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                       HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                           ELECTRONIC  NEWSLETTER
             NUMBER 33                               November 2000
 
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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. Members in new positions
  3. Summer internships in the US
  4. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  5. About this newsletter...
  
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  1. SHORT NEWS
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    The latest issue of Hipparchos newsletter has been just sent to
  all members. Check your mailboxes!  For a sneak preview, you may
  download it as a postscript file from the web site of Hel.A.S.

    On October 24, Dr. Demosthenes Kazanas gave his inaugural talk as a 
  "corresponding member" of the Academy of Athens, on the
                  "Past, present and future of Cosmology" 

 
  2. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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  - Dr. Spyros Basilakos has recently moved to a research associate  
  position at the Astrophysics Group of the Imperial College (UK).

  - Mr. Aristidis Karidis has recently moved to the Department of
  Physics and Astronomy of the University of Wales, Cardif (UK).
 
  - Dr. Yannis Papaphilippou was appointed Staff Scientist in the
  Accelerator Physics Division of the Collider Accelerator Department at
  Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA).


  3. SUMMER ASTRONOMY INTERNSHIPS IN THE US
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    The American Astronomical Society maintains a web page of summer
  employment opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students.
  Information for summer 2001 programs are available at:

        http://www.aas.org/career/Summer.html


  4. 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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                  5th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
                       Crete, 20-22 September 2001 
 
                 http://www.astro.auth.gr/~helasmtg/2001/
                                or contact
                  Dr. J. Ventura (ventura@physics.uoc.gr)

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  5. 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 the Newsletter will be circulated around December
  1st 2000. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,  
  new openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or 
  comments before November 25, 2000. 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 it was sent is not your preferred one, please 
  let us know.
 
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