New Frontiers in Strong Gravity
(Benasque Science Center, Jul 07 - Jul 19, 2024)

Organizers:

D. Blas (ICREA/IFAE), P. Figueras (Queen Mary University of London), S. Nissanke (University of Amsterdam), L. Stein (University of Mississippi), H. Witek (UIUC)

The highly nonlinear, strong-field regime of gravity holds the key to address long-standing puzzles in modern physics. These range from deeply theoretical questions concerning a consistent theory of quantum gravity and resulting modifications to general relativity, over the stability properties of black holes in traditional general relativity, to new insight into nuclear matter under extreme conditions in the context of neutron star and multimessenger astronomy.

In this two-week workshop we will bring together leading experts as well as junior scientists in these diverse research areas, to encourage communication and training across the fields and to foster new research collaborations

Invited speakers

- Tomás Andrade (ICCUB, Spain)
- Yago Bea (ICCUB, Spain)
- Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany)
- Pippa Cole (GRAPPA, U. Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Isabel Cordero Carrión (Universitat de València, Spain)
- Maxence Corman (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & Waterloo U., Canada)
- Alex Grant (Virginia U., USA & Southampton U., UK)
- Aaron Held (École Normale Supérieure, France)
- Leah Jenks (Chicago U., KICP, USA)
- Andrea Mitridate (DESY, Germany)
- Ornella Piccinni (IFAE, Spain)
- Jocelyn Read (Cal State, Fullerton, USA)
- Mikel Sánchez Garitaonandia (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
- Hector Silva (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany)
- David Trestini (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia)
- Miguel Zumalacárregui (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany)

The number of participants is limited and we will notify accepted participants by 22 May 2024.

Bus transportation for participants will be organized by the Center. In particular, there will be a bus connection between Barcelona (including airport) and Benasque. The trip takes approximately 6 hours. Alternatively the trip by car takes approximately 3,5 hours from Barcelona, and 3,2 hours from Toulouse (connected by high-speed train to Paris) or Zaragoza (connected by high-speed train to Paris). The CCBPP center can also be reached with public transportation, using buses that depart from Zaragoza's (4 hours) and Barcelona's (6 hours) high speed train stations. 

Partially supported by the Gravity Theory Trust (GTT).

Funding

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