Conference Program

The Program of the Conference is available as a PDF file.

The Book of Abstracts of the Conference is available as a PDF file.

Invited Plenary Speakers:

• Session 1: Heliophysics and the Solar System
  Dr. S. Antiochos, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
  The Origins of Explosive Activity in the Coronae of the Sun and Stars
  
• Session 2: Extragalactic Astronomy and Astrophysics
  Dr. E. Athanassoula, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM Laboratoire d' Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France
  Formation and evolution of galactic discs: starting with a major merger
  
• Session 3: Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics
  Prof. N. Stergioulas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  Spectral classification of gravitational wave emission and EOS constraints in binary neutron star mergers
  
• Session 4: Stars, Planets and the Interstellar Medium
  Prof. G. Gilmore, University Of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy, UK
  GAIA – from asteroids to gravitational waves

Opening Public Outreach Talk (in Greek):

Humanity's perspectives in space
by Dr. Nikos Prantzos
8 July, 20:30 Central University Building, Philellinon & Argonafton, Volos

IAU100 Public Talks (in Greek):

• The 50th anniversary of humans landing on the Moon
  Thanassis Economou
  9 July, 20:30 Central University Building, Philellinon & Argonafton, Volos
  
• Solar flares – fireworks on the Sun
  Kostis Gontikakis
  10 July, 19:00 Conference Venue
  
• Spirals in galaxies
  Panos Patsis
  11 July, 20:30 Conference Venue