100 years of relativity

international conference on classical and
quantum aspects of gravity and cosmology

august 22-24
2005

 

são paulo
brasil


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Conselho Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Científico
e Tecnológico

 

Fundação de Amparo à
Pesquisa do Estado
de São Paulo

 

Fundação de Amparo à
Pesquisa do Estado
do Rio de Janeiro

 

Financiadora de
Estudos e Projetos

 

Sociedade Brasileira
de Física

 

 

Coordenação de
Aperfeiçoamento de
Pessoal de Nível Superior

 

International Centre
for Theoretical Physics





> Thanks for participating in the conference 100 Years of Relativity!





> Information about the Proceedings

The Proceedings are published in the special number of the Brazilian Journal of Physics Vol. 35, n. 4B, December 2005, available here.

> Conference talks

Some of the talks are now available on the links below (some are scanned PDF, some power-point.) We will update these links as we get more contributions. All available contributions will be made available on a permanent webpage in the near future.



Plenary Talks

Robert Brandenberger

Challenges for inflationary cosmology

Richard Woodard

Cosmology is not a renormalization group flow

Jorge Zanelli

The gravitational Cheshire effect

Seif Randjbar-Daemi

Physics in 6-dimensions

Slava Mukhanov

Inflation: conjectures vs. facts

Leonard Parker

Observations on the development of quantum field theory in curved spacetime

Parallel Sessions

Laerte Sodré Jr.

Lights on Dark Matter: Gravitational Lensing by Galaxy Clusters

Antônio C. C. Guimarães

Magnification by Galaxy Clusters

Felipe B. Abdalla

Cosmological experiments with the SKA

F. Diego Mazzitelli

Vacuum polarization around stars: nonlocal approximation

Ilya Shapiro

Renormalization group in curved space and the problem of the conformal anomaly

Jorge Castiñeiras

No question of how temperature transforms under boosts

Ana Pelinson

Studying the decay of the vacuum energy into CDM and CMB photons

Maria C. Bento

Supernova constraints on dark energy models

Sérgio Jorás

Gauge invariant approach to cosmological perturbations

Martín Makler

A personal view on the quest for dark energy and dark matter unification

Saulo Carneiro

Exact solutions of Brans-Dicke cosmology and the cosmic coincidence problem