Yukawa International Seminar 2013 “Gravitational waves: Revolution in astronomy and astrophysics”

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Date:  2013-06-02  -  2013-06-07

Location:  Kyoto, Japan

We are pleased to announce that Yukawa International Seminar 2013 (YKIS2013) entitled “Gravitational waves: Revolution in astronomy and astrophysics” will be held from June 2-7 in 2013 at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University. Associated with this conference, we plan to hold a one-month workshop on gravitational waves and numerical relativity. The details will be updated in

http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ykis2013/conference/index.html

The confirmed invited speakers on YKIS2013 at present include

Edo Berger (Harvard)
Emanuele Berti (Mississippi)
Patrick Brady (Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Bernd Bruegmann (Jena)
Alessandra Buonanno (Maryland)
John Friedman (Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Kostas Kokkotas (Tuebingen)
Luis Lehner (Perimeter)
Christian Ott (Caltech)
Tsvi Piran (Hebrew)
B. S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff)
Bernard Schutz (Albert-Einstein Institute)
Patrick Sutton (Cardiff)
and more

SOC of the YKIS2013:

Masaru Shibata (chair), Misao Sasaki, Takahiro Tanaka (YITP)
Masaki Ando, Takashi Nakamura, Naoki Seto (Kyoto)
Takaaki Kajita, Kazuaki Kuroda, Seiji Kawamura, Masatate Ohashi (ICRR)
Nobuyuki Kanda (Osaka CU), Hideyuki Tagoshi (Osaka)