Workshop on
Cosmology and
Gravitational Physics
Thessaloniki, December 15-16, 2005
PROGRAMME
DAY 1 (Thursday, 15 December 2005)
| Morning Session | ||
| 09.30 -10.00 | Welcome Ceremony | AUTh, BC & GI, GSRT authorities |
| 10.00 -10.30 | ESA and Greece | K. Tsinganos |
| 10.30 -11.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.00 -12.00 | Probing Fundamental Physics with the CMB | A. Challinor |
| 12.00 -13.00 | Large-Scale Cosmological Structures: A New Look | N.K. Spyrou |
| 13.00 -15.30 | Lunch Break | |
| Afternoon Session | ||
| 15.30 -16.00 | Magnetised Particle Dynamics Dynamics in the presence of Gravitational Waves | L. Vlahos |
| 16.00 -16.30 | Exploring the Universe on the Back of a Gravitational Wave | D. Papadopoulos |
| 16.30 -17.00 | Stellar Dynamics in Scalar-tensor Gravity | K.D. Kokkotas |
| 17.00 -17.30 | Tea Break | |
| 17.30 -18.00 | Cosmological Gravito-magnetic Dynamos | C. Tsagas |
| 18.00 -18.20 | Nonlinear Interaction of Gravitational waves with Strongly Magnetized Plasmas | H. Isliker |
| 18.20 -18.40 | Introducing Interactive Quadratic Gravity | K. Kleidis |
| 18.40 -19.00 | MHD Modes of Magnetized Plasmas in Cosmology | A. Kouiroukidis |
DAY 2 (Friday 16 December 2005)
| Morning Session | ||
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Analytical Treatment of the Motions of Compact Binaries | G. Schaefer |
| 10.00 -11.00 | Future Singularities and Completeness in Cosmology | S. Cotsakis |
| 11.00 -11.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30 -12.30 | Cosmological Aspects of Varying Constants | J. Barrow |
| 12.30 -13.30 | Repulsive Gravity and the Accelerating Universe | L. Perivolaropoulos |
| 13.00 -15.30 | Lunch Break |
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| Afternoon Session | ||
| 15.30 -16.00 | Aspects of Strong Gravity Physics | A. Nicolaidis |
| 16.00 -16.30 | Modern Solar System Dynamics and the History of the Solar System | Η. Varvoglis |
| 16.30 -17.00 | Rotational Instabilities of Supermassive Stars: A New Way to Form Black Holes | N. Stergioulas |
| 17.00 -17.30 | Tea Break | |
| 17.30 -17.50 | Coupling of Radial and Axial Non-Radial Oscillations of Compact Stars: Gravitational Waves from first-order Differential Rotation | A. Passamonti |
| 17.50 - 18.10 | Gravitational Waves from Tidal Interactions Between Black Holes and Neutron Stars | A. Stavridis |
| 18:10 - 18:30 | Reliability of Supermassive Black Hole Mass Determinations from Stellar Dynamics | Ch. Siopis |
| 18.30 -18.50 | Well-Posedness of the Cauchy Problem in 3+1 GR | V. Pashalidis |
| 18.50 -19.00 | Closing Comments | |
| 20.00 - | Goodbye Dinner |