XVII SIGRAV Conference Torino, September 4-7, 2006 (Second 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 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.

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. The first announcement can be found here. The final program will be posted in early July.

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 filled in as soon as possible. On-site registrations will be possible. 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 100000015035, 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 can be found here.

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

During the meeting the election of the SIGRAV President and of the Scientific Committee will be held. Please read more about election here.

Invited Lectures
S. Ferrara (CERN), Attractors, Supersimmetry and black holes

A. Marzuoli (Univ. Pavia), Quantum Complexity of link polynomials

V. Moretti (Univ. Trento), Some recent rigorous results about QFT on the null boundary
of asymptotically flat spacetimes

F. Nicolò (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), Global Solutions for the Einstein Vacuum Equations and their Asymptotic Behaviour

D. Seminara (Univ. Firenze), title to be announced

J. Lewandowski (Univ. Warszawa), title to be announced

U. Moschella (Univ. Como), title to be announced

S. Matarrese (Univ. Padova), title to be announced

S. Capozziello (Univ. Napoli), Dark Energy and Dark Matter as Curvature Effects

G. Palumbo (Univ. Bologna), title to be announced

R. De Pietri (Univ. Parma), 3D numerical simulation of dynamical instability of compact object in General Relativity

A. Giazzotto (INFN Pisa), title to be announced

S. Leschiutta (Poli. Torino), title to be announced

M. Roncadelli (INFN Pavia), Astrophysical and Cosmological Aspects of Dark Matter

R. Turolla (Univ. Padova), title to be announced

A. Vinante (Univ. Trento), Development of Wideband Readouts for DUAL Acoustic Gravitational Wave Detectors

M. Pauri (Univ. Parma), When philosophy yields to physics: a dis-solution of Einstein's Hole Argument

V. Iafolla (IFSI-Roma), TEPEE/GReAT (General Relativity Accuracy Test in an Einstein Elevator): Separation between the equivalence principle signal and gravity gradient noise

M. Bruni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), title to be announced

G. Veneziano (CERN), to be confirmed

M. Martelli (CERN), to be confirmed

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. In some of the workshops few slot are still available. So, if you are interested ask your chairman.
Acknowledgment will be sent directly by the Chairmen briefly after receipt; the final program of the workshops will be published after July 15.

(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 (Pisa, Scuola Normale), 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

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