The 34th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan
January 19 (Mon) - 23 (Fri), 2026
Yoshida Campus (North Area), Kyoto University, Kyoto
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.
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.
Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins), Antonio De Felice (YITP, Kyoto U.), Roberto Emparan (Barcelona U.), Valeri Frolov (Alberta U.), Ryuichiro Kitano (YITP, Kyoto U.), Antonio Padilla (Nottingham U.), Takahiro S. Yamamoto (RESCEU, U. Tokyo), ...
Registration form
Registration is free of charge.
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.
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.
Apart from the invited talks, the general presentations are scheduled to be held in two parallel sessions.
The detailed schedule of sessions, along with guidelines for poster presentations and other instructions,
will be announced in due course.
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, Kavli IPMU), 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.)
Takahiro Tanaka(Chair), Katsuki Aoki, Antonio Defelice, Daiki Saito, Kunihito Ioka, Shinji Mukohyama, Kimihiro Nomura, Hidetoshi Omiya, Naoki Seto, Hiroki Takeda, Atsushi Taruya
Transformative Research Areas (A) ``Extreme Universe'' (B03)
Transformative Research Areas (A) ``Extreme Universe'' (C03)
Scientific Research(A) ``Searching for New Particles using Gravitational Waves''
Scientific Research (C) ``Theoretical study toward multi-messenger observations of black holes''