Hel.A.S. Newsletter 86 - April 2005

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                       HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                           ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
            NUMBER 86                                April 2005

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  TOPICS:

  1. Short News
  2. Job Openings
  3. 7th Hel.A.S. Conference Plenary speakers
  4. Hellas becomes 16th Full ESA Member State
  5. Access to International Research Facilities
  6. The NEON Observing School
  7. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  8. About this newsletter


  1. SHORT NEWS
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  We would like to congratulate the following Hel.A.S. members :

 1. Prof. Dimitris Psaltis (Univ. of Arizona, USA), who was awarded
    the 2005 Bodossaki Foundation Academic prize in Science. The
    prize, which is accompanied by the sum of 20500 Euros, is given
    to the best scholars of Greek descent under the age of 40 in four
    categories (Science, Applied Science, Social-Economic sciences
    and Medicine & Biology). This year the Science category included
    the fields of Particle Physics and Astrophysics.

 2. Dr. S.Basilakos who was awarded the prestigious 3 years NOVA
    fellowship (http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/nova/), starting
    September 1st, 2005 in Leiden- Holland, to pursue research in the
    field of Extragalactic Astronomy & Cosmology.

 3. Mrs. Alceste Bonanos (Harvard Univ., USA) who was offered the 3
    year Vera Rubin Postdoctoral Fellowship and will be moving to the
    Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, at the Carnegie Institution
    of Washington in September 2005.


  2. JOB OPENINGS
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    A new tenure track position at the level of "Lecturer" in the
  field of "Dynamics" has opened at the Department of Physics of the
  University of Thessaloniki. The deadline for the applications is May
  9, 2005. For more information contact the secretary of the
  department at +30 2310 998120.

    Applications are invited for 11 PhD (pre-doc) fellowships and 7
  Postdoctoral Fellowships in the study of plasma jet outflows from
  young stars in the Marie Curie European Research Training Network
  JETSET on Numerical Simulations, Experiments, Observations and
  Analytical Studies. For more information contact Kanaris Tsinganos
  (tsingan@phys.uoa.gr), or see :

                 http://www.jetsets.org/


  3. 7th Hel.A.S. CONFERENCE PLENARY SPEAKERS
  -----------------------------------------

   The GC of the Hel.A.S. and the SOC of the 7th Hel.A.S. Conference
  in Kefallinia, 8 - 11 September, 2005 have invited and confirmed the
  participation as plenary speakers of the following distinguised Astronomers
  and Astrophysicists :

  1.  Professor Keith Horne, Head of Astronomy, School of Physics &
  Astronomy, Univeresity of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
  ("Emilios Harlaftis Lecture").

  2.  Professor Eric Priest, Fellow of the Royal Society, Bishop
  Wardlaw Professor at Univeresity of St. Andrews, St. Andrews,
  Scotland, UK ("Our Enigmatic Sun")

  3.  Professor Attilio Ferrari, Dipartimento di Fisica Generale,
  Consorzio Interuniversitario Universita di Torino, Fisica Spaziale,
  Italy ("Astrophysical Jets")

  4.  Professor James Truran Jr., Department of Astronomy &
  Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, ASCI
  Flash Center, University of Chicago, USA ("Nucleosynthesis,
  Challenges and New Developments")

  5.  Professor Mike Edmunds, Head of School of Physics and Astronomy,
  University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK ("The Antikythera
  Mechanism").

  6.  Dr Athena Coustenis, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon,
  France ("The Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn/Titan").

    We all look forward to their interesting review talks and another
 exciting Hel.A.S. confreence in Kefallinia !


    4. HELLAS BECOMES 16th FULL ESA MEMBER STATE
    ---------------------------------

     Following its ratification of the ESA Convention, Greece has now become
  ESAÕs 16th Member State. The official announcement was made to the
  ESA Council on 16 March by Per Tegner, Chairman of the ESA Council.
  Cooperation between ESA and the Hellenic National Space Committee
  began in the early 1990s and in 1994 Greece signed its first
  cooperation agreement with ESA. This led to regular exchange of
  information, the award of fellowships, joint symposia, mutual access
  to databases and laboratories, and studies on joint projects in
  fields of mutual interest.

   In September 2003 Greece formally applied to join ESA. Subsequent
  negotiations were followed in the summer of 2004 by the signing of
  an agreement on accession to the ESA Convention by Jean-Jacques
  Dordain, ESA Director General on behalf of ESA, and by Dimitris
  Sioufas, the Minister for Development, on behalf of the Greek
  Government.

   Greece already participates in ESA's telecommunication and
  technology activities, and the Global Monitoring for Environment and
  Security Initiative. Now, with the deposition of its instrument of
  ratification of the Convention for the establishment of ESA with the
  French Government on 9 March 2005, Greece becomes the 16th ESA Full
  Member State.


  5. ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITIES
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     Prof. M. Mathioudakis (Queen's Univ. of Belfast) was awarded 2
  nights of observing time with the 4.0 m Blanco telescope of the
  Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO/NOAO) in Chile to use
  the R-C Cassegrain Spectrograph for a search for super-saturation in
  stellar chromospheres.


   6. THE NEON OBSERVING SCHOOL
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    The next NEON observing school will take place at the Calar
  Observatory (Spain) from August 7 to 20, 2005. The application
  deadline is April 18, 2005.

    The principles are the same as in previous schools: introductory
  lectures on topics of general interest, work in small groups,
  execution of a real research project, presentation of the results at
  the end of the school. The school is open to PhD students in
  Astronomy or Post-docs with limited observing experience from all
  over Europe. Selection of candidates will be made by the steering
  committee.

    The school is mainly funded through an EU Marie-Curie
  program. Students from EU countries (or Associated Countries) can
  therefore benefit from grants to participate in this school. This
  grant will cover the local expenses, but probably not the travel
  costs (or only part of it).

   For more information and application material visit:
     http://www2.iap.fr/eas/neon5.html


  7. UPCOMING ASTRONOMY MEETINGS IN GREECE
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    The following meetings will take place in Greece. Please check the
  corresponding web page or contact the organizers by e-mail for more
  information.


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                          International Conference:
            "Titan after the Huygens and First Cassini Encounters"
                  Heraklion, Crete, 30 May to 3 June, 2005

                    More information can be found at:
               http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/titanconference/
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                        International Conference on
                    "Close Binaries in the 21st Century:
                     New Opportunities and Challenges"
                      Syros, Greece, 27-30 June, 2005

                    More information can be found at:
                    http://www.phys.uoa.gr/CB_Greece05/

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                   3rd International Planetary Probe Workshop
                 Anavyssos, Attica, 27th June - 1st July 2005.

                    More information can be found at:
                   http://www.ims.demokritos.gr/IPPW-3

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                   2nd DRAGON Symposium (ESA-China, GSRT)
                          Santorini, 27th June - 1st July 2005.

                    More information can be found at:
                          http://earth.esa.int/dragon/

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                   7th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
                      Kefallinia, 8 - 11 September 2005

                     More information can be found at:
                 http://comas.interzone.gr/cgi/article.cgi

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                4th Conference of Greek Amateur Astronomers
                       Athens, 9-11 September 2005

                    More information can be found at:
                http://www.astronomia.org.gr/synedrio.htm

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            European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA)
                Biennial Meeting and General Assembly
                Santorini, September 21st - 23rd, 2005

                   More information can be found at:
                          http://www.elgra.org/

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  8. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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   This Newsletter was edited by Vassilis Charmandaris and Kanaris
  Tsinganos. It was forwarded to the 239, out of the 258, members of
  Hel.A.S. who have e-mail access.

   The next edition of the Newsletter will be mailed around May 1st
  2005. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
  job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
  or comments before April 25, 2005. All correspondence concerning
  the Newsletter should be addressed to:

                       tsingan@phys.uoa.gr

   If you do not wish to receive future issues of this Newsletter or the
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