Hel.A.S. Newsletter 88 - June 2005


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                       HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
                           ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
            NUMBER 88                                June 2005

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  TOPICS:

  1. Last Call/Extension for Abstract Submission in HelAS conference
  2. Short News
  3. IAU membership
  4. Job Openings
  5. Access to International Research Facilities
  6. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
  7. About this Newsletter


  1. LAST CALL/EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IN HelAS CONFERENCE
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    The already more than 100 excellent quality submitted abstracts,
  together with the top plenary speakers and the two timely Symposia
  on Greece/ESA and the Future of Greek Astronomy are the first
  encouraging signs that the Kefallinia (8-11 September 2005) 7th
  HelAS conference is truly going to be a memorable event, a must
  for all our members. Hence, in an effort to accomodate late
  registration and abstract submission to this Conference, the SOC
  decided to extend the deadline for electronic submission of
  abstracts and registration to Wednesday June 15th.
  We urge the members of HELAS, especially the Junior ones, to enroll.

   **Financial support for most young applicants may be provided.**

  No other extension will be given and immediately after this date
  the scientific program will be circulated.

    For more information on Kefallinia, Travel, Accomodation and
  Subsistence grants (for young researchers), as well as information
  on the Proceedings and publications, or other conference reated
  questions, pls visit:

                 http://comas.interzone.gr/cgi/article.cgi

  2. SHORT NEWS
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    We would like to congratulate Dr. M. Mathioudakis who was
  promoted from Lecturer to Reader (Associate Professor) in the
  Department of Physics and Astronomy at Queens University, Belfast.


  3. IAU MEMBERSHIP
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    The Greek National Committee for Astronomy is the official
  representative of Greece to the International Astronomical
  Union. Thus, it is authorised to propose at each IAU General
  Assembly Hellenic astronomers as candidate members of the IAU.

    The next General Assembly of IAU will take place in Prague in
  August 2006. As a result, up untill 15 October 2005, GNCA is
  considering applications from Hellenic astronomers who wish to
  join IAU. For more information on how to apply, please visit:

          http://www.astro.noa.gr/gnca/IAU/ca-newsiau.htm

  or send an e-mail to gnca@astro.noa.gr


  4. JOB OPENINGS
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    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. The start of the employment
  in these positions is the fall of 2005 while the application
  deadlines for most of them is this spring. For more information
  contact Kanaris Tsinganos (tsingan@phys.uoa.gr), or visit :

                 http://www.jetsets.org/


  5. ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITIES
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     Dr. D. Gouliermis (MPIA, Heidelberg) was awarded 20 orbits of
  the Hubble Space Telescope using the ACS and NICMOS cameras for a
  project entitled "Star Formation in the LMC - The complete IMF
  of a Stellar Association".


  6. 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 on
                   "Close Binaries in the 21st Century:
                     New Opportunities and Challenges"
                      Syros, 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, 27 June - 1 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, 27 June - 1 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, 21-23 September 2005

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

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                        3rd Aegean Summer School on
	   The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
                    Chios, 26 September 1 October 2005

                     More information can be found at:
                        www.physics.ntua.gr/cosmo05

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  7. 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 July 1st
  2005. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
  job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
  or comments before June 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
  e-mail address to which it was sent is not your preferred one, please
  let us know.

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