlines will be announced as the June 1998 elections
are approaching.
- February 28, 1998: Last day for Candidates' nominations
- April 10, 1998: The Council distributes the ballots to all Ordinary
and Junior members
3. MEMBERSHIP FEES
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The membership fees set by the General Assembly of the Society are:
Ordinary Members : GRD 10000.-
Associate Members: GRD 10000.-
Junior Members : GRD 5000.-
Please contact P. Laskarides (Tel./Fax +30 1 7238824, E-mail:
plaskar@atlas.uoa.gr) for further information about the status of your
payment for 1998 and ways of fullfiling any financial obligations you
may have.
4. 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 if you are interested.
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NATO Advanced Study Institute
on
'`Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution'',
Heraklion, Crete, 24 May - 5 June 1998.
http://www.mitos.com.gr/conf/starASI98
or contact
Dr. N.Kylafis (kylafis@physics.uch.gr)
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International Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics,
``Nuclei in the Cosmos V'',
Volos, 6-17 July 1998
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/events/cosmos98.html
or contact
Dr. N.Prantzos (prantzos@iap.fr)
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5. NEW Ph.D. DEGREES AWARDED
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The Hellenic Astronomical Society would like to congratulate the
following Junior members for obtaining their Ph.D. degrees in the second
half of 1997.
- Gizani Nectaria, Ph.D. Victoria University of Manchester, UK.
- Kalogera Vassiliki, Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.
(now a postdoc at Harvard-Smithsonian CfA in Boston, MA, USA)
- Papathassiou Hara, Ph.D. Penn State University, USA
(now a postdoc at SISSA, in Trieste, Italy)
- Psaltis Dimitris, Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
(now a postdoc at Harvard-Smithsonian CfA in Boston, MA, USA)
6. MEMBERS ELECTED IN NEW POSITIONS
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The following members of the Society were elected in new positions:
- Christidis Theodoros, Professor at the University of Thessaly
- Mastichiadis Apostolos, Associate Professor at the University of Athens
- Apostolatos Theocharis, Lecturer at the University of Athens
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