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HELLENIC ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 91 September 2005
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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. Access to International Research Facilities
4. Upcoming Astronomy meetings in Greece
5. About this Newsletter
1. SHORT NEWS
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This is the last e-newsletter before the 7th conference of the
Hel.A.S. to be held at Lixourion, Kefallinia, Sept 8th - 10th.
The detailed programm of all sessions of the conference can be
found at the conference webpage, http://comas.interzone.gr/cgi/article.cgi
We hope that we will be seing you in Lixourion and we wish everybody
a safe journey to Kefallonia and a fruitful participation to the
conference.
2. MEMBERS IN NEW POSITIONS
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Dr. Markos Georganopoulos of the Joint Center for Astrophysics of
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County has been recently promoted to the rank of Research
Assistant Professor.
Dr. Yiannis Tsamis moved from Paris Observatory (F), to a research
associate position at the Star Formation/Molecular Astrophysics
group of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, in the University
College London (UK).
3. ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITIES
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Dr. K. Tziotziou and Dr. G. Tsiropoula (Institute for Space Applications
and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens) were awarded 12 days
of observing time and are leading a multi-site, multi-spacecraft campaign
devoted to observations of the solar chromospheric fine structure.
The ground-based telescopes involved are THEMIS in Tenerife, DOT in La
Palma, SOLIS in Tucson (Arizona) and the Ondrejov Solar Spectrograph in
Odrejov (Prague), while the spacecrafts are SOHO and TRACE.
Various instruments providing images, spectrograms and magnetograms
will be used during this campaign.
Dr. M. Georganopoulos has been awarded seven orbits in the Cycle
14 GO program of the Hubble Space Telescope using the ACS and NICMOS
cameras for a project entitled "Probing the jet matter content of the
quasar 0637-752".
4. 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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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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5. 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 October 1st
2005. Please send your announcements (e.g. appointments/departures,
job openings, research opportunities, awards, conferences in Greece)
or comments before September 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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