New Frontiers in Strong Gravity

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

- Josu Aurrekoetzea (MIT)
- Miguel Bezares (University of Nottingham)
- Chiara Caprini (CERN & Université de Genève) *
- Marina de Amicis (Perimeter Institute)
- Nils Deppe (Cornell) *
- Sebastian Ellis (King’s College London) *
- Elena Georgi (Columbia U)
- Archisman Ghosh (Ghent U)
- Ruth Gregory (King’s College London)
- Tanja Hinderer (University of Utrecht) *
- Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Vanderbilt)
- Alex Jenkins (University of Cambridge)
- Jay Kalinani (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) *
- Elisa Maggio (AEI Potsdam)
- Simone Mastrogiovanni (INFN)
- Julio Parra-Martinez (IHES)
- Harald Pfeiffer (AEI Potsdam) *
- Rafael Porto (DESY)
- B. Sathyaprakash (Penn State)
- Thomas Sotiriou (U of Nottingham)
- Leonard Susskind (Stanford U)
- Rodrigo Vicente (GRAPPA, UVA)
- Nils Vu (Caltech)
- Silke Weinfurtner (U of Nottingham)
- Sebastian Zell (MPI fur Physik)

* To be confirmed

Registration fee information

The registration fee for this conference is:

Regular fee: 350 eur.
Students fee: 400 eur.

The registration fee includes:

- organised bus transportation (reserve seat in advance)
- one reception buffet
- one coffee break with pastries a day
- use of the Centro de Ciencias facilities
- technical assistance and secretarial support


*Cancellation Policy*
A 30 euro charge will be applied for cancellations made up to 10 days before the conference start date.
A no refund policy will be applied to cancellations made after this date.

Bus transportation

The center provides free buses:
From Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 686, Metro: L3 Palau Reial at 15:00h (Note that the bus stops opposite University of Barcelona, Facultat de Física i Química)

From Barcelona airport ('El Prat', Terminal T2A: on leaving exit, turn left and you will find a police building called 'Mossos d'Esquadra'.
Cross the road using the zebra crossing and turn left. The bus will stop there) at 15:30h.

Return buses:
From Benasque to Barcelona airport and then university, departure at 9:00h.
The trip by bus to Barcelona takes 4-5h. approximately. The trip by car only takes 3h 30m.

Bus trajectories and dates:
- Barcelona-Benasque, Jul 19.
- Benasque-Barcelona, Jul 31.

Registration & accommodation

Application deadline is May 15

Further Information.

  • List of participants.
  • Scientific program.
  • Pictures