FABRIZIO BOCCHINO

aka "The Master Adventurer"

Welcome, visitor number

Summary of information

Position ............: Astronomer at the Osservatorio Astronomico "G.S. Vaiana" of Palermo (Sicily)

Voice Phone .....: +39 (0)91 233254

Job Keywords ..: Research, X-rays, Supernova Remnants, Parallel computing.

A closer insight at what I am doing

• A short summary of my main research interest
• my Curriculum Vitae in italian or in english (Gzipped Postscript, ~20kb).
• a list of publications (PDF)

Job Vacancy Announcements for Starving Astronomy Graduates

• The American Astronomical Society Job Register, which collects info from many sources.
• Job vacancies at ESTEC Astrophyics Division
• JOST: Job Opportunities in Science & Technology
• At the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics there is a Vacancy Announcements Page and an interesting PreDoc Fellowship Program
• Situations Vacant for Astronomers at the Armagh Observatory, with also a link to a list of Vacancies advertised through Starlink
• Postgraduate Research Opportunities at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Leicester
• The Open Position page at the Danish Space Research Institute

• Concorsi per laureati sull'ultima Gazzetta.
• JobOnLine: una raccolta di link ad elenchi di concorsi banditi da Enti Pubblici non ancora scaduti e borse di studio e dottorati.
• E' da controllare anche il Centro Documentazione Legislativa dell'Universita' di Palermo. Altre fonti di informazioni piu' recenti per i concorsi si trovano a http://www.eden.it/indice/concorsi/concorsi.html (a cura di Maria Magistri).
• JobNet Una mailing list di offerte lavoro (orientata prevalentemente sull'informatica, ma non solo!).

Powerful INTERNET Search Engines

• The Lycos Home Page Search WWW Page titles and texts. Try to search your surname....
• DejaNews Research Service Beleive it or not, they search in the text of all the news posted in all the newsgroups. Not bad...
• For those who were used to play with xarchie... Try http://ftpsearch.unit.no/ftpsearch or The Virtual Software Library; both are impressive. "Archie e' morto ! Viva Archie !" (Il buon Renato Candia).
• Browse the Italian General Subject Tree.

The italian section

• Mailgate Web Server su Pantheon.it. Per consultare i newsgroup della gerarchia it.*. In particolare:
  • it.scienza.astronomia
  • it.discussioni.consumatori.rete
  • it.discussioni.auto
  • it.discussioni.universita e it.discussioni.universita.dottorato
  • it.comp.os2
  • it.arti.architettura
  • it.arti.musica.spartiti
• Meteo Altofonte. Condizioni meteo nel paese di Altofonte
• Abolizione della tariffa urbana a tempo: CLICCA QUI!!. Inoltre, c'e' anche il Comitato Vittime della Sip-Telecom.
• Associazione Consumatori Italiani Internet (ASCII)
• La Guida ad Internet della Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Copia locale su www.astropa.unipa.it).

OS/2 stuff

• The Warp Pharmacy
• The Device Driver Repository
• Bronto Server's "Zona OS/2"
• The OS/2 directory at LEO.

Electromagnetic Radiation and Human Health

• A collection of FAQ mantained by John Moulder and the Medical College of Wisconsin. In particular:
  • http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/powerlines-cancer-FAQ/toc.html
  • http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/cell-phone-health-FAQ/toc.html

Leisure time ....!

• Amateur Astronomy, here are some samples (50mm f/1.8, 10min on Kodak Gold 400) ...
  • Cigno.jpg: part of the Cygnus constellation, North America and Butterfly Nebula, and a faint Cygnus Loop.
  • Cas.jpg: a field in the Cassiopea constellation, with chi and H Per.
  • M31.jpg: a field centered on the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), with M33 on the bottom
• Acoustic and classic guitar

Well, that's all! Hope that this page has been useful to you. If you want, you can drop me a line in the mailbox. And now ...

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