George Contopoulos

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1997-

Academy of Athens

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http://www.academyofathens.gr/en/members/contopoulos

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Academician, Emeritus Professor of the University of Athens and of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He was born in Egio, Greece, on the 3rd of October, 1928. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece (1950) and his Ph.D. from the same University in 1953. He was elected Professor of Astronomy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1957). In 1975 he was elected Professor of Astronomy at the University of Athens. He has served as Director of the Astronomical Institute of the National Observatory of Athens (1975- 1982), General Director of the National Observatory of Athens (1990-1993), Executive Director of the National Research Foundation (1978-79), vice- Chairman of the Greek National Astronomical Committee (1957-1983), National Representative at the NATO Scientific Committee and member of the research grant committee of NATO (1976-1983), member of the Astronomy Committee of the European Science Foundation (1976-83), member of the organizing Committee of the Astronomy Division of the European Physical Society (1976-1982) and member of the organizing committees of more than 30 international meetings. He has served as Visiting Professor at the Universities Yale (1962), Harvard (1968), MIT (1969), Cornell (1982), Chicago (1969, 1981), Maryland (1971, 1974, 1978), Florida (1985-1991), Florida State (1998) and Milan (1992,1998). He has been scientific associate at the Yerkes Observatory (1963), at the Institute for Advanced Study (1963), at the NASA (1963-67, 1971), at the Columbia University (1968) and at the European Southern Observatory (1976-88). His scientific interests are mainly centered on the Dynamical Astronomy, Relativity and Cosmology, Chaos, and the Celestial Mechanics, and he has published over 260 scientific papers on these subjects. He has also published or edited 14 scientific books, 4 textbooks and about 200 smaller articles. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union (he served as General Secretary of the IAU from 1973 to 1976), of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), of the European Astronomical Society and a founding member and two-terms Chairman (1994-1998) of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.). He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Astronomy & Astrophysics (1979-1993) and Associate Editor of the Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. He has been honoured with the Brouwer Prize of the AAS (1982), with his nomination as Associate of the RAS, as President of the Galaxy Commission of the IAU, and as Emeritus Chairman (2002) of Hel.A.S. He has been elected member of the Academia Europaea (1989), corresponding member of the Societe Royale de Liege (1971) and honorary doctor of the University of Chicago (1991) and of the University of Athens (2009). He has been elected Member of the Academy of Athens (1996) and currently he supervises its Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics.
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Parents

Stavros Plakidis

grad student

1953

University of Athens

Children

Vassilios Barbanis	grad student	1962	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Gregorios Antonacopoulos	grad student	1965	University of Athens, Greece
Georgios Bozis	grad student	1966	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Christos Papageorgiou	grad student	1971	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Michael Zikides	grad student	1972	University of Athens, Greece
Evangelia Athanassoula	grad student	1973	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Demetrios Dionysiou	grad student	1973	University of Athens, Greece
Nicolaos Spyrou	grad student	1973	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Constantinos Mertzanidis	grad student	1975	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dimitrios Papathanasoglou	grad student	1976	University of Athens, Greece
Dimitrios Vaiopoulos	grad student	1976	University of Athens, Greece (Physics Tree)
Theodoros Papagiannopoulos	grad student	1977	University of Athens, Greece
Eleftherios Sarris	grad student	1977	University of Athens, Greece
Panagiotis Michaelidis	grad student	1978	University of Athens, Greece
Charalambos Terzides	grad student	1978	University of Bonn, Germany
Harry Varvoglis	grad student	1980	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Efstratios Theodossiou	grad student	1984	University of Athens, Greece
Nikolaos Voglis	grad student	1984	University of Athens, Greece
Chronis Polymilis	grad student	1985	University of Athens, Greece
Loukas Zachilas	grad student	1988	University of Athens, Greece
Nikolaos Hiotelis	grad student	1989	University of Athens, Greece
Ioannis Seimenis	grad student	1989	University of Athens, Greece
Ioannis Bamias	grad student	1990	University of Athens, Greece
Evangelos Chaliasos	grad student	1990	University of Athens, Greece
Ioannis Deliyannis	grad student	1990	University of Athens, Greece
Maria Stathopoulou	grad student	1990	University of Athens, Greece (Physics Tree)
Panos Patsis	grad student	1991	University of Athens, Greece
Charalampos Skokos	grad student	1997	University of Athens, Greece
Christos Efthymiopoulos	grad student	1999	University of Athens, Greece
Maria Harsoula	grad student	1999	University of Athens, Greece
Helen Papadaki	grad student	1999	University of Athens, Greece
Evangelia Grousouzakou	grad student	2000	University of Athens, Greece
Constantinos Kalapotharakos	grad student	2005	University of Athens, Greece
George Lukes-Gerakopoulos	grad student	2010	University of Athens, Greece
Ioannis Stavropoulos	grad student	2010	University of Athens, Greece
Panagiotis Tsoutsis	grad student	2010	University of Athens, Greece
Nikolaos Delis	grad student	2014	University of Athens, Greece

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Tzemos AC, Contopoulos G. (2020) Chaos and ergodicity in an entangled two-qubit Bohmian system Physica Scripta. 95: 065225
Efthymiopoulos C, Harsoula M, Contopoulos G. (2020) Manifold spirals in barred galaxies with multiple pattern speeds Astronomy & Astrophysics. 636: A44
Harsoula M, Karamanos K, Contopoulos G. (2019) Characteristic times in the standard map. Physical Review. E. 99: 032203
Efstathiou K, Contopoulos G. (2019) Orbits in the H(2)O molecule. Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.). 11: 327-334
Tzemos AC, Contopoulos G, Efthymiopoulos C. (2019) Bohmian trajectories in an entangled two-qubit system Physica Scripta. 94: 105218
Tzemos AC, Efthymiopoulos C, Contopoulos G. (2018) Origin of chaos near three-dimensional quantum vortices: A general Bohmian theory. Physical Review. E. 97: 042201
Harsoula M, Contopoulos G. (2018) Global and local diffusion in the standard map. Physical Review. E. 97: 022215
Contopoulos G, Tzemos AC, Efthymiopoulos C. (2017) Partial integrability of 3d Bohmian trajectories Journal of Physics a: Mathematical and Theoretical. 50: 195101
Contopoulos G, Harsoula M, Efthymiopoulos C. (2016) Analytical study of chaos and applications The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 225: 1053-1070
Harsoula M, Efthymiopoulos C, Contopoulos G. (2016) Analytical forms of chaotic spiral arms Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 459: 3419-3431