XVII SIGRAV Conference Torino, September 4-7, 2006 (First Announcement)

The biennial Conference of the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV) is devoted to all aspects of gravitational physics, such as Classical and Quantum Gravity, Astrophysics and Cosmology, as well as Experimental Gravity.
As usual, the four day Conference will host about twenty invited plenary talks and shorter invited and contributed talks in three parallel workshops.
The Conference will take place at the Conference Center TorinoIncontra, located in Torino downtown (map).

During the Conference, the AMALDI MEDAL and the SIGRAV PRIZES will be awarded to outstanding Senior and Junior scientists.

A second announcement will be posted within the month of June. If you did not receive this announcement directly and you want to be kept posted, or you want to be removed from our mailing list, please send an appropriate mail to the Secretariat.

Registration:
Only registered participants will be admitted to the Conference Centre. All participants will be required to pay a registration fee. Exceptions have to be agreed with the Organizing Committee.
Registration form should be sent NO LATER than June 2, 2006. Later or on-site registrations will be possible, upon the payment of higher fees (if applicable). The fees include all the conference material, the badge, the participation to all sessions, the coffee breaks.
The registration fees are fixed to:

The fees can be payed by:

1. Bank transfer invoiced to SIGRAV, c/c 10/15035, Istituto Bancario San-Paolo-IMI di Torino, Ag. 24 (ABI 1025, CAB 1024), C.so Turati 18, 10128 Torino. (IBAN IT32E 01025 01024 100000015035)
2. Postal transfer invoiced to "Società Italiana Relatività Generale Fisica Gravitazione", via C. Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, c/c 34372102
3. Check (No-tranfer) invoiced to SIGRAV; send it by safe mail procedures to Lorenzo Fatibene, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino, via C. Alberto 10, 10123 Torino (Italy).

The Organizers prefer bank transfer payments.

Tentative program of the conference

PL= Plenary Lectures
A/B/C= Workshops
SP= Social Program

Social program includes:
the Social Dinner (to be paid separately) and the Sigrav General Assembly, a guided visit to the Egyptian Museum and to the National Museum of Cinema (tentative).

Invited Lectures
S. Ferrara, A. Marzuoli, V. Moretti, F. Nicolò, D. Seminara, M. Martelli, J. Lewandowski, U. Moschella, M. Maggiore, S. Matarrese, S. Capozziello, G. Palumbo, L. Rezzolla, A. Giazzotto, G. Frossati, M. Conti, S. Leschiutta, P. De Bernardis, M. Roncadelli, R. Turolla.

Within a program of cooperation with the Spanish Society of General Relativity, an extra lecture is to be assigned to a Spanish researcher (yet to be announced).

Workshops:
For submitting a contribution to a Workshop please send an e-mail (containing title and abstract) to the relevant Workshop Chairman at one of the following addresses NO LATER than May 2, 2006.
Acknowledgment will be sent directly by the Chairmen briefly after receipt and final acceptance or rejection will be communicated to contributors before May 20; the final program of the workshops will be published after June 2.

(A) Classical and Quantum Theoretical Gravity. Chairmen: M. Carfora, L. Fatibene
(B) Astrophysics and Cosmology. Chairman: M. Colpi
(C) Experimental Gravity. Chairman: M. Bassan

A more detailed program will be provided as soon as possible.

Accomodations: the Organization has agreed with some Hotels a special convention for the partecipants of the conference. The Hotels will reserve a number of rooms until June 20. For late bookings we are not able to guarantee the same deals. Any other information about the convention can be asked to the Hotel directly.

The partecipants should reserve directly at the Hotel they prefer (mentioning the convention name listed below with the Hotels) (map):

For cheaper accomodations (though no specific convention is available) see (map, buses):

Scientific Committee: 
Massimo BASSAN (Roma "Tor Vergata"), Salvatore CAPOZZIELLO (Napoli), Mauro CARFORA (Pavia), Roberto CIANCI (Genova), Eugenio COCCIA (INFN Gran Sasso & Roma "Tor Vergata"), Riccardo D'AURIA (Torino Politecnico), Valeria FERRARI (Roma "La Sapienza"), Mauro FRANCAVIGLIA (Torino – Sec.), Pietro FRÉ (Torino), Adalberto GIAZOTTO (EGO-VIRGO, Pisa), Vittorio GORINI (Como Insubria), Luciano IESS (Roma "La Sapienza"), Luca LUSANNA (INFN Firenze – Chair.), Ugo MOSCHELLA (Como Insubria), Massimo PIETRONI (Padova), Luciano REZZOLLA (SISSA, Trieste), Carlo ROVELLI (Marseille), Augusto SAGNOTTI (Roma "Tor Vergata"), Angelo TARTAGLIA (Torino Politecnico), Guglielmo TINO (Firenze), Gaetano VILASI (Salerno).

Organizing Committee: 
Gianluca ALLEMANDI, Monica CAPONE, Lorenzo FATIBENE (Sec.), Marco FERRARIS, Mauro FRANCAVIGLIA (Chair.), Marcella Giulia LORENZI, Silvio MERCADANTE, Guido RIZZI, Matteo Luca RUGGIERO, Angelo TARTAGLIA (Chair.).

Supported by: 

INdAM-GNFM	SIGRAV	Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Torino	INFN