Invited Talks, Contributed Oral Presentations and Posters presented

in Scientific Meetings / Conferences / Seminars:

(In inverse chronological order)

1. Anticipated (near future) Conference Presentations:

1. Preliminary invitation:
   International Scientific Spring, National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan (12-16 March 2018); event site .

2. Oral Talks -- invited

(in inverse chronological order)

1. Invited Conference Talk (workshop on kappa distributions; session org. G. Livadiotis):
   SigmaPhi2017 - International Conference on Statistical Physics, 10-16 July 2017, Corfu, Greece.
2. Workshop talk, upon invitation:
   Analysis and Applications of Localized Structures in Nonlinear Media , Leiden (29 August - 2 September, 2016); event site .
3. Invited Workshop Lecture:
   5th SOLARNET workshop, Queen's University Belfast (1 September 2016); event site .
4. Invitation:
   International Conference “Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics”, Russia (17-12 July, 2016) (attendance cancelled, due to overlapping schedule).
5. Invited Lecture:
   UK National Astronomy Meeting - NAM2016, Nottingham University (27 June- 1 July, 2016); event site (participation cancelled due to extenuating circumstances).
6. Invited Talk (videolecture):
   International Scientific Spring, National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan (7-11 March 2016); event site .
7. Invited lecturer at:
   QuAMP-2015 - International Conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 1-4 September 2015; ; conference site ; lecture scheduled 4 Sept. 2014 (attendance cancelled).
8. Invited lecturer at:
   BUKS-2015 - MHD waves and Instabilities in the Solar Atmosphere, Budapest, 25-29 May 2015.
9. Invited lecturer at:
   International Scientific Spring - 2015, National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan (20 March 2015); invited video-lecture.
10. Session Convener at:
    AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2014, (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/), held in San Francisco USA, 15-19 December 2014.
11. Invited Conference Talk:
    SigmaPhi2014 - International Conference on Statistical Physics, 07-12 July 2014, Rhodes, Greece.
12. Invited lecturer at:
    HIPOLIN 2014 - An Introduction to high power light-matter interactions, Summer School, Rethymnon Crete, Greece; lecture delivered 4 July 2014.
13. Invited Talk:
    AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2013, (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/), held in San Francisco USA, 9-13 December 2013 (invited talk at the special session "Kappa-distributions in Space Plasmas", org. George Livadiotis & Peter Yoon).
14. Invited lecturer at:
    HIPOLIN 2013 - An Introduction to high power light-matter interactions, Summer School, Rethymnon Crete, Greece; lecture delivered 10 July 2013.
15. Invited Talk (videolecture):
    International Scientific Spring, National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan (11-15 March 2013).
16. Invited Talk:
    ITCPS2012 - International Topical Conference on Plasma Science., Faro, Portugal (24-28 September 2012).
17. Invited lecturer at:
    APPEPLA 2012 - Applications of Electronics in Plasma Physics, Rethymnon Crete, Greece (July 2012).
18. Invited Talk:
    Joint European Physical Society (EPS) Conference on Plasma Physics and Int. Congress. on Plasma Physics, Stockholm, Sweden (2-6 July 2012).
19. Invited Talks (3 lectures delivered):
    International Scientific Spring, National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan (5-9 March 2012).
20. Invited lecturer at:
    APPEPLA 2011 - Applications of Electronics in Plasma Physics, Rethymnon Crete, Greece (September 2011).
21. Invited Talk:
    ICPDP - 6th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (May 16-20, 2011).
22. Invited lecturer at:
    Workshop on Frontiers in Plasma Physics, ICTP International Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (July 2010).
23. Invited lecturer at:
    APPEPLA - Applications of Electronics in Plasma Physics, Rethymnon Crete, Greece (June-July 2010).
24. Invited lecturer at:
    Summer College in Plasma Physics, ICTP International Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (August 2009).
25. Invited talk:
    SIAM Conf. on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS09), in Snowbird Utah, USA.
26. Invited talk
    Greek-Turkish conference on "Statistical Mechanics and Dynamical Systems", Rhodos, Greece & Marmaris, Turkey (11-17 September 2008)
    Copy of the talk: here.
27. Nonlinear dynamics of rotating multi-component pair plasmas and e-p-i plasmas
    Contributed talk
    International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2008), Fukuoka, Japan (8-12 September 2008)
    Copy of the talk: here.
28. Nonlinear Excitations in Dusty Plasma (Debye) Crystals: What Plasma Physics Can Learn from Nonlinear Lattice Theories
    Invited talk
    International Workshop on the Frontiers of Modern Plasma Physics, Trieste, Italy (14-25 July 2008)
    Copy of the talk: here.
29. Nonlinear waves in dusty plasma (Debye) crystals: a new test-bed for nonlinear theories
    Invited talk
    SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NW08), Rome, Italy (21-24 July 2008)
    Copy of the talk: here.
30. On the Existence of Rarefactive Solitons in Dusty Plasma Lattices
    I. Kourakis
    35th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, (Karlsruhe, June 15 - 19, 2008)
    Copy of the oral presentation.
31. Localized Excitations in Dusty Plasma Crystals: a survey of theoretical results
    I. Kourakis (+ V. Koukouloyannis, P Kevrekidis, B. Farokhi, P. K. Shukla)
    35th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, (Karlsruhe, June 15 - 19, 2008)
    Copy of the oral presentation.
32. Localized excitations in dusty plasma crystals: on the interface among plasma physics and nonlinear lattice theories
    I. Kourakis (+ V. Koukouloyannis, B. Farokhi, P. K. Shukla)
    5th International Conference on Dusty Plasma Physics Conference (ICPDP5), (Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, 18-24 May 2008)
    Copy of the oral presentation.
33. Nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma (Debye) crystals: what plasma physics can learn from nonlinear lattice theories
    I. Kourakis
    IOP Plasma Physics Group Annual Meeting,, (London, UK, 1-4 April, 2008)
    Copy of the oral presentation; handout to download.
34. Nonlinear field line random walk and generalized compound diffusion of charged particles
    A. Shalchi and I. Kourakis
    2007 Summer College on Plasma Physics, ICTP - Trieste, Italy, 30 July - 24 August 2007.
    
    Oral presentation: .pdf copy of the talk
    Abdus Salam ICTP (Adriatico Bldg., Kastler Lecture Hall), Trieste (Italy), 21 August 2006
    Lecture Notes, in .pdf (0.5 MB) form; also, on the ICTP server.
35. Localized envelope excitations in pair plasmas
    2007 Summer College on Plasma Physics,, ICTP - Trieste, Italy, 30 July - 24 August 2007.
    Oral presentation: .pdf copy of the talk;
    Abdus Salam ICTP (Adriatico Bldg., Kastler Lecture Hall), Trieste (Italy), 23 August 2006
    Lecture Notes, in .pdf (0.5 MB) form; also, on the ICTP server.
36. Nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma (Debye) crystals: kinks, solitons and breathers
    I. Kourakis and P.K. Shukla
    Nonlinear Physics in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials , International seminar and workshop (Dresden, Germany, March 19-30, 2007);

    Contributed talk (given 29 March 2007)
    Original talk available here in .pdf form.
37. Modulated envelope structures in e-p-i and pair plasmas
    Invited oral presentation
    3rd FSA (Flemish South-African) Workshop on Space Plasma Physics , Gent (Belgium), September 27-29, 2006
    Copy of the talk: here.
38. Modulated Envelope Wavepackets in Pair-Ion and e-p-i Plasmas
    International Workshop on Frontiers of Plasma Science (21/8 - 1/09/2006), Abdus Salam ICTP (Adriatico Bldg., Kastler Lecture Hall), Trieste (Italy), 28 August 2006
    .pdf copy of the talk (2.5 MB); .mpg video material (bright soliton) (1.6 MB)
    Lecture Notes, in .pdf (0.5 MB), or .ps (3.5 MB) form; also, on the ICTP server.
39. Collective processes in dusty plasma crystals
    Autumn College on Plasma Physics (5 - 30/09/2005),
    Abdus Salam ICTP (Main Bldg., Main Lecture Hall), Trieste (Italy), 23 September 2005
    .pdf copy of the talk;
    Lecture Notes Ref. ICTP/SMR1673/19 here, or on the ICTP server.
40. The Dynamics of Nonlinearly Coupled Bose Einstein condensates
    Invited Talk
    Symposium on New Trends in Nonlinear Physics, Kastler Lecture Hall, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 17 September 2005
    .pdf copy of the talk; also: a video on BEC formation.
41. Nonlinear Schrödinger-type ESW amplitude modulation theory and fluid plasma description: a theoretical Primer on envelope ES solitons
    Autumn College on Plasma Physics (5 - 30/09/2005), Abdus Salam ICTP (Main Bldg., Lecture Hall C), Trieste (Italy), 9 September 2005
    .pdf copy of the talk;
    Lecture Notes Ref. ICTP/SMR1673/3 here, or on the ICTP server.
42. On some fundamental problems involved in the statistical-mechanical description of test-particle motion in a plasma
    Autumn College on Plasma Physics (5 - 30/09/2005), Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (Italy), September 2005
    .pdf copy of the talk.
43. Dusty Plasmas: a new paradigm in Nonlinear Science; Focus issue: Localized excitations in dust crystals
    Invited Talk
    MPIPKS - Max Planck Institut for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (Germany), 24 Nov. 2004
    .pdf copy of the talk.
44. Localized modulated electrostatic wavepackets in space and dusty plasmas
    Dusty and Space Plasma Physics Workshop (FSAW 2004), Het Pand, Gent (Belgium), 22 - 24 September 2004, Het Pand, Gent (Belgium)
    .pdf copy of the talk.
45. Nonlinear Modulated Envelope Electrostatic Wavepacket Propagation in Plasmas
    Invited Talk
    22nd Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases (SPIG 2004), 23 - 27 August, 2004 (National Park "Tara", Serbia and Montenegro)
    abstract; .pdf copy of the talk; also see in ../Proceedings.
46. Theory of nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma crystals
    Contributed research talk
    International Conference and Summer School: Complexity in Science and Society, Patras and Ancient Olympia, Greece, 14 - 26 July 2004
    oral talk: .pdf copy of the talk.
47. Theory of nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma crystals
    Contributed research talk
    31st EPS Meeting on Plasma Physics (EPS31), London, UK, 2004
    oral talk: .pdf copy of the talk

    (also see ../Proceedings; also online proceedings at: http://130.246.71.128/ or at: http://eps2004.clf.rl.ac.uk/ ).
48. Electrostatic wave propagation in dusty plasmas
    Contributed Research Talk
    3rd Hellenic School on Fusion Physics and Technology, University of Thessaly, Volos (Greece), 29 March - 2 April 2004
    oral presentation: .pdf copy of the talk;
    also see the associated posters: p.1 and p.2.
49. Fokker-Planck kinetic equation for a test-particle in magnetized plasma (in greek)
    Contributed Research Talk
    1st Hellenic School on Fusion Physics and Technology, University of Thessaly, Volos (Greece), May 2002
    oral presentation: .pdf copy of the talk.

3. Contributed Talks and Poster Presentations

(in inverse chronological order)

1. Four (4) Posters and Conf. Papers (incl. one as main author and 3 co-authored),
   44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, (Belfast, UK, June 2017).
2. Extended modulation instability criteria for dissipative dusty plasmas, Poster (with J. Cook and I. E. Elkamash),
   8th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, (Prague, Czech Republic, May 20–25, 2017).
3. Contributed oral talk, and poster (with I. E. Elkamash),
   43rd IoP Plasma Physics Group Spring Conference, (Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, 23-26 May 2016).
4. Two (2) Posters and Conf. Papers, with I. E. Elkamash,
   I.E. Elkamash and I. Kourakis,
   42nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, (Lisbon, Portugal, July 2015).
5. Poster and Conf. Paper, with G. Williams,
   G. Williams and I. Kourakis,
   41st EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, (Berlin, Germany, July 2014).
6. Contributed Oral Talk:
   11th Conference of the Hellenic Astronomical Society (HelAS), Athens, Greece; 8-12 September 2013
7. Contributed Oral Talk:
   2013 IoP Plasma Physics Group Annual Meeting, York, UK; 25-29 March 2013
8. Poster:
   International endeavor to establish Laser-Based High Energy Physics and Applications Conference (IZEST), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK), November 13-15, 2012
9. Contributed Oral Talk:
   2nd Conference on Localized Excitations in Nonlinear ComplexSystems (LENCOS'12), Sevilla (Spain), July 9-12, 2012
10. Contributed Oral Talk:
    5th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS 2012), Athens (Greece), 12-15 June 2012
11. Contributed Oral Talk:
    ENLITE12 - International Workshop on Laser-Plasma Interaction at Ultra-High Intensity, Dresden Germany; 16 - 20 April 2012
12. Poster:
    2012 IoP Plasma Physics Group Annual Meeting, Oxford, UK; March 2012
13. Poster:
    Rogue Waves (ROGUE11), International Workshop (Scientfic Coordinators: Nail Akhmediev, Alan C. Newell, Efim Pelinovsky), Dresden Germany; 07 - 11 November 2011
14. Poster:
    30th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG2011), Belfast, Nothern Ireland, UK; 28 Aug.-2 Sept. 2011
15. Poster:
    2011 IoP Plasma Physics Group Annual Meeting, North Berwick, Scotland UK; March 2011
16. Poster:
    2010 EPS meeting on Plasma Physics, Dublin, Ireland; June 2010
17. Contributed talk:
    12th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Boulder Colorado USA, 17-20 May 2009
18. Poster:
    2009 IoP Plasma Physics Group Annual Meeting, Warwick, UK; 30 March - 2 April, 2009
19. Nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma crystals: a survey of recent theoretical results
    Contributed talk
    International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2008), Fukuoka, Japan (8-12 September 2008)
20. Highly localized nonlinear excitations in crystalline charged-particle configurations
    Poster presentation
    International Conference on Statistical Physics (Sigma-Phi 2008), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, (14-18 July 2008)
    Copy of the poster: here.
21. Discrete breathers, multibreathers and vortices in 2D dust crystals
    V. Koukouloyannis, P.G. Kevrekidis, I. Kourakis, D. Frantzeskakis, K.J.H. Law
    33th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, (Crete, Greece, 9-13 June 2008).
    Copy of the poster presentation.
22. Localized excitations in Debye crystals: a survey of theoretical results
    I. Kourakis, V. Koukouloyannis and P. K. Shukla
    33th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, (Crete, Greece, 9-13 June 2008).
    Copy of the poster presentation.
23. Nonlinear modelling of a rotating multi-component dusty plasma
    I. Kourakis, U. M. Abdelsalam, W. M. Moslem and P. K. Shukla
    5th International Conference on Dusty Plasma Physics Conference (ICPDP5), (Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, 18-24 May 2008).
24. Ion-acoustic solitary waves in multi-ion dusty plasmas
    W. F. El-Taibany, I. Kourakis, P. K. Shukla and M. Wadati
    5th International Conference on Dusty Plasma Physics Conference (ICPDP5), (Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, 18-24 May 2008).
25. Modulated dust-acoustic wavepackets in a kappa-distributed nonthermal plasma background
    N. S. Saini and I. Kourakis
    5th International Conference on Dusty Plasma Physics Conference (ICPDP5), (Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, 18-24 May 2008).
26. On the existence of rarefactive longitudinal solitons in dusty plasma lattices
    I. Kourakis
    5th International Conference on Dusty Plasma Physics Conference (ICPDP5), (Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, 18-24 May 2008).
27. Nonlinear excitations in pair-ion and electron-positron-ion plasmas
    I. Kourakis
    IOP Plasma Physics Group Annual Meeting,, (London, UK, 1-4 April, 2008)
    Copy of the poster presentation.
28. Nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma (Debye) crystals: a new test-bed for nonlinear theories
    I. Kourakis
    Hamiltonian Lattice Dynamical Systems,, (Leiden, Netherlands, 15-20 October, 2007)
    Poster and brief oral introduction presented.
29. Nonlinear electromagnetic waves in pair plasmas
    N.F. Cramer, I. Kourakis and F. Verheest
    28th ICPIG (International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases), (Prague, Czech Republic, July 15-20, 2007)
    Poster contribution (Topic 4). Paper reprint: here.
30. Nonlinear Field Line Random Walk and Generalized Compound Diffusion of Charged Particles
    A. Shalchi and I. Kourakis
    The Sun, the Heliosphere and the Earth, IHY 2007 conference (Bad Honnef, Germany, May 14 - 18, 2007)
    Poster contribution; original poster available here in .pdf form.
31. Nonlinear electromagnetic wavepackets in plasmas
    I. Kourakis, F. Verheest and N.F. Cramer
    The Sun, the Heliosphere and the Earth, IHY 2007 conference (Bad Honnef, Germany, May 14 - 18, 2007)
    Poster contribution; original poster available here in .pdf form.
32. Nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma (Debye) crystals: a new test-bed for nonlinear theories
    I. Kourakis and P.K. Shukla
    Nonlinear Physics in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials , International seminar and workshop (Dresden, Germany, March 19-30, 2007)
    Poster contribution (associated to oral talk: see above); Original poster available here in .pdf form.
33. Existence of breathers and multibreathers in a two-dimensional dusty plasma crystal
    V. Koukouloyannis and I. Kourakis
    Nonlinear Physics in Periodic Structures and Metamaterials, International seminar and workshop (Dresden, Germany, March 19-30, 2007)
    Poster contribution; Original poster available here in .pdf form.
34. Collective charged particle behavior in dusty plasmas and dust crystals: overview of a new test-bed for nonlinear theories
    I. Kourakis
    Dynamics Days - Europe (Heraklion-Crete, Greece, September 25-29, 2006)
    Poster contribution; Abstract here; copy of the poster here.
35. Existence and stability of multibreathers in a dusty plasma crystal
    V. Koukouloyannis and I. Kourakis
    Dynamics Days - Europe (Heraklion-Crete, Greece, September 25-29, 2006)
    Poster contribution; Available here: the abstract and the original poster presentation.
36. Nonlinear modulated electrostatic wave packets in e-p-i plasmas or in pair-ion plasmas doped with a stationary charged component
    I. Kourakis, A. Esfandyari-Kalejahi and P. K. Shukla
    33th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics (Rome, Italy, June 19-23, 2006), paper P4.057
    Poster contribution; Abstract here; Poster copy here, in .pdf or .ps format.
37. A Mathieu equation for dust charge dynamics in multi-component dusty plasmas
    I. Kourakis, M. Momeni and P. K. Shukla
    33th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics (Rome, Italy, June 19-23, 2006), paper P2.091
    Poster contribution; Abstract here; Poster copy here, in .pdf or .ps format.
38. Charge polarization (dressed electrostatic interaction) effects in dusty (complex) crystals
    I. Kourakis, P. K. Shukla and B. Farokhi
    13th International Congress on Plasma Physics (Kiev, Ukrainia, May 22-26, 2006)
    Poster contribution, presented by I.K.; Abstract here; Poster copy here.
39. Nonlinear dust charge fluctuations in dusty (complex) plasmas: a Van der Pol-Mathieu model equation
    M. Momeni, I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    13th International Congress on Plasma Physics (Kiev, Ukrainia, May 22-26, 2006)
    Poster contribution, presented by I.K.; Abstract here; Poster copy here.
40. Electrostatic mode envelope excitations in warm pair ion plasma with a small fraction of uniform and stationary positive ions - application in e-p-i and doped fullerene plasmas
    A. Esfandyari-Kalejahi, I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    13th International Congress on Plasma Physics (Kiev, Ukrainia, May 22-26, 2006)
    Poster contribution, co-authored, presented by A.E.; Abstract here.
41. Higher-order nonlinear contributions to ion-acoustic waves in a plasma consisting of adiabatic warm ions, non-isothermal electrons and a weakly relativistic electron beam
    A. Esfandyari-Kalejahi, I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    13th International Congress on Plasma Physics (Kiev, Ukrainia, May 22-26, 2006)
    Poster contribution, co-authored, presented by A.E.; Abstract here.
42. Extended modulational instability criteria in asymmetric coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    Nonlinear Physics and Mathematics (NLPM 2006), International Workshop (Kiev, Ukrainia, May 25-27, 2006)
    Poster contribution; Abstract here; Poster copy here.
43. Modulational instability in two-component systems - application in Bose-Einstein condensate pairs
    Ioannis Kourakis, Padma Kant Shukla, and Lennart Stenflo
    NEXT-SigmaPhi 2005: News, Expectations and Trends in Statistical Physics (Hania-Crete, Greece, 2005)
    Poster contribution; .pdf copy.
44. Noise and damping from microscopic laws of motion: a kinetic-theoretical approach for classical systems in the presence of an external force field
    Ioannis Kourakis and Alkis Grecos
    NEXT-SigmaPhi 2005: News, Expectations and Trends in Statistical Physics (Hania-Crete, Greece, 2005)
    Poster contribution; .pdf copy.
45. Stability analysis of electromagnetic waves in negative refraction index materials
    Ioannis Kourakis and Padma Kant Shukla
    Nonlinear Science and Complexity (18th Panhellenic Conference and Summer School), July 18-30, 2005, UTh (Volos, Greece)
    Poster contribution; .pdf copy of the poster.
46. Existence of multibreathers in the presence of an inverse dispersion law and an asymmetric on-site potential: application in transverse dusty plasma lattice oscillations
    Vassilios Koukouloyannis and Ioannis Kourakis
    Nonlinear Science and Complexity (18th Panhellenic Conference and Summer School), July 18-30, 2005, UTh (Volos, Greece)
    Poster contribution; .pdf copy of the poster.
47. Dynamics of a dust crystal with positive and negative dust
    Ioannis Kourakis, Padma Kant Shukla and Gregor Morfill
    International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas - ICPDP 2005 (Orleans, France, 2005)
    Poster contribution
    .pdf copy of the poster.
48. Localized excitations of charged dust grains in dusty plasma lattices
    Ioannis Kourakis, Padma Kant Shukla and Vasileios Basios
    International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas - ICPDP 2005 (Orleans, France, 2005)
    Poster contribution
    .pdf copy of the poster.
49. New generalized dispersion relation for low-frequency electromagnetic waves in Hall-magnetohydrodynamic dusty plasmas
    Padma Kant Shukla, Ioannis Kourakis and Lennart Stenflo
    International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas - ICPDP 2005 (Orleans, France, 2005)
    Poster contribution
    .pdf copy of the poster.
50. Detection and controlability aspects of intrinsic localized modes in dusty plasma crystals
    V. Basios, I. Kourakis and P.K. Shukla
    Nonlinear Physics: Condensed Matter, Dynamical Systems and Biophysics (May 30th-31st, 2005, Paris)
    Poster contribution
    .pdf copy of the poster.
51. Existence of multibreathers in systems with an inverse dispersion law. - Application in dusty plasma lattice oscillations
    V. Koukouloyannis and I. Kourakis
    Nonlinear Physics: Condensed Matter, Dynamical Systems and Biophysics (May 30th-31st, 2005, Paris)
    Poster contribution
    .pdf copy of the poster.
52. Theory of solitary waves in complex plasma lattices
    I. Kourakis, P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson
    ICPP 2004 - International Conference on Plasma Physics (Nice, France, 25 - 29 oct. 2004),
    Poster contribution P3-042
    e-Proceedings, available online at http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ccsd-00001890/en/
    .pdf copy of the poster
    

    also online proceedings at: http://130.246.71.128/).
53. Lagrangean formulation of ion- and dust-ion-acoustic waves
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ICPP 2004 - International Conference on Plasma Physics (Nice, France, 2004),
    Poster contribution P3-045
    e-Proceedings, available online at http://hal.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ccsd-00001891/en/
    .pdf copy of the poster.
54. Modulated envelope localized wavepackets associated with electrostatic plasma waves
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ICPP 2004 - International Conference on Plasma Physics (Nice, France, 2004),
    Poster contribution P3-044
    electronic Proceedings, available online here
    .pdf copy of the poster.
55. Intrinsic localized modes in dust lattices
    I. Kourakis, V. Basios and P. K. Shukla
    ICPP 2004 - International Conference on Plasma Physics (Nice, France, 2004),
    Poster contribution P1-104
    e-Proceedings, available online here;
    .pdf copy of the poster: part1, part2.
56. Nonlinear theory of dust lattice mode coupling in dust crystals
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ICPP 2004 - International Conference on Plasma Physics (Nice, France, 2004),
    Poster contribution P2-062
    e-Proceedings, available online here
    .pdf copy of the poster.
57. Nonlinear whistlerons
    B. Eliasson, I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ICPP 2004 - International Conference on Plasma Physics (Nice, France, 2004),
    Poster contribution P2-019
    e-Proceedings, available online here
    .pdf copy of the poster.
58. Discrete breather modes in complex plasma crystals
    I. Kourakis, P. K. Shukla and V. Basios
    International Conference and Summer School: Complexity in Science and Society, Patras and Ancient Olympia, Greece, 14 - 26 July 2004
    poster: .pdf copy of the poster.
59. Localized nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma crystals
    I. Kourakis, P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson
    ITCPP 2004: Workshop on Theoretical Physics , ICTP - Trieste, Italy, 5 - 16 July 2004
    poster: abstract; .pdf copy of the poster.
60. Envelope localized electrostatic wavepackets in space and laboratory plasmas
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ITCPP 2004: Workshop on Theoretical Physics , ICTP - Trieste, Italy, 5 - 16 July 2004
    poster: abstract; .pdf copy of the poster.
61. Envelope solitons in a magnetized pair plasma
    T. Cattaert, I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ITCPP 2004: Workshop on Theoretical Physics , ICTP - Trieste, Italy, 5 - 16 July 2004
    poster: .pdf copy of the poster.
62. Lagrangian formulation of electrostatic plasma waves: Application to dust-acoustic waves
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    31st EPS meeting on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, London, UK, 2004
    poster presentation (see ../Proceedings).
63. Envelope localized modes in electrostatic plasma waves
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    31st EPS meeting on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, London, UK, 2004
    poster presentation: .pdf copy (also see Proceedings).
64. Modulational instability and envelope excitations of dust-acoustic waves in a non--thermal background
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    31st EPS meeting on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, London, UK, 2004
    poster presentation (see Proceedings).
65. Discrete breather modes in complex plasma crystals
    I. Kourakis, P. K. Shukla and V. Basios
    31st EPS meeting on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, London, UK, 2004
    poster presentation: .pdf copy (also see Proceedings).
66. Oblique wave modulation and localized excitations of dusty plasma electrostatic modes
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ITCPP - International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics, Santorini (Greece), 2003
    poster presentation: .pdf copy.
67. Nonlinear transverse wave modulation in dusty plasma crystals
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ITCPP - International Topical Conference on Plasma Physics, Santorini (Greece), 2003
    poster presentation: .pdf copy.
68. Stability of linear oscillations in dusty plasma crystals in the presence of ion flow
    I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
    ITCPP - International Topical Conference in Plasma Physics, Santorini (Greece), 2003
    poster presentation: .pdf copy.
69. Relaxation times for magnetized plasma - a parameteric study
    I. Kourakis
    29th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Montreux (Switzerland), 2002
    poster presentation: .pdf copy.
70. Modulational instability and localized excitations in dusty plasma crystals
    I. Kourakis
    29th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Montreux (Switzerland), 2002
    poster presentation: .pdf copy.
71. Rigorous derivation of a Fokker-Planck-type equation from particle dynamics
    I. Kourakis
    3ero Congreso de la Sociedad Venezolana de Física, Caracas (Venezuela), 2001
    poster presentation: .pdf copy.
72. Kinetic theory and transport processes for a test-particle in magnetized plasma
    I. Kourakis
    3ero Congreso de la Sociedad Venezolana de Física, Caracas (Venezuela), 2001
    oral presentation: .pdf copy of the transparencies.
73. Derivation of a collision operator from microscopic dynamics in the weak-coupling limit: application in magnetized plasma
    I. Kourakis
    Int. Conference: "Collisions in the Universe", Namur (Belgium), 2001
    poster presentation: .pdf copy.
74. Kinetic theory for a test-particle weakly-coupled to a homogeneous reservoir: formalism and typical applications
    I. Kourakis
    Euroconference on "Asymptotic methods and applications in kinetic and quantum-kinetic theory", Granada (Spain), 2001
    poster presentation: .pdf copy.