12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting

General Relativity and Gravitation

UNESCO Paris
13 - 18 July 2009

MG12 is the 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity and Gravitation and is an official celebration of the United Nations 2009 Year of Astronomy.

It will be held for the first time in Paris, France, hosted jointly by ICRANet, UNESCO and ICTP and some of the most celebrated Academic institutions in the "Latin Quarter" including the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), the Paris Observatory and the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS). UNESCO has generously offered its headquarters for the morning plenary sessions and many of the afternoon parallel sessions, while the remaining afternoon parallel sessions will be hosted by these academic institutions.

The scientific objective of these meetings is to bring together scientists from diverse backgrounds in order to deepen our understanding of spacetime structures and review the status of experiments testing Einstein's theory of gravitation. The range of topics is broad: from more abstract classical gravitational theories, quantum gravity, and string theories all the way to relativistic astrophysics and an outlook towards future observational missions.

Related links:
::  12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (website)
::  UNESCO International Year of Astronomy (website)
::  Preliminary Programme [.pdf]

• Source:UNESCO SC
• 15-07-2009