Hel.A.S. Newsletter 65 - July 2003

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                       HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                           ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
             NUMBER 65                              July 2003

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  TOPICS:

  1. The 6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
  2. Short News
  3. Members and young astrophysicists in new positions
  4. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  5. About this newsletter...

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 1. THE 6th HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE
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    As it has been announced, the deadline for registration and 
 submission of contributions to the 6th Hel.A.S. conference was 
 extended to June 20, 2003. Dr Dapergolas of the Local Organising 
 Committee just informed us that more than 120 abstracts and more  
 than 150 registrations have been received so far. A first count 
 of the distribution of the submitted abstracts is as follows: 
 Sun and the Heliosphere (33), Stars and Stellar Systems (22), 
 Infrastructure of Astronomy in Greece (18), 
 Extragalactic Astronomy (15), High Energy Astrophysics (11), 
 Cosmology, Relativity and Relativistic Astrophjysics (11), 
 Galactic Dybnamics and Chaotic Dynamical Systems (5), 
 History and Teaching of Astronomy (5).
   We plan to announce the programm of the conference in the 
 coming days with an extra issue of the electronic newsletter.  

 
 2. SHORT NEWS
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   Dr. Nektarios Vlahakis has been invited by the University of 
 Chicago, USA, to spend there the summer of 2003, continuing 
 his research on Gamma Ray Bursts, in collaboration with 
 Prof. Arieh Konigl. 

   Dr. Olga Malandraki has been invited by the Observatoire de 
 Paris, Section Meudon, during the summer of 2003, to carry out 
 research on the association of solar energetic particle events 
 observed by the ULYSSES and ACE spacecraft (ESA/NASA)  
 with solar radio observations by the Nancay Radioheliograph. 
 Dr. Malandraki's visit will be financed by the Observatoire 
 de Paris and she will collaborate there with Dr. Monique Pick.


  3. MEMBERS AND YOUNG ASTROPHYSICISTS IN NEW POSITIONS 
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    We would like to congratulate the member of our Society Dr. 
 Ioannis Seimenis, Head of the Department of the Mediterranean 
 Studies of the University of the Aegean, who was elected last 
 April Vice-Rector of Finance and Development of the University 
 of the Aegean, for the period 2003-2006.
   
  We would also like to congradulate Dr Yiannis Tsamis, the recent 
 recipient of one of the two IAU Peter Gruber Foundation  Fellow-
 ships for the period 2003 - 2006. The Peter Gruber Foundation 
 Fellowships are given to extremely promising, young astrophysicists 
 working in any field of astrophysics - either theoretical, observational 
 or experimental. (http://www.iau.org/IAU/Activities/cosprize.html).  
 He will be working at the Observatoire de Paris in Meudon from next  
 September on "Chemical inhomogeneities in HII regions" in collaboration 
 with Dr Daniel Pequignot.  Dr Tsamis received his undergraduate 
 training in Physics at the Univ. of Thessaloniki (1996) and his M.Sc. 
 and PhD degrees from the University College in London (2002) with 
 a thesis devoted to "Heavy element abundances in ionized nebulae". 
 From September 2002 Dr Tsamis has been working at the Numerical 
 weather prediction section of the UK Meteorological Office in London.  

   Congradulations to two undergraduate students from Greece who have 
 been awarded 1-year studentships funded by the Isaac Newton Group of 
 telescopes (ING) at the International observatory of La Palma, Canary Islands.
 Dimitris Mislis, Physicist/astronomer, University of Thessaloniki, 
 will work 70% on research and 30% on the 2.5m INT operation
 under the supervision of Romano Corradi (ING Astronomy group).
 Nikos Apostolakos, Electronics engineer student, Technical University of
 Athens will work on electronics and the optimisation of the ING
 telescopes' balancing system under the supervision of Clive 
 Jackmann/AndyHide, ING electronics group. The ING tutor for both 
 students is Emilios Harlaftis from the National Observatory of Athens.  

    
 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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              International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics
                 ``Complex Plasmas in the New Millennium''
                   Santorini Island, 8-12 September 2003

              Pre-registration at http://itcpp.conferences.gr  

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                   6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
                        Athens, 15-17 September 2003
 
                             More information at:
                   http://www.astro.noa.gr/Hel.A.S.2003

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                              Summer School on 
                  "Basic Processes of Turbulent Plasmas"
                  Palini, Chalkidiki 22-27 September 2003

                             More information at:
                http://www.astro.auth.gr/~vlahos/school.html

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                 3rd Conference of Greek Amateur Astronomers
                 "Astronomy from ancient times to the future"
                   Paliouri, Chalkidiki 17-19 October 2003

                             More information at:
                         http://www.ofa.gr/synedrio/

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 4. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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   This Newsletter was edited by Vassilis Charmandaris and Kanaris
 Tsinganos. It was forwarded to the 219, out of the 237, members of
 Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access.

   The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around July 1st 
 2003. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
 job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
 or comments before June 25, 2003. All correspondence concerning
 the Newsletter should be addressed to:

          elaset@astro.auth.gr, or, 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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