Institute of Physics Gravitational Physics Group

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Institute of PhysicsGravitational Physics Group

• AGM 2009
• http//gp.iop.org

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AGM Business

• Apologies for absence
• Minutes of previous AGM
• Chairs report
• Election of the committee
• Any other business

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1. Apologies for absence

• Elizabeth Winstanley (Hon Chair)
• Harvey Reall (Hon Treasurer)
• Juan Valiente Kroon (Newsletter Editor)
• Veronika Hubeny

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2. Minutes of previous AGM
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3. Chairs report

• See the newsletter for further details of all
  events and Group activity for 2008
• (copies available)
• Student seminar exchange gt List of willing
  student speakers

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Gravitational Physics Thesis Prize

• 2008 prize awarded to Julian Sonner, of the
  University of Cambridge for his thesis entitled
  Aspects of Classical and Quantum Brane
  Dynamics.
• 2009
• 250! (may increase TBC)
• Eligibility passed PhD viva between 30th
  September 2007 1st October 2008 (Dates TBC)
• Plan to remove restriction that nomination has to
  be by supervisor
• Report from external examiner required
• Closing date TBC

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Research Student Conference Fund

• For PhD students attending international
  conferences
• Up to 250 over the course of the PhD
• We have 790 to award in 2009
• Members of the IOP and the Group only
• Apply centrally via IOP
• http//www.iop.org/activity/grants/Research_Studen
  t_Conference_Fund/page_26535.html
• Closing dates 1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1
  December 

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Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Prize

• The Nuclear and Particle Physics Division Prize
  shall be awarded for important recent advances in
  research, on a specific topic relevant to physics
  supported by the Division, which have been
  published within the previous 5 years. The prize
  winner will be invited to give a talk at an
  appropriate conference organised by the Institute
  of Physics.
• 500 awarded
• Suggestions for nominations to GPG chair please
  before the summer

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Meetings supported in 2008

• BritGrav8 (University of York), 18-19 March 2008
• GradCATS King's College, London, 6 May 2008
• Classical and Quantum Gravity Scientific Meeting,
  King's College, London 22 May 2008
• Gravitational Thermodynamics and the Quantum
  Nature of Spacetime ICMS, Edinburgh, 16-20 June
  2008
• QG2 2008 - Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity
  Nottingham, 30 June - 4 July 2008
• Einstein in focus gravitational wave astronomy
  and gravitational lensing (joint with RAS)
  Burlington House, London, 17 October 2008
• UK Fundamental Theory meeting, Bankside House,
  London, 7-8 November 2008.

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Future meetings in 2009

• BritGrav 2009
• UK Fundamental Theory Meeting (?)
• Outreach for Year of Astronomy (?)

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Accounts 2008
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Budget 2009
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4. Election of committee

• Current committee
• Elizabeth Winstanley (Sheffield) Chair
• Diana Shaul (Imperial) Honorary Secretary
• Harvey Reall (Cambridge) Honorary Treasurer
• Paul Abel (Leicester)
• Bob Bingham (RAL/St Andrews)
• Ron Wiltshire (Glamorgan)
• David Burton (Lancaster)
• Juan Valiente-Kroon (QMUL)
• Andreas Freise (Birmingham)
• Giles Hammond (Glasgow)

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4. Election of committee
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• Please make sure to address all future
  correspondence to new committee members!
• Nils Andersson
• N.A.Andersson_at_soton.ac.uk
• David Burton
• d.burton_at_lancaster.ac.uk

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5. Any other business