MORNING SESSION

9:00-9:15

COMMENCEMENT

9:15-10:00

Blanchard A
TITLE: Can quantum vacuum be the physical origin of the cosmic acceleration?

10:00-10:45

Kiritsis E
TITLE: New physics from gravity on asymptotically AdS spacetimes

10:45-11:00

COFFEE

11:00-11:35

Berti E
TITLE: Astrophysical tests of general relativity and black hole bombs 

11:35-12:10

Andersson N
TITLE: Resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics

13:00-15:00

AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION A

15:00-15:20

Sarkar S
TITLE: Increase of horizon entropy for black holes in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity

15:20-15:40

Kolekar S
TITLE: Aspects of horizon entropy in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity and action principle for the fluid/gravity correspondence.

15:40-16:00

Cuadros-Melgar B
TITLE: Quasinormal modes and thermodynamical aspects of the 3-dimensional Lifshitz black hole.

16:00-16:20

Maeda H
TITLE: Generalized Misner-Sharp mass and dynamical black holes in Lovelock gravity

16:20-16:40

Yazadjiev S
TITLE: Black hole uniqueness theorems in higher dimensions

16:40-17:00

COFFEE

17:00-17:20

Doneva D
TITLE: Charged black holes in scalar-tensor theories of gravity

17:20-17:40

Skakala J
TITLE:  Black hole asymptotic quasi-normal modes and their conjectured relation to the black hole thermodynamics

17:40-18:00

Stefanov I
TITLE: Thermodynamic phase structure of charged anti-de Sitter scalar-tensor black holes

18:00-18:20

Kraniotis G
TITLE: Gravitational lensing by a Kerr-(anti) de Sitter black hole

18:20-18:40

Gossel G
TITLE: Quantum particles around near-black hole objects: resonant particle capture, spectrum collapse, and the smooth transition to black hole absorption

18:40-19:00

Tsoukalas M
TITLE: Conformally coupled scalar fields in higher dimensions: nontrivial vacua, instantons, and a generalization of the Yamabe problem

19:00-19:20

Avgoustidis A
TITLE: A critical look at effective field theory violations during Inflation    

AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION B

15:00-15:20

Passamonti A
TITLE: The evolution of the f-mode gravitational wave instability and its detection perspectives

15:20-15:40

Glampedakis K
TITLE:  Gravitational waves from color-magnetic 'mountains' in neutron stars

15:40-16:00

Armano M
TITLE: LISA Pathfinder and MOND: towards a real space test

16:00-16:20

Stergioulas N
TITLE: Nonlinear oscillations in mergers of compact object binaries

16:20-16:40

Chatziioannou K
TITLE: Generic tests of gravity theories with gravitational waves from binary inspirals

16:40-17:00

COFFEE

17:00-17:20

Loukes-Gerakopoulos G
TITLE: Mind the resonances

17:20-17:40

Apostolatos T
TITLE: A Newtonian problem as an insightful tool for the behavior of gravitational-wave sources

17:40-18:00

Pappas G
TITLE: Astrophysical applications of analytic spacetimes

18:00-18:20

Sotani H
TITLE: Constraints on the nuclear symmetry energy via asteroseismology

18:20-18:40

Tsagas C
TITLE: Gravito-electromagnetic resonance

18:40-19:00

Dionysopoulou K
TITLE: General relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with Whisky

19:00-19:20

Contopoulos I
TITLE: The Cosmic Battery and the Inner Edge of the Accretion Disk    

MORNING SESSION

9:00-9:45

Kiefer C
TITLE: Can effects of Quantum Gravity be observed in the Cosmic Microwave Background?

9:45-10:30

Dafermos M
TITLE: Construction of dynamical vacuum black hole spacetimes from scattering data

10:30-10:45

COFFEE

10:45-11:20

Zanelli J
TITLE: A new kind of supersymmetry

11:20-11:55

Sola J
TITLE: The cosmological constant and the vacuum energy: old and new ideas

11:55-13:00

Special Lecture
Speaker: Christodoulou D
TITLE: The short pulse method and the formation of trapped surfaces in general relativity

13:00-18:00

LUNCH AND/OR  EXCURSION

18:00-20:00

ASSEMBLY OF GREEK SOCIETY HSRGC

20:30-

DINNER

MORNING SESSION

9:00-9:45

Blanchet L
TITLE: Gravitational radiation from compact binary star systems

9:45-10:30

Shoemaker D
TITLE: Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: The quest to verify Einstein's predictions

10:30-10:45

COFFEE

10:45-11:20

Kleihaus B
TITLE: Black Holes in higher dimensions

11:20-11:55

Fairhurst S
TITLE: Gravitational Wave Astronomy

11:55-12:30

Laguna P
TITLE: Binary black hole mergers in astrophysical environments

13:00-15:00

LUNCH

AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION A

15:00-15:20

Tartaglia A
TITLE: Experimental determination of gravitomagnetic effects by means of ring lasers

15:20-15:40

Ninomiya K
TITLE: Short-range Gravity experiment using digital image analysis

15:40-16:00

16:00-16:20

16:20-16:40

16:40-17:00

COFFEE

17:00-17:20

Aretakis S
TITLE:  Stability and instability of extremal black holes

17:20-17:40

Papakostas T
TITLE: Rotating figures of equlibrium

17:40-18:00

Pliakis D
TITLE: Local existence for Euler-Einstein equations.

18:00-18:20

Civin D
TITLE: Decay for wave equations on exterior Kerr–Newman spacetimes

18:20-18:40

Schlue V
TITLE: Linear waves on expanding space

18:40-19:00

Rathore GS
TITLE: Homogeneous Inflationary String Cosmological Model in Brans-Dicke Theory

AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION B

15:00-15:20

Bezerra de Mello ER
TITLE: Scalar vacuum polarization by cosmic string in constant curvature spacetime

15:20-15:40

Sobreiro R
TITLE: Induced gravity from gauge theories

15:40-16:00

Siopsis G
TITLE: Striped superconductors from AdS black holes

16:00-16:20

Roupas Z
TITLE: Gravothermal Catastrophe with a Cosmological Constant

16:20-16:40

Willison S
TITLE: Isometric embeddings of asymptotically AdS and asymptotically hyperbolic spaces

16:40-17:00

COFFEE

17:00-17:20

Meyer R
TITLE: Parity breaking hydrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions

17:20-17:40

Golovnev A
TITLE: A simple approach to the Hamiltonian analysis of dRGT gravity

17:40-18:00

Vacaru S
TITLE: Decoupling of field equations in Einstein and Modified Gravity

18:00-18:20

Walden P
TITLE: Causal sets dynamics: Progress and outlook

18:20-18:40

Zoupas A
TITLE: Effective equations of motion, decoherence, and backreaction

19:30 PUBLIC TALK
TITLE: "Modern Cosmology: The cosmic history and the fate of the Universe"
SPEAKER:  Spyros Basilakos (RCAAM, Academy of Athens)

MORNING PARALLEL SESSIONS                  

SESSION A

9:00-9:20

Mitsou E
TITLE: Zero-point quantum fluctuations in cosmology

9:20-9:40

Burde G
TITLE: Groups of Coordinate Transformations Between Accelerated Frames Based on the Equivalence Principle

9:40-10:00

Perivolaropoulos L
TITLE: Generalizing LCDM with Inhomogeneous Dark Energy

10:00-10:20

Frusciante N
TITLE: Lagrangian bias in the local bias model

10:20-10:40

Miritzis J
TITLE: Acceleration in Weyl integrable spacetime

10:40-11:00

Astorino M
TITLE: Charging axisymmetric spacetimes with Cosmological Constant

11:00-11:20

COFFEE

11:20-11:40

Dent T
TITLE: Fundamental Physics and Cosmology with the Einstein Gravitational-Wave Telescope

11:40-12:00

Markakis C
TITLE: Iteration stability of the Einstein constraints in the conformal thin-sandwich approach

12:00-12:20

Krueger C
TITLE: Effect of temperature on oscillations in young neutron stars

12:20-12:40

Pouri A
TITLE: Testing General Relativity using the growth rate of structure

SESSION B

9:00-9:20

Chryssomalakos C
TITLE: Operational geometry on de Sitter Spacetime

9:20-9:40

Weinfurtner S
Title: Spacetime from bits: A new framework for 2D discrete GR

9:40-10:00

Vernieri D
TITLE: Horava–Lifshitz gravity: Detailed balance revisited

10:00-10:20

Christodoulakis T
TITLE: Canonical quantization of constrained Lagrangians and conditional (Noether) symmetries

10:20-10:40

Bonder U
TITLE: Quantum Gravity phenomenology without Lorentz invariance violations

10:40-11:00

Nungesser E
TITLE: Future non-linear stability of the Einstein-Vlasov system with Bianchi A symmetry

11:00-11:20

COFFEE

11:20-11:40

Tsamparlis M
TITLE: Geometrization of Lie and Noether symmetries with applications in Cosmology

11:40-12:00

Paliathanasis A
TITLE: Using Noether symmetries to specify f(R) gravity

12:00-12:20

Zampeli A
TITLE: Hawking radiation from chirality and the principle of effective gravity

12:20-12:40

Malekjani M
TITLE: Interacting models of Dark energy and Statefinder diagnosis

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