REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN ON SUNDAY AT 4:30PM AT LERNER HALL. PLEASE ENTER LERNER HALL THROUGH THE ENTRANCE ON 114TH STREET AND BROADWAY.

REGISTRATION WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION FROM 5PM TO 7PM.

The registration desk will be in the West Lobby of Lerner Hall. The street address for this is 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 for which the closest cross street is 114th street. The reception on Sunday evening will be in the Auditorium at Lerner Hall.

For maps of Lerner Hall, please visit the Lerner Hall website.


Preliminary conference Block Schedule



Schedule Detail



Full Abstract Booklet



There will be a public talk associated with the conference by Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss. More information can be found here.


The POSTER SESSION will be held on Thursday morning. Posters are to be no larger than 60 inches tall and 36 inches wide. They must be displayed in portrait configuration.


At this link speakers can find the Dropbox link for their respective sessions.

Plenary speakers

Markus Aspelmeyer (U Vienna, Austria), Leor Barack (University of Southampton, UK), Marica Branchesi (Universita degli studi di Urbino, Italy), Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics, Germany), Gabriela Gonzalez (Louisiana State University, USA), Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Vanderbilt University, USA), Gustav Holzegel (Imperial College, UK), Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute, Canada), Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute, Canada), Samaya Nissanke (Radboud University, the Netherlands), Hiranya Peiris (University College London, UK) Martin Reuter (U Mainz, Germany), Masaru Shibata (U Kyoto, Japan), Andrew Strominger (Harvard, USA), Claude Warnick (Imperial College, UK), and Norbert Wex (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany)

Panel discussion: The past 100 years and the future of general relativity

Peter Saulson (U Syracuse, USA), Beverly Berger (USA), Jean-Philippe Uzan (IAP, France)

Parallel sessions

A1: Exact solutions and their interpretation Chair:Jiri Podolsky (Charles University, Czech Republic)
A2: Mathematical relativity and classical gravitation Chair: Marc Mars (University of Salamanca, Spain)
A3: Alternative and modified theories of gravity Chair: Shinji Mukohyama (Yukawa Institute, Japan)
A4: Complex and conformal methods in classical and quantum gravity Chair: Juan Valiente Kroon (Queen Mary University, UK)

B1: Relativistic astrophysics Chair: Alessandra Corsi (Texas Tech, USA)
B2: Numerical relativity Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker (Gatech, USA)
B3: Approximations, perturbation theory, and their applications Chair: Leonardo Gualtieri (Rome Sapienza, Italy)
B4: Cosmology: Theory and observations Chair:Joanne Dunkley (Oxford, UK)

C1: Pulsar Timing Arrays Chair: Gemma Janssen (ASTRON, Netherlands)
C2: Gravitational waves: Searches, data analysis, parameter estimation, and multimessenger astronomy Chair: Laura Cadonati (Gatech, USA)
C3: Gravitational waves: Present and future of ground-based and space-based detectors Chair: David McClelland (Australian National U, Australia)
C4: Experimental gravitation Chair: Silke Weinfurtner (U Nottingham, UK)

D1: Loop quantum gravity and spin foams Co-chairs: Madhavan Varadarajan (Raman Research Institute, India) and Alejandro Perez (Marseille, France)
D2: Strings, branes, entanglement, AdS/CFT, and all that Chair: Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis, USA)
D3: Causal sets, causal dynamical triangulations, non-commutative geometry, asymptotic safety, and other approaches to quantum gravity Chair: Jan Ambjorn (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)
D4: Quantum fields in curved space-time, semiclassical gravity, quantum gravity phenomenology, and analog models Chair: Ralf Schutzhold (Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Plenary Talks

Monday, July 11, 2016:
Tuesday, July 12, 2016:
Wednesday, July 13, 2016:
Thursday, July 14, 2016:
Friday, July 15, 2016:

Presentation Slides

A1: Exact solutions and their interpretation Chair:Jiri Podolsky (Charles University, Czech Republic)
A2: Mathematical relativity and classical gravitation Chair: Marc Mars (University of Salamanca, Spain)
A3: Alternative and modified theories of gravity Chair: Shinji Mukohyama (Yukawa Institute, Japan)
A4: Complex and conformal methods in classical and quantum gravity Chair: Juan Valiente Kroon (Queen Mary University, UK)

B1: Relativistic astrophysics Chair: Alessandra Corsi (Texas Tech, USA)
B2: Numerical relativity Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker (Gatech, USA)
B3: Approximations, perturbation theory, and their applications Chair: Leonardo Gualtieri (Rome Sapienza, Italy)
B4: Cosmology: Theory and observations Chair:Joanne Dunkley (Oxford, UK)

C1: Pulsar Timing Arrays Chair: Gemma Janssen (ASTRON, Netherlands)
C2: Gravitational waves: Searches, data analysis, parameter estimation, and multimessenger astronomy Chair: Laura Cadonati (Gatech, USA)
C3: Gravitational waves: Present and future of ground-based and space-based detectors Chair: David McClelland (Australian National U, Australia)
C4: Experimental gravitation Chair: Silke Weinfurtner (U Nottingham, UK)

D1: Loop quantum gravity and spin foams Co-chairs: Madhavan Varadarajan (Raman Research Institute, India) and Alejandro Perez (Marseille, France)
D2: Strings, branes, entanglement, AdS/CFT, and all that Chair: Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis, USA)
D3: Causal sets, causal dynamical triangulations, non-commutative geometry, asymptotic safety, and other approaches to quantum gravity Chair: Jan Ambjorn (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)
D4: Quantum fields in curved space-time, semiclassical gravity, quantum gravity phenomenology, and analog models Chair: Ralf Schutzhold (Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

GW: Special Session: Gravitational Waves Highlights Chair: Alessandra Corsi
The scientific program will include a session dedicated to the recent discovery of GW150914 and its broad implications. The selection for this session will be made from proposals submitted to any related session.

The final program will become available a couple weeks before the event.