1. Short News
2. The 8th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
3. JOSO prizes to young solar physicists
4. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
5. About this Newsletter

The latest issue of Hipparchos (Volume 2, Issue 2) has been prepared
by Prof. K. Kokkotas and has just been sent to all members. Check your
mailboxes! As usual the issue is also available as a PDF file in the
web server of Hel.A.S at:

http://www.helas.gr/news.php

We would like to congratulate Dr. Loukas Vlahos who was recently
promoted to Professor at the Department of Physics of the University
of Thessaloniki.

We would like to congratulate Dr. George Voyatzis who was recently
promoted to Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of the
University of Thessaloniki.

We wish to remind all Hel.A.S. members that the registration for
submission of abstracts for the upcoming 8th conference of Hel.A.S.
is now open and the deadline has been extended to the 31st of May
2007. For more details please visit the conference web page at:

http://www.ee.duth.gr/hac/

The JOSO (Joint Organization for Solar Observations) offers
prizes to two young solar physicists for outstanding papers
published in peer-reviewed journals. The candidates must have
obtained their PhD after Jan 1st 2002 and they should be less
than 35 years old. The submitted papers will be reviewed by
a committee consisting of: Arnold Hanslmeier, Michal Sobotka,
Jean-Claude Vial and Georgia Tsiropoula (members of the JOSO
board), which will be assisted by experts in different fields
of solar physics.

For application material Application visit the JOSO web pages

http://www.joso-info.org/JOSO_PROJEKT/news/news.htm

The papers in ps or pdf format and a short CV, should be sent
electronically to the president of JOSO, Prof. Arnold Hanslmeier:
arnold.hanslmeier@uni-graz.at. The application deadline is
May 20, 2007!

The first JOSO prize is a 1500 euros award and is sponsored
by the ROTH Saubermacher Company. The second JOSO prize
is a four-year hard-copy subscription to the journal Solar Physics
and is offered by the Springer Science and Business Media.
The awards will be presented during the third Central European
Solar Physics Meeting in October 10-12, 2007, in Bairisch
Koelldorf (Austria). The awarded solar physicists should attend
the conference. Note that their local expenses to attend the
conference will be covered by the conference organizer.

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

• 
  Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: Wide-field monitoring of the dynamic radio sky
  
  Kerastari, 12 – 15 June 2007
• Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA) Workshop
  
  “Solar Radio Physics and the Flare-CME Relationship”
  
  Ioannina, June 12-16, 2006
• 3rd Coronal Loops Workshop
  
  Santorini Island, 18 – 21 June 2007
• Extreme solar Systems
  
  Santorini Island, 24 – 29 June 2007
• X-ray Surveys: Evolution of Accretion,
  Star-formation and Large Scale Structure
  
  Rhodes Island, 2 – 6 July 2007
• 8th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
  
  Thasos Island, 13 – 15 September 2007
• Chaos in Astronomy
  
  Athens, 17 – 20 September 2007
• Solar Extreme Events 2007 International Symposium:
  Funtamental Science and Applied Aspects
  
  Athens, 24 – 27 September 2007
• 5th Conference of Greek Amateur Astronomers
  
  Patras, 5-7 October 2007

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