[Cosmo-pl] PoToR2: 100 yrs of GR, @Warsaw 23.11-28.11.2015

[Boud Roukema]

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The 2nd Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity:
100 Years of General Relativity

23-28 November 2015
Warsaw, Poland

at Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center (Śniadeckich 8)
and Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw (Pasteura 5)

http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~potor/potor15.html

LOC: Andrzej Królak, Jerzy Lewandowski, Adam Szereszewski, Piotr
Sułkowski, Andrzej Okołów, Wojciech Kamiński, Ryszard Kostecki

SOC: Piotr Jaranowski, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Jerzy Lewandowski, Jacek
Tafel, Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski, Andrzej Królak, Andrzej Trautman


Aims and Scope

The scientific program covers broad range of topics from the
mathematical structure of General Relativity (GR) and fundamental
issues of the classical gravity, through the mathematical models of
quantum gravity, to gravitational waves and their detection. Because
of the 100 anniversary of GR there will be an additional day of the
conference (11/28/2015) organized at the Faculty of Physics of
University of Warsaw that will have a special, historical
character. The goal of the conference is giving an account of
achievements of GR. This theory was being developed in many different
directions. All of them will be included in the conference. We will
invite experts from the leading world centers of mathematical
relativity and gravitational physics who will present the state of art
in our knowledge and understanding of the various areas of General
Relativity:

     Global Structure of space-time, Properties of Einstein's equations
     and evolution of initial data, Methods of deriving and properties
     of exact solutions, Numerical analysis of Einstein's equations,
     Black holes, Cosmology, relativistic astrophysics, Detection and
     analysis of gravitational waves, Models of quantum gravity, Higher
     dimensional generalizations of GR, History of General Relativity,
     Alternative theories of gravity.

Invited speakers include:

     Jan Ambjorn (University of Copenhagen); Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
     (La Sapienza, Rome); Piotr Bizoń (Jagiellonian University,
     Cracow); Piotr Chruściel (University of Vienna); Marek Demiański
     (University of Warsaw); Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge);
     George Ellis (University of Cape Town); Helmut Friedrich (MPI
     Golm); Hanoch Gutfreund (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem);
     Michał Heller (Copernicus Center, Cracow); Stefan Hollands*
     (Universitaet Leipzig); Roy Kerr*; Jerzy Kijowski (CFT, Warsaw);
     Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman (University of Wrocław); Andrzej Krasiński
     (Centrum Astronomiczne Mikołaja Kopernika, Warsaw); Jerzy
     Lukierski (University of Wrocław); Yongge Ma (Beijing Normal
     University); Paweł Mazur (University of South Carolina); Ezra
     T. Newman (University of Pittsburgh); Paweł Nurowski (University
     of Warsaw); Roger Penrose (Oxford University); Jürgen Renn (MPI
     Berlin); Martin Reuter (Universitaet Mainz); Bangalore
     S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff University); Gerhard Schäfer
     (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena); John Stachel (Boston
     University); Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology,
     Pasadena); Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (University of Warsaw)

* TBC

The conference will be organised jointly by: Stefan Banach
International Mathematical Center, Polish Society on Relativity, and
Uniwersytet Warszawski.
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