Ενημερωτικό Δελτίο 29 - Ιούλιος 2000

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                      HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                          ELECTRONIC  NEWSLETTER
             NUMBER 29                               July 2000
 
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  E-mail: elaset@astro.auth.gr        WWW: http://www.astro.auth.gr/elaset
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  TOPICS:
 
  1. Short News 
  2. The new Council and Auditors of Hel.A.S
  3. New Members
  4. Job opening
  5. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  6. About this newsletter...
  
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  1. SHORT NEWS
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   During the 15th General Assembly of Hel.A.S., which took place on
  Friday, June 16, 2000 in the Laboratory of Astronomy of the University
  of Athens, the Report of the Council and the Treasurer's Accounts for the
  period June 1998 to June 2000 were received and adopted. Prior to the
  Assembly Professor Emeritous N. Economou, from the University of Thessaloniki,
  presented an excellent account on the ancient clockwork mechanism found,
  about a century ago, in a shipwreck ashore the island of Antikythera.
 
 
  2. THE NEW COUNCIL AND AUDITORS OF HEL.A.S
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   In the elections that followed the General Assembly of June 16, 2000,
  the members of Hel.A.S. voted for a new President, a new Council and new
  Auditors. The results are as follows:
 
      President: J.H. Seiradakis, University of Thessaloniki
 
      Council:   S. Avgoloupis, University of Thessaloniki   
                 N. Kylafis, University of Crete
                 E. Livaniou-Rovithis, University of Athens
                 P. Niarchos, University of Athens
                 E. Plionis, National Observatory of Athens
                 H. Varvoglis, University of Thessaloniki
 
      Auditors:  K. Kokkotas, University of Thessaloniki
                 N. Stergioulas, University of Thessaloniki
                 E. Theodossiou, University of Athens
 
 
  3. NEW MEMBERS
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     Nine new members were elected during the General Assembly of June 16, 
  2000 of our Society:
 
   - Ordinary Members:
     Dr. Panagiotis Boumis, National Observatory of Athens
     Dr. Konstantinos Gontikakis, Academy of Athens
     Dr. Konstantinos Karoubalos, University of Athens
     Dr. Nikos Prantzos, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
   - Junior Members:
     Mr. Athanasios Akylas, National Obseravtory of Athens 
     Miss. Olga Bitzaraki, University of Athens
     Mr. Kosmas Gazeas, University of Athens
     Miss. Mary Koukouli, Oxford University
   - Associate Member:
     Mr. Antonios Antoniou, Lyceum of Chalkida
 
    Finally the General Assembly changed the status of our old member, Mr.
   Stylianos Argyropoulos, from Junior to Associate.
    Taking into account the above new colleagues, presently our Society has
   222 members (177 Ordinary, 41 Junior and 4 Associate members). The
   postal address and e-mail of all members is available in the on-line
   directory of the web pages of Hel.A.S.
 
 
   4. JOB OPENING
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  The National Observatory of Athens announced an opening for the position of
  the Director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The deadline for
  applications is July 20, 2000. For further information please contact
  the Observatory at Tel. +1-3690104, FAX +1-3490140.
 
 
   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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 		   13th Summer School/Conference
 	      Nonlinear Dynamics: Chaos and Complexity	
 		   Chania, Crete, 17-28 July 2000
 
 		    http://www.chaos-schools.gr/
 			     or contact
 	      Dr. D. Ellinas (ellinas@science.tuc.gr)
 
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    Applied Differential Geometry, Lie Algebras - General Relativity
              Thessaloniki, 27 August - 2 September 2000 
 
 		   http://www.astro.auth.gr/~apg00/
                            or contact
           Prof. D. Papadopoulos (apg00@astro.auth.gr) 
 
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 		9th Panhellenic Relativity Conference
  		      Ioannina, 28-31 August 2000
 
           http://theory.physics.uoi.gr/~nbatakis/nebix.html
 			     or contact
 	 	 Dr. N Batakis (nbatakis@cc.uoi.gr)
 
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      "Similarities and Universality in Relativistic Flows", SURF 2000
                        Mykonos, October 1-5, 2000
                    
                   http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/theory/surf
                                or contact
            Dr. Markos Georganopoulos (markos@levi.mpi-hd.mpg.de)
 
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  7. ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
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   This Newsletter was compiled and forwarded to all Hel.A.S. members,
  who can be reached electronically, by Harry Varvoglis and Vassilis 
  Charmandaris.
  
   The next edition of this Newsletter will be circulated around August
  1st 2000. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,  
  new openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or 
  comments before July 25, 2000. All correspondence concerning this 
  Newsletter should be addressed to:
  
                         elaset@astro.auth.gr
  
   If you do not wish to receive future issues of this Newsletter or the
  e-mail address to which this Newsletter was sent is not your preferred
  one, please let us know.
 
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