Marcel Grossmann Meeting On General Relativity (MG12) 2009

MG12 is the 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity and Gravitation, for the first time held in Paris, France, hosted jointly by UNESCO, which has offered its headquarters for the plenary sessions and some of the parallel sessions, and by some of the most outstanding scientific institutions nearby (by metro) which have witnessed fundamental discoveries in physics and mathematics, including the Ecole Normale Superieure, the Observatoire de Paris, the Collège de France, and the Institut Henry Poincaré, all within walking distance of the Pantheon (home of the original Foucault pendulum) in the Latin Quarter.