The XIIth BRAZILIAN SCHOOL OF COSMOLOGY AND GRAVITATION - XIIth BSCG

Rio de Janeiro, 10 - 23 September, 2006

The Brazilian School of Cosmology and Gravitation is one of the oldest and more traditional schools in Brazil, and has been periodically organized by the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF) since 1976.

The School has promoted the contact between students and scientists from different countries working in Gravitation, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes, and related areas. Top-scientists from all over the world have given lectures in the School. Among them we can mention J. Bekenstein, R. Brandenberger, Y. Choquet-Bruhat, B. DeWitt, A. Dolgov, G. F. Ellis, J. Ellis, L. Ford, W. Israel, B. Jones, A. Kirilov, E. Kolb, E. Lifshitz, V. Lukash, B. Mashhoon, V. Melnikov, V. Mostepanenko, I. Novikov, V. Rudenko, P. Srivastava, A. Starobinsky, G. Smoot, and B. Unruh. The school will take place from Sunday 10 to Saturday 23 September 2006 at the Hotel Portobello, situated near the city of Mangaratiba, 2 hours south of Rio de Janeiro.

NEW DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: AUGUST 7, 2006