INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS PROGRAM

13 SEPTEMBER 2007, THURSDAY
9:30- 10:15 Prof. Tom Ray, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, invited review on "Observations of star formation"
16:00- 16:45 Dr Jason Spyromilios, Head of the EELT project office at ESO, invited review on "ESO and the European Extremely Large Telescope"

14 SEPTEMBER 2007, FRIDAY
9:00-9:45 Priv.-Doz. Ewald Mueller, MPI, Germany, invited review on "Core Collapse Supernovae and their Gravitational Wave Signal"
17:00-17:45 Prof. Wolfgang Baumjohann, Space Res. Inst., Austrian Academy of Sciences, invited review on "The Earth's Magnetosphere: An Astrophysical Plasma Laboratory"

15 SEPTEMBER 2007, SATURDAY
9:00-9:45 Prof. Ofer Lahav, Head of Astrophysics Dept., UCL-London, invited review on "Surveys on Dark Energy: Challenges and Prospects"
9:45-10:15 Prof. V. Tritakis, Head of Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Academy of Athens, invited review on "To the memory of Nikolaos Voglis. 1948-2007"