Contact: phys_wims[AT]uvic.caLocation: Victoria, BC, Canada
This symposium will celebrate the scientific career and legacy of Werner Israel, one of the leading figures in the development of our modern understanding of general relativity and black holes. Among many impactful contributions, Werner proved the foundational no-hair theorems for the exterior of static black holes, and later the phenomenon of mass inflation for the interior of rotating black holes (with his student E. Poisson); he devised the Israel junction conditions for extended gravitating sources, and developed the causal Muller-Israel-Stewart theory for relativistic thermodynamics and hydrodynamics.
The symposium will be held in hybrid format on the campus of the University of Victoria, in Victoria BC, and will run over two full days May 18-19, 2023. The evening of May 18th will include a reception followed by a conference dinner.
In celebrating Werner’s remarkable scientific legacy, the symposium aims to bring together researchers with interests aligned with various themes of Werner’s research, both historical and modern. To this end, the focus of the meeting will be on properties of black holes and relativistic matter.
To register and for further information, please visit the conference website:
https://meetings.triumf.ca/event/332/
We look forward to seeing you in Victoria.
Local Organizing Committee: Nikita Blinov, Kristan Jensen, Pavel Kovtun, Eric Mefford, Adam Ritz, Karun Thanjavur
Scientific Advisory Committee: Valeri Frolov (Alberta), Shinji Mukohyama (Kyoto), Julio Navarro (UVic), Eric Poisson (Guelph), Frans Pretorius (Princeton)