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Tuesday 15 May 2012

Kostas Tziotziou
Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics of the Academy of Athens


A new way of inferring magnetic energy and helicity in solar active regions

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In Press...

A generalized growth index parametrization: Applications to the LamdaCDM using the WiggleZ growth data
Basilakos, S.

Order in de Broglie - Bohm Quantum Mechanics
Contopoulos, G., Delis, N., and Efthymiopoulos, C.

(To appear in J. Phys. A.: Math. Theor. pp 1-23)

On Our Ability to Predict Major Solar Flares
Georgoulis, M.K.

(To appear in Astroph. Space Sci. Proc. V. N. Obridko, K. Georgieva, Yu. A. Nagovitsyn, Eds.)

A Consistent Comparison of Bias Models using Observational Data
A. Papageorgiou, M. Plionis, S. Basilakos, C. Ragone-Figueroa

To appear in MNRAS

Instabilities and stickiness in a 3D rotating galactic potential
M. Katsanikas, P.A. Patsis and G. Contopoulos

(to appear in IJBC)

Quantum Vortices and Trajectories in Particle Diffraction
N. Delis, C. Efthymiopoulos and G. Contopoulos

(to appear in an IJBC Special Issue edited by G. Nicolis, M. Robnik, V. Rothos and H. Skokos)

Dynamics and Constraints of the Massive Gravitons Dark Matter Flat Cosmologies
Basilakos, S., Plionis, M., Alves, M. E. S. and Lima, J. A. S.

Using the Noether symmetry approach to probe the nature of dark energy
Basilakos, S., Tsamparlis, M. and Paliathanasis, A.

Hubble expansion and structure formation in the "running FLRW model" of the cosmic evolution
Grande J., Sola, J., Basilakos S. and Plionis M.

Orbits in a non-Kerr Dynamical System
Contopoulos G., Lukes-Gerakopoulos G. and Apostolatos T.A.
(to appear in IJBC Special Issue edited by G. Nicolis, M. Robnik, V. Rothos and H. Skokos)

Structures out of Chaos in barred-spiral galaxies
Patsis P. A.
(Review paper to be published in IJBC)

Dynamical Mechanisms supporting Barred-Spiral Structures
Patsis P. A.
(AApTr 2012, 27, 113)

Chains of rotational tori and filamentary structures close to high multiplicity periodic orbits in a 3D galactic potential
Katsanikas, M., Patsis P. A. and Pinotsis A.
(IJBC, in press)

The structure and evolution of confined tori near a Hamiltonian Hopf Bifurcation
Katsanikas, M., Patsis P. A. and Contopoulos G.
(IJBC, in press)

The Generalized Uncertainty Principle and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
Farag Ali, A., Das, S., Vagenas, E.C.

(Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity - World Scientific - in press)


News & Announcements

 

Personnel

 

  Supervisor  
Academician
Prof. George Contopoulos www
Tel. (+30) 210 6597601
Email: gcontop@academyofathens.gr
 

 

  Acting Director Research on
Patsis Panos A. Patsis www
Research Director
Tel. (+30) 210 6597169
Email: patsis@academyofathens.gr

Galactic Dynamics, Galactic Morphology, SPH-Hydrodynamics, Near Infrared Observations of Disk Galaxies, Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos

 

  Researchers Research on
Efthymiopoulos

Christos Efthymiopoulos
Research Director
Tel. (+30) 210 6597513
Email: cefthim@academyofathens.gr

Hamiltonian perturbation theory, Analytical & numerical methods in nonlinear dynamical systems, Galactic Dynamics - Celestial Mechanics, Dynamical systems in quantum mechanics and field theory, Systems of many degrees of freedom.

I. Contopoulos Ioannis Contopoulos
Senior Researcher
Tel. (+30) 210 6597167
Email: icontop@academyofathens.gr
Magnetohydrodynamics
Spyros Basilakos
Senior Researcher
Tel. (+30) 210 6597248
Email: svasil@academyofathens.gr

Nature of Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe
Geometry and topology of the distribution of matter in the Universe.
Cosmological tests of General Relativity.
Classical and quantum cosmology of scalar fields.

C. Gontikakis Constantinos Gontikakis
Senior Researcher
Tel. (+30) 210 6597246
Email: cgontik@academyofathens.gr
Solar Physics, Particles Acceleration, Solar Flares, Spectroscopy
Elias Vagenas Elias Vagenas www
Associate Researcher
Tel. (+30) 210 6597646
Email: evagenas@academyofathens.gr
General Relativity, Black Hole Physics, Cosmology, Quantum Gravity
M. Georgoulis

Manolis Georgoulis www
Associate Researcher
Tel. (+30) 210 6597103
Email: manolis.georgoulis@academyofathens.gr

Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Self Organization Space Weather
M. Harsoula

Mirella Harsoula
Researcher
Tel. (+30) 210 6597512
Email: mharsoul@academyofathens.gr

Galactic Dynamics, Hamiltonian Dynamics, Nonlinear Phenomena
     

 

  Research Associates Research on
C. Kalapotharakos Constantinos Kalapotharakos
Tel. (+30) 210 6597145
Email: ckalapot@phys.uoa.gr
Galactic Dynamics, Chaos

 
Post-doctoral Fellows
Research on
Sofia Carvalho Cosmology
(Collaborating with S. Basilakos)
George Lukes-Gerakopoulos
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email: gglukes@gmail.com

Chaos in Classical Mechanics and in General Theory of Relativity

Succesfully presented his thesis on 23 Jun 2010.

I. Stavropoulos Ioannis Stavropoulos
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email: istavrop@phys.uoa.gr

Chaos in N-body Galactic Models

Succesfully presented his thesis on 10 Dec 2010.

P. Tsoutsis Panagiotis Tsoutsis
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email: ptsoutsi@phys.uoa.gr

Orbits and Waves Investigation of Gravitational Systems

Succesfully presented his thesis on 2 Nov 2010.

     

  Scientific Collaborators Research on
V. Tritakis Vassilis Tritakis
Research Director Emeritus
Former Acting Director
Tel. (+30) 210 6597507
Email: vas@academyofathens.gr
Sun Earth Connection
E. Dara

Eleni Dara
Research Director Emeritus
Former Director
Tel. (+30) 210 65975139
Email: edara@academyofathens.gr

Solar Physics
Th. Zachariadis Theodosis Zachariadis
Research Director Emeritus
Tel. (+30) 210 6597143
Email: tzachar@academyofathens.gr
Solar Physics
     
     

 

  Administration & Technical Working on
G. Aggelopoulou Georgia Aggelopoulou
Tel. (+30) 210 6597648
Email: gaggelop@academyofathens.gr
Administration
M. Zoulias Manolis Zoulias
Tel. (+30) 210 6597511
Email: mzoulias@academyofathens.gr

IT, Networking, Web Development, Public Outreach

 

 

  PhD Students Research on
N. Delis Nikos Delis
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email: ndelis@

Stochasticity in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

M. Katsanikas

Matthew Katsanikas
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email: mkatsan@academyofathens.gr

The structure of Phase Space in Hamiltonian systems of 3 degrees of freedom
 Athina Pouri
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email:
Measurement of the Expansion Rate of the Universe by means of Extragalactic High Energy Sources
L. Tsigaridi Liana Tsigaridi
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email: liana@academyofathens.gr
Nonlinear Phenomena in Response Models of Galactic Disks
     

 

 
MSc Students
Research on
Sotiris Chatzopoulos
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email: mrsotiris2000@yahoo.gr
Automatic Classification of Orbits
Ioanna Patsou
Tel. (+30) 210 6597147
Email:

Eruptive Activity and Heating of Solar Active Regions

 
 

 

 

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