It has been a busy time farewelling old and welcoming new staff members. ... Debbie has joined us as a cleaner and Lodge assistant, while Eric will work on the antenna drives and other power control systems. ... Millimetre observing during January (summer!) term was restricted to four 12-mm proposals (one of which experienced rain) and various tests. ... During the May term, millimetre observations at Mopra will be jointly run by the ATNF and UNSW, with each allocated six weeks of observing time. ...

... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...

COSPAR . CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPS . FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM . ... This program is open to young scientists who have been participants at one of the COSPAR Capacity-Building workshops to enable them to build on skills gained at the workshop. ... The areas of research will be broadly restricted to topics that have been covered at a COSPAR Capacity-Building Workshop and applicants must have been a participant in one of these workshops. ... The performance of the applicant in the workshop project. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

Professor Yurij Shokin, born 1943, has been many years with the Computer Center and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (during the directorship of Academician N N Yanenko ) in Novosibirsk's scientific campus Akademgorodok and was director of the computer centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Siberian Division, in Krasnoyarsk. ... He is an affiliate member of IFIP WG 2.5 and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Russian Academy of Sciences . Siberian Division . ...

... We selected 11 PC's at the Institute and try to provide them with the access to resources earlier reachable only from Mercury , Ursa . ... Some access to A and A as well as other Springer and IOP journals is now available via the Sci.Dig.Lib. of the RFBR. ... During 2001 we lost access to recent issues of Astron. ... An information about our access to electronic journals is now available in Russian as a ( TeX file ). ... Access to more issues of the journals of Kluwer , Elsevier , etc appeared. ...

SRI was organized in 1991. ... SRI consists of 12 laboratories which conduct investigations in two major directions: space-based monitoring of the state of atmosphere and Earth; space-based material science. There are 122 employes in the staff of the institute, 71 of them are scientific workers, 7 are professors and 30 PhD. SRI participated in the development of the program of the flight of Kazakhstan cosmonauts including the orbital complex "Mir". ... Tel: (007)-(327-2)-61-58-53 . ...