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on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories

INTERNATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE THE MARCEL GROSSMAN MEETINGS ALBANIA: Hafizi M. - : P., Merafina M., Pani P., Ricci F., Treves Arguelles C., Scoccola C., Reula O., A., Vereshchagin G.V., Vitale S., Xue S.- Since 1975, the Marcel Grossman Meetings have JAPAN Romero G.E. - : Sahakyan N. - S. - : Fujimoto M.-K., Makishima been organized in order to provide opportunities for AUSTRALIA: Blair D., Ju L., Lun A., K., Nakamura T., Sato K., Shibata M. - Manchester D., Melatos A., Quinn P., KAZAKHSTAN: Abishev M., Aimuratov discussing recent advances in gravitation, general AUSTRIA Scott S.M., Steele J.D. - : Y., Boshkayev K., Mychelkin E.G., relativity and relativistic field theories, emphasizing Aichelburg P.C., Schindler S. - Spitaleri C. - KOREA (PYEONGYANG): BELARUS: Kilin S., Prakapenia M., Kim J.S. - KOREA (SEOUL): Kim mathematical foundations, physical predictions BELGIUM Siutsou I. - : Henneaux M. S.P., Kim S.-W., Lee H.K., Lee H.-W., and experimental tests. The objective of these - BOLIVIA: Aguirre C.B. - BOSNIA: van Putten M. - KYRGYZSTAN: Pasic V. - : Barres de Almeida Gurovich V.Ts. - LIBYA: Gadri M. - meetings is to elicit exchange among scientists U., Coelho Goulart J., Dalmolin F.T., de : Breton N., Cervantes-Cota that may deepen our understanding of space-time Lima Rafael C.R., Guzzo M., Maia C., J.-L., Fraija Cabrera N.I., García- Malheiro M., Romero Filho C.A., Shellard Diaz A.A., Macías Alvarez A., Mielke structures as well as to review the status of ongoing BULGARIA R.C., Zen Vasconcellos C. - : Eckehard W., Quevedo H., Rodriguez experiments aimed at testing Einstein’s theory of Yazadjiev S. - CANADA: Singh D., L.F. - NETHERLANDS: Slagter R. - Smolin L., Turok N. - CHILE: Bauer F., NEW ZEALAND: Visser M., Wiltshire gravitation and relativistic field theories either from Bunster W.C., Giacomini A. - CHINA D. - NORWAY: Elgaroy O., Fonseca the ground or from space. Previous meetings have (MAINLAND): Cai R., Cai Y., Cao Z., Mota D., Knutsen H. - PAKISTAN: been held in (1975) and (1979), Chang J., Chen J., Chen X., Dai Z., Feng Qadir A., Qamar S. - PERU: Vargas T. L.-L., Han W., Jing Y., Li T.-P., Lin W., - POLAND: Belczynski K., Demianski (1982), Rome (1985), Perth (1988), Kyoto (1991), Lou Y.-Q., Luo J., Mei J., Tam T., Wang M., Lewandowski Jerzy, Nurowski P., Stanford (1994), (1997), Rome (2000), Rio A., Wang Y., Wu X.-P., Wu Y.-L., Yuan Sokolowski L. - PORTUGAL: Costa M., Y.-F., Zhang B.-B., Zhang S.-N., Zhao G. Da Silva A., Lemos J.P.S., Lobo F., Moniz (2003), (2006), (2009), (2012) - CHINA (TAIWAN): Chen Chiang-Mei, ROMANIA P., Silva L.O. - : Visinescu M. and Rome (2015-2018). Interested scientists should Chen Pisin, Lee Da-Shin, Lee Wo-Lung, RUSSIA - : Aksenov A., Arkhangelskaja Ni Wei-Tou - : Bargueño de I., Bisnovatyi-Kogan G., Blinnikov address a member from any one of the organizing Retes P., Gonzalez G., Higuera Garzon S., Chechetikin V.M., Cherepaschuk M.A., Núñez L., Romano A.E, Valenzuela committees or the conference secretariat. A.M., Khriplovich I., Lipunov V.M., Toledo C.A., Zuluaga J.I. - CROATIA: Lukash V.N., Novikov I., Rudenko V.N., Dominis Prester D., Karlica M., Milekovic Starobinsky A.A. - SERBIA: Djordjevic M., Smolcic V., Smolic I., Suric T. - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE G., Jovanovic P., Knezevic Z., Pankov- CUBA: Perez Martinez A., Pérez Rojas Hzvojevic M., Popovic L., Prodanovic H. - CZECH REPUBLIC: Bicak J., Blair D., Choquet Bruhat Y., Damour T., De Bernardis T., Sijacki D., Simic S. - SLOVAKIA: Stuchlik Z. - DENMARK: Naselsky P. P., Everitt C.W.F., Fryer C., Haensch T., Henneaux M., ECUADOR EGYPT Balek V. - SLOVENIA: Cadez A., Gomboc - : Contreras E. - : SOUTH AFRICA Tawfik A.N., Wanas M.I. -ESTONIA : A., Zavrtanek D. - : Jones C., Kerr R., Kleinert H., Kunz J., FINLAND Larena J., Maharaj S. - SPAIN: Elizalde Einasto J., Saar E. - : Laemmerzahl C., Longair M., Mirabel F., Mirzoyan R., Poutanen J., Volovik G. - FRANCE: E., Ibanez J., Perez M.J., Verdaguer E. - SWEDEN Brillet A., Buchert T., Chardonnet P., : Abramowicz M.A., Marklund SWITZERLAND Piran T., Rueda J., Ruffini R. (chairperson), Sasaki M., Coullet P., de Freitas Pacheco J.A., M., Ryde F. - : Durrer TURKEY Deruelle N., Iliopoulos J., Lamanna G., R., Jetzer P. - : Aliev A., Sato H., Sunyaev R., ‘t Hooft G., Weinberg S., UKRAINE Mignard F. - GEORGIA: Lavrelashvili Gurses M. - : Novosyadlyj UNITED Yau S-T., Zhang B. George, Machabeli Giorgi - GERMANY: B., Zaslavskii O., Zhuk A. - Biermann P., Blumlein J., Di Piazza ARAB EMIRATES: Fernini I. - UNITED A., Fritzsch H., Genzel R., Gilmozzi R., KINGDOM: Cruise A.M., Frenk Carlos Hasinger G., Hehl F., Keitel C., Kiefer S., Green M., Mavromatos N., Perry M., LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Willingale R. - USA: Abel T., Ashtekar C., Mirzoyan R., Neugebauer G., Nicolai Adamo C., Bianco C.L., Brandolini G.A., H., Renn J., Ringwald A., Ruediger A., Bardeen J., Carlstrom J., Cornish A. - GREECE: Batakis N.A., Cotsakis N., Dermer C., Fan X., Flanagan E., di Niccolo C., Latorre S., La Selva D., Li L., S., Vagenas E.C. - HUNGARY: Fodor Fraschetti F., Fryer C., Incera V., Jantzen G., Levai P. - ICELAND: Bjornsson G., R.T. (chairperson), Kolb R., Laguna Loppini A., Natale E., Verzulli D., Jakobsson P. - INDIA: Chakrabarti S.K., P., Lousto C., Madau Piero, Mathews Vereshchagin G.V. (chairperson), Wang Y. Iyer B., Padmanabhan T., Souradeep T. - Grant, Matzner Richard, Melia Fulvio, IRAN: Baghram S., Bavarsad E., Eslam Mester John, Michelson Peter, Nordtvedt Panah B., Firouzjahi H., Haghighat M., Kenneth, Parker Leonard, Pretorius Mansouri R., Mashhoon B., Shakeri F., Pullin J., Shapiro I., Shapiro S., S., Sobouti Y., Taghi Mirtorabi M. - Shoemaker D., Smoot G., Stiavelli M., IRELAND: O’Murchada N. - ISRAEL: Teukolsky S., van Nieuwenhuizen P., Milgrom M., Nakar E., Pe’er A., Piran Zhang B. - UZBEKISTAN: Ahmedov T. - : Belinski V., Bianchi M., B., Zalaletdinov R.M. - : Bianco C.L., Cherubini C., Della Valle M., Gionti G. - VENEZUELA: Fuenmayor E. Falciano S., Filippi S., Haardt F., Menotti - VIETNAM: Long H.N. ICRA: Dipartimento di Fisica - P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma - Italy - ICRANet - Piazza della Repubblica, 10 - 65122 Pescara - Italy - Contacts: [email protected]