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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 29 July 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. The new Council and Auditors of Hel.A.S
3. New Members
4. Job opening
5. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
6. About this newsletter...
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1. SHORT NEWS
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During the 15th General Assembly of Hel.A.S., which took place on
Friday, June 16, 2000 in the Laboratory of Astronomy of the University
of Athens, the Report of the Council and the Treasurer's Accounts for the
period June 1998 to June 2000 were received and adopted. Prior to the
Assembly Professor Emeritous N. Economou, from the University of Thessaloniki,
presented an excellent account on the ancient clockwork mechanism found,
about a century ago, in a shipwreck ashore the island of Antikythera.
2. THE NEW COUNCIL AND AUDITORS OF HEL.A.S
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In the elections that followed the General Assembly of June 16, 2000,
the members of Hel.A.S. voted for a new President, a new Council and new
Auditors. The results are as follows:
President: J.H. Seiradakis, University of Thessaloniki
Council: S. Avgoloupis, University of Thessaloniki
N. Kylafis, University of Crete
E. Livaniou-Rovithis, University of Athens
P. Niarchos, University of Athens
E. Plionis, National Observatory of Athens
H. Varvoglis, University of Thessaloniki
Auditors: K. Kokkotas, University of Thessaloniki
N. Stergioulas, University of Thessaloniki
E. Theodossiou, University of Athens
3. NEW MEMBERS
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Nine new members were elected during the General Assembly of June 16,
2000 of our Society:
- Ordinary Members:
Dr. Panagiotis Boumis, National Observatory of Athens
Dr. Konstantinos Gontikakis, Academy of Athens
Dr. Konstantinos Karoubalos, University of Athens
Dr. Nikos Prantzos, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
- Junior Members:
Mr. Athanasios Akylas, National Obseravtory of Athens
Miss. Olga Bitzaraki, University of Athens
Mr. Kosmas Gazeas, University of Athens
Miss. Mary Koukouli, Oxford University
- Associate Member:
Mr. Antonios Antoniou, Lyceum of Chalkida
Finally the General Assembly changed the status of our old member, Mr.
Stylianos Argyropoulos, from Junior to Associate.
Taking into account the above new colleagues, presently our Society has
222 members (177 Ordinary, 41 Junior and 4 Associate members). The
postal address and e-mail of all members is available in the on-line
directory of the web pages of Hel.A.S.
4. JOB OPENING
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The National Observatory of Athens announced an opening for the position of
the Director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The deadline for
applications is July 20, 2000. For further information please contact
the Observatory at Tel. +1-3690104, FAX +1-3490140.
5. 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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13th Summer School/Conference
Nonlinear Dynamics: Chaos and Complexity
Chania, Crete, 17-28 July 2000
http://www.chaos-schools.gr/
or contact
Dr. D. Ellinas (ellinas@science.tuc.gr)
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Applied Differential Geometry, Lie Algebras - General Relativity
Thessaloniki, 27 August - 2 September 2000
http://www.astro.auth.gr/~apg00/
or contact
Prof. D. Papadopoulos (apg00@astro.auth.gr)
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9th Panhellenic Relativity Conference
Ioannina, 28-31 August 2000
http://theory.physics.uoi.gr/~nbatakis/nebix.html
or contact
Dr. N Batakis (nbatakis@cc.uoi.gr)
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"Similarities and Universality in Relativistic Flows", SURF 2000
Mykonos, October 1-5, 2000
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/theory/surf
or contact
Dr. Markos Georganopoulos (markos@levi.mpi-hd.mpg.de)
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7. 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 August
1st 2000. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
new openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or
comments before July 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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