Grav17, Cordoba, Argentina

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Date:  2017-04-03  -  2017-04-07

Location:  Cordoba, Argentine

We are pleased to announce that the conference Grav17 will be held in La Falda, Cordoba (ARGENTINA), from April 3rd through April 7th, 2017

Grav17 is the seventh in a series of conferences organized by the General Relativity and Gravitation Group at FaMAF (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) since the year 2006.

The conference is intended to bring together specialists working on gravitation and closely related topics, including classical and quantum gravity, mathematical relativity, numerical relativity, gravity in arbitrary dimensions, astrophysics and astro-particle physics.

Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students are encouraged to apply, limited funds will be available to pay partial living expenses for students.

A list of confirmed invited speakers includes:

Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State University, USA.
Florian Beyer, University of Otago, New Zeland.
Andrea Costa, Observatorio Nacional de Cordoba y IAFE, Argentina.
Joerg Frauendiener, University of Otago, New Zeland.
Helmut Friedrich, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany.
Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University and LIGO, USA.
Philippe Le Floch, Universite’ Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris 6), France.
Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada.
Alejandro Perez, Universite’ de Marseille, France.
Jorge Pullin, Lousiana State University, USA.
Martin Reiris, Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay.
Manuel Tiglio, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA.
Gabriela Vila, Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia, Argentina.
Robert Wald, The University of Chicago, USA.

For registration, information on hotel reservation and rates, and updates on the Grav17 meeting please check the conference’s web page.

Applications should be filed through the Conference webform before March 1st, 2017. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 10th, 2017.