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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 69 November 2003
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E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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TOPICS:
1. Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
2. Job Openings
3. Members in New Positions
4. Visiting fellowships under the program EARASTARGAL
5. Funding of Opticon Access Program
6. A Conference of "IDISIEEP" on the Olympic Spirit
7. Astronomy seminars at the city of Chalkida
8. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
9. Addendum - Membership change
10. About this newsletter...
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1. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6th HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE
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As a reminder to the participants of the 6th Hel.A.S. Conference the
deadline for the submission of their contribution to the proceedings
is just two weeks away on November 15th, 2003. Please visit the web
site of the meeting at:
http://www.astro.noa.gr/Hel.A.S.2003/IAA_hac2003proceedings.htm
for more information on the format, page limits, and submission
procedure.
2. JOB OPENINGS
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- A new tenured track position at the level of "Assistant Professor"
or "Lecturer" in the field of "Astrophysics" has opened at the
Department of Physics of the University of Thessaloniki. The
application deadline is November 10, 2003.
For more information on the application material see the relevant
links in the web server of Hel.A.S. of contact:
The Secretary, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Thessaloniki,
GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece,
Tel. +30 2310 998120, Fax. +30 2310 998122
- A new research position (Ereynhths Gamma) has opened at the
National Center for Nuclear Studies "Democritos" on "Theory of
Nuclear reactions with emphasis on Nuclear Astrophysics". The
application deadline is November 28, 2003. For more information on
the application material you may contact the Tel. 210 6503023
3. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr. Kostas Dimopoulos recently moved from the Univ. of Lancaster
(UK) to a research associate position at the Institute of Nuclear
Physics at the National Research Center Demokritos in Athens.
Dr. MariLiza Koukouli recently moved from Oxford University (UK) to
a Marie Curie Fellowship position at the Instituto de Astrofisica de
Andalucia (Spain).
4. VISITING FELLOWSHIPS UNDER THE PROGRAM EARASTARGAL
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The European Association for Research in Astronomy (EARA) has been
designated by the EU as a joint Marie Curie Training Site, offering
fellowships for doctoral students working on several theoretical
and observational areas in astronomy. The institutes involved are the
Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (United Kingdom), Leiden
Observatory (The Netherlands), the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
(France), the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik in Garching
(Germany), and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain).
A call for applications of PhD candidates who will spend 3 to 12
months at one of the above EARA institutes during which they will
continue their Ph.D research work under the supervision of local
staff members has been announced. For more information visit:
http://www2.iap.fr/eara/mcurie.html
The deadline for applications is December 15, 2003.
5. FUNDING OF THE OPTICON ACCESS PROGRAM
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The Access program submitted by Opticon to the EU has been
approved. The program provides access to a number of european 2-4m
class telescopes as well as travel support from the European Union to
proposals from astronomers not belonging to the nations owning a
given telescope (under usual EU rules). For more information visit:
http://www2.iap.fr/eas/opticon.html
or
http://www.astro-opticon.org/
Note that proposals will be judged on scientific merit only by the
Time Allocation Committees which already exist for each telescope
involved in this programme. There is no special OPTICON TAC. The
usual deadlines and application procedures for each telescope apply
and can usually be downloaded from their web-pages.
6. A CONFERENCE OF "IDISIEEP" ON THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT
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The Institute for the International Cooperation of Greek Scientists
(or "IDISIEEP" following its Greek abbreviation) has as main goal to
promote the collaboration between Greek scientists, scientists of
Greek origin or descent worldwide, and personalities involved in
Greek studies.
In view of the forthcoming Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, the
Institute will organize in Thessaloniki, Greece, on December 5-7,
2003 a conference under the general title "The Influence of the
Olympic Spirit on Human Progress". This conference aims to gather
personalities, who play an important role in Science, Arts , and
Letters relevant to Greek matters. For more information view the
First Circular on the conference at:
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/events/idisieep.pdf
7. ASTRONOMY SEMINARS AT THE CITY OF CHALKIDA
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The Astronomical Society of the city of Chalkida is organizing a
series of five 2hr seminars addressed to the general public during
the fall semester of 2003. For more information on the topics and
schedule you may check:
http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset/events/astro_cources03.pdf
8. 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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''The Environments of Galaxies:from Kiloparsecs to Megaparsecs"
Chania, Crete 9-13 August 2004
More information at:
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/conferences/crete2004/
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9. ADDENDUM - NEW ORDINARY Hel.AS MEMBER
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In the last General Assembly of Hel.AS, the Junior member of the
Society Dr Gewrgios Pantazhs moved to the Ordinary status, having
fulfilled the requirements described in the constitution. We regret
that Dr Pantazhs' name was omitted from the corresponding list of the
previous newsletter reporting the change in HelAS membership.
10. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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This Newsletter was edited by Vassilis Charmandaris and Kanaris
Tsinganos. It was forwarded to the 229, out of the 253, members of
Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access.
The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around December 1st
2003. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
or comments before November 25, 2003. All correspondence concerning
the Newsletter should be addressed to:
elaset@astro.auth.gr and 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
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