This school will feature a set of advanced lecture courses around the theme of gravity given by experts in the field. The courses will be aimed at advanced graduate students and young postdocs with a strong interest in the theoretical aspect of gravity and applications of the theory to modelling the universe.
The school is co-organised by CEICO, a centre in the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences for research in cosmology, gravity and fundamental physics and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague. We are bringing together excellent lecturers from the global community and hope to foster a diverse audience. There will be limited space for the presentation of a poster, but no submitted talks by participants are planned.
There is no registration fee, and participants should arrange their own accommodation (see Venue).
| LECTURER | TOPIC |
|---|---|
|
Enrico Barausse
SISSA, Trieste |
Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects |
|
Agnès Fienga
Côte d’Azur Observatory |
Tests of General Relativity |
|
Ruth Gregory
King's College London |
Overview of Black Holes |
|
Eugene Lim
King's College London |
Numerical Relativity |
|
Robert Mann
Perimeter Institute & U. Waterloo |
Relativistic Quantum Information |
|
Simone Speziale
CPT, Marseille |
Gravitational Charges and Isolated Horizons |
|
Neil Turok
Edinburgh U & Perimeter Institute |
Special Colloquium |
We will have a programme of five hour-long lectures per day, from 9:00 until 17:00. Coffee and lunch will be provided.
| PROGRAMME | Monday 14/09/2026 |
Tuesday 15/09/2026 |
Wednesday 16/09/2026 |
Thursday 17/09/2026 |
Friday 18/09/2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration | ||||
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome | ||||
| 9:00-10:00 | BH 1 | BH 3 | BH 4 | GC-IH 2 | RQI 3 |
| 10:05-11:05 | GR 1 | GW-CO 3 | GC-IH 1 | NR 1 | GC-IH 4 |
| 11:05-11:30 | COFFEE | ||||
| 11:30-12:30 | BH 2 | GR 2 | RQI 1 | RQI 2 | NR 2 |
| 12:30-14:30 | LUNCH | ||||
| 14:30-15:30 | GW-CO 1 | Posters 1 | Posters 2 | GC-IH 3 | NR 3 |
| 15:30-16:00 | COFFEE | ||||
| 16:00-17:00 | GW-CO 2 | GW-CO 4 | Collaboration | Colloquium | Closing |
There will be two poster sessions during the school: Tuesday 15 September at 14:30 and Wednesday 16 September at 14:30.
The poster abstracts can be found here.
The individual poster PDFs, organised by session, can be seen here.
Lectures will be held at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Troja, Prague 8.
We will not be offering a hybrid component or remote presence during the school.
The closest bus stops are Pelc Tyrolka (bus line 112) and Kuchyňka (bus line 201). The closest station is Nádraží Holešovice, reached by the Metro Line C (red line) and several tram lines, from which one can take the bus 201 or walk about 1.5km across the Troja Bridge (Trojský Most) or the Bridge of the Barricade Fighters (Most Barikádníků). Google Maps has the Prague public transportation timetables and can be reliably used to gauge travel time when choosing accommodation.
Participants are expected to arrange their accommodation; we recommend to book your stay well in advance as September is still high season in Prague.
Tourist information about Prague and the Czech Republic can be found on many comprehensive resources online, such as Wikivoyage (Czech Republic and Prague) and the official Prague tourist website.
More about events and culture in Prague can be found on expats.cz and GoOut.
The social dinner will take place on Wednesday, 16 September, starting at 19:00. We will dine at Caffé Adria, with the special menu. The dinner is free of charge to conference participants. Guests of the participants will be charged 1000 CZK in cash at dinner reception. The dinner registration list is now closed. Caffé Adria is located at Narodní 36 in New Town. It is around a 45 minute journey from the Venue -- take the number 6 tram from the Nadráží Holešovice stop to Václavské naměstí.
Profesor Robert Mann will deliver (in English) a lecture aimed at the public on Black Holes – from Physics to Chemistry. It will take place at 19:00 on Tuesday, 15 September at the Municipal Library of Prague. For details and reservations see here.
The registration period has closed.
| Ujjwal | Agarwal | Charles U., Prague |
| Georgios | Antoniou | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Cynthia Belen | Arias Pruna | Charles U., Prague |
| Simran | Arora | YITP, Kyoto U. |
| Michele | Benaco | U. of Jyväskylä |
| Gabriele | Bianchi | U. of Insubria, Como |
| Daniel | Bobok | Charles U., Prague |
| Sebastian | Brezina | Comenius U., Bratislava |
| Rodrigo | Calderon | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Davide | Campanella Galanti | U. of Insubria, Como |
| Jan | Červeňan | Charles U., Prague |
| Şahin | Çetin | Boğaziçi U., Istanbul |
| Øyvind | Christiansen | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Aleesha | Cox | U. of Sheffield |
| Valentina | Danieli | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Mario Felipe | De Jesús González | Inst. of Astronomy, UNAM |
| Andrea | De Marco | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Giuseppe | De Maria | U. of Genoa |
| Büşra | Dedeoğlu | Middle East Technical U., Ankara |
| Mehran | Dehpour | Charles U., Prague |
| Héloïse | Delaporte | Jagiellonian U., Cracow |
| Andrea | Di Pinto | U. of Insubria, Como |
| Luís Filipe | Dias da Silva | U. of Lisbon (IA) |
| Melisa | Doğan | Boğaziçi U., Istanbul |
| Antonello | D'Oronzo | Inst. of Mathematics, CAS, Prague |
| Matthew | Elley | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Despoina | Farakou | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Pietro | Farina | U. of Naples Federico II |
| Atabak | Fathe Jalali | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Sabatino | Fatigati | U. of Naples Federico II |
| Justin | Feng | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Agnès | Fienga | Côte d'Azur Observatory |
| Juliana Zanatta | Finotti | IFT-UNESP, São Paulo |
| Mauro | Fioravanti | SSM, Naples |
| Luca | Gallerani | U. of Bologna |
| Alberto | Gálvez Ureña | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Humberto | Gomez | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Tomáš | Hale | Charles U., Prague |
| Petr | Hořava | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Marta | Iernetti | Sapienza U. of Rome |
| Pietro | Isaia | U. of Turin |
| Anıl | Kahraman | Boğaziçi U., Istanbul |
| Sitender | Kashyap | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Shashaank | Khanna | Aix-Marseille U. |
| Zeynep Su | Koç | Bilkent U., Ankara |
| Martin | Kováč | Comenius U., Bratislava |
| Andrew | Kovachik | McMaster U., Hamilton |
| Eren Volkan | Küçük | Heidelberg U. |
| Mehmet Berk | Kulturoglu | Boğaziçi U., Istanbul |
| Ankit | Kumar | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Almila | Kura | Bilkent U., Ankara |
| Tomáš | Ledvinka | Charles U., Prague |
| Joosep | Lember | U. of Tartu |
| Jack | Lindner | U. of Waterloo |
| Nicolas | Loayza Romero | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Jessica N. | Lopez-Sanchez | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Pratul | Manna | U. of Warsaw |
| Jana | Menšíková | Charles U., Prague |
| Marek | Milička | Charles U., Prague |
| Paola Carolina | Moreira Delgado | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Jack | Nolan-Whitney | University College Dublin |
| Hryhorii | Ovcharenko | Charles U., Prague |
| Shayoni | Panja | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Hyo Jung | Park | Princeton U. |
| Ayan Kumar | Patra | Durham U. |
| Aneta | Pjatkanová | ČVUT, Prague |
| Valentin | Pomakov | SISSA, Trieste |
| Alexandre | Pombo | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Franka | Prahin | Heidelberg U. |
| Ansofi | Pretorius | U. of Cape Town |
| Joshua | Procter | King's College London |
| Máté | Pszota | Wigner RCP & ELTE, Budapest |
| Oscar | Ramirez | Inst. of Nuclear Sciences, UNAM |
| Kianoush | Ranjbarshargh | Eastern Mediterranean U., Famagusta |
| Paolo | Rossi | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Shouvik | Roy Choudhury | Academia Sinica (ASIAA) |
| Paweł | Rykała | Jagiellonian U., Cracow |
| Doğa | Sağlam | Boğaziçi U., Istanbul |
| Orestis | Sarras | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Martin | Schnabl | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Adam | Shaw | U. of Nottingham |
| Andrea | Spina | U. of Catania |
| Sankarshana | Srinivasan | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Aravindhan | Srinivasan | Charles U., Prague |
| Ayushi | Srivastava | Ariel U. |
| Michal | Stano | Inst. of Mathematics, CAS, Prague |
| Eva | Šťastná | Charles U., Prague |
| Robert | Svarc | Charles U., Prague |
| Jan Vendelin | Tajcovsky | Charles U., Prague |
| Aydın | Tavlayan | Middle East Technical U., Ankara |
| Roxane | Theriault | Jagiellonian U., Cracow |
| Alessandro | Tiano | SSM, Naples |
| Kartik | Tiwari | U. of Bonn |
| Şafak | Turhan | Istanbul Technical U. |
| Arman | Tursunov | FZU, Prague |
| Valerie | Tynianska | Charles U., Prague |
| Mauricio | Valencia-Villegas | Moscow State U. |
| Isabella | van Huyssteen | U. of Cape Town |
| David | Vokrouhlicky | CEICO, FZU, Prague |
| Jan | Wierzbicki | Jagiellonian U., Cracow |
