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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 39 May 2001
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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. Job Opening
4. Visiting fellowships under the program EARASTARGAL
5. Blois Conference on "Frontiers in Astrophysics"
6. The Astrovirtel Project
7. Studentship for work on Solar Observations
8. The 2001 Conference of Hel.A.S.
9. JENAM 2001
10. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
11. About this newsletter...
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1. SHORT NEWS
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We would like to congratulate Prof. Christos Goudis (Univ. of Patras),
a founding member of Hel.A.S., for being elected as the new director of
the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the National Observatory
of Athens.
The Proceedings of the last Hel.A.S. Conference in Samos have now
been published in a CR-ROM, which has been mailed by the LOC to all
participants. Check your mailboxes!
2. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Mr. Alexis Louridas has recently moved from the Nuffield Radio
Astronomy Laboratories at the Univ. of Manchester, to the Electronic
Engineering Laboratory at the Univ. of Kent at Canterbury (UK).
Dr. Nektaria Gizani has recently moved from the Universidade da
Madeira to the Observatorio Astronomico de Lisboa, in Lisbon
(Portugal).
3. JOB OPENING
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A new tenured track position at the level of "Assistant Professor"
or "Lecturer" in the field of "Astrophysics" has opened at the
Department of Physics of the University of Thessaloniki. The
application deadline is May 8, 2001.
For more information check:
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/events/auth_01.jpg
or contact:
The Secretary, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Thessaloniki,
GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece,
Tel. +30 31 998120, Fax. +30 31 998122
4. VISITING FELLOWSHIPS UNDER THE PROGRAM EARASTARGAL
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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. The second call for applications
of PhD candidates, who will spend 3 to 12 months at one of the EARA
institutes, is now available at:
http://www.iap.fr/eara/mcurie.html
The deadline for applications is June 1, 2001.
5. BLOIS CONFERENCE ON "FRONTIERS IN ASTROPHYSICS"
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Fellowships are available for young european scientists wishing to
participate in this conference, which will take place from 17 to 23 June,
2001. The conditions are: age < 35 at the date of the conference and
nationals of EU member states or associated states.
For details about the process and the program see:
http://wwwusr.obspm.fr/confs/blois2001.html
6. THE ASTROVIRTEL PROJECT
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The ASTROVIRTEL Project, supported by the European Commission,
offers the possibility to European Users to exploit the ST-ECF/ESO Archive
as a virtual telescope, retrieving and analysing large quantities of data.
The Second Call for ASTROVIRTEL Proposals has now been announced.
Detailed instructions for the submission of proposals within the
Second Call for ASTROVIRTEL Proposals can be found at:
http://www.stecf.org/astrovirtel/
The deadline for submission is June 15th, 2001.
7. STUDENTSHIP FOR WORK ON SOLAR OBSERVATIONS
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A pre-doctoral student, interested in participating in an on-going
research project concerning the analysis of ground and space-based
solar observations, is requested to contact:
Dr G. Tsiropoula, National Observatory of Athens
tel. +30 1 6138340-41, e-mail:georgia@space.noa.gr
The student will work on a part-time basis in a bilateral Greek-
French program, recently approved by the General Secretariat of Research and
Technology.
8. THE 2001 CONFERENCE OF HEL.A.S.
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As a reminder to all Hel.A.S. members, the deadline for registration
and submission of abstracts for the upcoming conference of Hel.A.S.
is May 15th 2001. Requests to the LOC for travel support should also
be submitted by the above data. If you plan to participate in the
conference, please visit its web site at:
http://astrophysics.physics.uoc.gr/conf/
and sign up as soon as possible.
9. JENAM 2001
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The second announcement for the next Joint European and National
Astronomy Meeting, which takes place in Munich Germany in September
2001 and is entitled "Five Days of Creation: Astronomy with Large
Telescopes from Ground and Space", is now available at:
http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/english/conferences/jenam01/
10. 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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5th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
Crete, 20-22 September 2001
http://astrophysics.physics.uoc.gr/conf/
or contact
Dr. J. Ventura (ventura@physics.uoc.gr)
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1st Aegean Summer School on Cosmology
Karlovassi, 21-29 September 2001
http://www.physics.ntua.gr/cosmo
or contact
Dr. S. Cotsakis (skot@aegean.gr)
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2nd Conference of Greek Amateur Astronomers
"Traditional Astronomy - Modern Astronomy"
Corfu, 27-28 October 2001
contact persons: Mr. A. Kotinas or Mr. S. Chondrogiannis at
kotinas@hotmail.com or astrocorfu@hotmail.com
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International Conference on
Magnetic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere
Santorini, 11-15 June 2002
Contact persons:
Dr. Georgia Tsiropoula (georgia@space.noa.gr)
Dr. Udo Schuehle (schuehle@linmpi.mpg.de)
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11. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was compiled and forwarded to all Hel.A.S. members
who can be reached electronically (202 out of 221), by Harry
Varvoglis and Vassilis Charmandaris.
The next edition of the Newsletter will be circulated around June
1st 2001. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or
comments before May 25, 2001. All correspondence concerning the
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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