Conference Oral Presentations

The oral presentations of the conference are given below, as PDF files

PLENARY TALKS

• A. Vourlidas: Hurricane Season in the Inner Heliosphere: Observations of Coronal Mass Ejections during Solar Maximum
• R-P. Kudritzki: Supergiant Stars as Extragalactic Probes of Cosmic Abundances and Distances
• T. Courvoisier: Building up a European Astronomical Community
• F. Combes: Molecular gas in galaxies across the Hubble time
• M. Plionis: Recent developments in Cosmology

Highlight talk by a young astronomer

• A. Fragos: The Origin of Black Hole Spin in Galactic Low-mass X-ray binaries

"Best PhD" Talk

• E. Papastergis: Statistical analysis of ALFALFA galaxies: insights in galaxy formation & near-field cosmology

SESSION 1: Sun, Planets and Interplanetary Medium (Conveners: A. Anastasiadis, M. Georgoulis and M. Tsiganis)

• Daglis, I. (Inv): Energetic particles in geospace: Physics and space weather effects
• Balasis, G.: An extraordinary ULF wave episode during the 2003 Halloween superstorm revealed by wavelet transforms of multipoint observations
• Papadimitriou, C.: A statistical study of ULF wave events observed by the CHAMP satellite
• Chintzoglou, G.: Reconstructing the Subsurface: Three-dimensional Magnetic Structure of a Solar Active Region Using SDO/HMI Observations
• Tziotziou, K.: Free Magnetic Energy and Helicity in Active and Quiet Solar Regions and their role in Solar Dynamics
• Kontogiannis, I.: Transmission and conversion of magneto-acoustic waves in the quiet solar chromosphere
• Gontikakis, C.: On the possible importance of coherent resonant scattering in the solar transition region. A study of the C IV 154.8; 155.0 nm doublet
• Levison, H. (Inv): Tackling Some Issues in Planet Formation - from Mars's Size to a Fast Formation of Neptune
• Tsiganis, K.: Dynamical formation of resonant planetary systems with high mutual inclination
• Dimitropoulou, M.: A Data-Driven, Integrated Flare Model Based on Self-Organized Criticality
• Toutountzi, A.: Particle Acceleration in a Statistically Modeled Solar Active-Region Corona
• Iliopoulos, A.: Solar Wind Complexity
• Paouris, E. : Using the CME-index for short-term estimation of Ap geomagnetic,index / [paper]
• Malandraki, O. : SEPServer advances overview on Solar Energetic Particle events / [paper]
• Papaioannou, A.: Solar Energetic Particles within the STEREO era:2007-2012 / [paper]
• Patsourakos S. (Inv) : Sun-to-Earth Analysis of a Major Geoeffective Solar Eruption within the Framework of the Hellenic National Space Weather Research Network
• Syntelis, P. : Flux emergence of a non twisted magnetic flux tube
• Sandberg, I. : Slot Region Radiation Environment Models
• Anagnostopoulos, G. : Radiation Belt Electron Loss mechanisms: New results
• Bottke, W. (Inv): Exploring the Near Earth Object Population
• Fakis, D. : On the dynamics of a small body under the influence of a Maxwell ring-type N-body system with a spheroidal central body: Focal curves
• Pavlos, G.: Complexity and Space Plasmas
• Livadiotis, G.: Large-scale quantization in space plasmas

SESSION 2: Extragalactic Astronomy and Astrophysics (Conveners: C. Efthymiopoulos, V. Pavlidou, and N. Vlahakis )

• Mastichiadis, A. (Inv): High Energy Photon and Neutrino Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei
• Petropoulou, M.: A mechanism for producing intrinsic broken power-law gamma-ray spectra in compact sources
• Gizani, N. : Probing Extragalactic Magnetic Fields and their Role in Cosmic Rays
• Gladstone, J.: Exploring ultraluminous X-ray sources using the optical regime
• Georgantopoulos, I.: Hidden accretion in supermassive black holes in the XMM CDFS survey
• Corral, A. : The XMM-Newton spectral-fit database / [paper]
• Ranalli, P.: The 2-10 keV luminosity function of AGNs from the XMM-Newton LSS and CDFS surveys
• Koulouridis, E.: AGN in the XMM-LSS clusters
• Koutoulidis, L.: Clustering as a function of X-ray AGN properties
• Karampelas, A.: Unsupervised spectral classification of synthetic galaxies using Principal Components Analysis
• Mountrichas, G.: AGN clustering using photometric redshifts
• Karouzos, M.: Hand in hand: the co-evolution of AGN and their host galaxies
• Kolokythas, K.: Radio properties of galaxy groups in the Local Universe (<80 Mpc)
• Lanzuisi, G.: AGN feedback at high redshfit: the case of HS 1700+6416
• Contopoulos, G. (Inv): Analytical study of the structure of chaos near unstable points
• Patsis, P. (Inv): The dynamical backbones of observed structures in barred-spiral models
• Harsoula, M.: The diffusion of chaotic orbits in 3D barred spiral galaxies
• Efthymiopoulos, C.: Invariant manifolds and chaotic spiral structure
• Delis, N.: The power-law dependence of the Lyapunov exponents on the central mass in galaxies
• Xilouris, M. (Inv): Nearby galaxies as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory
• Lianou, S.: Probing the interstellar medium of the NGC1569 super star cluster population with Herschel
• Leonidaki, I.: Modeling the dust emission in ULIRGs
• Maragkoudakis, A.: Optical Spectroscopy for the Star Formation Reference Survey (SFRS)
• Dasyra, K.: Properties of the molecular gas in outflows vs. in the ambient medium: a case study on the radio-loud galaxy 4C12.50
• Charmandaris, V. (Inv): The physical properties of luminous infrared galaxies: unveiling the dust
• Bitsakis, T.: Herschel observations of Hickson compact groups of galaxies: Unveiling the properties of cold dust
• Vardoulaki, E.: The Radio Continuum Properties of Luminous Infrared Galaxies
• Magdis, G.: Tracing the Evolving Interstellar Medium of star forming galaxies since z=2

SESSION 3: Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics (Conveners: S. Basilakos and N. Stergioulas )

• Saridakis, E. (Inv): Torsional modified gravity and cosmology
• Pouri, A.: Testing General Relativity on Cosmological scales
• Efstratiou, P.: Chern-Simons Modified Gravity
• Carvalho, C. S.: The Euclid space mission
• Georgakakis, A.: Supermassive black hole accretion modes to z~1
• Angelakis, E.: Properties of the radio jet emission of four gamma-ray Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies
• Vernardos, G.: Adventures in the microlensing cloud: eResearch tools for zooming into the heart of quasars
• Apostolatos, Th. (Inv): A Newtonian problem as a guide of relativistic astrophysics
• Kylafis, N. : Accreting magnetars: spectral formation in the accretion shock
• Contopoulos, I.: Black hole jets
• Loukes-Gerakopoulos, G.: Searching for chaos around black hole candidates
• Pavlidou, V.: RoboPol. blazar astrophysics from Skinakas Observatory with a unique optical polarimeter
• Myserlis, I.: Blazar physics through multi-band linear and circular polarization monitoring/ [paper]
• Sapountzis, K.: Rarefaction in magnetized, relativistic, astrophysical outflows
• Iosif, P. : Accuracy of the IWM-CFC approximation in differentially rotating relativistic stars

SESSION 4: Stars, Our Galaxy and the Local Group (Conveners: A. Bonanos and D. Hatzidimitriou)

• Tassis, K. (Inv.): Star Formation Through the Chemical Lens
• Polychroni, D.: Two Mass Distributions in the L1641 Molecular Clouds: The Herschel connection of Dense Cores and Filaments in Orion A
• Tsinganos, K.: YSO jet simulations: from theory to synthetic observations
• Piotto, G. (Inv): Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters
• Livanou, E.: Age metallicity relation in the MCs clusters
• Christopoulou, P.-E.: The DWARF project
• Nanouris, N.: Tracing non-conservative mass transfer eras in close binaries from observed / [paper]
• Kourniotis, M.: Period variations Variability of Massive Stars with Known Spectral Types in the Small Magellanic
• Ioannidis, P.: Cloud Using 8 Years of OGLE-III Data KOI-676: An active star with two transiting planets and a third possible candidate detected with TTV
• Boumis, P. (Inv): Life after stellar death: Planetary Nebulae and Supernova Remnants
• Uscanga, L.: THEoretical Modelling and multi-wavelength Observations of evolved Stars (THEMOS)
• Gourgouliatos, K.: Magnetospheric moment of inertia variations as a source of timing noise in magnetars
• Britavskiy, N.: A New Technique For Identifying Massive Stars in the Local Group
• Zezas, A.: The Deep Chandra Survey of the SMC
• Antoniou, V.: Insights into the High-Mass X-ray Binary Population of the Magellanic Clouds
• Vasilopoulos, G.: The XMM-Newton surveys of the Magellanic Clouds
• Manousakis, A.: Accretion in supergiant High Mass X-ray Binaries
• Maravelias, G.: Looking for High-Mass X-ray Binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud