Gravity and astrophysics at UMiss

Here is a nice interview with Luca Bombelli (in Spanish!)

The Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Theoretical Physics group at the University of Mississippi will host the Seventh Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting (GCGM7) on April 19-20, 2013. The GCGM is a regional meeting that brings together researchers in all areas of gravitational physics from the south-east region of the United States. The past two editions were at Louisiana State University (GCGM5, 2009) and Florida Atlantic University (GCGM6, 2011). This is the second GCGM organized by Ole Miss (the first one was GCGM4, 2008).

The workshop is meant to be informal and student presentations are welcome. There will be no registration fee. To register, simply send an email with your name and affiliation to the following address:

gcgm7 [at] phy [dot] olemiss [dot] edu

We don’t have travel funding at the moment, but we are looking for ways to support students and postdocs. Please say explicitly in your email if you are a student or postdoc and if you would like to have travel support in case it becomes available. The email address listed above can be used for all inquiries related to the conference. More information is available on the conference webpage.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Oxford next Spring!

The first meeting of the Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics Network will take place at Aveiro University (Portugal) on July 9-13 2012. This meeting will bring together researchers from Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the USA to discuss the state of the art in anaytical and numerical techniques to study relativistic gravity with applications in various contexts, ranging from astrophysics to particle physics.

Arif Mohd successfully defended his PhD thesis (Horizons, Holography and Hydrodynamics) on Thursday, May 3rd. Arif’s thesis is available for download here.

In the Fall Arif will move to Trieste (Italy) to start a postdoc with Stefano Liberati. Congratulations Arif, we are proud of you!

Amber Stuver visited Ole Miss to give a departmental colloquium and a talk at our Science Cafe. Read all about it (and about recent, sad news on eLISA) on her great Living LIGO blog!