Grav15, 1st Circular

We are pleased to announce that the conference Grav15 will be held in La Falda, Córdoba (ARGENTINA), from April 13th through April 17th, 2015.

The venue of the conference is the Hotel del Lago:

http://www.hoteldellagolafalda.com.ar/

Hotel location (map)

This is the sixth in a new series ("GravYY") of conferences organized by the General Relativity and Gravitation Group at FaMAF (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) since the year 2006.

The conference is intended to bring together specialists working on gravitation and closely related topics, including classical and quantum gravity, mathematical relativity, numerical relativity, gravity in arbitrary dimensions, astrophysics and astro-particle physics.

Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students are encouraged to apply, limited funds will be available to pay partial living expenses for students.

The working languages of the conference will be Spanish and English.

A preliminary list of invited speakers includes:

Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH, Switzerland.
Helmut Friedrich, Max Plank Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany.
Philippe G. Le Floch, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada.
Julio Oliva, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
Eric Poisson, University of Guelph, Canada.
Jorge Pullin, Lousiana State University, USA.
Gustavo Romero, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Manuel Tiglio, University of California, San Diego, USA.


For registration, information on hotel reservation and rates, and updates on the Grav15 meeting please check the web page:

http://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~ortiz/grav15/

Applications should be filed through the webform in the above page before March 2nd, 2015. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 16th, 2015.

A registration fee AR$500 will be required, the method of payment will be informed in a second circular.

For hotel booking please contact the Hotel's reception desk Tel. 0054 (0)3548 422407/421266, write to hoteldellago@punillanet.com.ar, or fill in the "Formulario de Contacto" at the hotel's webpage.  When making your reservation please mention that you are attending the Grav15 meeting to get the special rates.

Further information on the General Relativity and Gravitation group at FaMAF and the previous Grav meetings can be found at

http://www2.famaf.unc.edu.ar/grupos/grg/