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<p class="gmail-p1">Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">(apologies if you receive the same information multiple times)<br>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><b><i>The extended abstract submission deadline for the 30th Texas Symposium is 7th October 2019.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">
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<p class="gmail-p1">The 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics takes place in Portsmouth, UK, from Sunday 15 to Friday 20 December 2019.
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<p class="gmail-p1">As convener of the parallel session on<b> Gravity / Numerical Relativity</b>, I would like to encourage you and your colleagues to submit an abstract for this session.</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">Registration for early-bird fees will end on 25 October 2019, and general registration will close on 22 November 2019. See the web site <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftexas2019.org%2F&data=01%7C01%7Chelvi.witek%40kcl.ac.uk%7C846733836f5f40de570508d7436d8cc7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=lMs6v0cU7Yw1ZE5i1KJex73W1GJv24vFdez9Z72yE5o%3D&reserved=0"><span class="gmail-s1">http://texas2019.org/</span></a> for
more details and the information appended below.<br>
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<p class="gmail-p1">I hope to see you in Portsmouth in December.</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">Best wishes,</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">Helvi<br>
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Dr. Helvi Witek
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology.
Department of Physics
King's College London
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<p class="gmail-p2"><b><i>The extended abstract submission deadline is 7th October 2019.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Early-bird registration fee payment deadline is 25th October. Registration closes 22nd of November. See the web site <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftexas2019.org%2F&data=01%7C01%7Chelvi.witek%40kcl.ac.uk%7C846733836f5f40de570508d7436d8cc7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=lMs6v0cU7Yw1ZE5i1KJex73W1GJv24vFdez9Z72yE5o%3D&reserved=0"><span class="gmail-s1">http://texas2019.org/</span></a> for
more details.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">The Texas meetings have covered topics such as black holes, gravitational waves, neutron stars, cosmic rays, dark matter and the early Universe since the first symposium, held in Dallas in 1963. Following the tradition of previous meetings,
the 2019 Symposium will cover a broad range of subjects in relativistic astrophysics, including:</p>
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<p class="gmail-p2">Gravity: Test of Gravity, Modified Gravity, Quantum Gravity, Numerical Relativity</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Cosmology: CMB, Reionisation, Early Universe, LSS, Lensing, Supernovae, Dark Energy, Simulations</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Gravitational Waves: Modelling, Sources, Experiments, Pulsar timing</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Messengers: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays, X-Rays, Neutrinos</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Relativity At Work: Black holes, AGN, Quasars, Neutron stars, Discs, Jets & Magnetic Fields</p>
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<p class="gmail-p2">Participants are invited to submit abstracts for presentations in parallel sessions covering topics listed below. Participants can each submit one abstract for consideration under one or more topics, to be selected by the convenor(s) named
below for each session. We may create additional parallel sessions where there is sufficient demand.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">GRAVITY – TESTS OF GRAVITY – Leonardo Gualtieri</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">GRAVITY – MODIFIED GRAVITY – Thomas Sotiriou</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">GRAVITY – QUANTUM GRAVITY – Mairi Sakellariadou</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">GRAVITY – NUMERICAL RELATIVITY – Helvi Witek</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">COSMOLOGY – COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND & RE-IONIZATION – Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">COSMOLOGY – EARLY UNIVERSE AND THE ORIGIN OF STRUCTURE – Matteo Fasiello</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">COSMOLOGY – LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE THEORY – Matteo Viel and Chris Clarkson</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">COSMOLOGY – GALAXY SURVEYS, LENSING, SUPERNOVAE – Hendrik Hildebrandt</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">COSMOLOGY – DARK ENERGY, COSMIC CONCORDANCE AND TENSIONS – Lucas Lombriser</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">COSMOLOGY – NUMERICAL COSMOLOGY AND SIMULATIONS – Christian Fidler and Jim Mertens</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">GRAVITATIONAL WAVES – MODELLING AND SOURCES – Kostas Kokkotas</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">GRAVITATIONAL WAVES – GROUND BASED EXPERIMENTS – Jess McIver</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">GRAVITATIONAL WAVES – SPACE BASED EXPERIMENTS, PULSAR TIMING – Carlos Sopuerta</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">MESSENGERS – COSMIC RAYS – Matthew Baring</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">MESSENGERS – GAMMA RAYS – Emma de Oña-Wilhelmi</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">MESSENGERS – X-RAYS – Paolo d’Avanzo</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">MESSENGERS – NEUTRINOS – Anna Franckowiak</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">RELATIVITY AT WORK – DISKS, JETS AND MAGNETIC FIELDS – Matt Middleton</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">RELATIVITY AT WORK – NEUTRON STARS – Vanessa Graber</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">RELATIVITY AT WORK – SUPERMASSIVE BLACKHOLES, AGN AND QUASARS – tba</p>
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<p class="gmail-p2"><b><i>The extended abstract submission deadline is 7th October 2019.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-p4"><span class="gmail-s2">Please register <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftexas2019.org%2Fregistration%2F&data=01%7C01%7Chelvi.witek%40kcl.ac.uk%7C846733836f5f40de570508d7436d8cc7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=JtQH6x7gSH65YeJChS1tjEF%2Br5yc9mnwZG0w1O9KCfE%3D&reserved=0">
<span class="gmail-s3">http://texas2019.org/registration/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4"><span class="gmail-s2">then submit your abstract <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftexas2019.org%2Fabstract-submission%2F&data=01%7C01%7Chelvi.witek%40kcl.ac.uk%7C846733836f5f40de570508d7436d8cc7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=HoOgqdCSZQUWII9RGSnzFq7rMNXo0t6CYQ46QfPjaYc%3D&reserved=0">
<span class="gmail-s3">http://texas2019.org/abstract-submission/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Deadline for payment for early-bird registration fees 25th October.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">(Requests for financial support please email <a href="mailto:texas2019@port.ac.uk">
<span class="gmail-s1">texas2019@port.ac.uk</span></a>)</p>
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<p class="gmail-p2">Invited Speakers</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Antony Lewis (University of Sussex, UK)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Astrid Eichorn (University of Southern Denmark & Heidelberg University, Germany)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Chris Reynolds (University of Cambridge, UK)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Claudia De Rham (Imperial College London, UK)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Dany Page (National Autonomous University, Mexico)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Elena Gallo (University of Michigan, USA)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Elena Rossi (Leiden University, Netherlands)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Elisa Resconi (Technical University Munich, Germany)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Elisabeth Krause (University of Arizona, USA)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Giovanni Losurdo (INFN Pisa, Italy)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Juan Garcia-Bellido (University of Madrid, Spain)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Luciano Rezzolla (University of Frankfurt, Germany)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Martin Lemoine (IAP, France)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern University, USA)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University, Israel)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Tanja Hinderer (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Tom Giblin (Kenyon College Ohio, USA)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF, Brazil)</p>
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<p class="gmail-p2">We look forward to seeing you in Portsmouth this December!</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Marco Bruni and David Wands</p>
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<p class="gmail-p2">on behalf of the Scientific and Local Organising Committees</p>
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