The next international Gen Rel and Cosmology conference (December in India)

[Martin]

The sixth International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology will be held December 17-21 in India.

This is the next conference of this type that I know of (general relativity, gravity, cosmology).

Checking out the programs at these conferences is a way to keep track of what professional cosmologists are interested in, talking about, doing research in these days.

Here is the homepage

http://meghnad.iucaa.ernet.in/~icgc07/index.html

Here is the list of plenary speakers.

http://meghnad.iucaa.ernet.in/~icgc07/sub/plenary.htm

There are 21 plenary speakers listed of which SEVEN are discussing Quantum Gravity. I see that one of the seven is string.

 

Parampreet Singh--- Big Bang Singularity Resolution in Loop Quantum Cosmology

...

Sumit Das--- Black Holes and Hawking Evaporation in String Theory

 

Alejandro Corichi--- Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity

 

Madhavan Varadarajan--- Black Hole Information Loss Puzzle in LQG

 

Carlo Rovelli--- Graviton Propagator

 

Laurent Freidel--- Low Energy imprints of Quantum Gravity

...

Martin Reuter--- Asymptotic safety

 

This is a broad spectrum conference covering all areas---observational, Xray BH study, numerical work, classic GR, gravity wave, CMB, Gravity Probe B. Look at the titles of all 21 talks to get an idea of the scope.

 

Besides the plenary talks there will be 3 parallel sessions, where people divide up to hear talks about their special areas of interest. The three parallel sessions are:

 

I Classical General Relativity and Gravitational Waves

 

II Cosmology

 

III Quantum Gravity

 

The most recent large conference of this type was GRG18 (The 18th international conference on General Relativity and Gravitation) in Sydney, in July 2007.

http://www.grg18.com/