HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 67 September 2003
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E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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TOPICS:
1. The 6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
2. Short News
3. Job Openings
4. Members in new positions
5. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
6. About this newsletter...
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1. THE 6th HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE
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This is the last Enewsletter before the 6th conference of the
Hel.A.S. to be held at the National Observatory of Athens, Sept 15
-17. Attached to this newsletter is the detailed programm of all
sessions of the Conference, which will be also put at the webpage of
Hel.A.S. There will be 8 sessions with about 80 presentations in
total and many posters. Among the presentations are the discourses
by the Hel.A.S. invited speakers:
E.N. Parker : MHD Discontinuities and X-ray Coronae in Astrophysics
S. Wagner : Variability of AGN and Quasars via multiwavelength observations
J. Kirk : Relativistic flows and particle acceleration
P. Grosbol : What can we learn from near-infrared observations of spiral galaxies?
We hope that we will be seing you in Pedeli and we wish everybody
a fruitful participation.
2. SHORT NEWS
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Gene Parker, a Hel.A.S. invited speaker at the 6th Conference
of Hel.A.S this month, highly distinguished in solar/space physics
and theoretical astrophysics research, has been awarded the 2003
Kyoto Prize for lifetime achievement in Basic Science. Considered
among the world's leading awards for lifetime achievement, the $400,000
Kyoto Prizes recognize significant contributions to the scientific, cultural
and spiritual development of mankind. Parker, 76, the S. Chandrasekhar
Distinguished Service Professor in Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics,
is cited for establishing a new perspective in astrophysics by elucidating
the solar wind concept, how the solar/stellar dynamo works, the physics of
the so-called Parker instability in the ISM and other cosmic phenomena.
Parker said his career has been full of scientific surprises. "It's been
great fun. You let nature, in the form of astronomy, tell you what's
happening, and then you sit there and try to figure out why, and sometimes
you can and sometimes you still don't know enough to figure out why."
Besides the Hel.A.S. invited talk on Monday Sept 15th, prof. Parker
will speak at the Colloquiium of the Dept. of Physics of the Un. of
Athens at 12.00 of Thursday, Sept. 18th on "Why Hydrodynamics and
MHD is better than we think".
3. JOB OPENINGS
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A tenure-track position at the level of "Assistant Professor" in
the field of "Theory of Relativity" has opened in the Department of
Physics of the University of Thessaloniki. The deadline for
applications is September 16th, 2003. For more information you may
contact the secretary of the Department at 2310-998120.
A new tenure-track position at the level of "Lecturer" in the
field of "Observational Astrophysics, the optical part of the
spectrum, the interstellar matter and Active Galactic Nuclei" has
opened in the Department of Physics of the University of Patras.
The deadline for applications is September 19th, 2003. For more
information you may contact the secretary of the Department at
2610-997441.
4. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr Dimitra Rigopoulou as of February of this year has moved from
Munich to Oxford where she is a staff member of the Astrophysics Dept.
of The University of Oxford, UK.
Dr. Evanthia Hatziminaogloy recently moved from ESO to a research
associate position at the Instituto de Astrofysica de Canarias (IAC)
in Tenerife, Spain.
5. 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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6. 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 October 1st
2003. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
or comments before September 25, 2003. All correspondence concerning
the Newsletter should be addressed to:
elaset@astro.auth.gr, or, tsingan@phys.uoa.gr
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