Plenary Lectures

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Chair Information
Chairman: 
Yaron Oz
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Plenary lectures start at 09:30 and 10:30.

Information
Location: 
Churchill Auditorium
Program start time: 
09:00
Program end time: 
11:00

Lectures for this program:

Lecture Time Speaker Lecture subject
9:15-9:50 Giorgio Paolucci SESAME: progress in commissioning and research opportunities
SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is becoming reality.
9:50-10:25 Reinhard Genzel Testing General Relativity with Infrared Interferometry of the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center
Ever since their discovery in the 1960s, Quasars and other active galactic nuclei are thought to be accreting massive bl...
10:25-11:00 Erik Verlinde Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
The observed deviations from the laws of gravity of Newton and Einstein in galaxies and clusters can logically speaking...