We invite you to participate and submit a contributed talk to the two-day symposium “History for Physics: Quantum Foundations”, to be held on September 23-24, 2019 at the Faculty for Physics of the University of Vienna (Austria). Jointly organized by the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) and the Max Planck Research Group “Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, this symposium aims at demonstrating the importance of the history of physics within current research in physics itself. Researchers and students in physics who are not, or not yet, engaged in the history of physics are therefore particularly welcomed to join.

The core format of this symposium will be that of tandem talks. Each tandem will pair two presentations, one given by a physicist on a current research topic, the other given by an historian of physics providing the historical context to that topic.

We are delighted to announce the following two confirmed invited tandems:

David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Christopher Fuchs (University of Massachusetts Boston)

Olival Freire Jr. (Federal University of Bahia) and Daniel Greenberger (City College of New York)

We furthermore call for contributed talks. We welcome talks which are either

single history talks on quantum foundations

physics/history-tandems on quantum foundations

presentations of historically relevant papers in quantum foundations

In case you are interested in participating in tandem, but do not have a tandem-partner, please contact the organizers, who will then try to match tandems together. We also highly welcome history talks by non-historians.

If you wish to contribute in one of those ways, please send an abstract of your proposed talk, no longer than half an A4 page, to hfpATmpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. The deadline for applications is 30.07.2019.

Additionally, we will schedule a panel discussion on the relevance of the history of physics for research and education and its current realization within academic structures. Panelists will be announced soon.

"History for Physics: Quantum Foundations" is the first of so far two scheduled events of this kind. The second, on quantum gravity, is going to be held on November 28-29, 2019 at the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Potsdam-Golm (Germany), where Alexander Blum (MPIWG) & Hermann Nicolai (AEI) and Thiago Hartz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) & Claus Kiefer (University of Cologne) are confirmed tandem-speakers.

Both symposia are free of charge and open to all. If you wish to attend without contributing a talk, we kindly ask for registration by sending an e-mail to hfp@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

For further information please check the event-website, http://bit.ly/historyforphysics, or write to the organizers at the mentioned e-mail address.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to everybody who could be interested in attending.

With kind regards,

Bernadette Lessel (MPIWG)

Flavio Del Santo (IQOQI-Vienna)

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We are happy to announce that the 5th International Conference for Young Quantum Information Scientists (YQIS) is now open for submissions!

This year's YQIS is held in Sopot, Poland between 25-57 September, and is organised by the University of Gdansk and the National Quantum Information Centre (KCIK). The aim of the conference series is to bring together early stage researchers from a broad range of quantum information sciences. Apart from the oral and poster presentations of the participants and the invited speakers, the conference provides the opportunity for scientific and informal discussions in a relaxed environment. We address the following topics (in no specific order of preference):

- quantum foundations

- quantum communication and cryptography

- technologies for quantum information processing

- quantum thermodynamics and open systems

- quantum simulation and computation

- quantum correlations and networks

Our invited speakers are:

- Antonio Acín (ICFO, Barcelona)

- Časlav Brukner (IQOQI, Vienna)

- Nilanjana Datta (University of Cambridge)

- Ana Belén Sainz (ICTQT, Gdansk)

- Stephen Patrick Walborn (IF/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro)

For more information, see the website: https://yqis2019.ug.edu.pl/

The submission page can be reached at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yqis2019

For any questions regarding the conference and the submission, please contact the organisers at mate.farkasATphdstud.ug.edu.pl

Kind regards,

Local organisers:

Anubhav Chaturvedi

Máté Farkas (chair)

Paweł Mazurek

Nikolai Miklin

Marcin Pawłowski

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The deadline of 5 July to subscribe for Trieste Junior Quantum Days is approaching. The workshop will be held on July 24–26 at ICTP in Trieste. This is the 3rd meeting in the series, which aims to gather young researchers working in quantum mechanics and its applications. PhD students and PostDocs will be given the opportunity to present their research activity and interact with their colleagues, share motivations, techniques, and perspectives, in a friendly and informal environment. We are now selecting the speakers that already submitted their abstracts. Posters are still welcome, and the deadline of abstract submission (June 21, 2019) is approaching. In the morning, blackboard lectures by senior experts will provide a perspective on relevant topics in quantum theory.

Lecturers

Angelo Bassi: Quantum non-locality and Bell's theorem

Fabio Benatti: Mathematical and physical aspects of quantum entanglement: a survey

Rosario Fazio: Open many-body quantum systems

Mikhail Kiselev: Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg-Majorana Interferometry

Giuseppe Santoro: Quantum Annealing

Andrea Trombettoni: Quantum devices with ultracold atoms

Scientific Committee

Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste - INFN)

Fabio Benatti (University of Trieste - INFN)

Rosario Fazio (ICTP)

Alessandro Michelangeli (LMU Munich)

Andrea Trombettoni (CNR-IOM Trieste)

Link to the workshop webpage: http://tequantum.eu/?q=TriesteJuniorQuantumDays/2019

Posters are welcome, and the deadline of abstract submission (June 21, 2019) is approaching.

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XIII TONALE WINTER SCHOOL ON COSMOLOGY

THEORY FOR OBSERVERS & OBSERVATIONS FOR THEORISTS

Passo del Tonale - Italy

9 - 13 December 2019

https://indico.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/event/103/

*The school is aimed mainly at PhD/postdocs in Cosmology but a few

places for master students may be available, based on availability. It

will cover both theoretical and observational aspects of modern

cosmology.

*The lecture series will be delivered by

Marco Drewes (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)

Neutrino Cosmology

Massimo Pietroni (INFN, Padua)

Non-Linear Pertubation Theory

Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, (CEA, Saclay)

Testing Dark Energy with observations

Mathieu Remazeilles, (JBCA, Manchester)

CMB polarization and spectral distortions

*Registration is now OPEN: the deadline is 1st October 2019. To

register, please visit our website:

https://indico.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/event/103/.

Given the large number of applications we strongly suggest to register

as soon as possible. Note that we will accept a maximum of 40

participants. A limited amount of financial help to attend the School is

available.

Please send emails to winterschool@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de for any

further questions.

Follow us on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/tonale.cosmology and on Twitter @tonalecosmology.

*Please check the homepage of the school for more information:

https://indico.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/event/103/.

See you in Tonale!

Best regards,

The Organizing Committee:

Luca Amendola, Santiago Casas, Mel Irfan, Matteo Maturi, Cornelius

Rampf, Javier Rubio, Eleonora Villa.

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Marking the end of the JTF Quantum Causal Structures multi-site project, there will be a school + workshop held at Oxford, July 10th-14th, taking place at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

During these five days, each of the sites will report on their overall main achievements during the project in the morning sessions, in the form of tutorials. In the afternoons, there will be other research talks by network members, as well as other invited participants. Participation in this event is open to anyone, and so will be the poster session.

The PIs of the QCS collaboration are:

Caslav Brukner (Programme Leader), IQOQI

Robert Spekkens, Perimeter Institute

Jonathan Barrett, University of Oxford

Giulio Chiribella, University of Hongkong

Bob Coecke, University of Oxford

Fabio Costa, University of Queensland

Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, University of Pavia

Lucien Hardy, Perimeter Institute

Gerard Milburn, University of Queensland

Markus Müller, IQOQI

Paolo Perinotti, University of Pavia

More information is (or will be made) available on the website:

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/qcs2019/

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Registration and applications for student support for Quantum Physics

and Logic (QPL 2019) are now open. Go to https://qpl2019.org to register.

Early bird registration fee (before May 17) is $100 and $50 for

students. Late registration fee (after May 17) is $125 and $75 for

students.

Information about accommodation and the conference banquet will be made

available soon. Make sure you register early to get all the updates.

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Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to announce l’Agape 2019, the third edition of a summer-school of theoretical physics, which will be held in the mountains of the Massif Central (France) from July 27th to August 3rd 2019.

L'Agape sees a partition between six 4-hour courses given in the mornings and scientific activities in the afternoons. The series of courses covers a large field of topics in theoretical physics:

Towards a more efficient model of particle physics by Cohl Furey (University of Cambridge)

The two-fold role of observables in Classical and Quantum Kinematics by Federico Zalamea (EFREI Paris)

Timeless statistical mechanics and applications to quantum gravity by Isha Kotecha (AEI Potsdam)

Cosmological field theories by Scott Melville (University of Cambridge)

Foundations of Quantum Theory by Emily Adlam (University of Cambridge) (to be confirmed)

Introduction to (linear) logics for physicists by Titouan Carette (LORIA, Université de Lorraine)

This school’s special appeal and particularity lies in the broad range of its topics, the creative format of the “scientific activities” and the horizontal structure of the organisation: everything, from the courses and talks to the cooking will be done by and for young physicists, and we will encourage each participant to actively engage in shaping the structure of l’Agape. Furthermore, this year we are offering participants the possibility to stay for three more days after the official end to continue the discussions and enjoy the surroundings.

You will find more details in the poster attached and on the website agape2019.sciencesconf.org.

Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested!

Best wishes,

The organisers:

Alexander Thomas, Jérémy Attard, Pierre Martin-Dussaud, Robin Reuben,Vaclav Zatloukal

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GR22 and Amaldi13, Valencia, Spain

Starting: 2019-07-07 to 2019-07-12

Location: Valencia, Spain

Additional Information:http://gr22amaldi13.com

Contact: vitor.cardoso[AT]ist.utl.pt

Dear Relativists,

It is a great pleasure to invite you to the 22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR22) and the 13th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi13) which takes place from 7th – 12th July 2019 at the University of Valencia, Spain.

Registration is now open!

http://www.gr22amaldi13.com/register.php

GR22 is the latest in the series of triennial international conferences held under the auspices of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. This conference series constitutes the principal international meetings for scientists working in all areas of relativity and gravitation.

The Amaldi conferences are held under the auspices of the Gravitational Wave International Committee. Since 1997, they have been held every two years and are regarded as the most important international conferences for the gravitational-wave detection community. In Valencia, GR22 and Amaldi13 are organized as a joint event.

The program of the conference, among many topics, includes a celebration of the Eddington expedition, the status of analogue experiments, tests on the nature of compact objects, superradiance and dark matter in strong-field gravity, progress in post-Newtonian expansions and effective field theory methods, progress in mathematical relativity, Numerical Relativity and its applications to astrophysics and high-energy physics, neutron stars, formation of supermassive black holes, Loop Quantum Gravity, the Event Horizon Telescope, the galactic center black hole, holography and quantum information, post-Planck cosmology, the LIGO-Virgo detections and multi-messenger astronomy, as well as the future of gravitational-wave detectors.

The program will also include a public talk on gravitational waves, an award ceremony for the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize, and a tribute to Stephen Hawking.

The conference venue is the Valencia Conference Centre (2010 World’s Best Convention Centre) designed by internationally renowned architect Norman Foster. Public transportation access is straightforward from all parts of the city by either bus, metro, or tram, or even using the environmentally friendly bicycles of Valenbisi. The venue is only ten minutes away from the city’s airport and from the high-speed train station, and it is surrounded by hotels, with circa 1,000 hotel rooms within two minutes’ walking distance. The venue is well connected with the Old Town where the visitor can enjoy a large monumental heritage comprising buildings dating to Roman and Arabic times and UNESCO heritage sites.

We look forward to welcoming you to Valencia 2019!

Vitor Cardoso – Chair, GR22 Scientific Organizing Committee

Sheila Rowan – Chair, Amaldi 13 Scientific Organizing Committee

Toni Font – Chair, GR22/ Amaldi13 Local Organizing Committee

Eric Poisson - ISGRG President

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10th MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS MEETING:

School and Conference on

Modern Mathematical Physics

to be held 9--14 September 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia. The MPHYS10 meeting is the

latest in a long list of biannual conferences on mathematical physics organized

by the Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, since 2001. The conference

covers a wide range of topics, mainly oriented towards recent developments in

cosmology, classical and quantum gravity, quantum field theory, string theory,

and related research areas of theoretical high energy and mathematical physics.

The list of topics includes:

* Modern Cosmological Models

* General Relativity and Modified Gravity

* Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy

* Modern Approaches to Quantum Gravity

* Foundations of Quantum Theory and Quantum Gravity

* Conformal and String Field Theory

* Lie Theory and Symmetries in Physics

* Strings, Branes and String/M-Theory

* Noncommutative Quantum Models

* Nonperturbative Approaches

* Exact Integrable Models

* Mathematical Methods

Given that this is the 10th conference in a row, this year we are celebrating a

jubilee. Some of our distighuished invited speakers include:

Alexei Starobinsky (Moscow, Russia)

Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Munich, Germany)

Ignatios Antoniadis (Paris, France)

Sergei Odintsov (Barcelona, Spain)

Irina Arefeva (Moscow, Russia)

Paul Sorba (Annecy, France)

Loriano Bonora (Trieste, Italy)

Igor Volovich (Moscow, Russia)

Martin Cederwall (Goteborg, Sweden)

Djordje Minic (Blacksburg, USA)

and many others --- please see the full list of participants on our website,

http://www.mphys10.ipb.ac.rs/

where you can also find other detailed information about the MPHYS10 meeting,

as well as all previous meetings of the MPHYS series.

The registration for the meeting is open until July 1st 2019, and we wish to

invite everyone to join us and contribute to the meeting.

Cordially,

Marko Vojinovic

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The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites abstracts for the

following event:

All Things Reichenbach

MCMP, LMU Munich

22-24 July, 2019

http://www.lmu.de/reichenbach2019

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Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953), one of the founding fathers of Logical

Empiricism, is among the most important philosophers of science of the

Twentieth Century and without doubt one of the most prominent

philosophers of physics of the first half of the past century. Many of

his ideas still retain their interest in current philosophy of science,

and his work continues to be influential, often in unnoticed but deep

ways. This conference is dedicated to highlighting the importance of

Reichenbach and his legacy, across all areas of his thought,

specifically focusing on the issues raised within his work, and on the

current debates surrounding them.

*Call for abstracts*

We invite the submission of extended abstracts for the conference.

Submissions should include a title, a brief abstract (up to 200 words),

and a full abstract (up to 1000 words), blinded for peer review. They

should be PDF files, submitted by 06 April, 2019 to the conference's

EasyChair account . We

will select up to 6 submissions for presentation at the conference.

We are committed to fostering diversity and equality in our programs.

Submissions from underrepresented groups are particularly welcome. The

conference will be organized and run under the MCMP's code of conduct

.

*Registration*

Please send registration requests by 15 July 2019 to the co-chair

Erik Curiel . The email should have

the subject: "register Reichenbach conference" and should indicate

whether you plan to attend the conference dinner (23 July, 2019). The

conference dinner will cost EUR 35 (alcohol not included).

*Dates and Deadlines*

Deadlines for Submission: 06 April 2019

Date of Notification: 06 May 2019

Registration Deadline: 15 July 2019

*Organizers*

*



Erik Curiel, MCMP/LMU Munich (co-chair)

* Flavia Padovani, Department of English &

Philosophy, Drexel University (co-chair)

*Acknowledgments*

The conference is organized and supported by the Munich Center for

Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich)

. The

conference is partly funded by a grant from the Deutsche

Forschungsgemeinschaft, and by support from the Alexander von Humboldt

Foundation and from

the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the

University of Bonn .

--

Erik Curiel

http://strangebeautiful.com

Assistant Professor

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie

Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Ludwigst
raße 31

80539 München, Deutschland

http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de

BHI Research Fellow

Black Hole Initiative

Harvard University

http://bhi.fas.harvard.edu

Research Fellow

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Radio and Geoastronomy Division

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/rg

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Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the COSMO'19 conference, to be held at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, from Monday 2nd of September, 9am, to Friday 6th of September, 1pm. As in previous editions, the conference will address hot topics in cosmology and astroparticle physics. There will be plenary sessions every morning, parallel sessions every afternoon, and two poster sessions in the evenings. It will be a family-friendly conference, we have set up a childcare service during lecturing times. Our list of confirmed plenary speakers includes Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Iason Baldes, Erminia Calabrese, Emanuele Castorina, Chihway Chang, David Curtin, Valerie Domcke, Lavinia Heisenberg, Yonit Hochberg, Will Kinney, Lloyd Knox, Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Mariangela Lisanti, Vivian Poulin, Alkistis Pourtsidou, Pat Scott, Matteo Viel, Walter Winter, Gong-Bo Zhao, Miguel Zumalacarregui. There will be six parallel sessions coordinated by the following conveners:

• Early Universe: Subodh Patil, Lorenzo Sorbo

• Gravitational Waves and Black Holes: Daniel Figueroa, Teruaki Suyama

• Dark Matter and Astroparticle: Marco Cirelli, Francis-Yann Cyr-Racine

• CMB, universe expansion and thermal history: Vera Gluscevic, Antony Lewis

• Large Scale Structure: Dragan Huterer, Elena Sellentin

• Modified Gravity and Dark Energy: Claudia De Rahm, Alessandra Silvestri

Aachen was the former capital of Charlemagne’s empire. It is a cute middle-sized touristic city, with monuments dating back from that time. Accommodation and food are rather cheap, and we have done some block-bookings to be sure that everybody can get a hotel room in due time (details will be circulated later). Aachen is easy to reach by train from several international airports: Cologne/Bonn, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Brussels (one to two hours). There are direct train connections to many major German cities, as well as Brussels (one hour) and Paris (two hours and a half by Thalys).

Please book the date in your agenda. Registration and abstract submission (for 90 parallel talks and 120 posters) will be open over spring, when we will circulate the second bulletin. The exact fees amount will be announced later, and will not exceed those of former editions. We will propose several activities after the main sessions: on Monday, a welcome reception; on Tuesday, a choice between several social and cultural activities (visits, excursions, games); on Wednesday, a banquet, and on Thursday, a public outreach lecture by Eiichiro Komatsu.

More details can be found on our webpage:

https://indico.cern.ch/e/cosmo19

We hope to see many of you in Aachen in half a year!

The COSMO19 Local Organising Committee

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Christian Fidler, Deanna C. Hooper, Felix Kahlhoefer, Michael Krämer, Julien Lesgourgues (Chair), Philipp Mertsch, Jesus Torrado

The COSMO International Steering Committee

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Vernon Barger, Daniel Baumann, John Beacom, Kiwoon Choi, Jonathan Ellis, Kari Enqvist, Evalyn Gates, Ruth Gregory, Francis Halzen, Mark Hindmarsh, Dragan Huterer, Stavros Katsanevas, Jihn Kim, Rocky Kolb, Julien Lesgourgues, Andrei Linde, Carlos Martins, Hans-Peter Nilles, Antonio Riotto, Matts Roos, Leszek Roszkowski (Chair), Goran Senjanovic, Jun'ichi Yokoyama, Hu Zhan

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Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to participate in the one-week conference titled

"Beyond General Relativity, Beyond Cosmological Standard Model".

The conference will be held at Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, from 1st July to 5th July 2019. This conference aims at bringing together top researchers in the field to present recent breakthroughs, discuss on what we have learnt and what challenges we are still facing. The focus of this event involves several interrelated areas, from fundamental gravity theory through cosmology to new physics beyond standard model of particle physics. It includes, but not limited to:

(1) Physics of Primordial Universe; (2) Modified Gravity Theories; (3) Cosmological Constant Problem, Dark energy; (4) Dark matter, Baryon asymmetry; (5) Black Hole Physics; (6) CMB and Large Scale Structure; (7) Gravitational Waves;

The registration of this conference has opened, and the website of our conference can be found at

https://indico.cern.ch/event/778333/

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: beyond19@fuw.edu.pl (c.c chunshan.lin@fuw.edu.pl)

See you in Warsaw in this summer!

Best Regards

Chunshan Lin

Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to bring to your attention the parallel session on cosmology at the 22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR22) and the 13th Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi13) which takes place from 7th – 12th July 2019 at the Valencia Conference Centre, Spain.

Registration is now open (early registration closes April 12th).

Further information about GR22 and Amaldi13 can be found below and on the conference website:

https://gr22amaldi13.com

Please bring this to the attention to anybody that you think would be interested! Apologies if you receive this message more than once.

Best wishes,

Hiranya Peiris and Daniel Baumann

(Co-chairs of the cosmology session)

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Understanding Cosmological Observations, Jul 28 -- Aug 09 2019, Benasque, Spain.



Plenary Speakers: Daniel Baumann, Kfir Blum, Camille Bonvin, Cora Dvorkin, Stephen Feeney, Shirley Ho, Julien Lesgourgues, Samaya Nissanke, Blake Sherwin, Tracy Slatyer, Anze Slosar, Sherry Suyu.



A new wave of data is arriving from large-scale structure observations and high-sensitivity CMB polarization measurements. This workshop will focus on the data and theoretical modelling required to robustly understand the new observations as non-linear and foreground physics becomes increasingly important, and on the range of theoretical models that could explain the data and be empirically tested in the next decade.





The meeting takes place in a particularly beautiful and inspiring atmosphere below the peak of Aneto, the highest point in the Pyrenees. The program will consist mainly of a few lectures and discussion sessions, leaving plenty of time in the afternoon for interactions and research, as well as for mountain hiking. There will be plenty of opportunity for people to organise more specialized discussions where they can also present contributed talks.





In the evening, the village offers a warm and relaxing atmosphere with good and mostly inexpensive bars and restaurants. The Centre is equipped with facilities such as library, wifi, blackboards, discussion rooms and coffee lounges. Participants will get a desk in a shared office. All participants will be accommodated in hotel rooms or in nice apartments managed by the Conference center (1, 2 or 3 bedroom apartments available, for prices ranging approximately from about 400 to 700 euros/week , which can be shared between participants). There will be a registration fee (by default 250 euros for the two weeks, including bus transfer from Barcelona, reception and coffee breaks), but we may be able to subsidise a small number on request. Please note that the number of participants is limited, so unfortunately we usually cannot accept everyone who would like to come. We ask interested participants to (pre)register now, but payments will only be due after final confirmation of places, which will be done after May 20th, 2019:



http://benasque.org/2019uco/

Please forward to anyone who may be interested.



The organizers

D. Blas (KCL), C. Byrnes (Sussex U.), M. Crocce (ICE), R. Flauger (UCSD), A. Lewis (Sussex U.), S. Nadathur (Portsmouth U.), H. Peiris (UCL/Stockholm)

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Understanding Cosmological Observations,

Jul 28 -- Aug 09 2019, Benasque,

Spain.

Plenary

Speakers: Daniel Baumann, Kfir Blum, Camille Bonvin, Cora Dvorkin, Stephen Feeney, Shirley Ho, Julien Lesgourgues, Samaya Nissanke, Blake Sherwin, Tracy Slatyer, Anze Slosar, Sherry Suyu.

A

new wave of data is arriving from large-scale structure observations and high-sensitivity CMB polarization measurements. This workshop will focus on the data and theoretical modelling required to robustly understand the new observations as non-linear and foreground

physics becomes increasingly important, and on the range of theoretical models that could explain the data and be empirically tested in the next decade.

The

meeting takes place in a particularly beautiful and inspiring atmosphere below the peak of Aneto, the highest point in the Pyrenees. The program will consist mainly of a few lectures and discussion sessions, leaving plenty of time in the afternoon for interactions

and research, as well as for mountain hiking. There will be plenty of opportunity for people to organise more specialized discussions where they can also present contributed talks.

In

the evening, the village offers a warm and relaxing atmosphere with good and mostly inexpensive bars and restaurants. The Centre is equipped with facilities such as library, wifi, blackboards, discussion rooms and coffee lounges. Participants will get a desk

in a shared office. All participants will be accommodated in hotel rooms or in nice apartments managed by the Conference center (1, 2 or 3 bedroom apartments available, for prices ranging approximately from about 400 to 700 euros/week, which can be shared

between participants). There will be a registration fee (by default 250 euros for the two weeks, including bus transfer from Barcelona, reception and coffee breaks), but we may be able to subsidise a small number on request. Please note that the number of

participants is limited, so unfortunately we usually cannot accept everyone who would like to come. We ask interested participants to (pre)register now, but payments will only be due after final confirmation of places, which will be done after May 20th, 2019:

http://benasque.org/2019uco/

Please

forward to anyone who may be interested.

The

organizers

D.

Blas (KCL), C. Byrnes (Sussex U.), M. Crocce (ICE), R. Flauger (UCSD), A. Lewis (Sussex U.), S. Nadathur (Portsmouth U.), H. Peiris (UCL/Stockholm)

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We are happy to announce that the 2019 edition of the Strings, Cosmology, and Gravity Student Conference will be held in Munich, Germany. This conference is an opportunity for early career researchers (PhD students and post-docs) to present their work and discuss it with their peers. More information about the conference and registration can be found on https://sites.google.com/view/scgsc-2019/homepage.



Limited financial support for the speakers is available.



Please pass this information to your interested colleagues.

Best wishes,

Local organizing committee SCGSC 2019

Daniel Klaewer, David Osten and Matthias Traube

International organizing committee

Lars Aalsma, Lilian Chabrol, Marine De Clerck, David Ho, Grégoire Mathys, Antonio Rotundo, Guillaume Valette and Stav Zalel

The conference is organized by students from Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, KU Leuven, Université libre de Bruxelles, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris Sud, Sorbonne Universités, University of Amsterdam and Imperial College London

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We are pleased to announce that the 30th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics will take place from Sunday 15th to Friday 20th December 2019 in Portsmouth, UK.

The Texas meetings have covered topics such as black holes, gravitational waves, neutron stars, cosmic rays, dark matter and the early Universe since the first symposium, held in Dallas in 1963. The Symposium will include both invited and contributed talks and posters.

The 2019 meeting will be hosted by the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation.

Conference information will be posted on the symposium website http://texas2019.org, where you can sign up for future announcements.

For any queries please contact the organisers at texas2019[AT]port.ac.uk

We look forward to welcoming you to Portsmouth,

Marco Bruni and David Wands

(chairs of the scientific and local organising committees)

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