BritGrav

British Gravity Meeting
Abbreviation BritGrav
Discipline Gravitational physics
Publication details
History 2001–
Frequency Annual
Website BritGrav 16

BritGrav (British Gravity Meeting) is an annual meeting, based in the United Kingdom and Ireland, for academics whose research is connected to gravitation. The meeting covers a broad range of topics, including general relativity, quantum gravity, gravitational-wave detection and astronomy, the astrophysics of black holes and neutron stars, cosmology, and experimentation.

Many of the talks are given by postdocs and graduate students, and are between 10 and 20 minutes. During BritGrav 15 at the University of Birmingham in 2015, 78% of the talks were by students and 18% were by post-docs.[1]

The first meeting was held at the University of Southampton in 2001.[2] The last meeting was organised by the University of Birmingham; following the close of the meeting, there was be a public lecture on gravitational-wave detection by James Hough.[3] The next meeting will be at the University of Nottingham and will be held from the 4th-5th April.[4]

Past meetings

Year Meeting[5] Host Notes
2001 BritGrav 1 University of Southampton First meeting
2002 BritGrav 2 Queen Mary University of London
2003 BritGrav 3 University of Lancaster
2004 BritGrav 4 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
2005 BritGrav 5 University of Oxford
2006 BritGrav 6 University of Nottingham
2007 BritGrav 7 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge
2008 BritGrav 8 University of York
2009 BritGrav 9 Cardiff University
2010 BritGrav 10 Dublin City University
2011 BritGrav 11 University of Glasgow Combined with Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Conference
2012 BritGrav 12 University of Southampton
2013 BritGrav 13 University of Sheffield
2014 BritGrav 14 Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge Held at St Catharine's College, Cambridge
2015 BritGrav 15 University of Birmingham Public lecture on gravitational-wave detection by James Hough[3]
2016 BritGrav 16 University of Nottingham 4th-5th April

References

  1. ↑ Berry, Christopher. "BritGrav 15". Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Gundlach, C (2001). "The first BritGrav meeting". arXiv:gr-qc/0104062. Bibcode:2001gr.qc.....4062G.
  3. 1 2 "Public Outreach". BritGrav 15. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "BritGrav 16". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Gundlach, Carsten. "Professional activity". University of Southampton. Retrieved 5 May 2015.


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