The XXVI SIGRAV Conference will be hosted at the University of Milano Bicocca, from 8 to 12 September 2025. The website will be soon online.
The next SIGRAV International School will be held in Vietri Sul Mare, from 17 to 21 February 2025. The School will focus on Quantum vacuum effects in curved spacetimes. Confirmed lecturers: D. Kubiznak (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), R. Brandenberger (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), M. Visser (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), E. Winstanley […]
The SIGRAV board is happy to share the following information, on behalf of SIGRAV fellow Carlo Rovelli: The Center for SpaceTime and the Quantum is inviting applications for the Enrico Fermi Fellowships program (see website https://cstq.org/eff), an initiative funded by the John Templeton Foundation. We would be very grateful if you would share this information […]
Voting to elect the president and four councilors ended on June 18. You can find the results in the attachments. Congratulations to the re-elected president and four new councilors. The election commission Massimo Bassan Roberto Casadio Paolo Natoli Ballot – Election of President Ballot – Renewal of four board members
From Monday 17 June (starting at 9:00 CEST) to Tuesday 18 June (ending at 19:00) SIGRAV will vote for its president and to renew four board members. The e-voting procedure will be carried out via the ELIGO platform. Electors should have already received their credentials. If you did not receive your own (please do check […]
The INFN theory group collaboration (“Iniziativa Specifica”) FLAG will meet in Catania 9-11 September. Check out https://agenda.infn.it/event/40951/
The SIGRAV CD is happy to announce the first SIGRAV Colloquium, to be held online on Thursday 23 may at 16:00 CEST. Our first speaker will be Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel ((Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany). A zoom link will be provided soon. Title: Galaxies and Black Holes Abstract: The discovery of the […]
SIGRAV mourns the loss of Alexei Starobinsky, a distinguished cosmologist and cherished colleague to many within our community, who passed away on December 21st. Professor Starobinsky, as an Amaldi Medal awardee in 2012, was also an esteemed member of SIGRAV. His absence leaves a void that will be deeply felt by us all.
The 2023 Giulio Rampa Thesis Prize for outstanding research in General Relativity has been awarded to Dr. Elisa Maggio. The Committee consisted of Profs. Lars Andersson, Mauro Carfora, Gerhard Huisken, Luciano Rezzolla, and Fulvio Ricci. The prizes will be presented to Elisa Maggio at the 25th edition of the “Italian Society for General Relativity and […]
The recipients of the 2023 Amaldi medals are: Jospeph Silk and Gabriele Veneziano. The 2023 SIGRAV prizes (for scientists under 40 who work in Italy) are assigned to: Giulia Gubitosi and Sunny Vagnozzi The prizes will be assigned during the SIGRAV XXV conference in Trieste, when special seminars will be held by the awardees.