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<b id="docs-internal-guid-c15d8a75-7fff-2667-8d0a-1f47de389730" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style:
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We would like to announce the two-week workshop “New frontiers in strong gravity” taking place in Benasque, Spain from Jul 03–16, 2022; please see the announcement below and the website </span><a href="http://benasque.org/general/cgi-bin/years.pl?ano=2022" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://benasque.org/general/cgi-bin/years.pl?ano=2022</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for further information.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Limited travel funds are available, with priority given to PhD students and participants from underrepresented groups. To help us create a safe environment, we ask that all participants are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We would appreciate it if you could forward the announcement to interested researchers in our field.</span></p>
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margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We look forward to welcoming you in Benasque</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New frontiers in strong gravity</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this two-week workshop (Jul 03–16, 2022) 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 to foster new research collaborations.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invited speakers include:</span></p>
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margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Masha Baryaktar • Laura Bernard • Beatrice Bonga • Katerina Chatziioannou • Katy Clough • Mihalis Dafermos • Will East • Roberto Emparan • Tanja Hinderer • Aaron Kovacs • Macarena Lagos • Luis Lehner • Lionel London • David Mateos • Maria Okounkova • Carlos Palenzuela • Paolo Pani • Patricia Schmidt • Thomas Sotiriou • Rita Teixeira • Toby Wiseman • Nicolas Yunes</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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 and participants from underrepresented groups. To apply for travel support please include some text justifying your request for support on the registration page. Registration will close on May 31, 2022. Registration will open shortly.</span></p>
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Dr. Helvi Witek
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
247 Loomis Lab
1110 W Green St
Urbana, IL 61801
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