Hel.A.S. Newsletter 13 - March 1999


                     HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                         ELECTRONIC  NEWSLETTER
            NUMBER 13                               March 1999
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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. Job opening
 3. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece
 4. About this newsletter...
 
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 1. SHORT NEWS
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    We would like to congratulate our colleague and Vice President of 
Hel.A.S. Professor Nikos Kylafis for his election as chairman 
of the Department of Physics of the University of Crete.

    We would, also, like to congratulate Dr. Nikolaos Stergioulas, 
who has just been elected as a Lecturer in the Department 
of Physics at the University of Thessaloniki (Section of Astrophysics, 
Astronomy and Mechanics). He was one of six candidates for the position
"Theory of Relativity" which was advertized in our December 1997 issue of
"Hipparchos" (the Society's Newsletter).

   Finally we would like to congratulate the junior member of Hel.A.S.
Markos Georganopoulos, who got his PhD degree from Boston Univesrity last
fall. The Council of Hel.A.S. will propose to the next General Assembly 
the change of its status from Junior to Ordinary Member.


 2. JOB OPENING
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   The Astronomical Institute at the National Observatory of Athens
announces a "promotion-opened" position of Research Assistant Professor
("3i bathmida") in the area of "Processing of Astronomical Images from
Ground and Space Observations".

   For more information please contact:
	Ms. Athina Petropoulou 
	Tel: 01-3490134

   The deadline for the applications is March 1st 1999. 


 3. 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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		    NATO Advanced Study Institute on  
              ``The Neutron Star - Black Hole Connection'',
                    Elounda, Crete, June 7-18, 1999

                 http://www.mitos.com.gr/conf/n_starASI99
                             or contact 
                Dr. J. Ventura (ventura@physics.uch.gr)

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                  4th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
                       Samos, 16-18 September 1999 
 
                   http://www.astro.auth.gr/helasyn
                Organising Committe: helasyn@astro.auth.gr
                              or contact
                 Dr. J. Seimenis (jseimen@atlas.uoa.gr)

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                  Large scale structure in the X-ray Universe
                      Santorini, September 20-22, 1999

		    http://www.astro.noa.gr/~santor99
			      or contact
                  Dr. M. Plionis (mplionis@astro.noa.gr)
 
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 4. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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   This Newsletter was compiled and forwarded to all Hel.A.S. members,
 that can be reached electronically, by Harry Varvoglis and Vassilis 
 Charmandaris.
 
   The next edition of this Newsletter will be circulated around April
 1st 1999. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures, 
 new openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or 
 comments before March 25, 1999. All correspondence concerning this 
 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 this Newsletter was addressed is not your main
 address, please let us know.
 
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