Dear GGR member, The upcoming APS April meeting (11-14 April 2015 in Baltimore) will have the Centennial of General Relativity as its major theme. Please help us celebrate by joining us in Baltimore! Registration and abstract submission are open. The Abstract…
Month: December 2014
Extreme Gravity Workshop in Bozeman, Montana, August 20th – 22nd 2015
Announcing the Extreme Gravity Workshop in Bozeman, Montana, August 20th – 22nd 2015 The eXtreme Gravity Institute at Montana State University will host a discussion workshop devoted to astrophysical systems where relativistic gravitational effects can not be ignored: * Neutron…
GGR Newly Elected Fellows
The Topical Group in Gravitation is pleased to announce its newest APS Fellows: Duncan Brown For leadership in all aspects of the search for gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences, including algorithms, waveform templates, pipelines, statistical interpretation, and connection…
15th British Gravity (BritGrav) Meeting, 20–21 April 2015 at the University of Birmingham
The 15th British Gravity (BritGrav) Meeting will be held on 20–21 April 2015 at the University of Birmingham, organised by the Gravitational Physics Group. The meeting covers all areas of gravity, classical and quantum, including astrophysics, cosmology, mathematical general relativity, gravitational-wave data analysis and instrumentation.…
GWIC Thesis Prize and Steano Braccini Thesis Prize
he Gravitational Wave International Committee is pleased to announce that nominations for the 2014 GWIC Thesis Prize and for the 2014 Stefano Braccini Thesis Prize are now open. Both prizes recognize outstanding PhD theses in the area of gravitational waves.…
Student Travel Grants to the APS April Meeting 2015
The Topical Group in Gravitation offers travel grants to support the attendance of graduate students (or advanced undergraduate students) at the APS April Meeting 2015 to be held April 11–14, 2015, in Baltimore, MD. The amount of each grant will…
The Rencontres de Moriond and GRAM Colloquium on Gravitation 100 years after GR
Dear colleague, The Rencontres de Moriond and GRAM Colloquium on Gravitation 100 years after GR will be held in La Thuile (Valle d’Aosta, Italy) on March 21-28 2015. It will review the subject of Gravitational waves and Experimental Gravity 4…
Max Planck Partner Group Gravitational Wave Post-doctoral Positions at IISER-TVM
Institution: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, India (IISER-TVM) Deadline: December 20th, 2014 Salary: Rs. 518000-576000 (including House Rent Allowance) Applications are seeked for two post-doctoral positions in the area of Gravitational Wave Data Analysis. The positions are…
Postdoctoral research position at Stanford University’s Hansen Experimental Physics Lab
Applications are invited for a two-year postdoctoral research position to work on precision tests of fundamental physics using optical techniques. Areas of interest are tests for Lorentz invariance and laser ranging technology development for space-based gravitational wave detectors. Laser frequency…
The 2015 Bronstein Prize in Loop Quantum Gravity
During the celebration of 25 years of Loop Quantum Gravity at Madrid, a new prize for post-doctoral scholars in Loop Quantum gravity was created. It is named after Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, who was the first to emphasize that quantum gravity…