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########################################## Table of Contents ########################################### 1. Conferences 1.1. EREP 2017, Malaga, Spain 1.2. XXXVIII Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields, Passa Quatro, Brazil 1.3. 29th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Cape Town (2nd announcement) 1.4. Loops'17, Warsaw, Poland 1.5. Strong Gravity Universe, Sao Miguel Island, Portugal 1.6. 3rd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting -- Gravity and the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence (2nd circular) 1.7. Atlantic General Relativity 2017 Conference and Workshop, St. John’s, Canada (2nd announcement) 1.8. 20th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2nd announcement) 1.9. Fifth ICRANet Bego Rencontres – Gravitational Waves in the strong field limit – Nice, France 1.10. Non-regular spacetime geometry, Firenze, Italy 2. Jobs 2.1. Postdoc position at University of Vienna, Austria 2.2. Gravitational Wave Physics position at SISSA, Trieste, Italy 3. News 3.1. Special Issue / CiSE journal 3.2. 2017 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize goes to Aron Wall 3.3. New book "Loop quantum gravity: the first 30 years" edited by Abhay Ashtekar and Jorge Pullin 3.4. Golden Oldie: Lifshitz' perturbations paper 3.5. Special Issue "Progress in Cosmology in the Centenary of the 1917 Einstein paper" 3.6. Master in Mathematical Physics, Tuebingen, Germany ============================================== 1. Conferences ============================================== 1.1. EREP 2017, Malaga, Spain --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/02/erep-2017/ Starting: 2017-09-12 to 2017-09-15 Location: Malaga, Spain Additional Information: http://erep2017.uma.es/ Contact: erep2017[AT]viajeseci.es Dear colleagues, The Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting will be held in Malaga on 12-15 September, 2017. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for researchers and students to present their research results on the main areas of Relativity. The following invited speakers have already confirmed their acceptance: Ivan Agullo (Louisiana State University, USA) Mihalis Dafermos (University of Cambridge, UK) Thibault Damour (Institut des hautes etudes scientifiques, France) Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain) Veronika Hubeny (University of California at Davis, USA) Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute, Canada) Marc Mars (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) Paolo Pani (Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy; Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal) Istvan Racz (Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungary) Claudia de Rham (Imperial College London, UK) Robert Wald (Chicago University, USA) Those wishing to attend the conference are kindly asked to fill in the registration form that is available on the website and complete the payment process through the Technical Secretariat. Those participants wishing to contribute to the conference with a short talk or a poster presentation are requested to submit an abstract using the form template that is available on the website. The deadline for abstracts submission is April 15. You do not need to register before submitting a contribution. The SEGRE society has a limited number of grants for Ph.D. students, which can cover the registration fee. The application for financial support can be made through the web page by May 1. You do not need to register before applying for the grant. We are looking forward to welcome you in Malaga. The Local Organizing Committee. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.2. XXXVIII Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields, Passa Quatro, Brazil --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=12869 Starting: 2017-09-18 to 2017-09-22 Location: Passa Quatro, MG, Brazil Additional Information: http://www.sbfisica.org.br/~enfpc/xxxviii/index.php/en/ Contact: saulo.carneiro.ufba[AT]gmail.com XXXVIII Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields Hotel Recanto das Hortensias - Passa Quatro, MG 18 to 22 September 2017 Dear colleagues and students, We are happy to announce the 2017 edition of the Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields, which will take place from 18th to 22th September in Passa Quatro, a little town near Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. This is one of the official meetings of the Brazilian Physical Society, and it is organised in sessions for contributed talks and invited lectures. Applications and abstract submissions are open through the webpage http://www.sbfisica.org.br/~enfpc/xxxviii/index.php/en/ Venue: Hotel Recanto das Hortensias, Passa Quatro, Minas Gerais, Brazil Date: 18 to 22 September 2017 Plenary Lectures: Bruna Bertucci (U. Perugia/AMS, Italy) Geraldine Servant (DESY, Germany) Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute, Canada) Luiz Davidovich (UFRJ, Brazil) Manuel Asorey (U. Zaragoza, Spain) Mark Thomson (U. Cambridge/DUNE, UK) Máximo Banados (PUC, Chile) Valeria Pettorino (SAp CEA Paris Saclay, France) Invited Talks: Adalto Gomes (UFMA, Brazil) Carlos Romero (UFPB, Brazil) Cristian Villavicencio (U. Bio-Bio, Chile) David Chinellato (Unicamp/ALICE, Brazil) Diego Milanes (UNC/LHCb, Colombia) Domenico Sapone (U. Chile/EUCLID, Chile) Hermano Velten (UFES, Brazil) Jose Helayel Neto (CBPF, Brazil) Matthew Luzum (USP/LHC, Brazil) Maurício Richartz (UFABC, Brazil) Ricardo Avelino Gomes (UFG/NOVA, Brazil) Ricardo Sturani (UFRN/LIGO, Brazil) Organising Committee: Carla Goebel (PUC-RJ) Eduardo Fraga (UFRJ) Ilya Shapiro (UFJF) Jun Takahashi (Unicamp) Manoel Messias (UFMA) Ricardo Matheus (IFT/Unesp) Rogerio Rosenfeld (IFT/Unesp) Saulo Carneiro (UFBA, chair) Sergio Joras (UFRJ) Valerio Marra (UFES) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.3. 29th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Cape Town (2nd announcement) --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=12872 Starting: 2017-12-03 to 2017-12-08 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Additional Information: http://www.texas2017.org/ Contact: simone[AT]soafrica.com 29th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics - 2nd Circular Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the registration and abstract submission portal for the 29th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics is now open. The Texas Symposium 2017 will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, December 3 - 8, 2017. Please find complete information and a link to the registration and abstract submission portal at http://texas2017.org Limited financial support for the registration and local accommodation in Cape Town is available for participants from disadvantaged economic and financial backgrounds. Please note the deadline of May 5, 2017 to apply for such support. Important Dates: - Deadline for Grant Applications: 5 May 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline: 25 August 2017 - Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 15 September 2017 - Standard Registration Deadline: 20 October 2017 - Late Registration Deadline: 24 November 2017 Apologies should you receive this ciruclar more than once. Please feel free to distribute this circular amongst your colleagues. Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz, on behalf of the Texas2017 LOC Enquiries: Simone Solomons (Abstract submissions) simone[AT]soafrica.com Tammy Maart (Registration and Grant Applications) tammy[AT]soafrica.com Markus Boettcher (Chair of the LOC) Markus.Bottcher[AT]nwu.ac.za Karin du Preez (Project Manager) karin[AT]soafrica.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.4. Loops'17, Warsaw, Poland --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=12877 Starting: 2017-07-03 to 2017-07-07 Location: Warsaw, Poland Additional Information: http://ktwig.fuw.edu.pl/1,53,53,loops-17.html Contact: Loops17.LOC[AT]fuw.edu.pl The Loops'17 conference will highlight recent developments and new research directions in loop quantum gravity and other background independent approaches to the problem of quantum gravity. A nonexhaustive list of topics of the conference includes: Canonical loop quantum gravity, Covariant LQG (spinfoams), Symmetry-reduced models, Quantum cosmology, Black holes in quantum gravity, Quantum gravity phenomenology, Foundational and mathematical aspects. Although the conference is focused on non-perturbative approaches to quantum gravity, experts from other fields of quantum gravity research are also encouraged to participate. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.5. Strong Gravity Universe, Sao Miguel Island, Portugal --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=12879 Starting: 2017-07-03 to 2017-07-07 Location: Sao Miguel Island, Portugal Additional Information: https://centra.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/network/grit/sgu17/ Contact: vitor.cardoso[AT]ist.utl.pt Gravity claims a central role in theoretical physics. Almost every grand challenge in astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics – dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem - includes gravity as one of its key ingredients. Gravity represents the link between fundamental physics on the one hand and cosmology and astrophysics on the other, becoming a subject of strong interdisciplinary character. The recent breakthrough detection by the LIGO interferometers marks the dawn of the era of GW astronomy, and the opening of a new window onto the hitherto invisible landscape of the “Gravitational Universe”. The Strong Gravity Universe meeting brings together experts in the various aspects of strong-field gravity, to discuss the status of the field and future directions. The meeting is also a focal point for the European RISE action, which brings together nodes from Aveiro, Cambridge, Lisbon, Paris, Rome, Mississippi, Osaka and Perimeter. The meeting will be held in Sao Miguel, the main island of the Azores archipelago, in the North Atlantic Ocean, 3-7 July 2017. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.6. 3rd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting -- Gravity and the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence (2nd circular) --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/24/3rd-karl-schwarzschild-meetin… Starting: 2017-07-24 to 2017-07-28 Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany Additional Information: https://indico.fias.uni-frankfurt.de/event/4/overview Contact: ksm2017[AT]fias.uni-frankfurt.de The 3rd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics and the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence will be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 24-28 July 2017. The conference will focus on black holes in astrophysics, quantum gravity, and the gauge/gravity correspondence. The meeting will bring together both working specialists in the field and rising young researchers to foster new conversations and collaborations. Invited speakers will deliver plenary talks on the broad topic of black holes highlighting applications to astrophysics, quantum gravity, gravitational waves and strongly correlated systems. In addition to plenary speaker, we feature several plenary sessions for senior scientists, postdoctoral researchers and students. The senior scientists will also serve as “mentors” to the attending younger generation of researchers. Registration is now open. Please visit the conference website. Early registration will expire on June 11th, 2017, or when the capacity has been reached. Limited financial reimbursement is available, for which participants may submit an application along with their registration. Karl Schwarzschild was a native of Frankfurt who published his first papers while attending the Gymnasium Frankfurt in the late 1880s. The year 2017 will mark the 101st anniversary of the publication of Schwarzschild's famous solution to Einstein’s equations. The conference venue will be the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies on the modern Riedberg Campus of Goethe University. Karl Schwarzschild Lecturer: Juan Maldacena (IAS) Keynote Speakers: Martin Ammon (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) Raphael Bousso* (UC Berkeley) Alessandra Buonanno (MPI Potsdam) Avery Broderick (Waterloo U. & Perimeter Institute) Johanna Erdmenger (University of Wuerzburg) Heino Falcke (Radboud University Nijmegen) Ruth Gregory (Durham University) Jutta Kunz (University of Oldenburg) William Unruh (University of British Columbia) Erik Verlinde* (University of Amsterdam) * to be confirmed Organizing Committee: Piero Nicolini (FIAS and Goethe University, Frankfurt) Matthias Kaminski (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) Jonas Mureika (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles) Marcus Bleicher (FIAS and Goethe University, Frankfurt) International Advisory Committee: Claus Laemmerzahl (ZARM & University of Bremen) Robert Mann (University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute) Martin Reuter (Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz) Dam T. Son (University of Chicago) Herman Verlinde (Princeton University) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.7. Atlantic General Relativity 2017 Conference and Workshop, St. John’s, Canada (2nd announcement) --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/27/atlantic-general-relativity-2… Starting: 2017-05-28 to 2017-06-02 Location: St. John's, Canada Additional Information: http://agr17.math.mun.ca Contact: agr17[AT]mun.ca Second Announcement: Atlantic General Relativity 2017 Conference and Workshop The 2017 Atlantic General Relativity Conference will be held from Thursday, June 1 to Friday, June 2 at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. As in previous years Atlantic GR will cover all aspects of classical and quantum gravity. It will consist of two invited talks by Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute) along with contributed talks by anyone who wishes to speak. We particularly encourage students and post-docs to submit talks. Atlantic GR will be preceded by a workshop hosted by the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) collaborative research group (CRG) “Mathematical and physical aspects of black holes”. The main part of the workshop will run from Monday, May 29 to Wednesday, May 31 and also be hosted at Memorial University. It will feature four invited speakers who will each give a series of three lectures, one on each day of the workshop. The speakers will be Stefanos Aretakis (Princeton University, University of Toronto), Jorma Louko (University of Nottingham), Eric Poisson (University of Guelph) and Jeff Winicour (University of Pittsburgh). Finally, on Sunday May 28 before the main part of the workshop, post-doc members of the AARMS CRG will give a set of introductory lectures aimed at beginning graduate students. There is no registration fee for either the workshop or the conference. We will accept travel claims from students and post-docs. We will not be able to cover all expenses but hope to be able to reimburse an amount that will cover staying in University residence and (perhaps) partial travel. The amount of reimbursement will depend on the number of participants. Cheques will be mailed out after the meeting concludes. The local organizing committee is Ivan Booth and Hari Kunduri. The scientific organizing committee is Alan Coley, Jack Gegenberg, Viqar Husain, Robert van den Hoogen and Sanjeev Seahra. Post-doc day is being organized by Andrey Shoom and Jon Ziprick. More information and online registration at agr17.math.mun.ca. Registration closes on Monday, May 1. Registration is now open. It will close on Monday, May 1. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.8. 20th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2nd announcement) --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=12900 Starting: 2017-06-19 to 2017-06-23 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Additional Information: http://www.physics.unc.edu/capra20 Contact: evans[AT]physics.unc.edu The 20th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The meeting will run from the 19th to 23rd of June, 2017, starting with three to four days of invited and contributed talks and followed by one to two days of informal discussions. As usual the program will focus on aspects of the self-force in general relativity, but will also seek to explore connections to other approaches to the two-body problem. Following the Capra tradition, the meeting will be informal. There will be no registration fee and no proceedings. The program will include a few invited review talks, short contributed presentations (20 to 30 minutes), and open discussions. Contributed talks on all aspects of the radiation reaction problem (including related topics such as EMRI astrophysics or data analysis) are welcome. Please see the conference website /www.physics.unc.edu/capra20 to register and for lodging and travel information. A block of rooms are being held until May 15th at a Hampton Inn near the campus at a conference rate of $124/night (breakfast included). See the conference website for a link to reserve a room at this rate. The meeting is being supported by the CoSMS Institute. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.9. Fifth ICRANet Bego Rencontres – Gravitational Waves in the strong field limit – Nice, France --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/31/fifth-icranet-bego-rencontres… Starting: 2017-05-15 to 2017-05-19 Location: Villa Ratti, Nice, France Additional Information: http://www.icranet.org/5bego Contact: secretariat-irapphd[AT]icra.it The school will take place in Nice from the 15 to the 19th of May. It is traditionally devoted to frontier topics in relativistic astrophysics and to the students of the IRAP PhD Program. This meeting is dedicated to gravitational waves in the strong field limit. The meeting is open to all interested scientists and graduate students. The school will take place at the ICRANet Seat in Villa Ratti, in Nice, where the IRAP-PhD is based. We recall that the IRAP-PhD is coordinated by ICRANet, involving various universities and research centres, and the diploma are jointly delivered by all the universities participating in the program: University of Bremen (Germany), University of Ferrara (Italy), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France), University of Oldenburg (Germany), University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy), University of Savoie (France). Invited lecturers include: Felix Aharonian, Donato Bini, Luc Blanchet, Christian Cherubini, Nathalie Deruelle, Simonetta Filippi, Mile Karlica, Jutta Kunz-Drolshagen, Claus Lämmerzahl, Felix Mirabel, Marco Muccino, Tsvi Piran, Jose Rodriguez, Jorge Rueda, Remo Ruffini, Narek Sahakyan, Gregory Vereshchagin, Yu Wang, She-Sheng Xue. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1.10. Non-regular spacetime geometry, Firenze, Italy --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/31/non-regular-spacetime-geometr… Starting: 2017-06-20 to 2017-06-22 Location: Firenze, Italy Additional Information: http://spacetime.esy.es/ Contact: ettore.minguzzi[AT]unifi.it The Meeting is aimed at gathering experts or reseachers with an interest in gravity theory under weak regularity assumptions. A growing number of papers is considering possible generalizations of the spacetime geometric structure. Some of these works consider affine connections which are just Lipschitz, or even metrics which are just continuous; others take inspiration from the methods of Non-regular Riemannian Geometry. Finally, some lines of research are more topological or, being quantum inspired, involve methods from non-commutative geometry. They all might provide new insights into the structure of the spacetime manifold at the metric level and beyond. Scientific Commettee: Piotr T. Chrusciel James Grant Michael Kunzinger Ettore Minguzzi Local Organizers: Daniel Canarutto Ettore Minguzzi (chair) Omar Morandi +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ============================================== 2. Jobs ============================================== 2.1. Postdoc position at University of Vienna, Austria ------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/08/postdoc-position-at-universit… Deadline: 2017-04-30 Location: Vienna, Austria Additional Information: https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun… Contact: piotr.chrusciel[AT]univie.ac.at The Gravitational Physics group of the Department of Physics of University of Vienna (see http://gravity.univie.ac.at/) is seeking to fill a post-doctoral position (Universitaetsassistent/in) in the field of mathematical general relativity and/or numerical general relativity; in the latter case candidates with strong interest in rigorous aspects of numerical analysis will be sought. The appointment will be for four years, according to previous experience, without a possibility of extension. The employment will start on July 1, 2017, possibly a few months later if more convenient for the chosen candidate. The list of members of the group at the start of the appointment, including scientifically active retired members, will include Peter Aichelburg, Robert Beig, Piotr Chrusciel, David Fajman, Jeremie Joudioux, and Walter Simon. The gross salary is about EUR 3590 Euro fourteen times a year. The yearly teaching load averaged over two semesters is four hours/week, in English or in German. The candidate will not be asked to teach for more than six hours a week in any given semester in any case. Applications done online before 30.IV.2017 at URL http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at/ position numbered “Kennzahl 7424” (follow the link to the online advertisements) will receive full attention. The candidates should arrange three letters of recommendation to be sent or emailed before May 1, 2017, to Mrs Karin Picek, Mathematical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5/5/3521, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Further enquiries can be directed to karin.picek[AT]univie.ac.at +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2.2. Gravitational Wave Physics position at SISSA, Trieste, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=12892 Deadline: 2017-05-10 Location: Trieste, Italy, EU Additional Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9038 Contact: ullio[AT]sissa.it The Astroparticle Physics and Astrophysics groups at the “Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati” (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, invite expressions of interest for a faculty position from outstanding candidates with a strong theoretical research record in the fields of Gravitational Wave Physics, Strong Gravity and Gravitational Astrophysics. While it is currently foreseen that the appointment procedure will be activated at the assistant professor, tenure-track, level*, a more senior position may be considered. The successful candidate is expected to work as an independent principal investigator, promoting and leading research activities to complement the current expertise of the SISSA groups in Particle Astrophysics, Gravitation Theory and Cosmology, as well as to attract external funds, take an active part in the SISSA PhD teaching programme and supervise graduate students. The deadline for receipt of the expressions of interest, in English and only via Academic Jobs Online, is May 10, 2017. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ============================================== 3. News ============================================== 3.1. Special Issue / CiSE journal ------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=12865 Additional Information: https://www.computer.org/cise/2017/03/01/supercomputing-enabled-advances-in… Hello Everyone: With a colleague, I’m serving as a guest editor for a special issue of the IEEE / AIP journal "Computing in Science & Engineering". The special issue is titled ”Supercomputing-Enabled Advances in Science & Engineering” and we’re interested in papers that report on impactful advances enabled by large-scale computing in any area of science / engineering. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Given the major discovery in our field over the past year that was possible (partly) thanks to large-scale computations of compact binary systems, we would love to see papers on that subject in this special issue. The submission deadline is November 1, 2017. You can find out more about the special issue here: https://www.computer.org/cise/2017/03/01/supercomputing-enabled-advances-in… Please note that the papers should be written for a somewhat broader audience in mind (the readership of the journal spans all areas of computational science / engineering). Thanks for your consideration. Gaurav Khanna ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3.2. 2017 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize goes to Aron Wall ------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=12874 Additional Information: http://iupap.org/commissions/affiliated-commissions/ac-2-international-comm… The 2017 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for General Relativity and Gravitation is awarded to Aron Wall (Institute for Advanced Study) for his fundamental contributions to our understanding of gravitational entropy and the generalized second law of thermodynamics. After studying Great Books at St. John's College in Santa Fe, Aron Wall continued his studies in theoretical physis with Ted Jacobson at the University of Maryland, where he received his PhD in 2011. His thesis, a proof that black holes obey the second law of thermodynamics when coupled to quantum fields, was awarded the 2013 Bergmann-Wheeler Thesis Prize from the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. As a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Wall broadened his research efforts toward the holographic principle, and showed, most notably, that the holographic entanglement entropy satisfies a quantum information inequality known as "Strong Subadditivity". In 2014, Wall became a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), where he was able to resolve some long-standing conceptional problems concerning black hole entropy. He constructed an increasing entropy formula for all possible higher curvature modifications to Einstein gravity. With William Donnelly, he gave a statistical-mechanical explanation for a puzzling effect whereby electromagnetic fields seemingly contribute negatively to the entropy of a black hole. He also spearheaded a new research program on a conjectured lower bound on the quantum stress-energy tensor, and proved the conjecture for a broad class of theories. These results have potential applications in high-energy and condensed-matter physics. In August 2017, Wall expects to join the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics for a third postdoctoral position. He explains physics and theology in his personal blog: Undivided Looking. Eric Poisson, President International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3.3. New book "Loop quantum gravity: the first 30 years" edited by Abhay Ashtekar and Jorge Pullin ------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/20/new-book-loop-quantum-gravity… Additional Information: http://www.lqg30.com 100 Years of General Relativity: Volume 4 Loop Quantum Gravity The First 30 Years Edited by: Abhay Ashtekar (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, USA) This volume presents a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in loop quantum gravity from the perspective of younger leading researchers. It takes the reader from the basics to recent advances, thereby bridging an important gap. The aim is two-fold — to provide a contemporary introduction to the entire field for students and post-docs, and to present an overview of the current status for more senior researchers. The contributions include the latest developments that are not discussed in existing books, particularly recent advances in quantum dynamics both in the Hamiltonian and sum over histories approaches; and applications to cosmology of the early universe and to the quantum aspects of black holes. Contents: Introduction: An Overview (Abhay Ashtekar and Jorge Pullin) Foundations of Loop Quantum Gravity: Quantum Geometry (Kristina Giesel) Quantum Dynamics (Alok Laddha and Madhavan Varadarajan) Spinfoam Gravity (Eugenio Bianchi) Group Field Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity (Daniele Oriti) The Continuum Limit of Loop Quantum Gravity: A Framework for Solving the Theory (Bianca Dittrich) Applications of Loop Quantum Gravity: Loop Quantum Cosmology (Ivan Agullo and Parampreet Singh) Quantum Geometry and Black Holes (J Fernando Barbero G and Alejandro Perez) Loop Quantum Gravity and Observations (Aurelien Barrau and Julien Grain) 20% Discount until August 31st 2017 using code WSSLPS20 at http://www.lqg30.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3.4. Golden Oldie: Lifshitz' perturbations paper ------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/21/golden-oldie-lifshitz-perturb… Additional Information: http://webwork.uct.ac.za/~cwh/goldies.html This post is to announce the reprinting of the article Evgenii Lifshitz, On the gravitational stability of the expanding Universe. Journal of Physics (USSR) 10 no 2, pp. 116 - 129 (1946). This was the first and fundamental paper on perturbations in cosmology. It is accompanied by an editorial note article by G.F.R. Ellis which describes the subsequent development of the field. Both articles are part of the Golden Oldies series in the journal "General Relativity and Gravitation". The two are in volume 49, numbers 17 and 18 (2017) and can be accessed on the journal's website. A full list of the previous Golden Oldies can be found at webwork.uct.ac.za/~cwh/goldies.html as well as on the Living Reviews in Relativity site. Malcolm MacCallum Golden Oldies editor, "General Relativity and Gravitation" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3.5. Special Issue "Progress in Cosmology in the Centenary of the 1917 Einstein paper" ------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/28/special-issue-progress-in-cos… Additional Information: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/universe/special_issues/1917 Dear Colleagues, The first modern cosmological models emerged soon after the discovery of general relativity, putting the study of the Universe as a whole on the firm grounds of an empirically testable, coherent science. In the century since then, cosmology has developed into a precision discipline able to explain the evolution of the Universe in several of its aspects. The goal is under the way, but far than ended. The most stringent open questions remain the nature of dark matter (DM) and of dark energy (DE), and whether General Relativity holds on large cosmological scales. Of course, many independent observation (anisotropies in CMB, large structure, SNIa data, gravitational lensing, galaxy rotational curves etc.) confirm the necessity of the introduction of these dark components. However, the existence itself of the most likely DM candidates seem to have been seriously challenged by experiments and or astrophysical observations: e.g. supersymmetric DM and WIMPs by LHC; by LUX, PandaX-II and Xenon100; MACHOs by microlensing. Sterile neutrinos by IceCube and high redshift objects. The properties of the DM in galaxies are presently badly explainable by current theoretical scenarios. At present the nature of DM remains a mystery. Understanding DE poses an even bigger challenge. Although the cosmological constant may explain the accelerated cosmic expansion, its physical interpretation (as vacuum energy) remains doubtful. Question comes what kind of fields can be responsible for the accelerated cosmic expansion. Several scalar field models of DE induce new type of space-time singularities (e.g. soft singularities). Alternative gravitational theories (e.g. scalar-tensor theories, the emergent gravity model of Verlinde) have been also proposed with the purpose to explain the dark sector. We invite colleagues to submit papers on the topics: 1: The nature of Dark matter and DE 2: Present/future experiments and observations related to DM, DE and their gravitational effects. 3: Models on DM and DE including the alternative gravitational theories, new fields and their possible interaction with the particles of standard model. 4: Evolution of the Universe, cosmological perturbations, formation of nonlinear structures, first objects. 5: Inflation, initial structure, primordial gravitational waves. 6: Primordial black/white holes, their formation and gravitational waves, their effects on the synthesis of light elements. 7: Anisotropic cosmological models and their perturbations. 8: Exotic singularities, wormholes occurring in cosmological models and in virialized structure. Dr. Zoltan Keresztes Prof. Lorenzo Iorio Prof. Paolo Salucci Prof. Emmanuel Saridakis Guest Editors ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3.6. Master in Mathematical Physics, Tuebingen, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------ Announcement on Hyperspace@GU: http://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/03/31/master-in-mathematical-physic… Additional Information: http://www.math.uni-tuebingen.de/mmp We are very proud to announce the new international master program in Mathematical Physics that will start in Tuebingen in October 2017. It is a 2 year master program jointly run by the mathematics and the physics departments, the application deadline is 15th of July 2017. The program is centered around the core modules Geometry in Physics, Mathematical Relativity, Mathematical Quantum Mechanics, and Mathematical Statistical Physics. More information as well as a poster and a flyer can be found on the program website <a href="http://www.math.uni-tuebingen.de/mmp">http://www.math.uni-tuebingen.de/mmp</a>. We would be very thankful if you could forward this information to your colleagues and to any undergraduate students who might be interested in applying. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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