Testing Gravity 2019 is the 3rd Testing Gravity conference hosted by SFU bringing together leading experts on various ways of testing laws of gravity. Testing Gravity remains a topical theme because of the unexplained nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy and the long-standing failure to reconcile gravity with quantum physics. Like the 2015 and the 2017 meetings, Testing Gravity 2019 will feature the latest updates from the gravitational wave detectors, cosmological surveys and other experiments, as well as discussions of recent theoretical advances. The conference aims to provide theorists working on extensions of General Relativity with a realistic perspective on what aspects of their theories can be tested. On the other hand, the experimentalists and observers will get a chance to learn about new ideas that their experiments can test.

Wednesday, January 23rd, will feature a "school" with five review lectures given by some of the invited speakers providing background into the key topics covered by the conference. The main conference, January 24-26, will include invited and contributed talks, and a poster session.

Invited Speakers:
  • Hartmut Abele (TU Wien)
  • Eric Adelberger (U. Wash)
  • Avery Broderick (Waterloo)
  • Alessandra Buonanno (AEI)
  • Cliff Burgess (McMaster)
  • Manuela Campanelli (Rochester)
  • Ruth Gregory (Durham)
  • Jeremy Heyl (UBC)
  • Lam Hui (Columbia)
  • Bhuvnesh Jain (UPenn)
  • Mark Kasevich (Stanford)
  • Justin Khoury (UPenn)
  • Will Percival (Waterloo)
  • Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona)
  • Misao Sasaki (IPMU)
  • Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden)
  • Ingrid Stairs (UBC)
  • Chukman So (TRIUMF)
  • Mark Trodden (Penn)
  • Tanmay Vachaspati (ASU)
  • Mark Wise (Caltech)
  • Nico Yunes (Montana)
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Topics on Agenda:
  • gravitational waves
  • astrophysical tests, pulsars, black holes
  • terrestrial tests, gravity on short distances
  • cosmological probes: CMB, 21 cm, redshift surveys, weak lensing
  • particle cosmology, dark matter
  • modified gravity theories
  • quantum gravity and emergent gravity
Review Lectures:
  • introduction to general relativity (Dimitrios Psaltis)
  • the landscape of modified gravity (Lam Hui)
  • binary systems and gravitational waves (Nicolas Yunes)
  • neutron stars, astrophysical tests of GR (Jeremy Heyl)
  • cosmological tests of GR (Alessandra Silvestri)
Conference Organizers:
  • Andrei Frolov (SFU)
  • Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF)
  • José Tomas Gálvez Ghersi (SFU)
  • Levon Pogosian (SFU)
  • Maxim Pospelov (Victoria/Perimeter)
  • Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona)
  • Douglas Scott (UBC)
  • Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden)
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Testing Gravity 2019
23-26 January 2019, SFU Harbour Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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