31st xmeeting of the Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG; online)

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Date:  2020-12-19  -  2020-12-20

Location:  Gandhinagar, India

The Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG) was first constituted in 1969 and has been active ever since in fostering general relativity related activities in the country. In particular, at the national level, the IAGRG meeting is organised every two years, at various locations in the country. The Discipline of Physics, IIT Gandhinagar will be organising the 31st meeting of IAGRG during 19th – 20th December 2020. This meeting will be arranged as a Web Conference.

This year is also the 50th anniversary of the famous derivation of black hole quasinormal modes by Prof. C V Vishveshwara. In view of this, the broad theme of the 31st IAGRG Meeting is “Quasinormal Modes from Black Holes”.

Invited Speakers:

Nancy Aggarwal, Northwestern University
Emanuele Berti, Johns Hopkins University
Arpan Bhattacharya, IIT Gandhinagar
Sourav Chatterjee, TIFR Mumbai
George Efstathiou, University of Cambridge
Dhiraj Hazra, IMSc Chennai
Harvey Reall, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Re’em Sari, The Racah Institute of Physics

The registration for the meeting and contributory session is now open. The last date of registration is November 11th, 2020.