Lecturers:
Jens Chluba, Wenjuang Fang, J.A. Rubiño-Martín, Licia Verde, Gong Bo Zhao

Tutors:
(Albert) Chia-Hsun Chuang, Savvas Nesseris, Claudia Scoccola.

Organizers:
Paco Prada, Savvas Nesseris, (Albert) Chia-Hsun Chuang

Organizers: Rodolfo Gambini (Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo), Carmen Nunez (Universidade de Buenos Aires and IAFE, Buenos Aires), Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University), Victor Rivelles (Universidade de Sao Paulo), Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Valdivia and Universidade Nacional Andres Bello)

Speakers:
Gerardo Aldazabal (CA Bariloche)
Jorge Alfaro (PUC, Santiago)
Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State U.)
Max Banãdos (PUC, Santiago)
Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP)
Steven Carlip (U. Calif. at Davis)
Marc Casals (CBPF Rio de Janeiro)
Diego Correa (U. La Plata)
Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter & MPI Potsdam )
Jose Edelstein (Santiago de Compostela U.)
Gaston Giribet (U. Buenos Aires)
Alejandro Perez (CPT Marseille)
Aleksandr Pinzul (U. Brasilia)
Martin Reuter (I. Physics, U. Mainz)
Jorge Russo (ICREA, Barcelona)
Rafael Sorkin (Perimeter & Syracuse U.) – to be confirmed
Kelly Stelle (Imperial College)
Daniel Sudarksy (UNAM, Mexico City)
Diego Trancanelli (USP Sao Paulo)
Breno Vallilo (Andres Bello U., Santiago)
Erik Verlinde (U. Amsterdam)

Registration deadline: June 30, 2013

Registration fee: R$ 30 for students and R$ 60 for all other participants. It must be paid in cash upon arrival at the conference.

Financial help: We may be able to provide financial help for some Latin-American participants. After registering please send an email to rivelles[AT]fma.if.usp.br stating your needs. Participants from Sao Paulo state must apply until June 1, 2013.

Lecturers:

Abhay Ashtekar (IGC, Penn State) – The Very Early Universe
Juan Maldacena (IAS Princeton) – AdS-CFT
Alejandro Perez (CPT, AMU Marseille) – Loop Quantum Gravity
Martin Reuter (Mainz) – Asymptotic Safety
John Schwarz (Caltech) – String Theory
Rafael Sorkin (Perimeter) – Fundamentally Discrete Spacetime
Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam) – Entropic Gravity

Deadline for application: 30 June 2013

Current effort of reaching such an extreme electromagnetic quantum regime is being currently approached also in MegaJoule Laser Projects in Europe, Russia, USA. In addition a prolonged emission appear to be related to rotating electromagnetic BH (~10 Msun). in microquasars. The presence of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) of 10^8-10^9 Msun. appear to be related to active galactic nuclei, Blazars and Quasars. There is the possibility that unlike the 10 Msun BHs, which are formed by the gravitational collapse of baryonic matter, the SMBHs can originate from the gravitational collapse of Dark Matter.

This meeting will address both observational/experimental and theoretical aspects. From an observational point of view results obtained from very high energy(VHE) observatories: from the ground such as HESS, MAGIC, AUGER and from next generation instruments will be reviewed. Similarly will be reviewed the observations from Space Observatories in X and Gamma Rays such as Agile, Fermi, Swift, MAXI and NuStar. The complementary observations in Microwave and infrared bands from Planck mission will be presented. Ongoing progress for experimental facilities to look for coincidence with Gravitational waves detectors and Neutrinos detectors will be also reviewed. From a theoretical point of view attention will be given to progress in understanding quantum and classical phenomena related to the physics of BHs and to the process of extraction of the Black Holic Energy (BHE).

In 2011 the FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg initiated the Emerging Field Programme that supports research fields which have demonstrated a promising development but are just beginning to establish themselves in the scientific landscape. One of these “emerging fields” is “Quantum Geometry”. In this Emerging Field Project, the expertise of both mathematicians and physicists are brought together in order to make progress in our understanding of Quantum Gravity. From the physics perspective, the task of combining the principles of General Relativity with those of Quantum Theory is one of the most important research problems in foundational physics. This requires novel mathematical input since the standard techniques of Quantum Field Theory fail in the case of the gravitational interaction.
From the mathematical perspective, the new mathematical structures that arise in this effort may trigger progress in various mathematical disciplines such as infinite dimensional geometry, representation theory and related areas of Mathematical Physics. The interaction between mathematicians and physicists is therefore quite natural in this research field but but it poses a challenge due to the different backgrounds that these two research communities have. It is therefore the aim of this school to introduce the concepts and techniques of the respective research programme in a “bilingual” form from which both mathematicians and physicists can profit and can start interacting with each other.

The school will cover the following topics:

Causal Dynamical Triangulations
Conformal Quantum Field Theory
Representation Theory of Lie Groups
Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories and Topological Field Theories

Lecturers

Renate Loll (Nijmengen U.)
Bernd Orsted (Aarhus U.)
Karl-Henning Rehren (Goettingen U.)
Christoph Schweigert (Hamburg U.)

In addition to plenary talks, several sessions devoted to the next generation of gravitational physicists. The senior scientists will also serve as “mentors” to the attending younger generation of researchers.

We invite abstracts from both senior researchers, postdocs and students pursuing research in the fields covered by the meeting.

The early registration fee is 200 EUR (including the conference dinner) by June 15. After this date the fee is 350 EUR (including the conference dinner). For more information about the KSM follow the conference website and the related links about the program and registration or write ksm2013@fias.uni-frankfurt.de.

The current list of confirmed key note speakers includes:

Alfio Bonanno (Catania Astrophysical Observatory)
Silke Britzen (MPI for Radioastronomy, Bonn)
Bernard Carr (QMU, London)
Georgi Dvali (LMU and MPI for Physics, Munich & NYU)
Steven Gubser (Princeton U.)
Andreas Karch (Washington U., Seattle)
Claus Laemmerzahl (Bremen U. and ZARM, Bremen)
Greg Landsberg, (Brown U. and CERN)
Frank Linhard (Frankfurt U.)
Reinhard Meinel (Jena U.)
Robert Mann (Waterloo U. and Perimeter Institute)
John Moffat (Waterloo U. and Perimeter Institute)
Leonardo Modesto (Fudan U., Shanghai)
Thanu Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune)
Luciano Rezzolla (MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
Kellog Stelle (Imperial College, London)
Leonard Susskind (Stanford U.)
Herman Verlinde (Princeton U.)
Robert Wald (Chicago U. and EFI, Chicago)
Clifford Will (Florida U., Gainesville and Washington U., Saint Louis)

Scientific Advisory Board

Jacob Bekenstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland, College Park)
Joseph Polchinski (University of California and KITP, Santa Barbara)
Martin Reuter (Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz)
Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University and CPT Marseille)
Dam T. Son (University of Chicago).

Organizing Committee

Marcus Bleicher (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Matthias Kaminski (University of Washington, Seattle)
Jonas Mureika (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles)
Piero Nicolini (Goethe University Frankfurt)

The format of the meeting will follow previous regional Gravity meetings, where all participants may present a talk of approximately 10-15 minutes, depending on the total number of talks.

Registration and abstract submission is now open at

http://cita.utoronto.ca/conferences/easterngravity13/

This website also contains information about accommodation and general visitor information to Toronto.

The IWARA meetings are devoted to Cosmology, Gravitation, Cosmic Rays, Compact Objects and Astroparticle Physics.

The main subject of the IWARA in the last five editions was “New Phenomena and New States of Matter in the Universe”. Contributions in the realms of General Relativity, Gravitation, Cosmology, Heavy Ion Collisions and the Quark-Gluon Plasma, White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Pulsars, Black Holes, Gamma Ray Bursts, High-Energy Cosmic Rays, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Strange Matter and Strange Stars, Antimatter and Ion Research and Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory, are traditionally included among the topics covered in the Workshop.

A block of rooms have been reserved for Capra attendees at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. There will be a free shuttle bus organised to bring attendees from the hotel to the conference venue and back each day. Half of the reserved rooms will be released on May 14th, so in order to guarantee availability attendees are strongly encouraged to book before then – booking details are available on the conference website: http://maths.ucd.ie/capra16/

This is the second circular of the Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (ERE2013), an  international conference to be held at the Pedro Pascual Center of Science, Benasque, Spain, from September 9 to September 12, 2013.

This year the conference is organized by the groups in Barcelona (Departament de Fisica Fonamental, Univ. Barcelona, Institut de Ciencies de l’Espai (CSIC-IEEC), Departament de Fisica and IFAE, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona). ERE 2013 will cover most of the areas of modern General Relativity – from cosmology and gravitational waves, to quantum gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence and its applications.

On Tuesday, September 10th, there will be a session dedicated to the memory of Jose Alberto Lobo, a much esteemed and sorely missed member of our group and of the Spanish relativity community, who passed away on 30 September 2012. Prof. Lobo played a major role in boosting the research on gravitational radiation in Spain.

The program will run from the morning of 9 September until the evening of 12 September. Participants are expected to arrive in Benasque on 8 September and depart on 13 September. Please note that the Benasque Center will provide bus transportation from and to Barcelona for participants staying through the entire duration of the conference.

The web registration for the workshop is open at the conference website

http://www.benasque.org/2013ere/

Registration fees:

SEGRE members: 200 Euros (250 Euros after 1 July 2013)
Non SEGRE members: 250 Euros (300 Euros after 1 July 2013)

The registration fee will cover bus transportation from and to Barcelona, refreshments, and a conference dinner. If you want to join the SEGRE society (http://www.segre.es/es/presentacion.shtml) you can do so by going to http://www.segre.es/docs/membership.pdf.

The meeting will consist of plenary sessions with talks by invited speakers in the morning, and contributed talks in parallel sessions in the afternoon. The list of invited speakers is:

Invited Speakers

- Carlos Barcelo (IAA Granada)
- Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado (U. Pais Vasco)
- Diego Blas (CERN)
- Karsten Danzmann (AEI and Hannover U.)
- Oscar Dias (Saclay SPhT)
- Cesar Gomez (IFT-U. Autonoma de Madrid)
- Carlos Herdeiro (U. Aveiro)
- Kyriakos Papadodimas (CERN & U. Groningen)
- Bernard Schutz (AEI Golm)
- Alicia Sintes (U. Illes Balears)
- Licia Verde (ICREA & U. Barcelona)

Participants who would like to contribute a talk in the parallel sessions can apply by submitting a title and abstract in the registration website. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2013. Participants will be informed shortly afterwards whether their contribution has been accepted.

There will not be a proceedings volume, but we are considering the possibility that the slides or write-ups of the talks be made available online.

The SEGRE society has a limited number of grants to support expenses of some Ph.D. students. The grants can cover the registration fee and/or accommodation and/or travel expenses. The application for financial support can be made through the registration website. Participants will be informed of the decision by 20 June 2013.

The Benasque Center for Science provides a stimulating environment for research. Benasque is a picturesque village nestled in the Spanish Pyrenees. The beautiful mountain atmosphere provides for many outdoor activities – for further information please consult http://www.benasque.org/

We look forward to seeing you in Benasque,

The organizers of ERE2013

Roberto Emparan
Jaume Garriga
Josep Llosa
Oriol Pujolas
Carlos Sopuerta

The next Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis Meeting (NRDA) will be held at the Club Pollentia Resort, Mallorca, Spain, from 18-21 September 2013, and hosted by the Gravitational Physics Group at the University of the Balearic Islands.

The purpose of the meeting will be to bring together numerical relativists, gravitational wave data analysts, analytical relativists and a wider gravitational wave physics audience to advance the interface of numerical simulations of the Einstein equations with gravitational wave observations.

The meeting program will start on September 18 in the morning, and conclude with lunch on September 21.
Participants traveling to the LVC meeting will find several daily direct flights to Hannover available.

For further information on the meeting see the website http://www.grg.uib.es/NRDA13/

Lodging:
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The meeting will be held at a four-star resort located in a nature reserve on the coast of Mallorca. A block of 50 rooms has been reserved on an all inclusive board basis until ** May 28th **, afterwards we cannot guarantee hotel reservation or price. Cancellations before Sep 10, 2013 do not incur a cancellation fee [in case of last minute cancellations our travel agent will try to negotiate a full or partial waiver of standard hotel cancellation fees].

Note that there is no alternative accommodation available in the immediate vicinity – accommodation should therefore be booked ** before May 28 ** (further hotels are however available within a few km radius).

Topics of the workshop:

Observational Cosmology. Planck results.
Dark Energy: origin, evolution and observational properties.
Observational properties of Galaxies.
Dark Matter in Galaxies, Groups and Clusters.
Old and New Dark Matter candidates.
Direct and Indirect Dark Matter searches.
Simulations in Galaxy/Cluster Formation.
Abandoning the LCDM Universe paradigm?
Ultra high energy cosmic rays.
Modifying Newton-Einstein Theory of Gravity?

Scientific Organizing Committee:
Pyungwon Ko (KIAS, South Korea)
Carlos Muñoz (UAM/IFT, Spain)
Christiane Frigerio Martins (UFF Brasil)
Shaban Khalil (BUE, Egypt)
Keith Olive (Minnesota University, USA)
Csaba Balazs (Monash University, Australia)
David Delepine (Guanajauato University, Mexico)
Qaisar Shafi (Delaware University, USA)
Yu-Feng Zhou (KITPC/ITP-CAS, China)
Paolo Salucci (SISSA, Italy)

Local Organizing Committee:
Paolo Salucci (SISSA, Italy)
Andrea Lapi (SISSA, Italy)
Gigi Danese (SISSA, Italy)
Piero Ullio (SISSA, Italy)
Mariafelicia De Laurentis (SISSA, Italy)

Invited Speakers (in alphabetical order):

Ivan Booth
Ramin Daghigh
Saurya Das
Rainer Dick
Valeri Frolov
Jack Gegenberg
David Hobill
Viqar Husain
Gabor Kunstatter
Kayll Lake
Robert Mann
Don Page
Kristin Schleich
Rafael Sorkin
William Unruh
Ethan Vishniac

Black Holes IX-Theory & Mathematical aspects will be held in Saskatoon, SK, Canada from May 12 (arrival date) to May 16 (departure time), 2013. This conference is the 9th conference on the Theory and Mathematical aspects of Black Holes held every two years in Canada. We are encouraging graduate students to attend and present their research in the meeting.

The meeting covers a wide variety of topics such as exact black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations in higher and lower dimensions, the search for and properties of astrophysical black holes, uniqueness theorems, black hole thermodynamics, dark matter and dark energy, loop-quantum gravity and string-theoretic approaches to black hole physics, gauge-gravity duality, numerical studies of black hole collisions, gravitational wave production in systems containing black holes, and critical gravitational collapse.

There will be 25 hours of lectures, as follows:

“Crash course on differential geometry” (speaker to be determined);
“Introduction to general relativity” by Helmut Friedrich (AEI Golm);
“Lorentzian causality” by Gregory Galloway (Miami);
“Constraint equations” by Justin Corvino (Lafayette);
“The Evolution problem in General Relativity” by Hans Ringstroem (KTH Stockholm):
“Wave equations on black hole space-times” by Gustav Holzegel (Imperial, London);

The members of the scientific committee are Robert Beig (Vienna), Piotr T. Chrusciel (Vienna), Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton), Helmut Friedrich (AEI Golm), Gregory Galloway (Miami), and Richard Schoen (Stanford).

Experimental and observational searches for CPT and Lorentz violation involving
- accelerator and collider experiments
- atomic, nuclear, and particle decays
- birefringence, dispersion, and anisotropy in cosmological sources
- clock-comparison measurements
- CMB polarization
- electromagnetic resonant cavities and lasers
- tests of the equivalence principle
- gauge and Higgs particles
- high-energy astrophysical observations
- laboratory and gravimetric tests of gravity
- matter interferometry
- neutrino oscillations and propagation, neutrino-antineutrino mixing
- oscillations and decays of K, B, D mesons
- particle-antiparticle comparisons
- post-newtonian gravity in the solar system and beyond
- second- and third-generation particles
- sidereal and annual time variations, compass asymmetries
- space-based missions
- spectroscopy of hydrogen and antihydrogen
- spin-polarized matter
- time-of-flight measurements

Theoretical and phenomenological studies of CPT and Lorentz violation involving
- physical effects at the level of the Standard Model, General Relativity, and beyond
- origins and mechanisms for violations
- classical and quantum field theory, particle physics, classical and quantum gravity, string theory
- mathematical foundations, Finsler geometry

Information about the meeting and online registration, including instructions on submitting a talk or poster, are available on the meeting web site.

There will be a series of accessible review talks aimed at non-experts about a number of topics including: gravitational wave physics, reduced order modeling, gravitational wave data analysis, approximation theory, numerical relativity, compressed sensing, and more.

We invite contributions for posters in these and related areas. There will also be a workshop dinner event provided on June 6th. You may register through the workshop’s website:

http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~rom-gr

Further information can be found at the website, which will be updated regularly.

We look forward to seeing you at Caltech this June!

Manuel Tiglio
Jan Hesthaven
Scott Field
Chad Galley

Dear Colleagues,

The next Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW) will be held in Pune, India from 17-20 December 2013. It will be hosted by the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune. GWPAW was formerly called GWDAW. It is a general meeting on the physics and astronomy of gravitational waves, techniques for their detection, and interpretation of data and results. The primary purpose of this early first circular is to apprise prospective attendees of the meeting dates so that they may take them into account, e.g., when they plan for their year-end travel. More information about this meeting will be posted soon at: http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~gwpaw

Most participants that are not Indian Citizens or holders of the OCI / PIO card will require an Indian visa to visit Pune. The second circular, which will be announced this summer, will contain instructions on visa procurement. It will also contain important deadlines for registration, abstract submission, and accommodation.

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee I am looking forward to welcoming you in Pune in December 2013.

Sincerely,
Sukanta Bose
Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)
Post Bag 4
Ganeshkhind, Pune University Campus
Pune 411 007, India

The previous meetings were held:
IK12 – July 4-8, 2011 – Pescara, Italy
IK11 – November 2-4, 2009 – Seoul, South Korea
IK10 – June 25-30, 2007 – Pescara
IK 9 – July 19-24, 2005 – Sogang University, Seoul
IK 8 – 18 August 2003 – 23 August 2003, Rome – Pescara, Italy
IK 7 – July 23rd – 28th 2001 – Inje University, Kimhae, Korea and Kangwha Island
IK 6 – July 12 – 24, 1999 – Rome and Pescara, Italy
IK 5 – August 1997 – Korea
IK 4 – July 1995, 10-15 – Rome University – Gran Sasso Laboratory – Pescara
IK 3 – July 1991 – Ewha Woman’s University – Seoul
IK 2 – July 1989 – Rome University – Limone Piemonte
IK 1 – September 1987 – Seoul – Sorak Montain

The members of IOC are the following:
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia home mail (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Vladimir Belinski (“Sapienza” Università di Roma and ICRANet)
Carlo Luciano Bianco(“Sapienza” Università di Roma and ICRANet)
Donato Bini (CNR – Ist. per Applicaz. del Calcolo “M. Picone”)
Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti (Indian Centre For Space Physics, India)
Pascal Chardonnet (Université de Savoie )
Christian Cherubini (Università “Campus Biomedico” di Roma)
Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)
Jann Einasto (Tartu Observatory)
Simonetta Filippi (Università di Roma “Campus Biomedico” and ICRANet)
Sergio Frasca (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Filippo Frontera (Università di Ferrara)
Jean-Marc Gambaudo (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Yipeng Jing (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China)
Hagen Kleinert (Freie Universitat Berlin)
Jin Young Kim Kunsan National University
Sang Pyo Kim Kunsan National University
Sung Won Kim Ewha Womans University
Bumhoon Lee (C QUeST, Sogang University)
Chang-Hwang Lee (Pusan National University)
Hyungwon Lee (Inje University) – CO-CHAIRMAN
Hyun Lee Kyu (Hanyang University)
Olivier Legrand (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Francois Mignard (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur)
Hermann Nicolai (Max Plank Institute for Gravitational Physics, Postdam)
Mario Novello (Brazilian Centre For Physics Research, Brazil)
Myeong-Gu Park (Kyungpook National University)
Elène Politano (Ecole Doctorale Nice)
Kjell Rosquist (Stockholm University)
Jorge Rueda (SAPIENZA Università di Roma and ICRANet)
Remo Ruffini (SAPIENZA Università di Roma and ICRANet) – CO-CHAIRMAN
Felix Ryde (Stockholm University)
Farrokh Vakili (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur)
Gregory Vereshchagin (SAPIENZA Università di Roma and ICRANet)
She-Sheng Xue (SAPIENZA Università di Roma and ICRANet)
Shuangnan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics – Chinese Academy of Science)

Topics:

From the WMAP9 results to the Planck and LHC results: Scientific lessons and scientific results. Status of the Standard Model of the Universe: inflation theory, warm dark matter and sterile neutrinos, dark energy: the quantum cosmological vacuum. High energy astrophysics and particle physics from Space. Neutrinos. Speakers: Roberto Battiston, Giovanni Bignami, Hector de Vega, Attilio Ferrari, Piero Galeotti, Nadia Pastrone, Norma G. Sanchez, and other lecturers.

Open sessions will also take place in the framework of the Colloquium.
Organized by INFN-Torino, INAF-OATo, Centro Unesco Torino

The members of IOC are the following:
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Vladimir Belinski (“Sapienza” Università di Roma and ICRANet)
Carlo Luciano Bianco(“Sapienza” Università di Roma and ICRANet)
Donato Bini (CNR – Ist. per Applicaz. del Calcolo “M. Picone”)
Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti (Indian Centre For Space Physics, India)
Pascal Chardonnet (Université de Savoie ) CO-CHAIRMAN
Christian Cherubini (Università “Campus Biomedico” di Roma)
Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)
Jann Einasto (Tartu Observatory)
Simonetta Filippi (Università di Roma “Campus Biomedico” and ICRANet)
Sergio Frasca (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Filippo Frontera (Università di Ferrara)
Jean-Marc Gambaudo (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Yipeng Jing (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China)
Hagen Kleinert (Freie Universitat Berlin)
Olivier Legrand (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Francois Mignard (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur)
Hermann Nicolai (Max Plank Institute for Gravitational Physics, Postdam)
Mario Novello (Brazilian Centre For Physics Research, Brazil)
Elène Politano (Ecole Doctorale Nice)
Kjell Rosquist (Stockolm University)
Jorge Rueda (SAPIENZA Università di Roma and ICRANet)
Remo Ruffini (“Sapienza” Università di Roma and ICRANet) CHAIRMAN
Felix Ryde (Stockholm University)
Farrokh Vakili (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur)
Gregory Vereshchagin (SAPIENZA Università di Roma and ICRANet)
She-Sheng Xue (SAPIENZA Università di Roma and ICRANet)
Shuangnan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics – Chinese Academy of Science)

The program can be found at http://www.icranet.org/2nd_bego. Ample time for discussions will be granted. The major topics to be discussed are Neutron Stars and Black Holes, Cosmology, Gamma Ray Bursts, Dark Matter, Supernovae, strong fields in experiments on earth ground and from space.

For information, please contact:
Annapia Del Beato annapia.delbeato[AT]icranet.org
Federica Di Berardino Federica.diberardino[AT]icranet.org

In the period of the meeting many social events, including the Gran-Prix-Monaco, will occur in the Côte d’Azur, therefore an early registration will be necessary for the accommodation.

Registration fees of 150 euros will be requested. The deadline for early registration is April 15th, 2013

Topics include:

Observational and theoretical progress on the nature of dark matter: keV scale warm dark matter. Cored density profiles in agreement with observations. Large and small scale structure formation in agreement with observations at large scales and small (galactic) scales. Warm (keV scale) dark matter from theory and observations. The new quantum mechanical framework to galactic structure. WDM core sizes in agreement with observations. Supermassive Black Holes: Theory and Observations. The clarifing and unifying WDM framework for stars, galaxies and cosmology. Warm (keV scale) dark matter N-body simulations in agreement with observations at large and intermediate scales. Neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology. The new serious dark matter candidate: Sterile neutrinos at the keV scale. Active neutrinos mass bounds from cosmological data and from high precision beta decay experiments. Dark energy: cosmological constant: the quantum energy of the cosmological vacuum. The analysis of the CMB + LSS + SN data with the effective (Ginsburg-Landau) effective theory of inflation: New Inflation (double well inflaton potential) strongly favored by the CMB + LSS + SN data. The lower bound for the primordial gravitons (non vanishing tensor to scalar ratio r) with the present CMB+LSS+SN data. CMB news and polarization. Forecasts and Planck results and other topics.

Informations on the Colloquium are given at:

http://www.chalonge.obspm.fr/colloque2013.html

Early registration is strongly encouradged

Informations on the previous Paris Cosmology Colloquia and of the School events are available at

http://chalonge.obspm.fr

(Lecturers, lists of participants, .pdf lecture files, Highlights and Conclusions and photos during the Colloquia).

Looking forward to Welcome you in Paris.

The meeting will bring together both working specialists in the field of black holes and rising young researchers to foster new conversations and collaborations. Invited speakers will deliver plenary talks on a wide range of black hole theory, highlighting their applications to astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, and strongly correlated systems.

In addition to plenary talks, several sessions devoted to the next generation of gravitational physicists. The senior scientists will also serve as “mentors” to the attending younger generation of researchers.

Karl Schwarzschild was a native of Frankfurt who published his first papers while attending the Gymnasium Frankfurt in the late 1880s. This year (2013) will mark the 140th anniversary of his birth. The conference will be held at at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and at the Goethe University’s new Otto Stern Center, whose namesake was a member of the Physics Department where, along with Walther Gerlach, their 1922 groundbreaking quantum spin experiment was performed.

The current list of confirmed key note speakers includes:

Alfio Bonanno (Catania Astrophysical Observatory)
Silke Britzen (MPI for Radioastronomy, Bonn)
Georgi Dvali (LMU and MPI for Physics, Munich & NYU)
Steven Gubser (Princeton U.)
Andreas Karch (Washington U., Seattle)
Claus Laemmerzahl (Bremen U. and ZARM, Bremen)
Greg Landsberg, (Brown U. and CERN)
Frank Linhard (Frankfurt U.)
Reinhard Meinel (Jena U.)
Robert Mann (Waterloo U. and Perimeter Institute)
John Moffat (Waterloo U. and Perimeter Institute)
Leonardo Modesto (Fudan U., Shanghai)
Thanu Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune)
Luciano Rezzolla (MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
Kellog Stelle (Imperial College, London)
Leonard Susskind (Stanford U.)
Herman Verlinde (Princeton U.)
Robert Wald (Chicago U. and EFI, Chicago)
Clifford Will (Florida U., Gainesville and Washington U., Saint Louis)

For more information about the KSM follow the link https://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/ksm2013/ or write to nicolini[AT]fias.uni-frankfurt.de.

Scientific Advisory Board
Jacob Bekenstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland, College Park)
Joseph Polchinski (University of California and KITP, Santa Barbara)
Martin Reuter (Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz)
Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University and CPT Marseille)
Dam T. Son (University of Chicago).

Organizing Committee
Marcus Bleicher (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Matthias Kaminski (University of Washington, Seattle)
Jonas Mureika (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles)
Piero Nicolini (Goethe University Frankfurt)

The program features morning plenary talks complemented by contributed talks. Those wishing to give contributed talks are urged to register at http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/conferences/loops-13 as early as possible. Some financial support will be available for PhD students, and postdocs who apply to give talks. The deadline to apply for financial support is Friday, April 12. Applications will be reviewed after the deadline and selected participants will be contacted if support is available.

The plenary talks give an exciting and diverse overview of the field and are listed on the webpage and poster. A few talks will be selected closer to the date to report on breaking developments. The conference program will also feature panel discussions and debates. Review sessions will be available to orient non-experts to the different approaches featured in the conference.

We very much hope that you will be able to take part in this exciting occasion and look forward to welcoming you this July in Waterloo!

The scientific organizing committee:

Bianca Dittrich
Laurent Freidel
Lee Smolin

SUMMARY: The Workshop addresses the last and fast progresses made in Warm Dark Matter (WDM) Galaxies in agreement with Observations including the new quantum mechanical framework to galaxy structure reproducing in particular the observed galaxy density cores and their sizes.

Warm Dark Matter solves naturally the serious problems of Cold Dark Matter Galaxies, (CDM + baryons), clarifies and simplifies the present galaxy model situation and agrees with the observations at small as well as large and cosmological scales.

This turning point in the galaxy research and the new unifying WDM framework of stars, galaxies and cosmology will be discussed. The Workshop addresses as well the experimental search and astrophysical constraints for the WDM particle candidate keV sterile neutrino.

In the tradition of the Chalonge School, an effort of clarification and synthesis is made by combining in a conceptual framework, predictive theory, analytical, observational and numerical simulation results.

The Meeting is open to all scientists interested in the subject. Advanced students, post-docs, young scientists are encouradged to participate. The format of the Meeting is intended to allow easy and fruitful mutual contact and communication.

Early Registration is strongly encouraged.

URL: http://chalonge.obspm.fr/Cias_Meudon2013.html

We look forward to welcome you at Meudon

With Compliments and kind regards

Norma G. Sanchez, Hector J. de Vega

http://chalonge.obspm.fr

Hector J. DE VEGA (Director of Research at CNRS, UPMC LPTHE, Paris) “Latest news of the universe, from its origins to the present day.”

Noël Dimarcq (Director of Research at CNRS and Director of the SIRTE Laboratory, Observatoire de Paris) “Measurement and Difussion of time, atoms and talking clock.”

Helios JAIME (Linguist, epistemologist, University of Sorbonne, Paris) “Ideo-semantics and epistemology in scientific culture”

Norma G. SANCHEZ (Research Director at the CNRS, Observatoire de Paris LERMA Laboratory, Director of the International School of Astrophysics Daniel Chalonge) “The latest news from the universe from its origins to the present day and the 2013 program of the Chalonge School”

Francois SEVRE (Engineer at CNRS, IAP Paris) and Norma G. SANCHEZ “Daniel Chalonge Archives and instruments from its origins to the present day”

Michel Ange TOGNINI (Brigadier General of the Army Air Force, Astronaut, Commander of the Legion of Honor, France) “Highlights from my Space Missions”

Alba ZANINI (INFN-Turin University, Turin City Ambassador for Culture Science) “The Chalonge School Programme at Turin in 2013.” and “The Extreme Laboratories from High Mountain to Antarctica”
URL: http://chalonge.obspm.fr/Programme2013.html

http://chalonge.obspm.fr

The Grav13 will be held in Villa General Belgrano, Córdoba (ARGENTINA), from April 15th through April 19th, 2013.

The venue of the conference is the Howard Johnson hotel:

http://www.hjlavilla.com.ar/

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.99345&lon=-64.55739&zoom=17&layers=M

The conference is intended to bring together specialists working on gravitation and closely related topics, including classical and quantum gravity, mathematical 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.

The working languages of the conference will be Spanish and English.

A list of invited speakers includes:

Heinz O. Kreiss, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Juan Valiente Kroon, University of London, England.
Alejandro Perez, Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille.
Jorge Pullin, Lousiana State University, USA.
Walter Simon, University of Vienna, Austria.
Manuel Tiglio, University of Maryland.
Gabriela Vila, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

For registration, information on hotel reservation and rates, and updates on the Grav13 meeting please check the web page:

http://www2.famaf.unc.edu.ar/grupos/grg/grav13/

We have extended the deadline for applications and abstract submissions until March 24th, 2013. Both the application form and abstract should be filed through the webform in the above page.

A registration fee AR$300 will be required. The payment should be in cash and can be done upon arrival at the conference’s hotel.

For hotel booking please contact Mr. Lucas Emmanuel Medina at the Hotel’s phone number (+54) (3546) 461 499 and mention that you will participate in the Grav13 conference to get the conference’s special hotel rates. Alternatively you can write to the Hotel’s special e-mail: eventos[AT]hjlavilla.com.ar

Further information on the General Relativity and Gravitation group at FaMAF and the previous Grav meetings can be found at

http://www2.famaf.unc.edu.ar/grupos/grg/index-en.html

We are glad to inform you about the XIth International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology of Asia – Pacific Countries (ICGAC-11), which will take place at the Al Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, October 1-5, 2013.

The program of conference includes original talks and poster communications, round tables and informal discussions on selected problems of gravitation, cosmology and relativistic astrophysics.

ICGAC-11 is a part of series of biennial conferences on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology which takes place in Asia-Pacific region with the goal to promote cooperation among the member countries and within an international context, to promote high level studies on hot topics and to encourage young physicists on these fields. The first meeting was initiated by Prof. Yong Min Cho, one of the founders of the APCTP, in 1993.

The previous meetings were held in :

1. Seoul, Korea (1993) at Seoul National University
2. Hsinchu, Taiwan (1995) at National Tsing Hua University
3. Tokyo, Japan (1997) at The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Tokyo University
4. Beijing, China (1999) at Beijing Normal University
5. Moscow, Russia (2001) at The Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, Peoples’ Friendship University
6. Seoul, Korea (2003) at Ewha Women’s University
7. Jhongli, Taiwan (2005) at National Central University
8. Nara, Japan (2007) at Nara Women’s University
9. Wuhan, China (2009) at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
10. Qui-Nhon, Vietnam (2011) with assistence of Rencontre du Vietam

ICGAC-11 topics include:

- Relativistic Astrophysics
- Classical and Quantum Cosmology
- Quantum gravity
- Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Variation of Constants
- Post-Newtonian and Analytic Approximations of GR
- Numerical Relativity
- Experimental studies of gravity
- Gravitational waves
- White Dwarfs, Neutron stars and Gamma Ray Bursts
- Strings, Branes and Extra dimensions
- Black holes, Wormholes
- Astroparticle Physics, Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmic rays

Sincerely,
Chair of LOC
Abishev Medeu