The 19th conference in the series "Recent Developments in Gravity" is organized by the Hellenic Society for Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology. Originally planned to take place in Athens, in September 2020, it is now scheduled as an ONLINE ONLY meeting in September of 2021. A list of all previous conferences in this series can be found here.
Scientific Program
The scientific program will include plenary and invited talks, as well as contributed talks in two parallel sessions.
The scientific program is now available (please use the pdf's below, not the Timetable link to the left):
Download the Overview of the Program.
Download the Detailed Program (incl. titles and links to abstracts).
(Times are in Greece, currently UTC+3, aka EEST summer time.)
The above pdf files include the Zoom links to connect to the sessions. These are also displayed here:
All days, Plenary, Keynote and Parallel Session B:
https://authgr.zoom.us/j/93583224457?pwd=QXpwWnBOdkJuc1NzbSsvUGthOUE4dz09
All days, Parallel Session A only:
https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98904154991?pwd=Z1FFa3JyK1ZzS0Y1aElCVTA4dkVtQT09
Abstracts can be also searched in the Contributions List.
Plenary talks will be 40+5 min., invited keynote talks will be 25+5 min. long and contributed talks will be 15+5 min.
Zoom links will become available a few days before the start of the conference.
The topics of the conference are
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Plenary Speakers
E. Berti (Johns Hopkins)
E. Gourgoulhon (Meudon)
R. Gregory (King’s College)
M. Dafermos (Cambridge/Princeton)
S. Katsanevas (EGO-VIRGO)
K. Kokkotas (Tuebingen)
E. Plionis (NOA, Athens)
D. Psaltis (Arizona)
M. Sakellariadou (King’s College)
Th. Sotiriou (Nottingham)
A. Starobinsky (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow)
S. Weinfurtner (Nottingham)
Invited Keynote Speakers
A. Gravitational Waves & Relativistic Astrophysics:
M. Agathos (Cambridge)
Th. Apostolatos (Athens)
E. Barausse (SISSA)
D. Doneva (Tuebingen)
N. Karnesis (Paris)
Ch. Markakis (Queen Mary)
B. Alternative Theories of Gravity & Cosmology:
E. Babichev (Paris)
S. Basilakos (Athens)
L. Papantonopoulos (Athens)
K. Skordis (Prague)
S. Yazadjiev (Sofia)
C. Mathematical Relativity & Quantum Gravity:
Th. Christodoulakis (Athens)
V. Faraoni (Bishop's U.)
L. Glaser (Vienna)
Social Program
On Monday 20 Sept. at 20:00 (UTC+3) participants will be invited to watch (online) the multi-award-winning documentary LIGO a Film by Les Guthman (with Greek subtitles), which recently also won an award at this year's Ierapetra Film Festival. Watch the documentary at this Vimeo link!
Meeting Venue
This is an ONLINE ONLY event.
Important dates
Registration deadline: 31 August, 2021
Abstract submission deadline: closed
Abstract submission
All available slots in the program for contributed talks have been filled and the call for abstracts is now closed.
Participants who have submitted abstracts will be notified of acceptance when the final scientific program will be available (a few weeks before the conference, at the latest).
Conference Registration Fee
There is no registration fee for attending the conference.
Scientific Organizing Committee
| Christos | Charmousis | CNRS - University Paris-Saclay |
| George | Kofinas | University of the Aegean |
| George | Pappas | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| Emmanuel | Saridakis | National Obvervatory, Athens |
| Nikolaos | Stergioulas | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
Contact
Conference website: https://indico.physics.auth.gr/e/NEB19
For additional info contact: neb19conference@gmail.com
Code of Conduct
The NEB-19 Conference is organized under the following code of conduct.
