Subject: MG12 Update November 2009 The Twelth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG12) will be held in Paris, France during the week of July 12-18, 2009, Sunday though Saturday, opening Monday morning (Tuesday is Bastille Day!). website: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/ email: mg12@icra.it A preliminary version of the meeting poster: http://www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/mg/mg12/mg12poster.pdf This is just an interim report on the parallel session program which is nearly finalized. See the listing of sessions and chairpersons below. We are looking forward to a productive meeting this next summer, and would appreciate any feedback on the program below sent to our conference mailbox. Best wishes, Remo Ruffini, chair of International Organizing Committee ruffini@icra.it Robert Jantzen, chair of International Coordinating Committee robert.jantzen@villanova.edu Pierre Coullet, chair of Local Organizing Committee Pierre.COULLET@unice.fr =-=-=-=-=-=-= a. String Theory and Quantum Gravity SQG1: Strings/Brane Motivated Gravity (Dmitri Galtsov) SQG2: Brane Worlds (Massimo Bianchi) SQG3: AdS/CFT (Anti de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory) (Costas Bachas) SQG4: Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Aspects of String Theory (Pierre Vanhove) SQG5: Quantum Fields (Vladimir Belinski) SQG6: Quantum Gravity Phenomenology (Giovanni Amelino-Camelia) SQG7: Supergravity (Jan-Willem van Holten) b. Black Holes: Theory BHT1: Strong Fields in Astrophysics (Walter Greiner) BHT2: Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (Black Rings and Black Strings) (Jutta Kunz) BHT3: Black Holes and Magneto-Hydrodynamics ( ) BHT4: Black Hole Thermodynamics (Iosef Khriplovich) BHT5: Black Hole and the Information Puzzle (Gabriele Veneziano) c. Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes APT1: Observations of Astrophysical Black Holes (Lev Titarchuck) APT2: Extreme Properties of Neutron Stars: Observations and Theory (Mariano Mendez, Nanda Rea) APT3: Observations from High Energy Astrophysics Satellites (Elena Pian, Norbert Schulz) APT4: Astrophysical Black Holes: from Quasars to Nano-Quasars (Sandip Chakrabarti) d. Theoretical Cosmology COT1: Topology of the Universe (Marek Demianski) COT2: Inhomogeneous Cosmologies, Averaging and Back Reaction (David Wiltshire) COT3: Nonsingular Cosmology? Inflation (Mario Novello) COT4: Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Effects in the Early Universe (Paulo Moniz) e. Gamma Ray Bursts: Theory and Observation GRB1: Supernovae and GRBs (David Arnett) GRB2: High Energy and GRBs, the Fermi Mission (Peter Michelson) GRB3: GRBs and the Swift Mission (Guido Chincarini) GRB4: Models for GRBs (Tsvi Piran) f. Mathematical and General Theories MGAT1: Classes of Exact Solutions and Associated Mathematical Structures (Georgy Alekseev) MGAT2: Cosmological Singularities and Asymptotics (Spiros Cotsakis) MGAT3: Theoretical Issues in GR (Dieter Brill) MGAT4: Exact Solutions (Physical Aspects) (Susan Scott) MGAT5: Higher Dimensional Theories (Alan Coley) MGAT6: Higher Derivative Theories (Salvatore Capozziello) MGAT7: Gravitational Fields with Sources, (Jose Lemos, Vitor Cardoso) MGAT8: Loop Quantum Gravity, Quantum Geometry, Spin Foams (Jerzy Lewandowski) MGAT9: Alternative Theories (Kei-ichi Maeda) g. Experimental Gravitation EG1: Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance (Claus Laemmerzahl) EG2: Variation of Fundamental Constants (Victor Flambaum) EG3: Space Tests (Serge Reynaud) EG4: Astrometric Tests (Francois Mignard) EG5: Short Range Gravity Tests (Astrid Lambrecht) EG6: Compact Binaries and Strong-Field Tests of Gravity (Michael Kramer) h. History of Relativity HR1: Recent Advances in the History of General Relativity (Jean Eisenstaedt) i. Analytic and Numerical Methods ANM1: Post-Newtonian Approximation and the Interface with Numerical Relativity (Luc Blanchet and Gerhard Schaefer) ANM2: Binary Black Hole Simulations: Spins and Gravitational Recoil, Comparisons with Post-Newtonian Results (Pablo Laguna) ANM3: Matching Analytical and Numerical Methods (Alessandra Buonanno) ANM4: Numerical Methods in General Relativity and Algebraic Computation (Christian Klein) ANM5: Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Compact Binaries (Stuart Shapiro) * ANM6: Supernova Explosions and Neutron Star Oscillations ( ) * ANM7: Numerical Waveforms from Black Hole Binaries (Frans Pretorius) ANM8: Self Forces, Black Hole Perturbations (Eric Poisson) l. Cosmological Models COM1: Primordial Cosmology, Quintessence, Trans-Planckian Cosmology (Jerome Martin) COM2: Dark Energy and Universe Acceleration (Alexei Starobinsky, David Polarski) COM3: Non-Copernican Universe Models (Jean-Philippe Uzan) uzan@iap.fr COM4: The Origins of Massive Black Holes and Quasars at High Redshifts (George Djorgovski) george@astro.caltech.edu COM5: Simulations of the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure: from First Light to the Milky Way and Beyond (Piero Madau) m. Observational Cosmology OC1: Primordial Gravitational Waves and CMB (Leonid Grishchuk) OC2: CMB Experiment (Silvia Masi) OC3: The Planck Mission and the CMB (Martin Bucher) OC4: Observational Gravitational Lensing [Microlensing] (Philippe Jetzer) OC5: Dark Matter and Large-Scale Structure, Weak Lensing (Yannick Mellier) n. Astroparticle Physics AP1: Search for Dark Matter (Gabriel Chardin) AP2: Neutrino Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (Katsushiko Sato) AP3: Perspectives for Cosmic Rays from Space Missions: PAMELA (Piergiorgio Picozza) AP4: Active Galactic Nuclei and gamma rays (Felix Aharonian) o. Gravitational Waves GW1: Sources of Gravitational Waves (Andrew Melatos) GW2: Operating GW Detectors (Adalberto Giazotto, Massimo Bassan) GW3: Space and Third Generation GW Detectors (James Hough, Sheila Rowan) GW4: GW Data Analysis (Fulvio Ricci, Valentin Rudenko) GW5: Advanced GW Detectors (David Blair, Kimio Tsubono) Chairs with an asterisk * are considering our invitation or must still be arranged.