Contact: oleg.evnin[AT]gmail.comLocation: Bangkok, Thailand
LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Auttakit CHATRABHUTI, Oleg EVNIN, Vicharit YINGCHAROENRAT.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Piotr BIZON (Jagiellonian U, Krakow), Alfio BONANNO (INAF/INFN Catania), Paolo CREMINELLI (ICTP, Trieste), Antonio DE FELICE (Yukawa Inst, Kyoto), Cedric DEFFAYET (ENS-Paris), William KINNEY (SUNY Buffalo), Misao SASAKI (Kavli IPMU/APCTP-Pohang).
OBJECTIVES:
The workshop will cover a broad range of issues in gravity and theoretical aspects of cosmology. Some concrete examples of relevant topics are gravitational instabilities and collapse problems, singularity resolution, canonical approaches to gravity quantization and quantum cosmology, statistics of fluctuations in cosmological spacetimes, primordial black holes, cosmological dynamics of fundamental constants, etc. The talks are expected to be informal and interactive, with a substantial pedagogical component. We strongly encourage blackboard presentations.
PRE- AND POST-WORKSHOP RESIDENCE PROGRAM:
Participants are invited to remain in residence for informal communication and collaboration during the weeks preceding (January 26-30) and succeeding (February 9-13) the workshop.