Ενημερωτικό Δελτίο 34 - Δεκέμβριος 2000

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                       HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                           ELECTRONIC  NEWSLETTER
             NUMBER 34                               December 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. Members in new positions
  3. New Ph.D. degrees
  4. Hel.A.S. prize for best Ph.D. in 2000
  5. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  6. About this newsletter...
  
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  1. SHORT NEWS
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   Time does fly and four years have already passed since the web
  server of Hel.A.S. was created. The curators of the web server hope
  that the compiled information proves to be useful to all Hel.A.S.
  members. If you have any comments or suggestions on its contents,
  please send your input to the webmanagers.

   The 20th newsletter of the European Astronomical Society, which
  celebrates the 10th year anniversary of the Society, is available
  online at: 
	     http://www.iap.fr/eas/newsletters.html


  2. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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   We would like to congratulate our colleague, Dr. Alexander Nindos,
  who has been elected as "Lecturer" - and recently moved - to the
  Department of Physics of the University of Ioannina.

   We would also like to congratulate our colleague, Dr. Panos Patsis,
  who has been elected as "Researcher B" at the Research Center for
  Astronomy and Applied Mathematics of the Academy of Athens.

 
  3. NEW Ph.D. DEGREES AWARDED
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   The council of Hel.A.S. would like to extend its congratulations to
  the following Junior members for obtaining their Ph.D. degrees in
  the second half of 2000.

  - Basilakos Spyros, Ph.D., University of Athens, Greece
    (now a postdoc at Imperial College, UK) 

  - Georgoulis Manolis, Ph.D., University of Thessaloniki, Greece
    (now a postdoc at Johns Hopkins Univ., Maryland, USA)

  - Gouliermis Dimitris, Ph.D., University of Athens, Greece

  - Hatziminaoglou Evanthia, Ph.D., Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France
  
  - Kitsionas Spyridon, Ph.D., University of Wales, Cardiff, U.K.
 
   According to the constitution of Hel.A.S., all Junior members
  obtaining a Ph.D. degree become Ordinary members in the next General
  Assembly of the Society.


  4. HEL.A.S. PRIZE FOR THE BEST PH.D. IN 2000
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   Members of the Hel.A.S. and other colleagues (Ph.D. supervisors in
  particular) are encouraged to bring to the attention of the Council
  potential candidates for the "Best Ph.D. in Astronomy" prize. The prize
  will be awarded to an active junior member of the Society, who has
  successfully defended his/her Ph.D. thesis during the calendar year
  2000. The prize is accompanied by the sum of 120.000 drx. The recipient 
  will be selected by the Council of Hel.A.S. Please note that this is 
  an award, not a scholarship, and therefore no formal application
  procedure is involved.

  Past recipients of the award are:

    1998 - Dr. Markos Georganopoulos, @ Boston University, USA
    1999 - Dr. Manolis Xilouris, @ Univ. of Crete, Greece

  For more information please contact the Secretary of Hel.A.S.,
  Dr. Harry Varvoglis (varvogli@astro.auth.gr).


  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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                  5th Hellenic Astronomical Conference
                       Crete, 20-22 September 2001 
 
                 http://www.astro.auth.gr/~helasmtg/2001/
                                or contact
                  Dr. J. Ventura (ventura@physics.uoc.gr)

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  6. 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 the Newsletter will be circulated around January
  1st 2001. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,  
  new openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece) or 
  comments before December 20, 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 it was sent is not your preferred one, please 
  let us know.
 
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