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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 56 October 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. Annual Membership Fees: Payment using a credit card
3. The European Astronomical Society (EAS) and JENAM 2002
4. 10th European Solar Physics meeting
5. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
6. About this newsletter...
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1. SHORT NEWS
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We would like to congratulate the member of our Society, Hel.A.S., Dr
Stamatios Krimigis, Head of the Space Department of the Applied Physics
Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, who was selected to receive this
year's COSPAR Space Science Award. The COSPAR Space Science Award
honours a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to space
science. In 2002, this award was presented to two recipients, C. T.
Russell and S. M. Krimigis.
Previous recipients were:
2000 - Roger M. Bonnet
2000 - Donald M. Hunten
1998 - Catherine Cesarsky
1998 - Marcia Neugebauer
1996 - Norman F. Ness
1996 - Minoru Oda
1994 - Gerhard Haerendel
1994 - Joachim E. Trumper
1992 - Edward C. Stone Jr.
1990 - John A. Simpson
1988 - Konstantin I. Gringauz
1988 - S.L. Mandelshtam
1986 - Ludwig F. Biermann
1984 - James A. Van Allen
We are also happy to congratulate the member of our Society, Hel.A.S.,
Dr Vicky Kalogera, an Assistant Professor at the Departyment of Physics
and Astronomy of Northwestern University, USA, who has been awarded the
well-deserved David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and
Engineering. The purpose of the Packard Fellowships is to "encourage
the USA's most promising young university Professors to pursue their
science and engineering research with few funding restrictions." Every
year 20 Fellows are selected from 100 invited nominations. The funding
associated with this prestigious Fellowship will amount to $625,000 over
the next five years. We are delighted to note that this is the second
award Vicky has been awarded this year (see en52)!
2. ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEES: PAYMENT USING A CREDIT CARD
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We would like to remind to all members that for the past year it has
been possible to make payments of your Hel.A.S. membership fees
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 2002 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/dues2002.pdf
Please note that the smooth functioning of the Society depends
on our prompt payment of the membership fees. Payments are accepted
only in Euros. Please do not forget to pay your dues.
You may contact the treasurer of Hel.A.S. Ass. Prof. Efstratios
Theodosiou (Tel. +30 107276791, e-mail: ethodos@cc.uoa.gr), for
information on the status of your past payments or any other
questions you may have on this issue.
3. European Astronomical Society (EAS) and JENAM 2002
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A successful JENAM 2002 meeting took place the first week of September
in Porto, Portugal and it was attended by more than 450 participants (5
participants from Greece). The meeting was hosted and organised by the
Portuguese Astronomical Community, a rather small but extremely dynamic
Astronomical Society in Europe, which also has joined ESO, ESA. The
main feature of this JENAM which marked a change in its structure, was
that several well organised Workshops took place which attracted many
more young astrophysicists (On the VLTI, Jets, GAIA and DIVA Photometry,
ISM in Galaxies, Galactic Dynamics, Galaxy Evolution in Groups and
Clusters, Cosmological Parameters and Cosmology).
The members of Hel.As.S are encouraged to participate to the annual
JENAMs (the next is going to take place in Budapest in the last week of
August 2003) and to be more active in the European Astronomical Society
(EAS). For information about the EAS (http://www.iap.fr/eas) and on how
to join the EAS (the IAU members are automatically accepted, while the
fees are only about 35 Euros per year), you may contact Dr Mary Kontizas,
Editor of the EAS Newsletter.
4. 10th European Solar Physics meeting
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The 10th European Solar Physics meeting organised by the Solar Physics
Section of the Joint Astrophysics Division of the European Astronomical
Society (EAS) and the European Physical Society (EPS) in cooperation
with the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA) and the
Joint Organiza tion for Solar Observations (JOSO), took place from Sept.
9 - 14, in Prague, in the Czech Republic. The title of the meeting was
Solar Variability: from Core to Outer frontiers. For more information
about JOSO, where 30 countries participate, you may contact Dr H. Dara,
a member of the JOSO Board representing Greece. For information
regarding the Solar Physics Section (http://soho.estec.esa.nl/SPS/) of
the Joint Astrophysics Division of the European Astronomical Society
(EAS) and the European Physical Society (EPS) (http://www.eps.org/) you
may contact Dr K. Tsinganos.
5. 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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International Workshop on
Astrophysical Jets
Univ. of Athens, Dept. of Physics, 2-5 October 2002
For details contact:
Prof. K. Tsinganos (tsingan@phys.uoa.gr)
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Advanced Research Workshop on
Effects of Space Weather on Technology Infrastructure
Rhodes, 25-29 March 2003
http://www.space.noa.gr/esprit2003/
or contact:
Dr. I. Daglis (daglis@space.noa.gr)
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International Conference on
Multi-Wavelength Cosmology
Myconos Island, 16-20 June 2003
http://www.astro.noa.gr/~my03/
or contact:
my03@astro.noa.gr
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5. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was edited by Vassilis Charmandaris and Kanaris
Tsinganos. It was forwarded to the 219, out of the 237 members of
Hel.A.S., who have e-mail access.
The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around November
1st 2002. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
or comments before October 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
let us know.
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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 56 Extra issue October 8th, 2002
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E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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Dear colleague,
We issue this extra Newsletter, because it has just been brought to our
attention that six new positions related to Astronomy/Astrophysics have
been announced by the National Observatory of Athens as follows:
The Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Observatory
of Athens is seeking to employ 4 Research Associates and 2 Research
Assistants who will participate in the analysis of data from X-ray
missions (mainly XMM) as well as in their follow-up using optical
telescopes. The candidates for the Research Associate position must
possess a Ph.D. in Astronomy or Astrophysics. The candidates for the
Research Assistant position must have an M.Sc. in Astronomy or
Astrophysics. Experience in data analysis in X-ray or optical wavelengths
or in Observational Cosmology data modeling is highly desirable.
The duration of the above posts is between 2 and 2.5 years. The applicants
should submit their CVs including the publication list, before the
22nd of October, to the address below:
Ms. Ourania Koumentakou
Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics
National Observatory of Athens
I.Metaxa & B. Pavlou
15236, Palaia Penteli, Athens
Tel. 010-8109172
Fax. 010-8040453
e-mail. ourania@astro.noa.gr
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