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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 25 March 2000
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E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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TOPICS:
1. Short News
2. Members in new positions
3. Hel.A.S. forthcoming elections
4. Membership fees
5. JENAM 2000
6. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece
7. An appendix to Hipparchos 1.7
8. About this newsletter...
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1. SHORT NEWS
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- On Monday, February 14, Dr. Aristidis Serlemistos passed away unexpectedly.
Aristidis (Art for his friends) was a NASA astronomer and engineer, well
known for the discovery of the Helium-3 rich flares and the construction
of the cooling device of the IR detector aboard COBE. A year ago he had taken
an early retirement, in order to return to Greece and live in Samos, his
native island. He is survived by his wife and his two children.
2. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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We would like to congratulate the following members of Hel.A.S. for
their recent appointments/promotions.
- Dr. Paul Laskarides was promoted to "Full Professor" in the
Department of Physics of the University of Athens (Section of
Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics).
- Dr. Nikolaos Voglis has been elected as "Researcher A" at the
Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics of the Academy
of Athens.
- Dr. George Voyatzis has been elected as "Lecturer" in the
Department of Physics at the University of Thessaloniki (Section of
Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics).
3. 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 2000
elections are approaching.
- April 10, 2000: The Council distributes the ballots to all
Ordinary and Junior members
According to article 32 of the constitution of Hel.A.S. a member
must have payed his/her annual membership fees in order to be eligible
to vote.
4. 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. Niarchos (Tel. +30 1 7274896, E-mail: pniarcho@cc.uoa.gr)
for further information about the status of your payment for the year 2000
and ways of fulfilling any financial obligations you may have.
5. JENAM 2000
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The second announcement of the next Joint European and National
Astronomy Meeting, entitled "European Astronomy at the Turn of the
Millennium", is out and the registration deadline is set for March 15th.
For more information visit:
http://www.sai.msu.su/jenam/
6. 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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NATO Advanced Study Institute on
"Space Storms and Space Weather Hazards"
Hersonissos, Crete, June 19-29, 2000
http://sat2.space.noa.gr/~daglis/asi2000.html
or contact
Dr. Yannis Daglis (daglis@creator.space.noa.gr)
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7. AN APPENDIX TO HIPPARCHOS 1.7
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A set of interesting web sites which provide a plethora of archived
solar data was not included in the section "Exploring the web with
Hipparchos" of the last issue of Hipparchos. Since many greek
astronomers work on solar physics, we present some of these siter here:
A good starting point of most available solar data is the:
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/
Details on SOHO data can be found at:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data
while the TRACE mission data can be accessed via:
http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE
We thank Dr. Vourlidas who brought these sites to our attention.
8. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was compiled and forwarded to all Hel.A.S. members,
who can be reached electronically, by Harry Varvoglis and Vassilis
Charmandaris.
The next edition of this Newsletter will be circulated around April
1st (not a joke!) 2000. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/
departures, new openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in
Greece) or comments before March 25, 2000. 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 sent is not your preferred
one, please let us know.
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