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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 84 February 2005
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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 7th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
3. Members in new positions
4. Greece joins ESA
5. Call for articles for next issue of Ipparchos on Greek Observatories
6. Access to International Research Facilities
7. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
8. JENAM 2005
9. About this newsletter
1. SHORT NEWS
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With this issue we will commence a new section in the newsletter
dedicated to announcing access to international research facilities
(i.e. accepted research proposals) by members of the Society. This
is done in an effort to keep us all informed on the possibilities and
some of the research projects of our members. Please feel free to
share any such news you may have with the editors of the newsletter.
The Greek Mathematical Society and the Astronomical Society of
Halkida are organizing a one day event entitled "Mathematics: a
window to the Universe". The even will take place on the 20th of
Feb. 2005. For more information visit:
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/events/evia_2005.pdf
2. THE 7th HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE
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The Governing Council of Hel.A.S. of January 31st, decided on the
sessions and the convenors of the upcoming 7th Hellenic Astronomical
Society Conference (Kefallinia 8 - 11 September 2005) as follows:
1. Sun, Planets and the interplanetary medium (X. Moussas, H. Dara)
2. Our Galaxy (Stars, Clusters, IS medium) (N. Kylafis, P. Niarchos,
E. Harlaftis)
3. Extragalactic Astrophysics (I. Papadakis, J. Georgantopoulos)
4. Theoretical Insights in Dynamical Astronomy, Relativity and Cosmology
(John Hatzidemetriou, S. Persides, K. Kokkotas)
5. Instrumentation and Methods of Astronomical Observations
(J. Seiradakis, N. Solomos)
6. History and Education in Astronomy (E. Theodossiou, Ch. Tomboulides)
For further information please contact any member of the G.C. and the
web site of the Conference at :
http://comas.interzone.gr/conf7/
The S.O.C. consists of the above names as well as of the other
members of the G.C. (P. Laskarides, K. Tsinganos, D. Hatzidemetriou
and V. Gerogiannis). Head of the L.O.C. is Dr. N. Solomos.
The registration fees have been set to 50 Euros for Ordinary members,
70 Euros for Associate members and 30 Euros for Junior members.
3. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr. Vassilis Charmandaris recently moved from the Astronomy
Department of Cornell University (USA) to an assistant professor
position at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.
We would like to congratulate Dr. Leonidas Moustakas (STScI) who
has accepted and will soon move to a permanent position with the
Galaxy Evolution Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
CA (USA).
4. GREECE JOINS THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
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On January 18th, 2005 the Greek Parliament ratified the membership
agreement between Greece and the European Space Agency (ESA), which
was signed on July 19th 2004 between the ESA Director General Jean-
Jacques Dordain and the Greek minister for Development D. Sioufas.
The next step is that this ratification is published by the Government
official newspaper to become a law of the state. The next and final
step is that this published law is deposited by the Greek embassy in
Paris to the French Foreign Ministry. After this last step Greece
will be officially announced an ESA member and thus it will participate
to the ESA Science Programm Committee (SPC).
To summarize all ESA related activities we have created a new web page
in the server of Hel.A.S. For more information please visit:
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/esa/
5. CALL FOR ARTICLES ON NEXT IPPARCHOS ISSUE ON GREEK OBSERVATORIES
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As also announced in the previous en, the GC of HelAS has decided
to devotee a special issue of Ipparchos on the status of all Greek
Observatories, such as, Aristarchos, Skinakas, Kryonerion, Stephanion,
Penteli, Gerostathopoulio, Eudoxos, Ioannina.
The issue is planned to circulate before the upcoming 7th Hellenic
Astronomy Conference in Kefallinia 8 - 11 September 2005 and is timely
in view of the recent installation of the ARISTARCHOS telescope on Mt
Helmos, the fact that Greece became a full member of ESA and the
efforts of Greece to join the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
In particular, those in charge of the Observatories are invited to
write a review article on the status of the Observatories. The editors
of this issue are Profs. J. Seiradakis, P. Niarchos and K. Kokkotas.
6. ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITIES
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Dr. Yiannis Tsamis (Obs. de Paris) was awarded 20hrs of observing
time with the Fibre Large Array Multi-Element Spectrograph (FLAMES)
on the 8.2m Kueyen unit of the Very Large Telescope (VLT/ESO, Chile)
for his project entitled "Unravelling the chemical inhomogeneity and
thermal structure of planetary nebulae".
7. UPCOMING ASTRONOMY MEETINGS IN GREECE
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The following meetings will take place in Greece. Please check the
corresponding web page or contact the organizers by e-mail for more
information.
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International Conference on
"Close Binaries in the 21st Century:
New Opportunities and Challenges"
Syros, Greece, 27-30 June, 2005
http://www.phys.uoa.gr/CB_Greece05/
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7th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
Kefalonia, 8-11 September 2005
http://comas.interzone.gr/conf7/
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3rd International Planetary Probe Workshop
EDEN Beach Hotel-Club, Anavyssos, Attica, 27th June - 1st July 2005.
http://www.ims.demokritos.gr/IPPW-3
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8. JENAM 2005
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The JENAM 2005 meeting will take place in Liege (Belgium) from July
4 to 8, 2005 with the general title: "Distant Worlds". The main
scientific topics will comprise, Asteroseismology, Massive stars and
High-energy emission in OB associations,Technology roadmap for future
interferometric facilities, Quasars:Host galaxies and gravitational
lenses, Astrobiology and Solar System exploration. See at :
http://www.astro.ulg.ac.be/RPub/Colloques/JENAM/
9. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was edited by Vassilis Charmandaris and Kanaris
Tsinganos. It was forwarded to the 240, out of the 259, members of
Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access.
The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around March 1st
2005. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
or comments before February 25, 2005. All correspondence concerning
the Newsletter should be addressed to:
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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