Seventh Aegean Summer School: Beyond Einstein's Theory of Gravity

MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER

	CODE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF LECTURE
8:45-9:00	WELCOME
9:00-10:00	MOG1	C. Charmousis	High Curvature Gravity Theories
10:00-11:00	MOG2	C. Deffayet	Introduction to the Horndeski and the Galileon Theories
11:00-11:30	COFFEE
11:30-12:30	MOG3	T. Sotiriou	Gravity and Scalar Fields
12:30-13:30	MAG1	E. Babichev	Introduction to the Vainshtein Mechanism
13:30-14:30	LUNCH
16:00-16:30	S1	A. Vikman	Galilean Genesis and UV completion
16:30-17:00	S2	Ε. Saridakis	Introduction to torsional, teleparallel and f (T) gravity, and their cosmological applications
17:00-17:30	S3	E. Abdalla	Modeling dark energy and dark matter
17:30-18:00	S4	M. Sami	Dark energy and beyond
18:00-18:15	COFFEE
18:15-18:30	S5	A. Toporensky	Cosmology of a scalar field with non-minimal kinetic coupling
18:30-18:45	S6	K. Ntrekis	Gravitational particle production in gravity theories with non-minimal derivative couplings
18:45-19:00	S7	R. Rangdee	Aspects of non-minimal derivative coupling
19:00-19:15	S8	N. Frusciante	Gradient expansion of superhorizon perturbations in G-inflation
19:15-19:30	S9	J. Ovalle	Astrophysical solutions in Randall-Sundrum gravity
20:00	WELCOME RECEPTION

TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER

	CODE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF LECTURE
9:00-10:00	MOG4	C. Charmousis	Horndeski Theory and Cosmological Constant
10:00-11:00	MOG5	S. Tsujikawa	Cosmological Perturbations in the Most General Scalar-Tensor Theories
11:00-11:30	COFFEE
11:30-12:30	MAG2	C. de Rham	Introduction to Massive Gravity
12:30-13:30	MAG3	P. Townsend	New Massive Gravity
13:30-14:30	LUNCH
16:00-16:30	S10	X. Bekaert	Higher-order singletons and partially massless fields
16:30-17:00	S11	B. Wang	The Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and its application in understanding the interaction between DE and DM
17:00-17:30	S12	N. Tetradis	Quantum Corrections in Galileon Theories
17:30-18:00	S13	D. Guariento	Black holes in an expanding universe: the McVittie solution
18:00-18:15	COFFEE
18:15-18:30	S14	G. Kofinas	Alternative Matching Conditions for Gravitating Defects
18:30-18:45	S15	M. Tsoukalas	Higher dimensional conformally invariant theories
18:45-19:00	S16	M. Fontanini	Imperfect fluids and the generalized McVittie solution for cosmological dynamic Black Holes
19:00-19:15	S17	L. Garcia de Andrade	Cosmic magnetic fields amplification from torsion
19:15-19:30	S18	A. Shatskiy	Non-singular Brans-Dicke-Lambda cosmology
19:30-19:45	S19	E. Rojas	Born-Infeld extension of Lovelock brane gravity
19:45-20:00	S20	H. Culetu	On the conformally flat Rindler-like geometry

WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

	CODE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF LECTURE
8:30-9:30	MAG2	C. de Rham	Introduction to Massive Gravity
09:30-10:30	MAG3	P. Townsend	New Massive Gravity
10:30-11:00	COFFEE
11:00-12:00	MAG4	A. Tolley	Cosmological Applications of Massive Gravity
12:00-13:00	MAG5	M. Volkov	Black Hole Solutions in Massive Gravity
13:00-14:00	HSG1	M. Vasiliev	Higher Spin Theories
EXCURSION IN PAROS ISLAND

THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER

	CODE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF LECTURE
9:00-10:00	MAG6	E. Bergshoeff	Topologically Massive Gravity
10:00-11:00	HSG1	M. Vasiliev	Higher Spin Theories
11:00-11:30	COFFEE
11:30-12:30	CSG1	J. Zanelli	Introduction to Chern-Simons Theories
12:30-13:30	SCG1	D. Vaman	Beyond Supergravity in AdS/CFT
13:30-14:30	LUNCH
16:00-16:30	S21	E. Babichev	Instability of black holes in massive gravity
16:30-17:00	S22	P. Spindel	Solutions of massive gravity theories in constant scalar invariant geometries
17:00-17:30	S23	G. Calcagni	Cosmology of multiscale spacetimes
17:30-18:00	S24	G. Olmo	Geons in quadratic Palatini gravity
18:00-18:15	COFFEE
18:15-18:30	S25	T. Zojer	Three-dimensional, critical, gravity logs
18:30-18:45	S26	M. Crisostomi	Phenomenology in dRGT massive bi-gravity
18:45-19:00	S27	V. Robles	Dark matter halos in scalar field dark matter model
19:00-19:15	S28	B. Cuadros-Melgar	Aspects of holographic t hermalization
19:15-19:30	S29	O. Hosseiky Malaeb	Supersymmetrizing Massive Gravity
19:30-19:45	S30	J. Matulich	Asymptotically flat spacetimes for higher spin gravity in 3D
19:45-20:00	S31	J. Scargill	Interacting spin-2 fields and the Stueckelberg trick
21:00	BANQUET

FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER

	CODE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF LECTURE
9:00-10:00	CSG1	J. Zanelli	Introduction to Chern-Simons Theories
10:00-11:00	SCG1	D. Vaman	Beyond Supergravity in AdS/CFT
11:00-11:30	COFFEE
11:30-12:30	MAG7	M. Petropoulos	Holographic Perfect Fluidity, TMG and Gravitational Duality
12:30-13:30	HSG2	R. Troncoso	Higher Spin Black Holes
13:30-14:30	LUNCH
16:00-16:30	S32	N. Mavromatos	Neutrinos and matter-antimatter asymmetries in string universes with torsion
16:30-17:00	S33	L . Modesto	Finite quantum gravity
17:00-17:15	S34	Y. Gong	On the degeneracy between w0 and wa
17:15-17:30	S35	M. Hadad	Canonical conjugate to Wald entropy and its implications
17:30-17:45	S36	D. Vernieri	Gravity with auxiliary fields
17:45-18:00	S37	M. Cruz	Lovelock brane cosmology
18:00-18:15	S38	R. Kase	Screening the fifth force in Horndeski's most general scalar-tensor theory
18:15-18:30	COFFEE
18:30-18:45	S39	M. Kuznetsov	On Lorenz violation in superluminal theories
18:45-19:00	S40	K. Morand	Embedding non-relativistic physics inside a gravitational wave
19:00-19:15	S41	M. Ivanov	The duo of inflation: khronon and ghost condensate
19:15-19:30	S42	W. Merbis	Holography with two dreibeine
19:30-19:45	S43	J. Noller	On relativistic scalar fields and the quasi-static approximation
19:45-20:00	S44	T. Monsoor	Tendex-Vortex visualization of curvature tensor, and Brane-world scenario

SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER

	CODE	SPEAKER	TITLE OF LECTURE
8:00-9:00	CSG2	D. Grumiller	Holographic Chern-Simons Theories
9:00-10:00	MOG6	C. Wetterich	Modified Gravity: an Overview
10:00-10:30	CONCLUDING REMARKS