This is the second announcement of the Io European Physical Society Conference on Gravitation to be held at the Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) from February 19th to February 21th, 2019.

The conference is organized by the Gravity Division of the European Physical Society

https://www.eps.org/members/group.aspx?code=GPD

and it is focused around key topics introduced  by invited speakers and followed by contributed talks. 

It is divided in the following sessions:

Gravity: Theory

Gravity: Experiments

Beyond Einstein's Gravity

Gravitational Waves

General Relativity and Cosmology

Registration is now open at

https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=15395

The submission of abstract for talks and posters is welcome on the session topics

We will award four young scientist authors of the best poster.

The deadline for abstract submission is January 7th, 2019,

the deadline for early registration and registration of students is January 11th, 2019. 

The LOC and the SOC are looking forward to welcoming you in Rome.
 

Invited speakers:

Gravity: Theory

  • Mathematical Relativity: Piotr T. Chrusciel  -- University of Vienna       
  • Numerical Relativity: Luciano Rezzolla  -- Goethe University of Frankfurt          
  • Quantum Gravity: Alejandro Perez — Aix-Marseille University   

 Gravity: Experiments

  • Geodesy: Juergen Mueller —  Leibniz Universität Hannover   
  • Gravity with cold atoms: Claus Lämmerzahl — University of Bremen 
  • Gravity on antimatter:  Michal Doser – CERN

Beyond Einstein's gravity

  • String theory: Marika Taylor – University of Southampton  
  • Modified gravity:  Vitor Cardoso –Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa  
  • Massive Gravity: Claudia de Rham –Imperial College London   

Gravitational Waves - GW

  • GWs  on the Earth: Giovanni Losurdo – Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. Pisa      
  • GWs in the Space: Karsten Danzmann — Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik , Hannover        
  • EPTA/SKA: Gemma Janssen — Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy

 General Relativity and Cosmology

  • Dark Energy Survey and weak-lensing:  Hendrik Hildebrandt – University of Bonn 
  • Measurement of PPN parameters with radio links in space: Luciano Iess – Sapienza University of Rome  
  • Microscope satellite results:   Joel Bergé  -- ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab