[PhilPhys] Celebrating Fifty Years of Relativistic Astrophysics

[Alexis de Saint-Ours]

The 27th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics will be held in downtown Dallas December 8 - 13, 2013. It is organized by the Department of Physics at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and is chaired by Wolfgang Rindler and Mustapha Ishak. The Symposium will include both invited and contributed talks and posters.

This will be a special and historically meaningful Jubilee meeting, marking the 50th anniversary, almost to the day, of the very first of these Texas Symposia, held in Dallas in December 1963.

We are excited to welcome hundreds of international astrophysicists back to Dallas fifty years later, both to celebrate the past 50 years of Texas Symposia and relativistic astrophysics and to kick off the next 50 years of remarkable discoveries.

http://nsm.utdallas.edu/texas2013/

The Symposium will cover the following topics:

Cosmology
Cosmic acceleration/dark energy
Cosmic microwave background
Early universe (Inflation, Cyclic Model, CCC cosmology ...)
Galaxy formation and reionization
Inhomogeneous cosmologies, averaging, and backreaction
Large-scale surveys
Quantum gravity/cosmology and string cosmology
Weak gravitational lensing
Experimental/observational cosmology - other topics
Theoretical cosmology - other topics
Compact objects and galactic/cluster scales
Black holes, mergers, and accretion discs
Galaxy evolution and supermassive black holes
Imaging black holes
Microlensing and exoplanets
Neutron stars, pulsars, magnetars, and white dwarfs
Nuclear Equation of State for Compact Objects
Singularities
Strong gravitational lensing
Supermassive black hole binaries
Tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes
Compact object observations - other topics
Compact object theory - other topics
High-energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics
Active galactic nuclei and jets
Cosmological implications of the Higgs and the LHC
Dark matter astrophysics
Dark matter experiments and data
Gamma-ray bursts, SNe connection, and sources
High-energy cosmic rays (VHE, UHE, mechanisms, etc.)
High-energy gamma-rays
Nuclear Astrophysics
Supernovae and their remnants
High-energy astrophysics/astroparticle physics - other topics
Testing general relativity and modified gravity
Alternative theories of gravity
Strong-field tests of general relativity
Testing general relativity at cosmological scales
Testing general relativity - other topics
Modified gravity - other topics
Gravitational waves
Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources
Ongoing and planned gravitational wave experiments
Gravitational wave theory and simulations
Results and progress from gravitational wave searches
Supernovae and Gravitational Wave Emission
Gravitational waves - other topics
Numerical relativity
Computer algebra and symbolic programming
Locating black hole horizons
Numerical simulations
Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
Numerical relativity - other topics
Other ongoing and future experiments and surveys
ACT, AMS, BOSS, CFHT, Chandra, DES, Euclid, Fermi, HETDEX, HSC, JWST,
       LHC, LSST, NuSTAR, Pan-STARRS, Planck, SDSS, SKA, SPT, WFIRST, WMAP, ...
(to be completed after abstract submissions)
Other topics in experimental/observational relativity

Other topics in theoretical relativity

Other topics of relevance to relativistic astrophysics
(to be completed after abstract submissions)
History of relativistic astrophysics

History of the Texas Symposium and interface with other anniversaries

The Kerr solution - 50 years later



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