2nd HELLENIC COSMOLOGY WORKSHOP

National Observatory of Athens (Penteli Station)  19-20 April 2000

 

 

Thursday 19 April 2001 :

 

09:00-09:10

Welcome

09:10-09:45

Enrique Gaztanaga§ (INAOE-Mexico):  Cosmological Parameters from Large-Scale Structure and Cosmic Microwave Background experiments

 

09:45-10:20

Paul Van der Werf§ (Leiden):  The Evolution of Cosmic Star Formation to z=2.2

 

10:20-10:40     

 

Spiros Basilakos (Imperial College):  Cosmological parameters from the clustering of Active Galactic Nuclei

 

10:40-11:15     

 

Nikolaos Voglis (Athens Academy):  Forming Counter-Rotating Galaxies

 

11.15- 11:35

 

Coffee break

11.35-12:10

Rob Ivinson§ (Royal Obs. Of Edinburgh):  High-z  Galaxies

 

12:10-12:45

Rien van der Weygaert§ (Groningen):  The Cosmic-Matter Distribution. Foamlike Patterns & the Scaling of  Clustering

 

12:45-13:20

Manolis Plionis (NOA):  Evidence for Structure Formation by Anisotropic Merging along Large-Scale Filaments

 

13:20-13:55

Leandros Perivolaropoulos (Democritos NSCR):  Dynamical Effects of the Cosmological Constant

 

13:55-16:00

 

Lunch break – Tour in Penteli station

16:00-16:15

 

16:15-16:35

Thanasis Akylas (NOA-Athens U.): QSO-Cosmology with XMM

 

Ioannis Georgantopoulos (NOA):  The origin of the X-ray Background

 

 

16:35-17:10

Nikos Prantzos (IAP):  On the Nature of the Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

 

17:10-17:30

Peter Papadopoulos (ESA-ESTEC):  Gas in the Early Universe, Fueling the First Starbursts

 

 

 

 

Friday 20 April 2001

 

 

09:15-09:50

 

Emilio Elizalde§ (IEEC):  Casimir Effect Contibution to the Cosmological Constant

 

09:50-10:25   

 

Spiros Cotsakis  (Aegean Univ.):  Great Problems in Mathematical Cosmology

 

10:25-11:00

 

Theodoros Christodoulakis (Athens Univ.):  Conditional Symmetries & Phase Space Reduction towards G.C.T. Invariant Wave functions for Class A Bianchi VI & VII Vacuum Cosmologies

 

11:00-11:30

 

Coffee break

11:30-12:05

Nikolaos Spyrou (Aristotelian Univ.): On the determination of Masses of Galactic Structures

 

12:05-12:35

 

Christos Tsagas (Portsmouth Univ.):  Magnetic Tension and the Geometry of the Universe

 

12:35-12:55

 

Eleftherios Papantonopoulos (Polytechnic School):  The Graceful Exit Problem in Inflation

 

12:55-13:15

 

Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Valenica):  Galactic Magnetic-Fields as a Consequence of Inflation

 

13:15-13:35   

 

Michael Tsamparlis (Athens Univ.):  Space-Time Symmetries of the FRW Universe

 

13:35-13:55   

 

Ioannis Zois (Oxford Univ.):  Topological Entropy, Black Hole Entropy and the Baum-Connes Conjecture in K-Theory

 

13:55-14:15

 

John Miritzis (Aegean Univ.):  Wavemap Inflation

14:15-14:35

 

George Papadopoulos (Athens Univ.):  Conditional Symmetries, The True Degree of Freedom and G.C.T. Invariant Wave Functions for the General Bianchi II Vacuum Cosmology

 

14:35-15:00

 

Summary of Meeting

§ : Guest Speaker