Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone IV   

The fourth meeting in the series Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone will be held at Punta del Este, Uruguay. Previous meetings in the series took place in Valdivia, Chile in 2002, Bariloche, Argentina in 1998 and Punta del Este, Uruguay in 1996. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together world specialists on quantum gravity, geometry and field theory with scientists and students from the southern region of Latin America.

There will be a series of invited lectures and a few short communications by the participants, with ample time for discussions. A preliminary list of speakers includes:

• Abhay Ashtekar (PennState),
• David Berenstein (UC Santa Barbara),
• Martin Bojowald (PennState),
• Laurent Freidel (Perimeter Institute),
• Juan Maldacena (IAS Princeton),
• David Mattingly (UC Davis),
• Hermann Nicolai (Albert Einstein Institute),
• Rafael Porto (Carnegie Mellon),
• Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute),
• Marcus Spradlin (Brown),
• Andrew Strominger (Harvard).

International Organizing Committee:
Rodolfo Gambini (Montevideo), Carmen Núñez (Buenos Aires), Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State), Victor Rivelles (Sao Paulo), Jorge Zanelli (Valdivia).

Local organizers: Rodolfo Gambini (Chair), P. Mora, M. Reisenberger, S. Torterolo, M. Campiglia, G. Aniano, M. Ponce.

Web page:  http://qgsciv.fisica.edu.uy.

The meeting is sponsored by the University of the Republic (Uruguay), The National Science Foundation (US), the Albert Einstein Institute (Germany), Perimeter Institute (Canada), Hearne Institute (US), International Center for Theoretical Physics Trieste (Italy), Latin American Center for Physics.

A first circular and call for contributed abstracts and registration will be coming out in mid-April.