Conference Oral Presentations 
The oral presentations of the conference are given below, as PDF files
PLENARY TALKS
- M. McCaughrean: Rosetta: to catch a comet!
- D. Elbaz: Cosmic galaxy evolution: strengths and weaknesses of an emerging new paradigm
- A. Morbidelli: Formation and evolution of planetary systems: what is generic and what is special in the history of our Solar System?
- P. Kalas: Ex Imago Mundi: The current scientific revolution from imaging exoplanets
- S. Capozziello: Stellar Structures in Extended Gravity
Highlight talk by a young astronomer
- D. Giannios: Large jets from small-scale magnetic fields
"Best PhD" Talk
SESSION 1: Heliophysics and the Solar System (Convenors: M. Georgoulis and K. Tsiganis)
- Th. Sarris (Inv): Modeling populations of energetic particles in the radiation belts through data assimilation models using novel estimates of the radial diffusion coefficients
- C. Tsironis: Modeling of plasma dynamics in the inner geospace during enhanced magnetospheric activity (paper)
- C. Katsavrias: Combined Effects of Concurrent Pc5 and Chorus Waves on Relativistic Electron Dynamics
- S. Dimitrakoudis: ULF wave radial diffusion in the radiation belts as determined through a multi-parameter study
- D. Sarafopoulos: Anatomy of the Pulsating Double Layer Source in the Earth's Magnetotail
- K. Tsiganis: The AIDA mission to the binary asteroid Didymos
- K. Dialynas: On the origin of the 5-55 keV Heliosphere ENAs using Cassini/INCA measurements
- S.-A. Menesidou: Correlation between CME-related strong geomagnetic storms, SEP and Earth’s surface temperature in north-east USA: 1997-2015 (paper)
- E. Paouris: The CME-index for short-term estimation of Ap geomagnetic index based on the new ICME list (paper)
- V. Tritakis: Preliminary Measurements of Schumann’s Resonances (SR) in the Greek Area
- V. Archontis: Nanoflares, avalanches and heating of the solar corona
- L. Vlahos: Coronal heating from explosive events: A kinetic approach
- A. Kontogiannis: Probing the quiet Sun structure and dynamics with ground and space based instruments
- H.-S. Park: A granule seen in the far wings of the H-alpha line: exceptional darkening before fragmentation
- M. Trichas: Carrington-L5: The UK/US Next Generation Space Weather Operational Mission
- P. Gallagher (Inv): The Solar Origins and Terrestrial Impacts of Space Weather
- A. Vourlidas: The Science Case for a Mission to the Sun-Earth L5: An Ideal Research-to-Operations Space Weather Platform
- O. Malandraki: HORIZON 2020 ‘HESPERIA’ Project: High Energy Solar Particle Events Forecasting and Analysis
- A. Anastasiadis: The Forecasting Solar Particle Events and Flares (FORSPEF) Tool
- A. Kouloumvakos: Properties of solar energetic particle events inferred from their associated radio emission
- S. Patsourakos: A Helicity-based Method to Infer the Near-Sun Magnetic Field of Coronal Mass Ejections: Parametric Study and Comparison with Observations at 1 AU
- G. Chintzoglou: Formation of Magnetic Flux Ropes during Confined Flaring Well Before the Onset of a Pair of Major Coronal Mass Ejections
- P. Syntelis: The nature of recurrent 3D CME-like eruptions in active regions
- E. Liokati: The Role of the Background Magnetic Field in the Major Eruptions of AR11429
- E. Nikou: Spatial correlation of solar flares and coronal mass ejections
- A. Nindos: How Common are Hot Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Low Solar Corona? A Statistical Study of EUV Observations
- K. Tziotziou: Magnetic energy and helicity budgets of solar quiet regions and their role in fine structure dynamics
- K. Moraitis: Evolution of magnetic helicity and free energy in NOAA AR 11429 as inferred by different methodologies
- H. Isliker: Particle acceleration and heating in regions of magnetic flux emergence: a statistical approach using test-particle- and MHD-simulations
- G. Pavlos: The applications of Complexity Theory and Tsallis Non-extensive Statistics at Space Plasma Dynamics
- A. Efthymiopoulos (Inv): Theory and applications of hyperbolic invariant manifolds in astrodynamics
- K. Skoulidou: Effect of sun’s mass loss in the dynamical evolution of the Solar System
- G. Tsirvoulis: Dynamical characterization of the Hoffmeister asteroid family
- Ch. Avdellidou: Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions: An analogue for icy bodies
SESSION 2: Extragalactic Astronomy and Astrophysics (Convenors: S. Kazantzidis and E. Xilouris)
- G. Magdis (Inv): Tracing the evolving interstellar medium of star forming galaxies over the last 10 billion years
- A. Leonidaki: Probing the Physical Conditions of Dense Molecular Gas in ULIRGs with LVG modelling (paper)
- S. Lianou: Gas, Dust and Stars in Early-Type Galaxies
- A. Maragkoudakis: Probing the AGN - Star formation connection through the Lens of the Star Formation Reference Survey (SFRS)
- N. Christopher: Are [CII] 158um Broad-line components of local ULIRGs related to the presence of molecular outflows?
- A. Myserlis: Physics of extragalactic plasma elements through high cadence, multi-frequency linear and circular radio polarization monitoring
- N. Vlahakis: Jet-Environment Interactions
- M. Georganopoulos: The large scale jets of quasars: 100 TeV accelerators lossy pipelines
- E. Meyer: The New Proper Motions Frontier: Recent Discoveries on AGN Jets with HST
- I. Liodakis: Population Statistics of Beamed Sources
- P. Patsis: The importance of inner boxiness for understanding barred galaxies Dynamics
- M. Harsoula: Convergence regions of the Moser normal forms and the structure of chaos
- I. Contopoulos: Magnetism along Spin
- M. Papastergis: Too few and too light? Testing LCDM cosmology with field dwarf galaxies
- S. Sanidas: DRAGNET: A high-speed, wide-angle radio camera for LOFAR
- A. Papadakis (Inv): X-ray reverberation studies of Active Galactic Nuclei
- K. Anastasopoulou: A deep Chandra observation of the interacting star forming galaxy Arp299
- A. Epitropakis: The "iron-line/continuum" time-lags in AGN
- V. Antoniou: First results from the 1.1 Ms Chandra X-ray Visionary Program of the Small Magellanic Cloud
- A. Mastichiadis: Variability signatures in the context of the one-zone hadronic model for blazars and GRBs
- V. Charmandaris: Constraining the Properties of AGN host galaxies with Spectral Energy Distribution modeling
- E. Hatziminaoglou: A complete census of mid-infrared spectral features in AGN
- A. Psychogios: Non-parametric morphological classification of LIRGS
- E. Vardoulaki: Spatial variations in the IR/radio correlation in Luminous Infrared Galaxies
- T. Diaz-Santos: ISM Properties of Cold and Warm local LIRGs
- A. Georgakakis (Inv): The formation of supermassive black holes accross cosmic time
- D. Emmanoulopoulos: Unveiling the behaviour of matter around black holes
- E. Lefa: Modeling the AGN X-ray spectra with Monte Carlo simulations: the case of torii with density gradients
- M. Vika: The physical properties of local galaxies with Spitzer mid-IR spectra: UV to infrared modelling
- V. Pavlidou (Inv): RoboPol: First season rotations of optical polarization plane in blazars
- E. Kalfountzou: Unveiling the role of radio jets to the AGN/Star-formation connection
- K. Dasyra: A radio jet drives a molecular & atomic gas outflow in multiple regions within 1 kpc^2 of the nucleus of IC5063
- K. Markakis: Subaru and e-Merlin observations of NGC3718. Diaries of a supermassive black hole recoil?
SESSION 3: Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics (Convenors: K. Kokkotas and M. Plionis)
- K. Glampedakis (Inv): Neutron stars: cosmic laboratories of gravity and dense matter
- N. Kylafis: Jet formation in black-hole X-ray transients and implications
- E. Koutsantoniou: Black holes, radiation and the accretion disk
- T. Apostolatos (Inv): Neutron stars: Are they bald like black holes
- A. Bauswein: Inferrring neutron-star properties from the gravitational-wave emission of binary mergers
- A. Manousakis: Relativistic simulations of oscillating slender torus
- K. Gourgouliatos: Magnetic Field Evolution in Neutron Star Crusts through 3-D Simulations
- S. Basilakos (Inv): Geometrodynamics in Cosmology: from Planck to modified gravity
- S. Sanidas: New Constraints of the cosmic string tension from EPTA
- D. Papadopoulos: Frequency spectrum of radiation from accelerated charged particle in a magnetized curved space time
- A. Nathanail: Looking at the black hole that powers Long Gamma Ray Bursts
SESSION 4: Stars, Planets and the Interstellar Medium (Convenors: A. Bonanos and P. Reig)
- A. Zezas (Inv): The link between X-ray binaries and stellar populations in galaxies
- G. Vasilopoulos: BeXRBs in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- S. Williams: Investigating Massive Stars in the Galaxy M83
- N. Britavskiy: Identification of red supergiants in the Local Group with mid-IR photometry
- G. Maravelias: Tracing the disks around B[e] supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds
- A. Manousakis: Stellar wind accretion onto High Mass X-ray Binaries
- N. Nanouris: Twin binaries as a laboratory for testing wind-driven mass loss theories (paper)
- E. Christopoulou: Seeing double or triple with Aristarchos telescope?
- A. Liakos: Poetry in motion: Asteroseismology of delta Scuti stars in binaries using Kepler data (paper)
- P. Boumis: The Manchester-Athens Wide-Field Camera (MAWFC): A new state-of- the-art ~30 degree diameter, narrow-band, optical filter camera (paper)
- M. Kopsacheili: Detection of Supernova Remnants in galaxy NGC 1313 (paper)
- A. Chiotellis: Fast and furious: Modeling the cometary structure of the planetary nebula HFG1
- K. Tassis: Filaments and magnetic fields as probes of the early stages of star formation
- A. Tritsis: Interstellar chemistry as a diagnostic in the quest for the true shape of prestellar cores
- A. Udalski (Inv): OGLE-IV the Largest Sky Variability Survey
- P. Ioannidis: Stellar spots and Transit Timing Variations
- A. Tsiaras: Revealing the atmospheric composition of transiting extra-solar planets with HST/WFC3 spatial scanning
- N. Georgakarakos: Analytic orbit propagation for transiting circumbinary planets
- G. Voyatzis: Orbits of long-term stability in three-planet systems (paper)
- K. Antoniadou: Highly eccentric exoplanets trapped in mean-motion resonances (paper)
- V. Doultsinou: Free-floating planet scattering by a star-planet pair: the 3D case
