The 21st workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG21)

26(Mon.)-29(Thur.) September, 2011
Sakura Hall, katahira Campus, Tohoku University

Objective

There has been an impressive progress in astrophysical/cosmological observations in recent years. Cosmology has entered an era of precision science. Astrophysical black holes have been observed in many frequency bands with better resolutions and sensitivities. Observations of gamma-ray bursts have added a new mystery to relativistic astrophysics. And, a new frontier is waiting to be explored by gravitational wave interferometers. On the theoretical side, motivated by unified theories of fundamental interactions, especially string theory, many efforts have been made for studies of physics in 5-dimensional or higher dimensional spacetimes, and there is a growing interest in experimental verifications of extra dimensions. There have been also important and interesting developments in various other areas, including alternative theories of gravity, quantum gravity, and spacetime singularities, to mention a few. In this workshop, we plan to overview these recent developments and discuss future perspectives through invited and contributed presentations.

Scientific Organizing Committee

Hideki Asada (Hirosaki University)
Takeshi Chiba (Nihon University)
Tomohiro Harada (Rikkyo University)
Kunihito Ioka, Hideo Kodama (KEK)
Hideki Ishihara, Ken-ichi Nakao (Osaka City University)
Yasufumi Kojima (Hiroshima University)
Kei-ichi Maeda, Shoichi Yamada (Waseda University)
Shinji Mukohyama (IPMU)
Takashi Nakamura, Naoki Seto, Tetsuya Shiromizu, Jiro Soda (Kyoto University)
Yasusada Nambu, Naoshi Sugiyama (Nagoya University)
Ken-ichi Oohara (Niigata University)
Misao Sasaki, Masaru Shibata, Takahiro Tanaka (YITP)
Masahide Yamaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Jun'ichi Yokoyama (RESCEU)

Local Organizing Committee

Toshifumi Futamase [Chair], Yousuke Itoh, Sumio Yamada, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Shijun Yoshida (Tohoku University)

Inquiries

mailto:jgrg21-loc_atmark_astr.tohoku.ac.jp, jgrg-soc_atmark_astr.tohoku.ac.jp (Change "_atmark_" to "@".)
or
Toshifumi Futamase
Astronomical Institute, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University
Aoba 6-3 Aramaki Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Phone: +81-22-795-6512
Fax: +81-22-795-6513
E-Mail: tof_atmark_astr.tohoku.ac.jp (Change "_atmark_" to "@".)

This workshop is supported by the following Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology in Japan (MEXT). The grants in alphabetical order of the research representatives' names are the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Creative Scientific Research No. 19GS0219 (Tohru Eguchi), the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas No. 18072001 (Toshifumi Futamase), the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas No. 21111006 (Hideo Kodama), and the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) No. 20244009 (Takayoshi Ogawa) and No. 21244033 (Misao Sasaki). The MEXT Tohoku University Global COE Program "Scienceweb" also supports this workshop.

The LOC is grateful to the members of the Astronomical Institute and the Faculty of Science Tohoku University, the latter of which celebrates its 100 years anniversary on 10 September 2011, for their kindful help of both financial supports and administrative works.

Edamatsu-Kosaka-Mitumori group of Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), Tohoku University is greately acknowledged, for they kindly allowed us to use the conference room in the Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics building. The LOC thanks Prof. M. Hotta of Tohoku Univ. very much for his helpful advices regarding the workshop managements.