Dear GGR members, The 2015 GGR elections have now been concluded. Thank you to all candidates who agreed to run in these elections, and congratulations to the newly elected members of the Executive Committee: Vice-Chair: Peter Shawhan Members-at-Large: Duncan Brown…
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A Century of General Relativity
The year 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s field equations. To celebrate this event, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (or Albert Einstein Institute) will host a conference during the week of November 30, 2015, exactly one hundred years after…
11th Amaldi Conference, June 21-26, 2015, Gwangju, Korea
The 11th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves June 21-26, 2015 Kimdaejung Convention Center Gwangju, Korea http://amaldi11.org e-mail: amaldi11@astro.snu.ac.kr First Announcement The 11th Amaldi Conference on gravitational waves will be held in Gwangju, Korea under the auspices of the Gravitational…
Workshop on the LIGO-Virgo Electromagnetic Follow-up program
*************************************************************************************** Workshop on the LIGO-Virgo Electromagnetic Follow-up program Cascina, European Gravitational Observatory site April 23, 2015 *************************************************************************************** The workshop will be held on Thursday April 23, 2015, hosted by the European Gravitational Observatory, at the Virgo site (Cascina, Pisa). It…
31st Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting
Invitation to the 31st Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting Just think: For almost a third of the full history of General Relativity, we have been holding Pacific Coast Gravity Meetings up and down the West Coast. No, Einstein never showed up,…
General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective
General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective Registration, Travel Support and Abstract Submissions An international conference to celebrate 100 years of general relativity, entitled General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective will be held at the University Park campus of…
Hotwiring the Transient Universe conference: 12-15 May 2015, Santa Barbara, California
http://lcogt.net/hotwired-iv-welcome 12-15 May 2015 LCOGT, Santa Barbara, California, USA Hotwiring the Transient Universe-4 will explore the opportunities and challenges of transient and time domain astronomy, including massively parallel time domain surveys coupled with rapid coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up observations. The interdisciplinary…
Update from the Space-based Gravitational Wave Community
This year promises to be a very important year for the space-based gravitational wave community. In the second half of this year we will see the launch of LISA Pathfinder and the expected first Advanced LIGO observing run! At the…
Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School 2015
*************************************************** Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School 2015 CGWAS 2015 July 6 – 10, 2015 California Institute of Technology **************************************************** We invite students to apply for the Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School 2015. CGWAS is a summer school for senior undergraduates…
Special HEAD Meeting: High Energy Large and Medium-class Space Missions in the 2020s
June 29 – July 1, 2015 Chicago, IL The next Decadal review will begin work in just a few years and now the time to begin serious consideration of both large and medium-class space missions for high energy astrophysics. Last…