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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 51 May 2002
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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. Forthcoming elections of Hel.A.S.
3. Candidate profiles
4. Members in new positions
5. Job oppenings
6. ASTROVITEL: Third Call for Proposals
7. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
8. About this newsletter...
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1. SHORT NEWS
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We would like to congratulate Dr. Eleni Dara and Dr. Theodossios
Zachariadis, as both were recently promoted to the position of
"Researcher A" in the Research Center for Astronomy and Applied
Mathematics of the Academy of Athens.
The postal code of all Hel.A.S. members at the Univ. of Thessaloniki
has changed from "GR-540 06" to "GR-541 24".
The phone numbers of at the National Observatory of Athens have
recently changed. We would greatly appreciate if all Hel.A.S. members
who work at the Observatory confirm that their updated records in
the online directory are correct.
2. FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS OF Hel.A.S
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Please note the following deadlines for the forthcoming elections
of our Society.
- April 10, 2002:
The Council distributed the ballots along with instructions on
the voting procedures, agenda times, and various annoucements
to all Ordinary and Junior members. (Check your mailboxes...)
- June 17, 2002:
The ballots of members who would like to vote by ordinary mail
must have been received by the Secretary of Hel.A.S.
- June 18, 2002:
General Assembly of Hel.A.S. at 12.30 pm in the conference Hall
of the Section of Astrophysics Astronomy and Mechanics of the
University of Athens, located in Panepistimioulis (Zografos)
According to article 32 of the constitution of Hel.A.S., a member
must have payed his/her annual membership fees in order to be eligible
to vote.
All members are strongly encouraged to attend the General Assembly.
Members who will not be able to be in Athens on June 18 can still
vote by ordinary mail. Note, however, that the ballots must reach the
Secretary, Prof. H. Varvoglis, before June 17th, 2002.
3. CANDIDATE PROFILES
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In the following we present in alphabetical order some minimal
information on the background of the candidates of our elections. Some
candidates have personal web pages listed in the online directory
of Hel.A.S., the URLs of which are also included here.
- Candidate for President:
o Laskarides Pavlos
Position: Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics Univ. of Athens, 1964
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Univ. of Victoria, BC, Canada, 1971
Web page: Not available
- Candidates for the Governing Council:
o Antonopoulou Evgenia
Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Athens, 1972
Ph.D. in Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K., 1981
Web page: Not available
o Theodosiou Efstratios
Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Thessaloniki, 1974
Ph.D. in Physics, Univ. of Athens, 1983
Web page: Not available
o Mathioudakis Mihalis (*)
Position: Lecturer, Dept. of Physics, Queens Univ. of Belfast, UK
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Thessaloniki, 1988
Ph.D. in Astronomy, Queens Univ. of Belfast, UK, 1992
Web page: http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/bios/mm.html
(*) Dr. Mathioudakis has been elected as an Assistant Professor at
the Dept. of Physics of the Univ. of Thessaloniki and he will
be moving there shortly.
o Moussas Xenophon
Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Athens, 1971
Ph.D. in Physics, Univ. of Athens, 1977
Web page: Not available
o Plionis Manolis
Position: Researcher C, National Observatory of Athens
Degrees: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Univ. of Crete, 1983
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Univ. of Sussex, U.K., 1989
Web page: http://www.astro.noa.gr/~mplionis
o Tsinganos Kanaris
Position: Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Thessaloniki, 1974
M.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Chicago, USA, 1976
Ph.D. in Physics, Univ. of Chicago, USA, 1980
Web page: http://www.physics.uoc.gr/~tsingan/
o Hatzidimitriou Despina
Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Athens, 1984
Ph.D. in Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K., 1989
Web page: http://www.physics.uoc.gr/2000/prosop/cv/xatzidimi.htm
- Candidates for an Auditor:
o Grammenos Theofanis
Position: Executive Staff, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Hannover, 1985
Ph.D. in Physics, Univ. of Athens, 1994
Web page: Not available
o Danezis Manos
Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Athens
Degrees: B.Sc. in Physics, Univ. of Athens, 1974
Ph.D. in Physics, Univ. of Athens, 1984
Web page: Not available
o Papadopoulos Dimitrios
Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics,
Univ. of Thessaloniki
Degrees: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Univ. of Thessaloniki, 1970
Ph.D. in Physics, Univ. of Thessaloniki, 1981
Web page: http://www.astro.auth.gr/~papadop
4. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr. Markos Georganopoulos moved from the Max Planck Institute fuer
Kernphysik in Heidelberg (Germany), to work as National Reseearch
Council (NRC) postdoc with Dr. Demos Kazanas at the NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt MD, (USA).
5. JOB OPENING
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A position at the level of the "Assistant Professor" in the area of
"Observational Astrophysics" has opened in the Section of Astrophysics
and Space Physics of the Department of Physics at the Univ. of Crete.
This opening is to fill a vacancy due to a recent tenured faculty
move. The application deadline is 20th May 2002.
For more information on the application material you may contact
the Secreteriat of the Deparment at +30 810 394308.
6. ASTROVITEL: THIRD CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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The ASTROVIRTEL Project, supported by the European Commission and
managed by the ST-ECF on behalf of ESA and ESO, is aimed at enhancing
the scientific return of the ST-ECF/ESO Archive. It offers the
possibility to European Users to exploit it as a virtual telescope,
retrieving and analysing large quantities of data with the assistance
of archive operators and scientific personnel.
Detailed instructions for the submission of proposals can be found at
http://www.stecf.org/astrovirtel/.
The deadline for submission is June 17th, 2002.
7. 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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10th Hellenic Relativity Conference
Thessaloniki, 30 May - 2 June 2002
http://www.astro.auth.gr/gravity/NEB_X.html
or contact:
Dr. K. Kokkotas (kokkotas@astro.auth.gr)
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The 3rd Workshop on Compact Steep Spectrum and
GHz-Peaked Spectrum Radio Sources
Kerastari, Tripolis, 28-31 May 2002
http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/people/atzioumi/gps_css/
or contact:
Dr. T. Tzioumis (gpscss3@atnf.csiro.au)
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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
or contact:
Dr. Georgia Tsiropoula (georgia@space.noa.gr)
Dr. Udo Schuehle (schuehle@linmpi.mpg.de)
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International Workshop on
Galaxies and Chaos: Theory and Observations
Athens, 16-19 September 2002
http://www.cc.uoa.gr/gc2002
or contact:
Prof. N. Voglis (nvogl@cc.uoa.gr)
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Multi-Wavelength Cosmology
Myconos Island, 16-20 June 2003
For details contact:
cosm2003@sapfo.astro.noa.gr
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8. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was edited by Harry Varvoglis and Vassilis
Charmandaris. It was forwarded to the 222, out of the 239 members of
Hel.A.S., who have e-mail access.
The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around June 1st
2002. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
or comments before May 25, 2002. 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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