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

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