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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 20 October 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. 4th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
3. New Members of Hel.A.S.
4. Junior Members moving to Ordinary Status
5. Members in new positions
6. Job Opening
7. Upcoming Astronomy Meetings in Greece
8. About this newsletter...
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1. SHORT NEWS
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During a special session of the 4th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
of our Society, which was held in Samos on September 18 1999, the official
"christening" of the new 2.3 m telescope of the National Observatory
of Athens. The name of the telescope will be "Aristarchos". First light
in the new site on Mt. Helmos (Aroania) is expected in 2001. For more
information about the telescope you may visit:
http://www.astro.noa.gr/ngt-2.3m/ngt-main.htm
2. 4th CONFERENCE OF HEL.A.S.
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As you already know, from September 16-18 Hel.A.S. organised the 4th
Hellenic Astronomical Conference in the island of Samos. Over 100
colleagues (of which 80 registered properly) from 12 countries
participated in the relaxing atmosphere of the island. During the
Conference 72 "contributed" and 4 "invited" papers were presented. The
"contributed" papers were distributed among various fields as follows:
-Dynamical Astronomy 10
-Solar, Planetary and Space Physics 19
-Stellar Astrophysics 15
-The Galaxy and other galaxies 7
-High Energy Astrophysics 6
-General Relativity and Cosmology 7
-Infrastracture and History of Astronomy in Greece 8
During the Conference the award for the "Best PhD in Astronomy for 1998
among the junior members of HEL.A.S. was presented to Dr. M.
Georganopoulos (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik), who gave an
exciting talk about Blazars (the topic of his PhD).
3. NEW MEMBERS OF HEL.A.S.
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Six new members were elected during the last General Assembly.
- Karastergiou Aristidis, MPIfR Bonn, Germany, (Junior Member)
- Karidis Aristidis, NRAL Jodrell Bank, U.K., (Junior Member)
- Louridas Alexios, NRAL Jodrell Bank, U.K., (Junior Member)
- Stergioulas Nikolaos, MPIfG, AEI, Potsdam, Germany, (Ordinary Member)
- Tziotziou Konstantinos, Observatoire de Paris, France, (Ordinary Member)
- Vlahakis Nektarios, University of Crete, Greece, (Ordinary Member)
The postal address and e-mail of the above members is available
in the on-line directory of the web pages of Hel.A.S.
4. JUNIOR MEMBERS MOVING TO ORDINARY STATUS
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The following thirteen Junior members have obtained their Ph.D.
since the last General Assembly of 1997. Therefore, they were promoted
to the Ordinary membership status:
- Agapitou Vassiliki, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, U.K.
- Chatzichristou Eleni, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, U.S.A.
- Efthimiopoulos Christos, Athens, Greece
- Georganopoulos Markos, MPIfK Heidelberg, Germany
- Gizani Nectaria, University of Madeira, Portugal
- Hadjifotinou Aekaterini, Katerini, Greece
- Harsoula Maria, Univ. of Athens, Greece
- Kleidis Konstantinos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Kolokotronis Vaggelis, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
- Moustakas Leonidas, Oxford University, U.K.
- Papathanassiou Harikleia, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
- Siopis Christos, Langadas, Greece
- Xilouris Emmanouel, University of Crete, Greece
Presently our Society has 213 members (173 Ordinary, 38 Junior and
2 Associate members). For further details and statistics you may check:
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/statistics.html
5. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr. N. Gizani has moved to a Postdoctoral Fellowship position at the
University of Madeira, Portugal.
6. JOB OPENING
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An Associate Professor position has been opened at the "Department
of Rural and Surveying Engineering" of the National Technical
University of Athens in the area of "Astronomy, with emphasis on
Geodetic Astronomy".
For furter information please contact:
Secretary of the Department
Tel. +30-1-7722761
The deadline for applications is November 6, 1999.
7. 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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1st Hellenic Conference on Amateur Astronomy and Space Physics
Volos, 2-3 October 1999
http://www.civ.uth.gr/astro/synedrio.html
or contact
Dr. L. Zachilas (zachilas@civ.uth.gr)
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NATO Advanced Study Institute on
"Space Storms and Space Weather Hazards"
Hersonissos, Crete, June 19-29, 2000
http://sat2.space.noa.gr/~daglis/asi2000.html
or contact
Dr. Yannis Daglis (daglis@creator.space.noa.gr)
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8. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was compiled and forwarded to all Hel.A.S. members,
who can be reached electronically, by Harry Varvoglis and Vassilis
Charmandaris.
The next edition of this Newsletter will be circulated around November
1st 1999. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
new openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or
comments before October 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 sent is not your preferred
one, please let us know.
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