Gravity - The Next Generation-

On this symposium

The 3rd week of the YITP long-term workshop "Gravity and Cosmology 2021" (GC 2021) is dedicated to an intensive symposium on gravity. This also serves as the Yukawa International Seminar for the fiscal year 2021 (YKIS 2021).

Schedule and Venue

• Start: June 7, 2021,   Close: June 11, 2021  
• Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
• Banquet: June 9, 2021

Subjects

• Observational cosmology
• Inflation/dark matter/dark energy
• Gravitational-wave astronomy/cosmology
• Gravity beyond general relativity

Invited Speakers

• Masaki Ando (Tokyo/KAGRA)
• Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins)
• Patrick Brady (UWM/LIGO)
• Rong-Gen Cai (ITP CAS)
• Vitor Cardoso (CENTRA)
• Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)*
• Karsten Danzmann (AEI/LISA)
• Claudia de Rham (Imperial)
• Nathalie Deruelle (APC)
• Ruth Durrer (Geneva)
• Roberto Emparan (Barcelona)
• Renata Kallosh (Stanford)
• Eiichiro Komatsu (Max-Planck Inst.)
• Andrei Linde (Stanford)
• Enrico Pajer (Cambridge)*
• Tsvi Piran (Hebrew)
• Lisa Randall (Harvard)
• Misao Sasaki (IPMU)
• Leonardo Senatore (Stanford)
• Masaru Shibata (AEI/YITP)
• Alexei Starobinsky (Landau Inst.)
• Masahiro Takada (IPMU)*
• Jean-Philippe Uzan (IAP)*
• Johannes van den Brand (Nikhef/Virgo)
• David Wands (Portsmouth)

* to be confirmed

Organizing Committee

Katsuki Aoki (YITP), Antonio De Felice (YITP), Tomohiro Fujita (ICRR), Mohammad Ali Gorji (YITP), Kunihito Ioka (YITP), Sugumi Kanno (Osaka), Takeshi Kobayashi (KMI, Nagoya), Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Nagoya/IFT), Shinji Mukohyama (YITP, Chair), Atsushi Naruko (YITP), Takahiro Nishimichi (YITP), Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto), Atsushi Taruya (YITP)

Sponsors

YITP,  Yukawa Memorial Foundation

Supported by

JSPS KAKENHI
No. JP17H06359 "New developments of gravity theory research in gravitational wave physics / astronomy"
No. 17H06357 "Gravitational wave physics and astronomy: Genesis"