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Subject heading: MG12 brief update
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12th Marcel Grossman Meeting MG12
Paris July 12-18, 2009 

Sunday through Saturday
Opening Monday morning at
  UNESCO Headquarters
Tuesday afternoon free (Bastille Day)
Banquet Wednesday
Closing midday Saturday

Web: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/
Email: mg12@icra.it

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JUNE 1 DEADLINE: 
Early registration fee payment at 350 Euros
        (450 Euros after deadline)
Student registration fee payment at 150 Euros 
        (250 after deadline)
Final abstract submission
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Dear colleague,

The conference organization is proceeding steadily.
We urge everyone who intends to participate in the
meeting to begin the registration process as
soon as possible.

Hotel reservation through the conference is possible
only at the time of fee payment. For available hotels
see the Hotel link at our website.

We have now acquired 100 newly renovated student dormitory
single rooms with shared bathroom facilities just across from 
the Ecole Normale Superieure in the heart of the Latin Quarter
available on a first come first serve basis. The cost for
one person is 200 Euros for Sunday arrival and Saturday departure.
For information and to reserve such a room, contact
Pina Barbaro [Pina.BARBARO@unice.fr, tel: +33.6.8068.8150].

Plenary speaker abstracts are online, the preliminary
speaker program is: 
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MONDAY:
Alain Connes.
Demetrios Christodoulou. The formation of black holes by the 
			focusing of incoming gravitational waves
Igor Rodnianski. 
TUESDAY:
Juan Maldacena. Black holes as a source of information
Ashoke Sen. Black hole entropy in the extremal limit
Gabriele Veneziano. TransPlanckian string collisions: an update
Laurent Freidel. Spin foam models: models of quantum dynamical spacetime
Herbert W. Hamber. Ultraviolet divergences and scale-dependent 
			coupling in quantum gravity
WEDNESDAY:
David Reitze. The emerging global network of gravitational wave 
		detectors: LIGO and Virgo open a new window to 
		the universe
Bernd Bruegmann. Numerical relativity of black holes 
Thibault Damour. "Analytical relativity" of black holes
Dick Manchester. Detection of gravitational waves with pulsar timing
Michael Kramer. Relativistic spin-precession in binary pulsars
THURSDAY:
Peter Michelson. A new view of the high-energy universe: results 
		from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's first 
		year in orbit
Tsvi Piran. Gamma ray bursts in the Swift/Fermi era
Remo Ruffini.
Felix Aharonian. The fascinating TeV Sky
Andrea Ghez. Our galaxy's supermassive black hole and its environs
FRIDAY:
Piero Rosati. Resolving the Cosmic X-Ray Background and Understanding 
		Structure Formation with a new era of X-Ray Surveys
Christine Jones. Shocks and cold fronts in clusters of galaxies
Maxim Markevich. Intergalactic shock fronts
Alexey Vikhlinin. Studying dark energy by counting galaxy clusters
Yannick Mellier. Weak gravitational lensing and cosmology
SATURDAY:
Eugene Churazov. Galaxy clusters and their central supermassive 
			black holes
Jean-Loup Puget.
John Anderson. Solar system anomalies: The Pioneer anomaly, 
		the flyby anomaly, and more 
Jim Bergquist. Single-atom optical clocks and fundamental constants
David Wiltshire. Dark energy from cosmic structure
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We look forward to a successful meeting this July.

With our warm greetings,

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