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June 8-11, 2010 Ioannina, Greece

NEB 14

Recent Developments in Gravity

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Monday (June 7)

18.00 - 20.00 Registration and Welcoming Reception

 

Tuesday (June 8)

Main Session

08.45 - 09.15 Registration / Welcome

Chairman Richard Woodard

09.15 - 10.00 Valeri Frolov

Applications of hidden symmetries to black hole physics

10.00 - 10.45 Ruth Gregory

Gauss-Bonnet Holographic Superconductors

10.45 - 11.05 Coffee Break

 

Chairman Subir Sarkar

11.05 - 11.45 David Polarski

Dark energy

11.45 - 12.25 Konstantinos Dimopoulos

The quantum origin of cosmic structure: theory and observations

12.30 - 15.00 Lunch Break

 

Parallel Session 1a

Chairman Thomas Sotiriou

15.00 - 15.20 Theocharis Apostolatos

Searching for non-Kerr objects

15.20 - 15.40 Georgios Kofinas

Transplanckian bremsstrahlung and black hole production

15.40 - 16.00 Roman Konoplya

Long life of Gauss-Bonnet corrected black holes

16.00 - 16.20 Malcolm Anderson

Horizons, Singularities and Causal Structure of the Generalized McVittie Spacetimes

16.20 - 16.40 Nikolaos Fanidakis

Modelling SMBHs in cosmological Simulations

16.40 - 17.00 Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 1b

Chairman Manolis Plionis

15.00 - 15.20 John Miritzis

FRW models in the conformal frame of f(R) gravity

15.20 - 15.40 Shimon Rubin

Non-closed Universe and Zero Cosmological Constant from Normalized General Relativity

15.40 - 16.00 Vasilis Oikonomou

Corrections to Gravity due to a Sol Manifold Extra Dimensional Space

16.00 - 16.20 Adriano Contillo

Inflationary solutions in asymptotically safe higher order gravity theories

16.20 - 16.40 Ahmad Al Badawi

Search for Gravitational waves through Polarization vector of the electromagnetic wave upon encountering with Gravitational Sandwich Wave

16.40 - 17.00 Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 2a

Chairman Christos Tsagas

17.00 - 17.20 Manolis Plionis

Cosmological constraints using high-z X-ray AGNs

17.20 - 17.40 Spyros Basilakos

Hubble expansion & formation of structures in time varying vacuum models

17.40 - 18.00 Savvas Nesseris

A model independent null test on the cosmological constant

18.00 - 18.20 Demetrios Papadopoulos

Tensor perturbations in Starobinski's inflationary scenario

 

Parallel Session 2b

Chairman Theodosios Christodoulakis

17.00 - 17.20 Michael Gabler

Torsional shear oscillations of magnetized neutron stars

17.20 - 17.40 Paul Lasky

Black holes and neutron stars in Tensor-Vector-Scalar theory

17.40 - 18.00 Chris Kouvaris

Can Neutron Stars constrain Dark Matter?

18.00 - 18.20 Charalampos Markakis

Quasi-equilibrium models of magnetized compact objects

21.00 - 22.00 K.Kokkotas

 

Public Lecture (in Greek):

General Relativity as a tool for studying the Universe

 

Wednesday, June 9

Main Session

Chairwoman Ruth Gregory

09.00 - 09.45 Ofer Lahav

The Observational Status of LCDM

09.45 - 10.30 Subir Sarkar

Cosmology beyond the standard model

10.30 - 10.50 Coffee Break

 

Chairman Valeri Frolov

10.50 - 11.35 Jose A. Font

Relativistic MHD simulations of stellar core collapse and magnetars

11.35 - 12.10 Dimitrios Giannios

Several aspects of MHD driven, relativistic jets

12.10 - 12.45 Christos Tsagas

Large-scale peculiar motions and cosmic acceleration

13.00 - 15.00 Lunch Break

15.00 - 22.30 Free Afternoon or Excursion to Parga - Lychnos Beach

 

Thursday (June 10)

Main Session

Chairman Kostantinos Kokkotas

09.00 - 09.45 Joan Sola

Cosmologies with a time dependent vacuum

09.45 - 10.30 Richard Woodard

Nonlocal Models of Cosmology

10.30 - 10.50 Coffee Break

 

Chairman Nikolaos Mavromatos

10.50 - 11.25 Ioannis Bakas

Instantons of Horava-Lifshitz gravity

11.25 - 12.00 Thomas Sotiriou

Horava-Lifshitz gravity: infrared dynamics and viability

12.00 - 12.25 Theodosios Christodoulakis

Canonical Quantization of some midisuperspace models and the Classical Equivalence problem

13.00 - 15.00 Lunch Break

 

Parallel Session 1a

Chairman Spyros Basilakos

15.00 - 15.20 Alexey Toporensky

Cosmological dynamics in generalized modified gravity

15.20 - 15.40 Laur Jarv

Scalar-tensor cosmologies with a potential in the general relativity limit

15.40 - 16.00 Anastasios Avgoustidis

Constraints on cosmic opacity and beyond the standard model physics from

cosmological distance measurements

16.20 - 16.20 Juan C.B. Sanchez

Growth of matter and dark energy perturbations in scalar-tensor cosmologies

16.20 - 16.40 Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 1b

Chairman Elias Vagenas

15.00 - 15.20 Thomas Cailleteau

Observational consequences of Loop Quantum Cosmology

15.20 - 15.40 Rodrigo Ferreira Sobreiro

Affine gauge theory of gravity and its reduction to the Riemann-Cartan geometry

15.40 - 16.00 Minas Tsoukalas

Gauss-Bonnet Perturbations in Codimension-2 brane worlds

16.20 - 16.20 Petros Wallden

The problem of time in quantum cosmology, a decoherent histories view

16.20 - 16.40 Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session 2a

Chairman Nikolaos Stergioulas

16.40 - 17.00 Georgios Kraniotis

Precise analytic treatment of Kerr and Kerr-(anti) de Sitter black holes as gravitational lenses

17.00 - 17.20 Cosimo Bambi

Violation of the Carter-Israel conjecture and its astrophysical implications

17.20 - 17.40 Nikolaos Pappas

Bulk Decay of (4+n)-Dimensional Simply Rotating Black Holes: Tensor Type Gravitons

17.40 - 18.00 Ivan Cagnani

Galactically inertial space probes for the direct measurement of the metric expansion of the universe

 

Parallel Session 2b

Chairman Juan C.B. Sanchez

16.40 - 17.00 Angelo Tartaglia

Lensing in an elastically strained space-time

17.00 - 17.20 C Sofia Carvalho

Unlensing the CMB: a real space approach to extract the weak lensing potential

17.20 - 17.40 Michele Armano

LISA Pathfinder, the Experiment and the Route to LISA

17.40 - 18.00 Andrew Beckwith

Cosmic deceleration parameter q(z) dependence upon gravitons? Implications for DM models

 

18.00 - 20.00 Society meeting

20.00 - 23.00 Banquet

 

Friday, June 11

Main Session

Chairwoman Mairi Sakellariadou

09.00 - 09.45 Dimitris Psaltis

Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Astrophysical Black Holes

09.45 - 10.20 Nikolaos Tetradis

Black holes, Holography and Thermodynamics of Gauge Theories

10.20 - 10.45 Joshua Erlich

A Coherent State Principle for Gravity

10.45 - 11.05 Coffee Break

 

Chairman Jose A. Font

11.05 - 11.40 Nikolaos Mavromatos

Stringy space time foam and gamma ray astronomy

11.40 - 12.15 Mairi Sakellariadou

Cosmology within the Non-Commutative Spectral Action

12.15 - 12.50 Nikolaos Spyrou

Conformal Dynamical Equivalence and Applications

13.00 - 15.00 Lunch Break

 

Parallel Session 1a

Chairman Theocharis Apostolatos

15.00 - 15.20 Nikolaos Stergioulas

Black hole space-times with self-gravitating, massive accretion tori

15.20 - 15.40 Elias Vagenas

Quantum Gravity Corrections and Entropy at the Planck time

15.40 - 16.00 Taxiarchis Papakostas

The problem of the interior Kerr solution

16.00 - 16.20 Diego Rubiera-Garcia

Black holes from generalized gauge field theories

16.20 - 16.40 Evangelos Melas

Review of the work on the representation theory of BMS group and its variants

 

Parallel Session 1b

Chairman Konstantinos Dimopoulos

15.00 - 15.30 Kostas Kleidis

A conventional form of Dark Energy

15.30 - 15.50 Naef Joachim

On the Spin Precession in f(R) Gravity

15.50 - 16.10 Esra Tigrak

Schrodinger Solutions and the Cosmic Web

 

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