Ενημερωτικό Δελτίο 64 - Ιούνιος 2003

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                       HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                           ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
             NUMBER 64                               June 2003

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  E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr      WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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  TOPICS:

  1. The 6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
  2. Short News
  3. Members in new positions
  4. A&A Board mtg at Herakleion, Crete 
  5. Summer School on Plasma Physics
  6. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  7. About this newsletter...

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 1. THE 6th HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE
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  As it has been already announced, the deadline for registration 
 and submission of contributions to the 6th Hel.A.S. conference 
 was the 31st of May. To accomodate the late registeations, the 
 SOC/LOC decided to extend the deadline to June 20, 2003. 
 We remind our members that they may register and submit their 
 contributions as soon as possible.    

 2. SHORT NEWS
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    We would like to congratulate Dr. Emilios Harlaftis who has been
  awarded a 2003/2004 Fulbright grant to work as a visiting research
  scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Harlaftis 
  recently moved from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of 
  the National Observatory of Athens to the Institute for Space Applications 
  and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens.

      
 3. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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   We would like to congratulate Dr. Christos Efthymiopoulos who was recently 
 elected to the position of Researcher C' (EREYNHTHS A) at the Research 
 Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics of the Academy of Athens.
   We would also like to congratulate Dr. Dimitris Gouliermis for his 
 appointment at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany 
 as a PostDoc-Stipendiat working for the European Network "Adaptive Optics 
 for Extremely Large Telescopes" since the 1st of May 2003.


 4. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS BOARD MEETING AT HERAKLEION, CRETE
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  On May 10, the A&A Board, along with the Editors and Publishers, convened 
 at the University of Crete in Herakleion in their annual meeting. Some weighty 
 decisions regarding the journal's future were taken during this event. Two issues, 
 among those discussed, are of immediate concern to the Greek astronomical 
 community, which often publishes its research results in the journal.

  (a) Seven new Scientific Editors were appointed by the Board in order
 to improve the efficiency and production of the journal. They are: J. E.
 Beckman (Inst. De Astrofisica de Canarias), F. Combes (Observatoire de
 Paris), A. Jones (Orsay), N. Langer (Utrecht), S.  Shore, (Piza), M.
 Walmsley (Firenze),W. Schmidt (Kipenheuer Inst., Freiburg).

  (b) Impact Factor Controversy.
  There is a wide spread impression within the astronomical community
 that A&A publications have a smaller impact, as measured by the number
 of citations they receive, as compared to other major astronomy
 journals. This impression is actually supported by the impact factor
 statistics published in the Journal of Citation Reports (JCR), which
 have recently been found to be seriously flawed. The abbreviated
 citations to A&A and some other Journals were not being fully counted,
 being considered ambiguous. The JCR editor has promised to have this
 problem rectified in future issues, hopefully placing A&A in its
 rightful place among the top journals in the field. 

  More details about the meeting will be published in the forthcoming
 issue of Hipparchos.

 5. SUMMER SCHOOL ON PLASMA PHYSICS
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    A summer school on "Basic Processes of Turbulent Plasmas" will
  take place in Chalkidiki, Greece, between 22 and 27 of September
  2003. The school is organized by the Research Training Network
  "Theory, Observations and Simulations of Turbulence in Space
  Plasmas" which is funded by the European Union. Researchers at the
  pre- and post-doctoral level are encouraged to apply to the school
  before the end of June 2003. Participation will be limited to 30-40
  students and the lectures will be at the graduate level. More
  information about the school can be found at:

	      http://www.astro.auth.gr/~vlahos/school.html

 
 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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                        International Conference on
                         Multi-Wavelength Cosmology
                       Myconos Island, 16-20 June 2003

                       http://www.astro.noa.gr/~my03/
                                 or contact:
                      Dr. M. Plionis (my03@astro.noa.gr)

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              International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics
                 ``Complex Plasmas in the New Millennium''
                   Santorini Island, 8-12 September 2003

              Pre-registration at http://itcpp.conferences.gr  

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                   6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
                        Athens, 15-17 September 2003
 
                             More information at:
                   http://www.astro.noa.gr/Hel.A.S.2003

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                              Summer School on 
                  "Basic Processes of Turbulent Plasmas"
                  Palini, Chalkidiki 22-27 September 2003

                             More information at:
                http://www.astro.auth.gr/~vlahos/school.html

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                 3rd Conference of Greek Amateur Astronomers
                 "Astronomy from ancient times to the future"
                   Paliouri, Chalkidiki 17-19 October 2003

                             More information at:
                         http://www.ofa.gr/synedrio/

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 7. 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 July 1st 
 2003. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
 job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
 or comments before June 25, 2003. All correspondence concerning
 the Newsletter should be addressed to:

          elaset@astro.auth.gr, or, tsingan@phys.uoa.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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