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Testing Gravity 2025 will be the 5th Testing Gravity conference hosted by Simon Fraser University. Held at the SFU Harbour Centre January 29 - February 1, 2025, it will bring together leading experts on various ways of testing laws of gravity. Testing Gravity remains a topical theme because of the unexplained nature of dark matter and dark energy and the long-standing failure to reconcile gravity with quantum physics. Like the previous meetings, TG2025 will feature latest updates from gravitational wave and astrophysical observatories, lab-based experiments, as well as discussions of recent theoretical advances. The conference aims to provide theorists working on extensions of General Relativity with a realistic perspective on what aspects of their theories can be tested. On the other hand, the experimentalists and observers will get a chance to learn about new ideas that their experiments can test.

Wednesday, January 29th, will feature a school with five review lectures given by some of the invited speakers providing background into the key topics covered by the conference. The main conference, January 30 – February 1, will include invited and contributed talks, and a poster session.

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In the history of numerical (or computational) general relativity, the “Frontiers” meeting in 1988 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA), played a pivotal role in establishing numerical relativity as a major topic in computational physics and simulation science. The “New Frontiers” meeting in 2006 at the AEI Potsdam convened following major breakthroughs in numerical simulations of binary systems. The most recent “Frontiers 2022” conference was instrumental in assessing the state-of-the-art and identifying future directions in numerical relativity. The upcoming “New Frontiers 2025: past, current and future challenges in Numerical Relativity” will emphasize the significant theoretical and computational challenges ahead, not only in understanding the observations of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts but also in comprehending the nature of gravity at a more fundamental level. Reflecting on past adversities and how our community overcame them may guide us in current and future endeavors. 

Main topics:

• Mathematical foundations
• Numerical methods for the Einstein and the radiation MHD equations
• High performance computing
• Astrophysics (binary mergers, gravitational waves, electromagnetic counterparts,…)
• Beyond current astrophysics and general relativity

The meeting will take place at the University of the Balearic Islands starting on July 21st and ending on July 25th, 2025. There is no registration fee.

Scientific Organizing Committee:

• M.Bezares (University of Nottingham)
• C.Bona (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
• B.Bruegmann (University of Jena)
• K.Clough (Queen Mary University of London)
• J.A.Font (Universitat de València)
• S.Husa (ICE-CSIC)
• L.Lehner (Perimeter Institute)
• C.Palenzuela (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
• M.Shibata (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

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The international conference on Neutron star Equation of State and Gravitational Waves (NEOSGrav2024) shall take place in Goa, India during 01 - 04 October 2024. It is being organized by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.

The scientific programme shall consist of invited review talks and some short oral presentations.

The following areas in the neutron star physics will be covered in the meeting:

• Fundamental Physics from Neutron stars
• Constraining Neutron Star EoS with Electromagnetic observations
• Constraining Neutron Star EoS with Gravitational waves
• Numerical modelling of Neutron Stars

In addition to the science sessions, there will be two public talks during the week at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Goa Campus and Goa Science Centre

Venue: All the scientific sessions shall be held at the Kenilworth Hotel, Goa.
Date: October 01 – 04, 2024

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Debarati Chatterjee (Chair) — IUCAA, Pune, India Prof. Dipankar Bhattacharya — Ashoka University, India Prof. Sukanta Bose — Washington State University, USA Prayush Kumar — ICTS, Bengaluru, India

Local Organizing Committee:

Debarati Chatterjee (IUCAA) M. S. Sahasrabudhe (IUCAA) S. Samuel (IUCAA) Yogesh Thakare (IUCAA) Kinjal Banerjee (BITS Pilani, Goa) Tarun Kumar Jha (BITS Pilani, Goa) Reshma Raut Dessai (Goa University) Ananthraman S.V. (Ashoka University)

IUCAA Advisory Committee:

Durgesh Tripathi — IUCAA, Pune, India Ranjeev Mishra — IUCAA, Pune, India

For any queries: Please write email to – neosgrav2024(at)iucaa.in

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The international conference on Neutron star Equation of State and Gravitational Waves (NEOSGrav2024) shall take place in Goa, India during 01 - 04 October 2024. It is being organized by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.

The scientific programme shall consist of invited review talks and some short oral presentations.

The following areas in the neutron star physics will be covered in the meeting:

1. Fundamental Physics from Neutron stars
2. Constraining Neutron Star EoS with Electromagnetic observations
3. Constraining Neutron Star EoS with Gravitational waves
4. Numerical modelling of Neutron Stars

In addition to the science sessions, there will be two public talks during the week at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Goa Campus and Goa Science Centre

Venue: All the scientific sessions shall be held at the Kenilworth Hotel, Goa.
Date: October 01 – 04, 2024

Scientific Organizing Committee:
Debarati Chatterjee (Chair) — IUCAA, Pune, India
Prof. Dipankar Bhattacharya — Ashoka University, India
Prof. Sukanta Bose — Washington State University, USA
Prayush Kumar — ICTS, Bengaluru, India

Local Organizing Committee:
Debarati Chatterjee (IUCAA)
M. S. Sahasrabudhe (IUCAA)
S. Samuel (IUCAA)
Yogesh Thakare (IUCAA)
Kinjal Banerjee (BITS Pilani, Goa)
Tarun Kumar Jha (BITS Pilani, Goa)
Reshma Raut Dessai (Goa University)
Ananthraman S.V. (Ashoka University)

IUCAA Advisory Committee:
Durgesh Tripathi — IUCAA, Pune, India
Ranjeev Mishra — IUCAA, Pune, India

For any queries: Please write email to – neosgrav2024(at)iucaa.in

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Gravity Shape Pisa 2024:  Exploring New Sources of Gravitational Waves
Gravity Shape Pisa (GraSP) 2024 is the 2nd edition of the International Conference GraSP, entirely organised by PhD students that supports the active participation of young researchers.

The event is organized to balance “senior” and “young” talk sessions in the fields of observative and theoretical gravitational wave physics. This will give the opportunity to early-stage researchers to spread their work, but also to experienced scientists to be aware about original research inputs coming from younger physicists. The conference will focus on still undetected sources of gravitational waves and their study in current and future detectors. Presentations will cover aspects of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics.

GraSP 2024 will take place in the Physics Department “E. Fermi” of the University of Pisa.

No FEE required.

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The second edition of the "Gravitational Wave Orchestra" in Annecy, following a first event in Louvain-la-Neuve in September 2022.

The idea of this series of workshops is to bring together international experts on the stochastic gravitational background. This background is the gravitational signal created by the ensemble of all sources, from the earliest instants of the Universe, that are too distant or too faint to be detected individually. We can think of an orchestra in which each instrument plays its own melody, and together form a symphony.

This conference aims to highlight the most recent advances and discoveries in this rather specialized field, with an emphasis on theory and data analysis. The format, which leaves plenty of time for discussion, encourages exchange. We are also planning tutorial sessions on the data analysis methods used by the various gravitational wave collaborations, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays and cosmic microwave background experiments.

The social events will be a conference by the artist Jan de Coninck on his project “the triangle”, which remind the Einstein Telescope and LISA, and a dinner cruise on the beautiful Annecy lake.

Invited speakers/Panel members/Tutors
Anirban Ain (University of Antwerp)
Quentin Baghi (APC, Paris)
Simon Biquard (APC, Paris)
Chiara Caprini (University of Geneva)
Giulia Cusin (IAP, Paris)
Irina Dvorkin (IAP, Paris)
Vuk Mandic (University of Minnessota, Mineapolis)
Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA, Pune)
Martina Muratore (AEI, Postdam)
Arianna Renzini (Milan University)
Joseph Romano (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Alba Romero (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Surabhi Sachdev (Georgia Tech University)
Mairi Sakellariadou (King’s College London)
Golam Shaifullah (University of Milano-Bicocca)

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The spacetime conferences bring together physicists and philosophers and provide a forum where aspects and implications of the nature and ontology of spacetime are discussed. The Scientific Organizing Committee hopes that these meetings will become one of the preferred biennial forums for reporting research results and having fruitful discussions with colleagues.

To have an idea of the location and the hotel, see pictures taken during the Third Minkowski Meeting.

16-19 September 2024

Hotel Sandy Beach
Albena 9620 (near) Varna, Bulgaria

Organized by the Minkowski Institute (Montreal)

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