HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 5 July 1998
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E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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TOPICS:
1. The new Council and Auditors of Hel.A.S
2. New Members
3. Members appointed in new positions
4. Astronomy Meetings in Greece
5. Financial issues
6. Job openings
7. About this newsletter...
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1. THE NEW COUNCIL AND AUDITORS OF HEL.A.S
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The new Council and the Auditors of Hel.A.S. were elected during the
elections of the Society, held on June 2, 1998:
COUNCIL:
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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 : E. Kontizas, National Observatory of Athens
: E. Livaniou-Rovithis, University of Athens
: X. Moussas, University of Athens
AUDITORS:
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Avgoloupis S., University of Thessaloniki
Goudis Chr., University of Patras
Theodossiou E., University of Athens
2. NEW MEMBERS
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Five new members were elected during the General Assembly of June 2,
1998 of our Society:
Petkaki Panagiota, Imperial College, London, UK (Ordinary Member)
Zachariadis Theodossios, Academy of Athens, Greece (Ordinary Member)
Hatziminaoglou Evanthia, Toulouse, France (Junior Member)
Kitsionas Spyridon, University of Cardiff, UK (Junior Member)
Mavrommatis Konstantinos, Volos, Greece (Associate Member)
Presently our Society has 209 members (159 Ordinary, 48 Junior and 2
Associate members)
3. MEMBERS APPOINTED IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr. Anastasiadis Anastasios has been appointed as Researcher C at the
National Observatory of Athens.
4. ASTRONOMY MEETINGS IN GREECE
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9th Panhellenic Conference on Relativity
Latest Developments in Gravity
Samos, 26-29 August, 1998
http://kerkis.math.aegean.gr/~neb9/neb9.html
or contact
Dr. A. Dimakis (dimakis@aegean.gr)
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2nd Samos Meeting on
Cosmology Geometry and Relativity
Samos, August 31 - September 4, 1998
http://kerkis.math.aegean.gr/~universe/index6.htm
or contact
Dr. S. Cotsakis (skot@aegean.gr)
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Astronomy 2000+: Greek prospects for the 21st century
Penteli Astronomical Station, National Observatory of Athens
12 & 13th of November 1998
http://www.astro.noa.gr/~gr2000
or contact
Professor J. Ventura (gr2000@astro.noa.gr)
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5. FINANCIAL ISSUES
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The Council of Hel.A.S. has set aside a small amount of money for
partial coverage of expenses for participating members of the Society in
JENAM-98. Enquiries and applications should be addressed to the Secretary
of the Society.
The membership fees set by the General Assembly of the Society on June 2,
1998 remain the same as for the past four years:
Ordinary Members : GRD 10000.-
Associate Members: GRD 10000.-
Junior Members : GRD 5000.-
Please contact P. Niarchos (Tel. +30 1 7243414, Fax +30 1 7238413,
E-mail: pniarcho@atlas.uoa.gr) for further information about the status of
your payment for 1998 and ways of fulfilling any financial obligations you
may have.
6. JOB OPENINGS
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An announcement of the following seven job openings has reached the
Secretary of the Hellenic Astronomical Society. For more information on
all positions please contact:
C.S. Kosmas (Impact 2000 Ltd)
Fax: 0032-2-6466018
e-mail: ckosmas@ibm.net
o Profile ADA-1
An ADA specialist for reviewing orbit calculation software.
o Profile ADA-2
An ADA programmer for Air Traffic Control Applications.
o Profile HP-C++
Good knowledge of HP-UX 9&10, C, C++, Pro*C (Oracle) and McCabe
Visual 2000 Toolset The task will consist in migrating an operational
platform from HP-UX 9 to 10 making sure that all applications running
on it (written in Cm C++ and Pro*C) are Year 2000 compliant.
(duration 6 months)
o Profile HP-IPC
Very good knowledge of C and C++ (Tcl/Tk and Perl an advantage)
Good knowledge of UNIX (HP-UX 9.x and 10.x) IPC and experience in writing
code on HP-UX using IPC.
Experience in UNIX IPC design.
Experience on writing UNIX shell scripts.
Good knowledge of UNIX operating system administration (HP-UX 9.x and 10.x)
o Profile VAX-Real-Time
Good knowledge of VMS system programming and VMS concepts, specifically:
-ASTs
-Timers
-Event flags
-Global sections (implicit and explicit mappings)
-Programming with DCL routines
-Good knowledge of VAX Fortran and/or DEC Fortran
Experience with satellites would be helpful
o Profile DEC-C
Good knowledge of DEC C
Good knowledge of Dec Windows Motif, particularly in a VMS environment.
o Profile DEC-Pascal (4 persons, 6 months)
Good knowledge of VMS system and DEC-Pascal
7. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was compiled and forwarded to all Hel.A.S. members,
that can be reached electronically, by Harry Varvoglis and Vassilis
Charmandaris.
The next edition of this Newsletter will be circulated around August
1998. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures, new
openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or
comments before July 25, 1998. 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 addressed is not your main
address, please let us know.
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