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	HOME Contact Links Job Offers Sitemap Legal Notice Intranet Deutsch   Search About the Institute Visitor Information Graduate Study (IMPRS) Research eLISA/NGO LISA Brownbag hyperspace@aei Library Living Reviews Illustrations and Documentation Einstein online Einstein@Home scienceface.org DFG Science TV Welcome   Home     News     Members & Visitors     Publications     Seminars & Events   Welcome Research at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is aimed at investigating Einstein’s relativity and beyond: mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, gravitational wave astronomy, data analysis and cosmology. The institute is located in Potsdam and in Hannover. News 5. November 2012 Auf der Suche nach fremden Welten beim November der Wissenschaft Das Higgs-Teilchen, Einsteins Gravitationswellen und Paralleluniversen in einer Vortragsreihe am Albert-Einstein-Institut Hannover  [more...] October 25, 2012 A black widow's Tango Mortale in gamma-ray light Max Planck scientists discover record-breaking millisecond pulsar with new analysis method  [more...] October 15, 2012 2013 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science Roman Schnabel (AEI Hannover), together with David McClelland (Australian National University) and Nergis Malvalvala (MIT) received the 2013 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science. The prize consists of $5,000 and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. It is presented annually.  http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards/keithley.cfm October 5, 2012 Winners of the first European Astronomy Journalism Prize A special prize for excellence went to Robin McKie from the Observer newspaper for his work on British involvement in the search for gravitational waves.  [more...] 4. September 2012 Die Suche nach der Quantengravitation Internationale Wissenschaftler ehren Hermann Nicolai  [mehr...] Upcoming events and conferences Einstein Telescope Meeting 2012 When: 4 - 5 December 2012 Website: http://et-meeting2012.aei.mpg.de/ Organizer: Harald Lück 524. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Equations of Motion in Relativistic Gravity When: 17 - 23 February 2013 Website: http://puetzfeld.org/eom2013.html Organizers: Dirk Puetzfeld, Claus Laemmerzahl, Bernard F. Schutz Jürgen Ehlers Spring School "Gravitational Physics" 2013 When: 4 - 15 March 2013 Website: http://springschool.aei.mpg.de Organizers: Lars Andersson The Research Teams Geometric Analysis and Gravitation Director: Gerhard Huisken Senior Staff: Lars Andersson, Alan Rendall Astrophysical Relativity Director: Bernard F. Schutz Senior Staff: Maria Alessandra Papa, Luciano Rezzolla Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories Director: Hermann Nicolai Senior Staff: Axel Kleinschmidt, Stefan Theisen Laser Interferometry & Gravitational Wave Astronomy Director: Karsten Danzmann Observational Relativity and Cosmology Director: Bruce Allen Max Planck Research Group Canonical and Covariant Dynamics of Quantum Gravity Group Leader: Bianca Dittrich Max Planck Research Group Geometric Measure Theory Group Leader: Ulrich Menne Independent Research Group Microscopic Quantum Structure & Dynamics of Spacetime Group Leader: Daniele Oriti Independent Research Group String Cosmology Group Leader: Jean-Luc Lehners Research Highlights Recent research results [more] Research Projects & Cooperations Information about national and international research cooperations [more] Gravitational Wave Observatories Details about gravitational wave detectors like GEO600, LISA,... [more] Print version   Top  webteam@aei.mpg.de © 2012, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam	Today's seminars Tue, 20 Nov 2012, 11:15 AM Astrophysical Journal club Ioannis Kamaretsos Tue, 20 Nov 2012, 2:00 PM Exact higher-spin symmetry in CFT: all correlators in unbroken Vasiliev theory Slava Didenko Upcoming seminars Wed, 21 Nov 2012, 2:00 PM AEI Internal seminar Clara Aldana/Patrick Brem/Axel Kleinschmidt Thu, 22 Nov 2012, 3:00 PM Tensor operators in Loop Quantum Gravity Maite Dupuis Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 9:00 AM Workshop Reflections on Space, Time and their Quantum Nature contact: Chr. Gottschalkson Wed, 28 Nov 2012, 10:30 AM Yang-Mills on extremal Reissner-Nordstrom Piotr Bizon Thu, 29 Nov 2012, 1:30 PM Quantum gravity journal club Piotr Bizon Mon, 03 Dec 2012, 10:30 AM The initial singularity of ultrastiff perfect fluid spacetimes without symmetries. Patrik Sandin more seminars ... Research News The engine that powers short gamma-ray bursts [more ...]