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March 29 - April 2, 2005
OPENING: Tuesday, March 29, 11.30 am
The university city of Pavia had a particular role in Einstein's
life, being the place where he temporarily moved from Munich before completing
his education in Switzerland. In the town we still have historical places witnessing
the life of young Einstein here; a few letters and documents, conserved in the
University archives, still convey the sense of a special formative experience
for the future scientist. It is with
this sense of historical perspective that, on the occasion of the centenary
of Einstein's 1905 landmark paper, the University of Pavia has
organized an international meeting celebrating the birth of Relativity.
This meeting will have a strong international character, with selected invited
speakers, addressing general themes of Relativity (special,
general and cosmological) of vast impact in present-day science.
List of Invited Speakers:
- A. Ashtekar (Penn State University): Geometry, Gravity and the
Quantum: Building on Einstein's Legacy
- M. Bojowald (Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam): Quantum Geometry of
Black Holes and Cosmology
- E. Coccia (University of Rome "Tor Vergata") : Gravitational
Waves Experiments
- T. Damour (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques): Was Einstein 100%
right?
- P. de Bernardis (University of Rome "La Sapienza"): Fundamental
Questions in Observational Cosmology
- J. Ehlers (Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam): The arising of a genius:
a 26 years old man changes the view of the world
- G.F.R. Ellis (University of Cape Town): Relativistic Cosmology
- J. Hartle (University of California, Santa Barbara): Quantum Cosmology
- C. Hogan (University of Washington): Quantum Gravity effects on Observable
Inflationary Perturbations
- G. Horowitz (Physics Department - University of California, Santa Barbara):
Spacetime in String Theory
- J. Isenberg (Department of Mathematics and Institute for Theoretical Science
- University of Oregon): Cosmic Censorship
- J. P. Luminet (C.N.R.S, France): Cosmic Topology from Einstein to WMAP
data
- R. Matzner (University of Texas at Austin): The Grand Challenge
- V. Moncrief (Yale University): Curvature propagation in General Relativity
- Sir M. Rees (Cambridge University): Astrophysics: Galactic Black Holes
- C. Rovelli (Centre de Physique Théorique de Marseille): Loop Quantum
Gravity
- A. Sagnotti (University of Rome "Tor Vergata"): Strings, Gravity
and Particle Physics
- B. Schutz (Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam): Gravitational Waves: theory
- M. Spiro (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)): Astro-Particle Physics
- C. M. Will (McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences - Washington University):
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
Sponsored by:
Universita` degli Studi di Pavia
Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica (GNFM)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia (FBML)
Under the Auspices of:
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti
Societa` Italiana di Relativita` Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione
UNESCO World Year of Physics 2005 (WYP 2005)
International Advisory Committee
(Chair B. Bertotti, University of Pavia)
B. Bertotti, M. Carfora, Y. Choquet-Bruhat, J. Ehlers, G.F.R. Ellis,
G.V. Goggi, A. Hosoya, T. Regge, W. Rindler
Organizing Committee
(Chair M. Carfora, University of Pavia)
B. Bertotti, T. Buchert, M. Carfora, G. V. Goggi,
A. Marzuoli, F. Salmistraro
Conference Secretariat
(C. Dappiaggi, V. Gili)
REGISTER AT
http://www.pv.infn.it/~spacetimeinaction/
Enquiries about accomodation, payments etc.
congressi2@pragmacongressi.it
(with subject: Spacetime in Action)
http://www.pragmacongressi.it/
