The DFG Research Training Group ”Models of Gravity” is starting April 1st, 2012. The theoretical research will cover solutions of Einstein equations and its generalizations, the interpretation of these solution through the motion of test objects, and applications of this in astrophysics, cosmology, clocks in space, geodesy, etc.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
Bernd Bruegmann (Jena)
Nathalie Deruelle (Paris)
George Ellis (Cape Town)
Johanna Erdmenger (Munich)
Eva Grebel (Heidelberg)
Claus Kiefer (Cologne)
Malcolm MacCallum (Bristol)
Tanja Mehlstaeubler (Braunschweig)
Charles Misner (Maryland)
Patrick Peters (Paris)
Alena Pravdova (Prague)
Mairi Sakellariadou (London)
The meeting will start with an opening ceremony on March 28, at 09:30 a.m. and ends March 30, at 4 p.m. The detailed program will soon be published on the webpage http://www.models-of-gravity.org
For registration, please send an e-mail to secretariat[AT]models-of-gravity.org
No fees are required.