Seattle, Washington
4 – 8 January 2015
PCOS will be participating in two upcoming events
(NOTE: Working titles, all speakers confirmed, but talk titles are notional.)
Sessions co-organized by Ann Hornschemeier and Chris Reynolds
| Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Astrophysical Tests of General Relativity | Clifford Will, University of Florida |
| A Historical Perspective on relativity theory and black holes | Charlie Misner |
| A Historical Perspective on High Energy Astrophysics and Constraints of General Relativity | Virginia Trimble, UC Irvine/UMD |
| Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Looking ahead to Space-based Measurements of Gravitational Waves | Neil Cornish, Montana State |
| Binary Pulsar Constraints on General Relativity | Michael Kramer, Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomie |
| Testing General Relativity with Cosmology | Rachel Bean, Cornell University |
Session Organized by Gabriela Gonzalez
| Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts | Daniel Holz, University of Chicago |
| A brief history of the search for gravitational waves | Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Detecting Gravitational waves of galactic and AU scales | Andrea Lommen, Franklin and Marshall College |
| Detecting gravitational waves with LIGO and Virgo detectors | Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
We are also planning activities at the PCOS table in the NASA SMD area.
Stay tuned! Plans are in progress and include a PCOS booth.
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1 – 5 Dec 2014 | GR 100 — Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Jena | Jena, Germany |
| With Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity entering its 100th year since its inception in 1915, we are organizing a workshop on one of its most profound predictions—gravitational waves. GR 100 — Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
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| 29 Dec 2014 – 8 Jan 2015 | 100 Years to General Relativity: From Theory to Experiment and Back; 32nd Winter School in Theoretical Physics | Jerusalem, Israel |
| The 32nd winter school in theoretical physics 100 Years to General Relativity: From Theory to Experiment and Back |
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| 4 – 8 January 2015 | American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting | Seattle, Washington |
| Three sessions concentrate on General Relativity: HEAD I: Centennial of General Relativity: An Astrophysical Perspective; HEAD II: Centennial of General Relativity: Looking Forward; The Quest for Gravitational Waves, 100 years After Einstein 225th AAS Meeting of the American Astronomical Society |
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| 10 – 14 February 2015 | Celebrating 100 Years of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity | Lahore, Pakistan |
| First International Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics organized by Department of Mathematics, University of the Punjab, Lahore Celebrating 100 Years of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity |
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| 12 – 16 February 2015 | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting | San Jose, California |
| Physics and Astronomy Symposium: General Relativity at 100: Looking Forward and Looking Back Meeting link: 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting Symposium link: Physics and Astronomy Symposium: General Relativity at 100 |
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| 11 – 14 April 2015 | APS April Meeting 2015 | Baltimore, Maryland |
| APS April Meeting 2015 | ||
| 8 – 12 June 2015 | 100 Years of General Relativity | Penn State University, Pennsylvania |
| International conference sponsored by the International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation and the Topical Group on Gravitation of the American Physical Society 100 Years of General Relativity |
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| 28 June – 5 July 2015 | XII International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (ICGAC-12) | Moscow, Russia |
| The Conference is devoted to 100 years of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity XII International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ICGAC-12) |
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| 12 – 18 July 2015 | Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting | Rome, Italy |
| Conference on recent developments in theoretical and experimental General Relativity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theory celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Einstein equations as well as the International Year of Light under the aegis of the United Nations. Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting |
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| 3 – 14 August 2015 | IAU General Assembly | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| The 29th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) | ||
| 30 Nov – 5 Dec 2015 | A Century of General Relativity | Berlin, Germany |
| The International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation — official centenary conference A Century of General Relativity |
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