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   The 18th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan

          Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
            17 -- 21 November 2008

                First circular (1st July 2008)

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Dear Colleague,

 We are pleased to announce that the 18th workshop on General
Relativity and Gravitation (JGRG18) will be held in Hiroshima.
This is one of a series of workshops held in Japan every year
since 1991, which has provided a place where people can exchange
ideas and pursue future trends of research. The workshop will
cover a wide area of research related to general relativity.
A tentative list of invited speakers is given below.
   Kazuya Koyama, Portsmouth, UK
   George Krasinsky, Russian Academy of Science
   Luciano Rezzolla, AEI, Germany
   Gary Shiu, Wisconsin-Madison, USA

For further information, please visit our web site at:
URL: http://theo.phys.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~jgrg18/

SOC:
   H. Asada, T. Chiba, A. Hosoya, K. Ioka, H. Ishihara, 
   H. Kodama, Y. Kojima, K. Maeda, S. Mukohyama, 
   T. Nakamura, K. Nakao, Y. Nambu, K. Oohara, M. Sasaki,
   M. Shibata, T. Shiromizu, J. Soda, N. Sugiyama, 
   T. Tanaka, J. Yokoyama

Inquiries to:
   E-mail: JGRGLOC_at_theo.phys.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp 
   (change '_at_' by @)
   or
   Yasufumi Kojima 
   E-mail: kojima_at_theo.phys.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
   (change  '_at_' by @ )

   Department of Physics
   Hiroshima University
   Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan

   Phone:+81+824247365
   Fax:+81+824240717