Workshop on "Symmetries and Dualities in Gravitational Theories"

  
Brussels, 19-21 May 2010

 

Scientific Committee

  

Organizing Committee
Marc Henneaux (ULB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)   Marc Henneaux (ULB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)
Laurent Houart (ULB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)   Laurent Houart (ULB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)
Bernard Julia (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)   Isabelle Juif (ULB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)
Axel Kleinschmidt (ULB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)   Axel Kleinschmidt (ULB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)
Hermann Nicolai (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany)   Alex Sevrin (VUB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)
Boris Pioline (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris, France)      
Pierre Ramond (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)      
Alex Sevrin (VUB & Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium)      
Peter West (King's College London, UK)      

 

List of Invited Speakers
Eric Bergshoeff (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands)
Guillaume Bossard (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany)
Claudio Bunster (Centro de Estudios Científicos, Valdivia, Chile)
Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)
Gary Gibbons (University of Cambridge, UK)
Michael Green (University of Cambridge, UK)
Olaf Hohm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)
Chris Hull (Imperial College London, UK)
Bernard Julia (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Sameer Murthy (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris, France)
Niels Obers (Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Tomás Ortín (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Daniel Persson (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Michela Petrini (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris, France)
Henning Samtleben (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)
Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India)
Paul Townsend (University of Cambridge, UK)
Peter West (King's College London, UK)

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING REGISTRATION: Due to a software conflict some registrations were lost in the period between February 5 and February 19. If you registered during this period and are not in the list, thank you for registering again. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

 

  • Location

Metro Line 5 (direction Herrmann-Debroux) - Station "Delta"
ULB-Campus Plaine- Building NO - 5th Floor - Salle Solvay
  • Registration

Only registered participants will be allowed to attend.
Click HERE to register. List of registered PARTICIPANTS.
PLEASE SEE IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOVE !
  • Fee
 There is no registration fee.
  • Banquet
The banquet will take place on Thursday 20 May 2010 at the Brasserie Horta. The price is 50€ to be paid cash on the first day of the workshop.
  • Accommodation

Hotel reservations must be made directly by the participants. The following link might be useful: Hotels in Brussels.
Hotels that we often use for our visitors are: Hôtel Opéra - Hôtel Arlequin - Hôtel Saint-Nicolas - Fondation Universitaire.

 

 

Support from Solvay S.A., the Belgian "Loterie Nationale - Nationale Loterij", the "Communauté française de Belgique", the "Vlaamse Regering", the Belgian Science Policy and the Fondation David et Alice Van Buuren is gratefully acknowledged.