We encourage GGR members to nominate colleagues who have made significant contributions to our field to become APS Fellows through the Topical Group on Gravitation. Becoming an APS Fellow is a distinct honor, as the selection is conducted by one’s…
Category: DGRAV Announcements
International Conference on Black Holes
You are cordially invited to participate at an International Conference on Black Holes Fields Institute, June 1-5 2015, in Toronto to celebrate the centenary of the Einstein field equations. Invited speakers: Robert Bradenberger, Daniel Green, Gary Horowitz, Alexandru Ionescu, Jonathan…
18th Eastern Gravity Meeting
Registration for the 18th Eastern Gravity Meeting is open. You can then independently submit the title/abstract of your talk. The symposium Beyond the First Century of General Relativity will take place May 30th with the following program.
GR Centennial Celebration Banquet
Celebrate 100 Years of General Relativity at the GR Centennial Celebration Banquet Monday, April 13, 2015 Westminster Hall, 515 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, MD Social Time: 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres Cash bar Buffet Dinner: 7:30 p.m. Entrees: Old…
GGR Events at the APS April Meeting
GGR is sponsoring 32 sessions at this year’s APS April Meeting. The 9 invited sessions are below, and the GGR Business Meeting will be Monday, April 13, at 5:30 p.m. Reminder: Online Registration closes Friday. All GGR Sessions GGR Invited…
2015 GGR Elections
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…
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,…