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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 44 October 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. The 5th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
3. Members in new positions
4. New Members of Hel.A.S.
5. New Ph.D. positions in Astronomy
6. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
7. About this newsletter...
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1. SHORT NEWS
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Professors J. Ventura (University. of Crete) and K. Tsinganos
(University of Athens) resigned from their positions as member and
substitute member (respectively) of the Greek National Committee for
Astronomy.
2. THE 5TH HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE
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As you already know, between September 20 and 22, Hel.A.S. organised
the 5th Hellenic Astronomical Conference at the Fodele Beach Hotel, near
Heraklio, Crete. From the 140 colleagues that had pre-registered, 108
(from Greece and other 10 countries) were able to to finally attend the
meeting. Unfortunately, due to the tragic events in New York, almost all
our colleagues from U.S. were not able to participate.
At the beginning of the Conference Professor Goudis, the newly appointed
Director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National
Observatory of Athens, gave a short account of the latest information on
the progress of the new "Aristarchos" telescope.
During the Conference 150 "Contributed", 9 "Session Main" and 4
"Invited" papers were presented. The "Invited", "Session Main"
and "Contributed" papers were distributed among various fields as follows:
-Dynamical Astronomy (-, 1, 10)
-Solar, Planetary and Space Physics (1, 2, 36)
-Stellar Astrophysics (1, 1, 28)
-Our Galaxy and other galaxies (- , 1, 14)
-High Energy Astrophysics (-, 1, 13)
-Cosmology and Relativity (1, 1, 11)
-Observational Astronomy (-, 2, 17)
-Infrastracture, History and Teaching of Astronomy (1, -, 21)
During the Conference, the awards for the "Best PhD in Astronomy
among the junior members of HEL.A.S." for the years 1999 and 2000 were
presented, respectively, to Drs. E. Xilouris (University of Crete) and
S. Basilakos (Imperial College). Dr. Xilouris gave a talk on "Dust lanes
in spiral galaxies" and Dr. Basilakos gave a talk on "Cold dark matter
with negative pressure".
3. NEW MEMBERS of HEL.A.S.
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18 new members of Hel.A.S. were elected during the General
Assembly of our Society, which took place on September 21, 2001.
These were:
- Ordinary Members:
Dr. Al. Georgakilas (Univ. Caltech)
Dr. Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Univer. Valenzia)
Dr. Spiros Kanavos (Univ. Patras)
Dr. Pantelis Papadopoulos (ESA)
Dr. Zacharias Protogeros (ICS-FORTH)
Dr. Christos Tsagas (Univ. Portsmouth)
Dr. Athanassios Geranios (Univ. Athens)
Dr. Iosif Papadakis (ITE)
Dr. Athanassios Katsigiannis (Queen's Univ.)
- Junior Members:
Nikiforos Georgiadis (Univ. Athens)
Ioannis Giannikakis (Univ. Athens)
Angelos Missiriotis (Obs. Marseille)
Sotirios Tsantilas (Univ. Athens)
Olga Malandraki (Nat. Obs. Athens)
Christos Papadimitriou (Nat. Obs. Athens)
Evagelos Liratzi (Univ. Athens)
Emmanouil Rovilos (Jodrell Bank)
Omiros Giannakis (Nat. Obs. Athens)
The following Junior members moved to the Ordinary status, having
fulfilled the requirements described in the constitution:
Dr. Spyros Basilakos, Imperial College, UK
Dr. Emmanuel Bratsolis, Ecole Nat. Sup. de Telecomm., France
Dr. Manolis Georgoulis, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Dr. Dimitrios Gouliermis, Univ. of Bonn, Germany
Dr. Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, European Southern Obs., Germany
Finally the General Assembly changed the status of our Junior member,
Mr. Emmanouil Lazaridis, to Associate member.
Presently our Society has 238 members (189 Ordinary, 44 Junior and
5 Associate members). For further details and statistics you may check:
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/statistics.html
4. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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We would like to congratulate Dr. Christos Siopis who was recently
awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor (USA) and will be moving there in early October 2001.
Dr. Charalampos Skokos recently moved from the University of
Athens to the National Academy of Athens.
5. NEW PH.D. POSITIONS IN ASTRONOMY
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The newly established "International Max Planck Research School on
Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond" offers research
possibilities for students to obtain a PhD degree in a 3-years graduate
program.
A prerequisite is a qualified (4-years) Bachelor, a Diploma or a
Masters degree in physics. The PhD program will start on 1 February
2002 and review of application begins on 15 October 2001. Successful
applicants will receive adequate financial support. For further
details visit:
http://www.solar-system-school.de
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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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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Euroconference/IAU Colloquium 188 on
Magnetic Coupling of the Solar Atmosphere
Santorini, 11-15 June 2002
http://www.space.noa.gr/solmag
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 November 1st
2001. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
or comments before October 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
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