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

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The first announcement can be found here. The Second Announcement can be found here

The (yet unofficial) poster of the conference can be found here.

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
M.Bruni (Univ. Roma3)
S.Capozziello (Univ. Napoli)
R.De Pietri (Univ. Parma)
S.Ferrara (CERN)
A.Giazotto (INFN Pisa)
V.Iafolla (IFSI-Roma)
S.Leschiutta (Poli. Torino)
J.Lewandowski (Univ. Warszawa)
A.Marzuoli (Univ. Pavia)
S.Matarrese (Univ. Padova)
V.Moretti (Univ. Trento)
U.Moschella (Univ. Como)
F.Nicolò(Univ.Roma)
G.Palumbo (Univ. Bologna)
M.Pauri (Univ. Parma)
M.Roncadelli (INFN Pavia)
D.Seminara (Univ. Firenze)
M.Trigiante (Poli. Torino)
R.Turolla (Univ. Padova)
A.Vinante (Univ. Trento)
G.Veneziano (CERN) - to be conf.

The list of titles and abstract can be found here.

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

Accomodations: see Second Announcement

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

Accademia delle Scienze di Torino	Mac@Work

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