JGRG 34

Overview

JGRG is the community of researchers in Japan, working on General relativity and Gravitation. JGRG has hosted an annual workshop series under the same title since 1991. The main purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue for exchanging ideas to pursue future trends of research. The workshop covers a wide range of topics related to general relativity and gravitation.

Date & Venue

January 19 (Mon) - January 23 (Fri), 2026

YITP Panasonic Auditorium and Maskawa Hall in North Campus, Kyoto University, Kyoto

The first day will commence at 11:00, and the closing time will be adjusted according to the number of presentations. 

Conference Dinner: Jan. 22(Thu)  See below for more details. 

Invited Speakers

Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins), Antonio De Felice (YITP, Kyoto U.), Roberto Emparan (Barcelona U.),  Valeri Frolov (Alberta U.), Jonathan Granot (Open U. of Israel) , Ryuichiro Kitano (YITP, Kyoto U.), Thomas Konstandin (DESY), Antonio Padilla (Nottingham U.), Anna Tokareva (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study), Takahiro S. Yamamoto (RESCEU, U. Tokyo)

Registration

Registration form

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Registration is free of charge. 

Banquet registration is now closed due to full capacity.

Important dates

October 24 (24:00 JST): Deadline for travel support, Visa support

November 30 (24:00 JST): Deadline for abstract submission

December 15 (24:00 JST): Deadline for registration (without presentation) 

Travel Support

We provide travel support for participants from within Japan, with priority given to students. 

If you request travel support (visa, financial), please indicate so in the registration form. 

If you apply for travel support, we will contact you by the end of October. 

   As our budget for travel support is limited, we may not be able to accommodate all requests.

Travel support is now closed

Accommodations

Information@YITP web page

As there is a possibility that accommodations may become fully booked, we kindly recommend securing your lodging as early as possible. 

Important Notice — Phishing Alert

We have been informed of fraudulent emails pretending to represent our conference in the arrangement of accommodation. Please note that no third-party agents are authorized to contact participants on our behalf.

CONFERENCE DINNER

         Time: Jan. 22(Thu)  2026 ,  18:00～ 20:00

         Place: Cafeteria in North campus 2F

         Fee: 4,000yen (2,000yen for students)

We ask you to pay the fee in cash with the exact amount at the registration desk. 

Participant List

Group Photo

Scientific Organizing Committee

Hideki Asada (Hirosaki U.), Tomohiro Harada (Rikkyo U.), Kenta Hotokezaka (RESCEU), Akihiro Ishibashi (Nagoya U.), Yosuke Itoh (Osaka Metropolitan U.), Keisuke Izumi (Nagoya U.), Ryusuke Jinno (Kobe U.), Sugumi Kanno (Kyushu U.), Kohei Kamada (HIAS, UCAS, Hangzhou), Tsutomu Kobayashi (Rikkyo U.), Kazunori Kohri (NAOJ), Koutarou Kyutoku (Chiba U.), Kei-ichi Maeda (Waseda U.), Hayato Motohashi (Tokyo Metropolitan U.), Shinji Mukohyama (YITP & RESCEU), Keiju Murata (Nihon U.), Atsushi Nishizawa (Hiroshima U.), Toshifumi Noumi (University of Tokyo), Masato Nozawa (Osaka Institute of Technology), Ryo Saito (Yamaguchi U.), Teruaki Suyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto U.), Shinji Tsujikawa (Waseda U.), Yuko Urakawa(KEK), Masahide Yamaguchi (IBS/ Tokyo Institute of Technology), Shuichiro Yokoyama (Nagoya U.), Hirotaka Yoshino (Osaka Metropolitan U.)

Local Organizing Committee

Takahiro Tanaka(Chair), Katsuki Aoki, Antonio Defelice, Daiki Saito, Kunihito Ioka, Shinji Mukohyama, Kimihiro Nomura, Hidetoshi Omiya, Naoki Seto, Hiroki Takeda, Atsushi Taruya

Co-organized or Supported by

• Co-organized by Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University

• Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University

• Transformative Research Areas (A) ``Extreme Universe'' (B03) Black Holes and Singularities from Quantum Information (21H05186)tion (21H)

• Transformative Research Areas (A) ``Extreme Universe'' (C03) Gravitation and cosmology: principles and applications based on quantum information (21H05189) 

• Scientific Research(A) ``Searching for New Particles using Gravitational Waves'' (23H00110)

• Scientific Research (C) ``Theoretical study toward multi-messenger observations of black holes'' (22K03639)

• Scientific Research (C) ``Search for the dynamical formation of inhomogeneity in the early Universe with gravitational waves'' (24K07013)

• Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) ``Towards the real-time analysis of phase transition" (23K17687)

Links

• • JGRG Proceedings Website