Subject: [Depfis] Grav09 conference

From: Susana Landau <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:53:50 -0200 (ARST)

We are pleased to announce that the conference Grav09 will be held in
La Falda, Córdoba (ARGENTINA), from April 13th through April 17th, 2009.
This is the third in a new series 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, gravity
in
arbitrary dimensions, astrophysics and astro-particle physics.

Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students are encouraged to
apply,
some limited funds will be available to cover living expenses for students,
as
well as postdocs and young researchers. The working languages of the
conference
will be English and Spanish.

A preliminary (as of October 2008) list of confirmed speakers includes:

Robert Beig, Vienna Univ, Austria
Helmut Friedrichs, AEI, Germany
Rodolfo Gambini, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Heinz Otto Kreiss, KTH, Sweden
Fernando Lombardo, UBA, Argentina
Cristián Martínez, CECS, Chile
Jorge Pullin, LSU, USA
Esteban Roulet, CAB, Argentina
Laszlo Szabados, RMKI, Hungary

For further information on the Grav09 meeting please check the web page

http://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~gdotti/grg/grav09/grav09.htm

For information on the General Relativity and Gravitation group at FaMAF,
and
on the previous Grav meetings see

http://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/~gdotti/grg/grge.html

Information on how to handle hotel reservations will be provided in the
second conference circular.