Program

Here follows the conference program. It is being updated progressively.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Special sessions: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford University, UK) - Richard Porcas (MPIfR, DE)   

Joanna Rankin (University of Vermont, USA) - Evan Keane (Swinburne University, AU) - Tom Marsh (University of Warwick, UK) - Jay Pasachoff (Williams College,

USA) - Paulo Freire (MPIfR, DE) - Michael Kramer (MPIfR, DE) - Vik Dhillon (University of Sheffield, UK) - Simon Johnston (CSIRO, ATNF, AU) - Aris

Karastergiou (University of Oxford, UK)  -  Markus Böttcher (North-West University, SA)  - David Thompson (NASA, USA) - Andreas Eckart (University of Cologne)

1. - Shep Doeleman (MIT, Haystack Observatory, USA) - Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia University, USA) - Petar Mimica (University of Valencia) - Ralph Spencer 
   

2. -(University of Manchester) - Paolo Padovani (ESO) - Kostas Kokkotas - (University of Tuebingen)
   

Note Download the Abstract book here: Abstracts.pdf

Monday June 16 : Chairing: J. Anotniadis (pre-lunch break session) & P. Freire (post-lunch break session) 

08:00 - 08:45: Registration

08:45 - 09:00: Mtr Eugene Salutation

09:00 - 09:40: Pulsar Timing Arrays | STINEBRING, Dan (on behalf of MCLAUGHLIN, Maura)

09:40 - 10:00: Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsars: Taming the Interstellar Medium | STINEBRING, Dan

10:00 - 10:20: Single pulse statistical analysis of magnetar AXP 1809-194 | XYLAKI, Theodora

10:20 - 10:40: Recent Highlights from the Pulsar Working Group of LOFAR | NOUTSOS, Aristeidis

10:40 - 11:10: Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:50: The Centrality of Pulsar Core Radiation | RANKIN, Joanna

11:50 - 12:10: Pulsar broadening measurements at low frequencies with LOFAR | ZAGKOURIS, Kimon

12:10 - 12:30: Search for thermal X-ray radiation from hot polar cap in pulsars | GIL, Janusz

12:30 - 12:50:The Highest Time Resolution Measurements in Radioastro-nomy: Crab Pulsar Giant Pulses | HANKINS, Tim

12:50 - 14:30: Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:10: White Dwarfs in Binary Systems | MARSH, Thomas

15:10 - 15:30: Broad-band variability properties of cataclysmic variables and their connections to XRBs/AGN | SCARINGI, Simone

15:30 - 15:50: The MeV Properties of the Gamma-Ray Binary LS 5039 | COLLMAR, Werner

15:50 - 16:10: A catalogue of Galactic black holes in X-ray binaries | CORRAL-SANTANA, Jesus M.

16:10 - 16:40: Black Hole Magnetospheres and The orthogonal GRB model | NATHANAIL, Antonios

16:40 - 17:00: Coffee Break

17:00 - 17:40: 40 Years of Microquasars | SPENCER, Ralph

17:40 - 18:00: Systematic search for GRB precursors in Fermi, Swift and BATSE GRB catalogs | CHARISI, Maria

18:00 - 18:20: Fast variability, hysteresis and accretion states in neutron star X-ray binaries | MUñOZ-DARIAS, Teo

18:20 - 18:40: A pulsar wind nebula associated with PSR J2032+4127 as the powering source of TeV J2032+4130 | MOLDON, Javier

19:30 - 22:00: Venue Inauguration and Concert: There will be traditional Minor Asia songs from the church choir followed by a public talk by Prof. J. H. Seiradakis on the "Antikythera Mechanism" in Greek! - watch the video >>>here<<<

Tuesday June 17  Chairing: J. H. Seiradakis (pre-lunch break session) & T. Marsh (post-lunch break session) 

09:00 - 09:40: Syzygies: Solar Eclipses, Transits of Venus and Mercury, and Occultations by Pluto | PASACHOFF, Jay

                        Transits, Occultations, and Eclipses

                        Observing Total Solar Eclipses

                        Other transits

09:40 - 10:00: Data Mining the Optically Variable Sky since 1950 | MADSEN, Greg

10:00 - 10:20: Radio observations of Flare stars: past present and future  | DAVIS, Richard

10:20 - 10:40: Broad Strokes Across Time Domain Astronomy | BELANGER, Guillaume

10:40 - 11:10: Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:50: Fast Radio Bursts and other transient signals | JOHNSTON, Simon

11:50 - 12:10: Choose your own adventure! - Fast radio bursts | RAVI, Vikram

12:10 - 12:30: A Galactic origin for the fast radio burst FRB010621 | MADSEN, Greg

12:30 - 12:50: Exploring Free Floating Planets with Microlensing | FRAGKOU, Vasiliki

12:50 - 14:30: Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:10: High-speed optical astrophysics | DHILLON, Vik

15:10 - 15:30: Aqueye Plus: a very fast single photon counter for astronomical photometry equipped with an Optical Vortex coronagraph | BARBIERI, Cesare

15:30 - 15:50: Examining the third body hypothesis in the eclipsing binary AV CMi  | KARPOUZAS, Konstantinos et al.

15:50 - 16:10: The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (2.0) | MIGNANI, Roberto

16:10 - 16:40: Coffee Break

16:40 - 17:20: BEACON - Motivation, status and new technical developments | FREIRE, Paulo

17:20 - 17:40: SUPERB: A real-time multi-telescope pulsar and fast transient survey | BARR, Ewan

17:40 - 18:20: Real-time discovery of pulsars and fast transients | KARASTERGIOU, Aris

Wednesday June 18

09:00 - 12:00: Excursion to Gournia Minoan Site

The archaeological site of Gournia sits on the north coast of the Isthmus of Ierapetra in East Crete. Possessing some 50 well-preserved houses, a system of cobbled

streets, a central court, a Minoan palace, and cemetery, Gournia gives the visitor the best picture of what a Late Bronze Age (1500 B.C.) town looked like. Gournia was

a regional production center of bronze tools and weapons, domestic objects, and pottery and stone vases, an active trade emporium with overseas connections to

other parts of the Aegean and the Near East, and the palatial administrative center for the Mirabello region. Its harbor complex consists of a monumental shipshed,

fortification walls with towers, a riverside dam, and a cobbled street running from the coast to Town.

12:00 - 14:00: Lunch Break

Posters Session

14:00 - 14:10: Application of PCA to light curves of three optical pulsars | BARBIERI, Cesare

14:10 - 14:20: On detecting transient phenomena | BELANGER, Guillaume

14:20 - 14:30: 5.5 Years of Fermi LAT Flare Advocate Monitoring and Counting | CIPRINI Stefano

14:30 - 14:40: The Cosmic battery and astrophysical Magnetic Discks | KATSANIKAS, Mattheos

14:40 - 14:50: Natal Supernova "Kicks" are Parallel to Pulsar Rotation Axes | RANKIN, Joanna

14:50 - 15:00: Core/Double Cone Emission Beam Geometry in MSP J0337+1715 | RANKIN, Joanna

15:00 - 15:10: Faint images of pulsars from strong plasma lenses | ZAGOURIS, Kimonas

15:10 - 15:20: Current Status of the Millimetron space mission | MALOFEEV, Valery

Coffee Break

15:10 - 15:20: J. H. Seiradakis’ career | M. Kramer

15:20 - 16:00: The early John Seiradakis   | Richard Porcas

16:00 - 16:10: John Seiradakis  | Ralph Spencer

16:10 - 16:20: 2 out of a 10^6 stories| Richard Davis

16:20 - 17:00: Through the students’ eyes | E. Angelakis

17:00 - 18:00: The Antikytheira Mechanism  watch the video >>>here<<< | J. H. Seiradakis

Thursday June 19: Chairing: E. Angelakis (pre-lunch break session) & R. Porcas (post-lunch break session) 

09:00 - 09:40: Model Constraints from Multiwavelength Variability of Blazars | BOTTCHER, Markus

09:40 - 10:00: Time dependent modeling of AGN emission from inhomogeneous jets with particle diffusion and localized acceleration | CHEN, Xuhui

10:00 - 10:20: Multi-frequency linear and circular radio polarization monitoring of jet emission elements in Fermi blazars | MYSERLIS, Ioannis

10:20 - 10:40: The RoboPol project: Rotations of polarization plane in optical emission of blazars | BLINOV, Dmitry

10:40 - 11:10: Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:50: Selected topics in relativistic jet simulations | MIMICA, Petar

11:50 - 12:10: Jets from small-scale magnetic fields and the implications for the blazar emission | DIMITRIOS, Giannios

12:10 - 12:30: The role of time-dependent injection in blazar flares note also the SED animation | ZACHARIAS, Michael

12:30 - 12:50: NGC 1194: warped disk or a double black hole candidate? | FEDOROVA, Elena

12:50 - 14:30: Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:10: New Opportunities for Time Domain Astronomy with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope | THOMPSON, David

15:10 - 15:30: UNDERSTANDING POWERFUL JETS AT DIFFERENT SCALES IN THE FERMI ERA | GEORGANOPOULOS, Markos

15:30 - 15:50Long-term monitoring of Bright TeV Blazars with FACT | DORNER, Daniela

15:50 - 16:10: Gamma-ray Variability of Fermi LAT Detected AGN | CIPRINI, Stefano

16:10 - 16:40: Coffee Break

16:40 - 17:20: Active Galactic Nuclei evolution | PADOVANI, Paolo

17:20 - 17:40: The Impact of Galaxy Clusters on the AGN Activity | TREMOU, Evangelia

17:40 - 18:00: Ultra-high resolution VLBI and broadband radio study of the prominent gamma-ray blazar PKS 1502+106 | KARAMANAVIS, Vassilis

19:30 - 22:00: Reflections on the Discovery of pulsars - here | Evening Talk by Jocelyn Bell

Friday June 20 - Chairing: M. Kramer (pre-lunch break session) & A. Karastergiou (post-lunch break session) 

09:00 - 09:40: The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging and Time Resolving Black Holes | DOELEMAN, Shep

09:40 - 10:20: The Galactic Center Black Hole and its Environment | ECKART, Andreas

10:20 - 10:40: The interaction between Super Massive Black Holes and Globular Clusters: a possible explanation to the lack of high mass Nuclear Star Clusters | ARCA SEDDA, Manuel

10:40 - 11:10: Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:50: Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves | KOKKOTAS, Kostas

11:50 - 12:10: Influence of the magnetic field on the spectral properties of blazars in the internal shocks scenario | Jesus M. Rueda-Becerril

11:50 - 12:10:  CANCELLED: A stringent limit on the spatial and temporal variations in the fine-structure constant from analysis of emission line multiplets in the early universe | LE, Duc Thong - cancelled

12:10 - 12:30: Kerr black holes with scalar hair | HERDEIRO, Carlos - cancelled

12:30 - 12:50: Anisotropic fluid from nonlocal tidal effects | CULETU, Hristu - cancelled

12:50 - 14:30: Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:10: Different manifestations of neutron stars | KEANE, Evan

15:10 - 15:30: Giant component or the burst activity of pulsar PSR J0653+8051 | MALOFEEV, Valery

15:30 - 15:50: New look at the pulsar radio spectra | KIJAK, Jarek

15:50 - 16:10: Closing Remarks | Kramer, Michael

16:30 - 17:30: Closing Concert : Program - watch the video here | VOULGARIS, Aristeidis

19:30 - 22:00: Raki Night!

World Cup Games of the Day:

We should not forget that the conference much coincides with the world cup 2014. Here you get the daily match schedules and here its PDF version. Below are the games of the day for the conference week.