---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2nd Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity: 100 Years of General Relativity

23-28 November 2015 Warsaw, Poland

at Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center (Śniadeckich 8) and Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw (Pasteura 5)

http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~potor/potor15.html

LOC: Andrzej Królak, Jerzy Lewandowski, Adam Szereszewski, Piotr Sułkowski, Andrzej Okołów, Wojciech Kamiński, Ryszard Kostecki

SOC: Piotr Jaranowski, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Jerzy Lewandowski, Jacek Tafel, Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski, Andrzej Królak, Andrzej Trautman

Aims and Scope

The scientific program covers broad range of topics from the mathematical structure of General Relativity (GR) and fundamental issues of the classical gravity, through the mathematical models of quantum gravity, to gravitational waves and their detection. Because of the 100 anniversary of GR there will be an additional day of the conference (11/28/2015) organized at the Faculty of Physics of University of Warsaw that will have a special, historical character. The goal of the conference is giving an account of achievements of GR. This theory was being developed in many different directions. All of them will be included in the conference. We will invite experts from the leading world centers of mathematical relativity and gravitational physics who will present the state of art in our knowledge and understanding of the various areas of General Relativity:

Global Structure of space-time, Properties of Einstein's equations and evolution of initial data, Methods of deriving and properties of exact solutions, Numerical analysis of Einstein's equations, Black holes, Cosmology, relativistic astrophysics, Detection and analysis of gravitational waves, Models of quantum gravity, Higher dimensional generalizations of GR, History of General Relativity, Alternative theories of gravity.

Invited speakers include:

Jan Ambjorn (University of Copenhagen); Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (La Sapienza, Rome); Piotr Bizoń (Jagiellonian University, Cracow); Piotr Chruściel (University of Vienna); Marek Demiański (University of Warsaw); Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge); George Ellis (University of Cape Town); Helmut Friedrich (MPI Golm); Hanoch Gutfreund (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Michał Heller (Copernicus Center, Cracow); Stefan Hollands* (Universitaet Leipzig); Roy Kerr*; Jerzy Kijowski (CFT, Warsaw); Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman (University of Wrocław); Andrzej Krasiński (Centrum Astronomiczne Mikołaja Kopernika, Warsaw); Jerzy Lukierski (University of Wrocław); Yongge Ma (Beijing Normal University); Paweł Mazur (University of South Carolina); Ezra T. Newman (University of Pittsburgh); Paweł Nurowski (University of Warsaw); Roger Penrose (Oxford University); Jürgen Renn (MPI Berlin); Martin Reuter (Universitaet Mainz); Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff University); Gerhard Schäfer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena); John Stachel (Boston University); Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena); Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (University of Warsaw)

* TBC

The conference will be organised jointly by: Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Polish Society on Relativity, and Uniwersytet Warszawski. ----------------------------------------------------------------------