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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 30 August 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 Officers of Hel.A.S.
3. New Editor of Hipparchos
4. Members in new positions
5. Visiting Fellowships for European PhD Students
6. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
7. About this newsletter...
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1. SHORT NEWS
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Due to a minor miscommunication the affiliations of two recently elected
Hel.A.S members were misquoted in the previous newsletter. Mr Akylas is
a student at the Univ. of Athens and Dr. Boumis is research associate
at the Univ. of Crete. Details on the affiliation and address of all
new members can be found in the online directory of the Society.
The 19th newsletter of the European Astronomical Society is available
online at: http://www.iap.fr/eas/newsletters.html
A new web page with links to several sites advertising astronomy
jobs has been added to the web server of Hel.A.S. To view it select
the "Astronomy Resources" page and click on the link "Astronomy Job
Openings" found near the top of that page.
2. THE NEW OFFICERS of HEL.A.S.
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The newly elected Governing Council of Hel.A.S. convened on July 3rd
and appointed the officers of the Society for the term 2000-2002.
These are:
President : J.H. Seiradakis, University of Thessaloniki
Vice-President : N. Kylafis, University of Crete
Secretary : H. Varvoglis, University of Thessaloniki
Treasurer : P. Niarchos, University of Athens
Members : S. Avgoloupis, University of Thessaloniki
: E. Livaniou-Rovithis, University of Athens
: E. Plionis, National Observatory of Athens
3. NEW EDITOR OF HIPPARCHOS
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After four years of service Dr. Xenophon Moussas has stepped down
as editor of Hipparchos. On behalf of all members the Governing
Council would like to thank him for the time and effort he devoted to it.
A new editor, Dr. Manolis Plionis of the NOA (mplionis@astro.noa.gr),
was appointed during the last meeting of the Governing Council. Please
consider submitting any news, articles etc. for the upcoming issue
of Hipparchos to him.
4. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr. Paul Kalas has recently moved from Space Telescope Science
Institute (MD, USA) to a new postdoctoral fellowship position at the
Astronomy Department of the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Konstantinos Pavlakis has recently moved from the University of
Leeds, (U.K.) to a new postdoctoral fellowship position in the
Department of Physics at the University of Crete.
5. VISITING FELLOWSHIPS FOR PHD STUDENTS
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The European Association for Research in Astronomy (EARA) has been
designated by the EU as a joint Marie Curie Training Site, offering
fellowships for postgraduate students working on several theoretical and
observational areas in astronomy. The institutes involved are the
Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (United Kingdom), Leiden
Observatory (The Netherlands), the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
(France), the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik in Garching
(Germany), and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain).
A call for applications of PhD candidates who will spend 3 to 12
months at one of the above EARA institutes during which they will
continue their Ph.D research work under the supervision of local
staff members has been announced. For more information visit:
http://www.iap.fr/eara/mcurie.html
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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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 the Newsletter will be circulated around September
1st 2000. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
new openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or
comments before August 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 it was sent is not your preferred one, please
let us know.
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