GRG Society Activities

• The triennial GRn conferences are organized by the Society. For information on past meetings see the History link. The next will be held in Mexico City on July 5-9, 2010. Those contemplating bidding to host the following meeting, in 2013, may find it useful to read the Advice for those considering bids.
• The Society's journal was originally published by Plenum Press, and after changes of ownership of the publisher is now published by Springer. It can be found online at General Relativity and Gravitation. The website set up by the previous owner, Kluwer, also works: General Relativity and Gravitation, (or one can use this alternate site for over 100 of the issues). Submissions can be made online here. The editorial office can be emailed at grgjournal @ math.uct.ac.za.
• The public 'Hyperspace' service is sponsored by the Society. It carries information for those in the field, distributed by email, WWW and FTP.
• Policy issues. The Society acts as the voice of the GRG community in international science policy, through its role with IUPAP as an Affilated Commission. In particular it acts as the sponsor, within IUPAP, for the Marcel Grossmann and Edoardo Amaldi series of conferences, as well as its own meetings.
• Prizes. The Society coordinates the award of the triennial Xanthopoulos Prize for research in the field, funded by the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH). At each GRn conference it makes a number of James B. Hartle Awards for student presentations. It has recently instituted the Jürgen Ehlers thesis prize for classical general relativity and the Bergmann-Wheeler thesis prize for quantum gravity. It assists the Gravity Research Foundation by publicizing its Gravity Research Essay Prizes, whose winning entries appear in the Society's journal, and assists GWIC by holding the funds for GWIC's thesis prize.