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Workshop Program

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 Sunday 15 September 2002

19:00-21:00

Welcoming Reception and Registration (Academy Building, East Hall)

 Monday 16 September 2002


08:30-09:00


Registration

 Chair:  N. Voglis

Academy Building, East Hall

09:00-10:00

Welcoming Addresses & Conference Opening

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

University Building,  Ioannis Dracopoulos Hall

10:30-11:20

G. Contopoulos

Order and Chaos in Astronomy

11:20-12:10

D. Lynden-Bell

Chaos and Barred Spiral Galaxies

 12:10-12:20     Short break

 Chair:  A. Fridman

12:20-12:45

Patsis P.A.

Nonlinear Phenomena in Disk Galaxies

12:45-13:30

Bountis T.

Localized Oscillations in Multi Degree of Freedom Hamiltonian Systems

13:30-15:30

Lunch Break

Chair:  E. Athanassoula

15:30-16:20

Lindblad P.O.

Observational Determination of the Gravitational Potential and Velocity Pattern in Strongly Barred Galaxies

16:20-17:10

Fridman A.

Observational Manifestation of Chaos in Grand Design Spiral Galaxies.

17:10-17:35

Polyachenko E.

Quarter-turn Spirals Just Beyond the Principal Arms of Galaxies

17:35-18:00

Coffee Break - Poster Session

Chair: A. Burkert

18:00-18:50

Bosma A.

Dark Matter in Galaxies

18:50-19:40

Grosbol P.

Observing Chaos in Galaxies

19:40-20:05

Griv E.

Nonlinear Theory of Gravity Instabilities and Dynamical Evolution of rapidly rotating, Disk-Shaped Galaxies

20:05-21:00

Poster Session

 

Tuesday 17 September 2002

Chair: P. O. Lindblad

09:00-09:50

Athanassoula E.

Bars as Engines of Galactic Evolution

09:50-10:40

Gerhard O.

Dynamics of the Milky Way Galaxy

10:40-11:05

Maciejewski W.

Chaos or Order in Double Barred Galaxies?

11:05-11:30

Coffee Break - Poster Session

Chair: G. Bertin  

11:30-12:20

Hunter C.

Orbits in Kuzmin-like Potentials

12:20-13:10

Voglis N. 

Waves derived from Galactic Orbits. Solitons and Breathers

13:10-13:35

Khoruzhii O.V.

Nonlinear Collective Phenomena in Astrophysical Disks caused by Density Waves

13:35-15:30

Lunch Break

 

 Chair: O. Gerhard

15:30-16:20

Miller R.

Motions of a Black Hole near the Center of a Galaxy

16:20-17:10

Burkert A.

The Formation of Elliptical Galaxies

17:10-17:35

Nikityuk T.

A Formation of the Halo Stellar Population in Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies

17:35-18:00

Coffee Break – Poster Session

 Chair: H. Dejonghe

18:00-18:50

Kandrup H.

Experimental Tests of Galactic Dynamics

18:50-19:10

Gonzalez-
Hernadez

CHAOSTIN: A Chaotic Dynamics Analyzer

 

 

 

19:10-19:30

Verolme E.

Dynamical Models of Early-Type Galaxies: Constraining Intrinsic Properties by using Integral-Field Data

19:30-19:50

Van De Ven G.

Using the Jeans Equations to study Triaxial Models with Separable Potentials

19:50-21:00

Poster Session

 

Wednesday 18 September 2002

 Chair: C. Hunter

09:00-09:50

Dejonghe H.

Dynamics of Galaxies: From Observations to Distribution Functions

09:50-10:40

Pfenniger D.

Limits of N-body Simulations

10:40-11:05

Efthymiopoulos C.

Spherical Shell Models of the Distribution Function of Collisionless N-Body Systems

11:05-11:30

Coffee Break – Poster Session

 Chair: A. Bosma

11:30-12:20

Jones B.

"Cosmic Structure: The Growth of Order out to Chaos"

12:20-13:10

Weygaert R.

Foamlike Patterns and Gravitational Structure Formation

13:10-13:35

Harsoula M.

Direct vs Merger Mechanism forming Counterrotating Galaxies

13:35-15:30

Lunch Break

 Chair: D. Pfenniger 

15:30-16:00

Hadjidemetriou J.

On the Stability of Extrasolar Planetary Systems: Chaotic and Ordered Motion

16:00-16:25

Skokos Ch.

Detecting Ordered or Chaotic Motion in Hamiltonian Systems by the Smaller Alignment Index (SALI) Method

16:25-16:45

Liverts E.

Nonlinear Response of Supersonic Interstellar Gas Flow to Galactic Spiral Density Waves

16:45-17:05

Coffee Break – Poster Session

 Chair: H. Kandrup

17:05-17:55

Dvorak R.

Chaos in the Solar System Dynamics

17:55-18:25

Varvoglis H.

The "Third" Integral in the restricted Three-Body Problem revisited

Guest Speaker 

18:25-19:05

Papazachos V.

Chaos in Seismology and Earthquake Prediction

Official Dinner

 

Thursday 19 September 2002

Chair: R. Miller

09:00-09:50

Bertin G.

Weak Homology of Elliptical Galaxies

09:50-10:15

Martinez V. J.

Lacunarity in the Galaxy Distribution

10:15-10:35

Del Popolo A.

Mass Function of Dark Matter Haloes

10:35-10:55

Barkov M.

Model of Ejection of Matter from Nonstationary Dense Stellar Clusters and Chaotic Motion of Gravitational Shells

10:55-11:25

Coffee Break – Poster Session

Chair: D. Lynden-Bell

11:25-11:55

Galgani L.

An Analogy between the ''Nonclassical'' Statistical Distributions of Molecular Dynamics and those of Stellar Dynamics

11:55-12:20

El-Zant A.

Bar Survival in Mildly Triaxial Halos

12:20-12:40

Skiadas Ch.

Chaotic Dynamics in Simple Rotation- Reflection Models

Conclusions

12:40-13:30

Contopoulos G.

Workshop Review and Discussion

13:30-15:30

Lunch Break

15:50-16:00

Departure for the Acropolis Tour (bus in front of the Academy’s building)

List of Posters

Dikova S.

Virtual Causality

Docenko D.

Spline Histogram Method for Reconstruction of Galaxy Cluster Probability Distribution Function.

Franco Balderas A.

Photometric Properties of Karachentsev's Mixed Pairs of Galaxies.

Hozumi S.

Pitch Angle of Spiral Galaxies as Viewed from Global Instabilities of Flat Stellar Disks

Iyer M.

ARP 158: A Study of the HI

Kostina M.

Metal Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium at High Redshifts.

Liverts E.

Dynamical Evolution of Galaxies: Supercomputer N-body Simulations.

Mathieu A.

From Kinematics to Dynamics in Stellar Systems

Mouawad N.

Stellar Orbits at the Center of the Milky Way.

Muccione V.

N-body Simulations of Elliptical Galaxies interacting with the Cluster Tidal Field: Origin of the Intracluster Stellar Population.

O'Brien J.

(to be announced)

Rassia E.

Deep Wide Search for Emission Line Galaxies at the MPG/ESO 2.2m Telescope.

Tarakanov P.

Abnormal Fractal Diffusion in Interstellar Medium of Galaxy.

Terzic B.

Building Self-Consistent Triaxial Galaxy Models using Schwarzschild's Method.

Voglis N., Kalapotharakos C.

Level of Chaos in N-body Models of Elliptical Galaxies

Voyatzis G.

A Low Frequency Spectral Indicator and Classification of Trajectories in Hamiltonian Systems.

 
 

 

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