[Users] Workshop announcement "New Frontiers in Strong Gravity" July 2020 in Benasque

[Helvi Witek]

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*Dear colleagues,*

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We would like to announce a two-week workshop “New frontiers in strong 
gravity” taking place in Benasque, Spain, from Jul 05–18 2020. The 
workshop’s web page is at http://benasque.org/2020relativity/. Please 
see the announcement below. Limited travel funds are available, with 
priority given to PhD students. We would appreciate it if you could 
forward the announcement to interested researchers in our field.


Best wishes,

Helvi

(on behalf of the organizers D. Blas, P. Figueras, E. Lim, L. Stein, H. 
Witek, S. Nissanke)


New frontiers in strong gravity


The highly nonlinear, strong-field regime of gravity holds the key to 
address long-standing puzzles in modern physics. These range from deeply 
theoretical questions concerning a consistent theory of quantum gravity 
and resulting modifications to general relativity, over the stability 
properties of black holes in traditional general relativity, to new 
insight into nuclear matter under extreme conditions in the context of 
neutron star and multimessenger astronomy.


In this two-week workshop (Jul 05–18, 2020) we will bring together 
leading experts as well as junior scientists and PhD students in these 
diverse research areas, to encourage communication and training across 
the fields and foster new research collaborations.


Invited speakers include:


• Samaya Nissanke • Tessa Baker • Roberto Emparan • Katy Clough • Enrico 
Barausse • Deirdre Shoemaker • Will East • Aaron Zimmerman • Thomas 
Sotiriou • Mihalis Dafermos • Maria Okounkova • David Mateos • Anne 
Davis • Rachel Rosen • Niels Warburton • Laura Bernard • Harald Pfeiffer


The number of participants is limited. We ask students to upload a short 
CV (maximal 2 pages). Limited travel support will be available, with 
priority given to students. To apply for travel support please include 
some text justifying your request for support on the registration page. 
Registration will close on May 25. Registration and more information is 
at the workshop’s web page, http://benasque.org/2020relativity/.

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Dr. Helvi Witek
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

247a Loomis Lab
1110 W Green St
Urbana, IL 61801
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