Ενημερωτικό Δελτίο 42 - Αύγουστος 2001

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                       HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                           ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
             NUMBER 42                               August 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. In memory of A.G. Michalitsianos
  4. Annual Membership Fees: Payment using credit card
  5. SCISOFT: The European Southern Observatory Software Collection
  6. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  7. About this newsletter...
  
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  1. SHORT NEWS
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  - A new web page, providing information on sources of funding in
  Greece for academically related scholarships and fellowships, has
  been made now available. You may access it directly at:

       http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/scholarships.html

  or via a link from the "Astronomy in Greece" web page of our server.
  If you have any suggestions/additions to that list, please let us know.


  2. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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    We would like to congratulate Dr. Dimitris Psaltis (currently at the
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology) who was recently awarded a 5
  year fellowship in theoretical astrophysics from the Institute of
  Advanced Studies in Princeton NJ, USA, and will be moving there in
  August 2001.

    We would like to congratulate Dr. Emmanuel Bratsolis who recently
  moved as a TMR fellow to the Ecole Nationale Superieure de
  Telecommunications (ENST), Departement de TSI (Traitement du Signal
  et des Images) in Paris, France.

    
  3. IN MEMORY OF A.G. MICHALITSIANOS
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    An event to honor the memory of the eminent Greek-American
  astrophysicist Andrew Gerasimos Michalitsianos (1947-1997) of 
  NASA-GSFC USA will take place in his island of origin, Cephalonia,
  Greece, on August 4th 2001. Colleagues and friends from Greece and
  the USA will make a series of presentations on his life and scientific
  achievements and give some review talks on recent advances in
  astrophysics & cosmology. For more information visit:
           http://eudoxos.snd.edu.gr/eudoxos/AM-event.htm
  In a special short ceremony, scheduled to also take place for this
  occasion, a new 0.6m robotic telescope, which was funded jointly by
  the Ministry of Education and the Prefecture of Cephalonia & Ithaki 
  will be named after Andrew Michalitsianos. The "AM" telescope is
  installed in the new National Observatory of Education and Research
  Center for Astrophysics "Eudoxos", at Mount Ainos, in Cephalonia.


  4. ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEES: PAYMENT USING CREDIT CARD
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    It is now possible to make payments of your Hel.A.S. membership
  using a VISA credit card. This should clearly facilitate our members
  who live and work outside Greece, as well as all members who wish to
  avoid the extra charges associated with money orders or wire money
  transfers. The new payment invoice for the year 2001 is available in
  PDF format and can be retrieved from the end of the web page:
	 http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/membership.html
  or directly from:
	http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/forms/dues2001.pdf
    Please note that there is a deadline by which members should pay
  their membership fees. For this year it has been set to October 1st.
  Payments are accepted in Greek drachmas or Euros.

     You may contact the treasurer of Hel.A.S. Prof. Panagiotis Niarchos
  (Tel. +30 1 7276896, E-mail: pniarcho@cc.uoa.gr), for information on
  the status of your past payments or any other questions you may have 
  on this issue.


  5. SCISOFT: THE EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY SOFTWARE COLLECTION
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    Scisoft is a project within ESO aimed at providing a collection of
  astronomical software utilities, mostly public domain tools developed
  outside ESO, in a uniform way at all four ESO sites. Major data
  analysis packages (e.g. IRAF/STSDAS, ESO-MIDAS and IDL) are included
  as well as many smaller utilities. There are currently three
  versions, for Solaris 2.6, Linux Redhat 6.2 and HP-UX 10.20, which
  are available in a CDROM. For more information about the project and
  details on how one can request a CDROM, please visit:
		http://www.eso.org/science/scisoft/
  

  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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                  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 (kotinas@hotmail.com) 
               Mr. S. Chondrogiannis (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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  7. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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    This Newsletter was edited by Harry Varvoglis and Vassilis
  Charmandaris. It was forwarded to the 202 out of the 221 members of
  Hel.A.S. members who have e-mail access.
  
    The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around September
  1st 2001. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures, 
  job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or 
  comments before August 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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