19:30-20:30 

Welcoming Reception at the Fodele Beach Hotel

8:30-9:30

Registration of Participants

9:30-9:40

Official Opening of the 5^th Hellenic Astronomical Conference 

10:00 - 10:30

Z. Knezevic (Main Session Speaker)
Chaos in the motion of asteroids

10:30 – 10:45

C. Siopis, H. E. Kandrup
Self-consistent models of triaxial galaxies with a central density cusp

10:45 – 11:00

C. Skokos
Alignment indices: A new method for determining the order or chaotic nature of orbits 

11:00-  11:30

Coffee Break – Poster Viewing

11:30-12:15

S. Antiochos (Main Session Speaker)
The Magnetic Origins of Coronal Mass Ejections

12:15-13:00

D. Vassiliadis (Invited Speaker)
Solar wind-magnetosphere interaction: energy transfer pathways and their predictability

13:00-13:15

X. Moussas
The ARTEMIS IV radio spectrograph: The 4th of July 2000 large solar events

13:15-13:30 

A. Anastasiadis
The study of solar flares with the extended cellular automaton (X-CA) model

16:00-16:15

G. Tsiropoula
Multi-wavelength analysis of a solar active region loop system with SOHO, TRACE and ground-based telescopes

16:15-16:30

G. Petrie
Systematic Construction of Exact Magnetohydrodynamic Models for Solar Coronal Structures and an Application to Modelling a Coronal Loop

16:45-17:15

M. Blanc (Main Session Speaker)
Exploring Saturn's Magnetosphere with Cassini-Huygens

17:15-17:45

N. Krupp (Main Session Speaker) cancelled
Combined energetic particle measurements onboard Galileo and Cassini in the vicinity of Jupiter during the period between October 2000 and March 2001.

17:45-18:15

Coffee Break – Poster Viewing

18:15-18:30

G. Anagnostopoulos
Large scale energetic particle layers in the high altitude Jovian magnetosphere 

18:30-18:45

I. Doxas
Using branch prediction and speculative execution to predict space weather using a cluster of inexpensive PCs

18:45-18:50

P. Marhavilas
Periodic signals in Ulysses' energetic particle events upstream and downstream from the Jovian bow shock

18:50-18:55

O. Malandraki, E. Sarris
Tracing the topology of coronal mass ejection events with by means of Ulysses /HI-SCALE and ACE/EPAM > 38 keV electron observations at high and low heliolatitudes

18:55-19:00

F.-A. Metallinou
Study of the relation between storms and substorms in the terrestrial magnetosphere

19:00-19:30

E. Xilouris
Opacity of spiral galaxies

19:30-20:00

S. Basilakos 
CDM models with negative pressure

8:30 –9:15

9:15- 9:30

V. Geroyannis 
The turn-over scenario for white dwarfs and neutron stars 

9:30- 9:45

S. Kitsionas, A.P. Whitworth 
High resolution simulations of clump-clump collisions using SPH with Particle Splitting 

9:45-10.00

A.Kakouris, X. Moussas   
Steady shell description in stellar atmospheres with the use of analytical 2-D calculations

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break – Poster Viewing

10:30-11:00

R. Rebolo (Main Session Speaker)
Brown Dwarfs and isolated planetary-mass objects

11:00-11:15

E. Lyratzi , Danezis E., Nikolaides D., Theodossiou E.,  Stathopoulou M.,  Drakopoulos C., Bourma P.  
Application of a new model of density shells of matter to the expanding gaseous envelope of the star HD 45910 (AX Monocerotis)

11:15-11:30

I.Tsamis  
Heavy element abundances in ionized nebulae

11:30-11:45

K. Gazeas , Manimanis V., Niarchos P. 
A new CCD photometric study of the δ Scuti star V1162 Orionis

11:45-12:00

V. Manimanis, Gazeas K., Niarchos P. 
The first photometric study of the near contact system GW Tauri 

12:00-12:15

L. Hric, K. Petrik, P. Niarchos
YY Her – Secondary Eclipses in the System Revealed

12:15-12:45

R. Tuffs  (Main Session Speaker)   
Modelling the spectral energy distribution of galaxies

12:45-13:00

E. Chatzichristou 
AGN identification and photometric redshifts with SIRTF

13:00-13:15

S. Maurogordato
Multi-wavelength analysis of merging clusters of galaxies

13:15-13:30

P. Patsis
Vertical structure in models of spiral and barred galaxies

16:00-16:45

C. Kouveliotou  (Invited Speaker)  
Soft Gamma Repeaters – Magnetars

16:45-17:15

17:15-17:30

P. Reig 
Orbital Comptonization in accretion disks around black holes

17:30-17:45

N. Vlahakis  Cancelled 
Magnetohydrodynamics of Gamma-Ray Burst Outflow

17:45-18:00

I.Georgantopoulos
Chandra observations of faint extragalactic X-ray populations

18:00-18:30

Coffee Break – Poster Viewing

 18:30-19:15

19:15-19:40

Χ. Tsangas (Main Session Speaker)
Magnetic tension and the geometry of the Universe

19:40-19:52

K.D. Kokkotas (cancelled)
Instabilities of Rotating Relativistic Stars

19:52-20:04

N. Stergioulas, J. A. Font
3-D Numerical Simulations of Rotating and Pulsating Relativistic Stars

20:04-20:16

J. Ruoff, K. Kokkotas
The r-mode spectrum of relativistic neutron stars 

20:16-20:28

V. Kolokotronis, S. Basilakos, M. Plionis 
Cosmological Implications from Supercluster Shape Statistics.

8:30 –9:00

R. Wielebinski (Main Session Speaker)
The Radio Sky

9:00-9:30

R. Schilizzi (Main Session Speaker)
VLBI, the sharpest view of the Universe

9:30-9:45

K. Xilouris (cancelled)
New pulsars found during the ScSI/NAIC drift scan search

10:00-10:15 

P. Boumis, A. Steiakaki, F. Mavromatakis, G. Paterakis, I. Papamastorakis
Seeing Measurements at Skinakas Observatory using the DIMM method

10:15-10:25

N. Solomos, G. Fanourakis, I. Hatzilau
Approaching the Quantum Limit?: first steps and strategies  for developing the 'Chronofasmatometer'

10:25-10:30

Y. Romanyuk, O.A. Svyatogorov, I.A. Verlyuk , B.E. Zhilyaev
The synchronous network of optical telescopes as the Super Large Telescope

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break – Poster Viewing

11:00-11:45

A. Renzini (Invited Speaker)
Science with the VLT

11:45-12:00

M. Kafatos (Main Session Speaker)
Interdisciplinary Educational Opportunities in Astronomy

12:00-12:15

N. Solomos
Advent and Future of the ‘EUDOXOS’ Observatories Complex: Operating the National Robotic Observatory of the Education and Research Center for Astrophysics

12:15-12:30

M. Metaxa
Activities connected with Light Pollution: an Introduction to Astronomy

12:30-12:45

E. Theodossiou, E. Danezis, B. Manimanis
Μοσχοφόρος, Κριοφόρος, Ιχθύς

12:45-13:00

A.D. Pinotsis
Comparison of Earth size measuring methods in the ancient Greek world

13:00-13:15

Closing Remarks

13:45-15:00

Lunch

(Optional) Visit to Knossos and the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion  (Subscriptions during registration at the hotel)

(At the end of the visit participants can be dropped either at the port or at the airport)

(Optional) Transportation to Heraklion port and airport for participants that will not subscribe for the visit to Knossos and the Museum (Subscriptions during registration at the hotel)