Aim and Motivation
General relativity is a beautiful, but highly complex theory in terms of its field content, invariant structure and the nature of its dynamical equations. Describing gravitational phenomena beyond a weak-field regime and in the absence of global symmetries requires refined computational methods. Progress in understanding black hole properties, binary systems, the early universe, and astrophysical environments depends critically on further developing our computational tool box.
Unlocking Gravity Through Computation will bring together gravity researchers from different backgrounds. We are delighted to be hosting a broad range of keynote speakers working at the forefront of developing and applying numerical approximation and simulation techniques, as well as new analytical methods. We aim for a constructive and interactive meeting, including discussions on the future challenges and opportunities for computation in classical and quantum gravity. We invite the submission of abstracts for contributed talks and posters and encourage especially junior researchers to participate.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
- Bernd Brügmann, Jena University
- Bianca Dittrich, Perimeter Institute
- Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki, Jagiellonian University
- Eva Hackmann, Bremen University
- Tanja Hinderer, Utrecht University
- Sascha Husa, University of the Balearic Islands
- Agnieszka Janiuk, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Igor Khavkine, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Benjamin Knorr, Nordita, Stockholm
- Tomáš Ledvinka, Charles University Prague
- Jean-Luc Lehners, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics
- Jan Plefka, Humboldt University Berlin
- Maria J. Rodriguez, Utah State University & Autonomous University of Madrid
- Roland Steinbauer, Vienna University
- Agata Trovato, University of Trieste & INFN Trieste
- Niels Warburton, University College Dublin
- Toby Wiseman, Imperial College, London
Location and Venue
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, the historical capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia. The historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Various notable physicists spent part of their career in Prague, including Johannes Kepler, Marcus Marci, Christian Doppler, Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein.The conference will take place close to Prague's city centre in one of the conference halls of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, built in the mid 19th century.
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