The 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
on
GRAVITATION & COSMOLOGY (ICGC-07)
December 17-21, 2007
IUCAA, Pune, India.
The 6th meeting in the
series of International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology,
will be hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy
and Astrophysics (IUCAA),
Pune, during Dec 17 - 21, 2007.
This series of international meetings, held under the auspices
of the Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation
(IAGRG),
has spanned nearly two decades, with the first one organised in
1987 held in the very popular tourist destination, Goa.
This meeting aims at bringing together active scientists from all over the
globe to take stock of the state of the art in Gravitation & Cosmology,
chart out promising future directions and exchange ideas, as well as
offer younger researchers from Indian academia an opportunity for
interaction with experts from within India and abroad. To this end, the
programme will have a series of plenary lectures by senior
scientists/experts, with parallel workshops and poster sessions that will,
among other things, serve to provide a platform for upcoming researchers
and graduate students. The plenary sessions will be of two varieties, longer
ones are for general interest and shorter ones are more specialized, yet
expected to be accessible to wider audience. The itinerary will also
not be without a smattering of formal and informal discussion sessions.
Although the scope of the meeting encompasses all theoretical and
observational aspects of Gravitation & Cosmology, the workshop sessions
will focus on four main themes:
Applications for workshop talks and posters are invited from Indian as well as foreign nationals. Please check out the tentative schedule for our line-up of invited speakers.
This is the second time that IUCAA will be the venue for an ICGC. Nestled
in the picturesque campus of the
University of Pune,
this autonomous institute, whose
stature is reflected in the long line of prominent international events it
has played host to, including the GR-15 conference, is home to a dynamic
research community with diverse interests ranging over nearly the entire
breadth of Astronomy & Astrophysics. Do visit the Miscellaneous info page
to know more about IUCAA and the Pune region.
Previous ICGC meetings were held at
Cochin University of Science and Technology (2004),
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2000), IUCAA, Pune (1995), Physical
Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad (1991) & Goa (1987).
Co-Sponsoring Institutes & Organisations: | |||||
ISRO | HRI, Allahabad | IIA, Bangalore | IMSc, Chennai | RRI, Bangalore | SINP, Kolkata |