Contact: eric.gourgoulhon[AT]obspm.frLocation: Paris, France
A conference in celebration of Brandon Carter’s 80th birthday is organized in Paris on 4-6 July 2022.
The conference will focus on the theory of black holes, topological defects in cosmology, the physics of neutron star interiors and the anthropic principle. The aim is to present the latest developments in the above-mentioned areas and to discuss the prospects for future research.
Invited speakers:
– Nils Andersson (University of Southampton, UK)
– Richard Battye (University of Manchester, UK)
– Luc Blanchet (IAP, Paris, France)
– Robert Brandenberger (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
– Bernard Carr (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
– Nicolas Chamel (Universite’ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
– Piotr T. Chrusciel (University of Vienna, Austria)
– Christos Charmousis (IJCLab, Orsay, France)
– Milan M. Cirkovic (Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Serbia)
– Anne Davis (Univ. Cambridge, UK)
– Cedric Deffayet (IAP, Paris, France)
– Ruth Durrer (Universite’ de Geneve, Switzerland)
– Ruth Gregory (King’s College, London, UK)
– David Langlois (APC, Universite’ Paris Cite’, France)
– Jean-Pierre Lasota (IAP, Paris, France)
– Jean-Pierre Luminet (LAM, Marseille, France)
– Malcolm MacCallum (Queen Mary University of London, UK) (TBC)
– Raymond McLenaghan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
– Micaela Oertel (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, France)
– Roger Penrose (University of Oxford, UK)
– Malcolm Perry (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK)
– Denis Priou (Conseil General Environ. Dev. Durable, Paris, France) (TBC)
– Reinhard Prix (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany)
– Martin Rees (Trinity College, Cambridge, UK) (TBC)
– Paul Shellard (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK)
– Daniele Steer (APC, Universite Paris Cite, France)
– Leonard Susskind (Stanford University, USA)
– Kip Thorne (CalTech, USA)