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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 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 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 Conclusion! |