June 26, 2022

Astro-GR@Cuba 2023

Photo by Yasiel Scull.

TOPIC

ASTROPHYSICS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, including GENERAL RELATIVITY, PHYSICS and OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY

Organised by Pau Amaro Seoane (UPV), Amaya Ofelia Casanova, Fernando Guzmán (InSTEC), Leonel Morejón and Stamatis Vretinaris at the Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas (InSTEC) de la Universidad de La Habana, from 5-18 March 2023.

The idea is to broaden the knowledge of topics in astrophysics, general relativity and fundamental physics that Cuban students of the InSTEC and other research institutes of Cuba as a way to choose their future interests, as well as to establish new collaborations between Cuban and non-Cuban researchers.

The talks will not be classical talks, but “constantly-interrupted-ones“, in the sense that the speakers will have to address as many questions as the students see fit to ask to understand the topic being presented, instead of just hearing a talk. There is a difference.

PARTICIPANTS

Fernando Guzmán, Verónica Vázquez Aceves, Andrew Taylor, Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti, Kostas Kokkotas, Pablo Laguna, Badri Krishnan, Daniel Siegel, Abhay Ashtekar (online), Luis Lehner, Roger Blandford, Mitch Begelman, Selin Üstündağ, Ulrich Sperhake (online), Cliff Will (online), Deirdre Shoemaker, Zoltan Haiman, Odele Straub, Xian Chen, Amaya Ofelia Casanova, Pau Amaro Seoane, Tanja Hinderer (online), Yeirys Caballero Durán, Greysy de la Caridad Caballero Pérez, Karla Figueredo Rodríguez, Carlos David Marrero Pérez, Marcela Pérez Tápanes, Sheila Zayas Rodríguez, Adam Ernesto Lahera Tassé, Elizabeth Vega Moreno, Brian Alejandro Delgado Roca, María Fernanda Contino Ramos, Hilver Adriano Castillo Calcedo, Susana Margarita Montesino Castillo, Israel Hernández Sehara, Deniel Rodríguez Almora, Ana Laura Díaz Perera, Torsten Boeker, Neil Turok (online)

VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION

Although a touristic accommodations is of course possible, we recommend that you stay with a Cuban family, which will charge you less but, more importantly, will allow you to get to know Cuba much better. We will add information here to that respect soon. If you decide to go for a touristic accommodation / hotel, we ask you to please organise it on your own.

Check what you need to get to Cuba:

https://visacuba.com/blog/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cuban-visas

A note to US participants:

Please check what is required for you to travel here.

In particular, note the sentences:

“(…) the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued general licenses for 12 categories of travel. Individuals who meet the regulatory conditions of the general license they seek to travel under do not need to apply for an additional license from OFAC to travel to Cuba. The 12 categories of authorized travel to Cuba are:(…) professional research and professional meetings; educational activities (…) activities of private foundations or research or educational institutes (…)”

To apply for a Cuban visa or for any questions regarding Cuban consular services, please contact the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C.:

Embassy of the Republic of Cuba
2630 16th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Website: http://misiones.minrex.gob.cu/en/usa
Phone: (202) 797 8518 – Ext. 600

REGISTRATION

To register, please send an email to

astro-gr-cuba2023@protonmail.com

Including:

  1. your full name,
  2. affiliation,
  3. whether you want to stay with a Cuban family and
  4. whether you intend to stay for the whole duration of the workshop

The registration will be limited to 60 non-Cuban participants. The fee will be of 200 EUR/$ per participant mostly to support other participants and the local organisation. The fee includes an excursion to Varadero (transport and food), as well as a closing act and the coffee breaks. To do so, please send the amount to the following bank details

Name: Leonel Morejon Hernández

IBAN: DE85100100100727612124

Reference: Participation fee of YOUR NAME for the workshop Astro GR 2023