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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 92 October 2005
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E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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TOPICS:
1. Job opening
2. The 7th Hellenic Astronomy Conference
3. New Members of Hel.A.S.
4. Members in New Positions
5. GNCA news
6. About this Newsletter
1. JOB OPENING
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A new promotion-related position at the level of "Assistant
Professor" in the field of "Dynamics" has opened at the Department
of Physics of the University of Thessaloniki. We have only recently
learned that the deadline for the applications is Today, September 26,
2005. For more information contact the secretary of the Department at
+30 2310 998120.
2. THE 7th HELLENIC ASTRONOMY CONFERENCE
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As most of us already know, in the period September 8 - 11th, 2005
the Hel.A.S. organised with great success the 7th Hellenic Astronomy
Conference at Lixourion, Kefallinia.
From the 207 colleagues that had pre-registered and submitted more
than 180 papers, about 160 (from Greece and several other countries)
were able to finally attend the conference.
The HelAS invited speakers presented excellent review talks:
A. Ferrari on the Jet/Disk Paradigm, E. Priest on our Enigmatic Sun,
James Truran on Supernovae, Nucleosynthesis and Cosmic Chemical
Evolution, Keith Horne on Extra-Solar Planets, Mike Edmunds on
Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism - Real Progress through Joint
Greek/UK Research, Athena Coustenis on Titan and the Cassini-Huygens
mission.
The selected session main invited discourses were also characterized
by originality, while most of the contribution and posters were at
the cutting edge of research in modern Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Two Symposia took place, one on the Future of Greek Astronomy and the
other on Greece and the European Space Agency with representatives
from ESA, USA and the Greece/ESA Task Force.
Opening remarks were made by the HelAS President P. Laskaridis,
Academician G. Contopoulos, the Mayor of Lixourion and other local
representatives. The Local organisation was excellent, thanks to the
efforts of Dr. N. Solomos.
All in all, the 7th Hellenic Astronomical Conference was of equivalent
quality to the 6th and other well established international conferences.
We only hope that this trend continues in the future as well.
3. NEW MEMBERS OF HEL.A.S.
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The 16 new members of Hel.A.S. who were elected during the General
Assembly of HelAS, on September 9th, 2005 are :
- New Ordinary Members (6):
1. Dr. Athanasiadis Dimitris (dathanas@astro.noa.gr)
2. Dr. Contopoulos Ioannis (icontop@academyofathens.gr)
3. Dr. Economou Thanasis (tecon@tecon.uchicago.edu)
4. Dr. Gonidakis Ioannis (jgonidakis@phys.uoa.gr)
5. Dr. Heinz Isliker (isliker@astro.auth.gr)
6. Dr. Smponias Theodoros (tsmponias@yahoo.gr)
- New Junior Members (7):
1. Angelakis Emmanouil (angelaki@mpitr-bonn.mpg.de)
2. Dialynas Kostas (kdialynas@phys.uoa.gr)
3. Dimitrakoudis Stavros (steeve_dim@mail.gr)
4. Georgiou Marina (margeo@phys.uoa.gr)
5. Matsakos Titos (matsakostitos@hotmail.com)
6. Trichas Markos (m.trichas@imperial.ac.uk)
7. Zacharopoulou Olga (zacha@phys.uoa.gr)
- New Associate members (3):
1. Gini Eugenia magda@phys.uoa.gr)
2. Katsetis Athanasios (thkatsetis@yahoo.gr)
3. Vamvatira-Nakou Chloe (chloevn@phys.uoa.gr)
As a result the number of members of Hel.A.S. has been increased
to a total of 274 members. All above changes will be reflected in the
web server of Hel.A.S. (http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/statistics.html)
within the next few days.
4. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr. Kostas Tziotziou recently moved from the Univ. of Utrecht
(NL), to a research associate position at the Institute of Space
Application and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of
Athens.
5. GNCA NEWS
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The Greek National Committee for Astronomy is sending a reminder
concerning the possibility of Greek astronomers to become members of
the IAU, during the next General Assembly at Prague, in August 2006.
The deadline is October 15, 2005. For more information on how to
apply, please visit:
http://www.astro.noa.gr/gnca/IAU/ca-newsiau.htm
or send an e-mail to gnca@astro.noa.gr
6. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was edited by Vassilis Charmandaris and Kanaris
Tsinganos. It was forwarded to the 239, out of the 258, members of
Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access.
The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around November 1st
2005. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
or comments before October 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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