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The Italian Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV), founded in 1990, is a non-profit association whose purpose is to bring together the members of Italian scientific community who are interested in various aspects of general relativity and in gravitation physics.
SIGRAV brings together experts and researchers involved in classical and quantum gravity, astrophysics, relativistic cosmology and experimental gravity, and it has been organizing biennial national congresses. Its other activities include managing the SIGRAV School and the Virgo School. At the time of the national congress it awards the SIGRAV prizes and the Amaldi medal.
The official address of SIGRAV is located at viale F. Crispi, in L'Aquila, at the premises of the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI).
List of the presidents
The following list includes both the honorary as well as the elected ones, ordered according to appointment year.
= Honorary presidents
=Tullio Regge
= Four year term presidents
=Mauro Francaviglia, 1992-1996
Pietro Fré, 1996-2000
Eugenio Coccia, 2000-2004
Luca Lusanna, 2004-2008
Mauro Francaviglia, 2008-2012
Salvatore Capozziello, 2012-2018
Fulvio Ricci, 2018-2022
Stefano Liberati, 2022-
Amaldi medals
Every 2 years, SIGRAV awards the prestigious European Prize for Gravitational Physics “Edoardo Amaldi”
The Prize, consisting in a gold medal valued about 10K€ (whenever the Prize is not shared), is reserved to scientists who carry out their activity in Europe and have given seminal contributions to the Physics of Gravitation. The Prize will be awarded every two years, following the indications of the SIGRAV Board, during the SIGRAV National Conferences.
2004 Roger Penrose
2006 Bernard Schutz
2008 Sergio Ferrara
2010 Thibault Damour
2012 Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky
2014 Nazzareno Mandolesi and Sergei Odintsov
2016 Guido Pizzella and Adalberto Giazotto
2018 Stefano Vitale and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
2021 Heino Falcke and Andrzej Mariusz Trautman
2023 Joseph Silk and Gabriele Veneziano
SIGRAV Prizes
Two prestigious “SIGRAV Prizes” for “Classical and Quantum Gravity” and “Astrophysics, Cosmology and Experimental Gravity” are awarded upon nomination by SIGRAV every two years, to young Italian scientists below the age of 40 at the time of the nomination, who have particularly distinguished themselves in the fields of general relativity and gravitational physics, and who are among the most promising researchers in the fields of gravitation and cosmology.
= List of the recipients for the “Classical and Quantum Gravity” prize
=1994 Massimo Bianchi, Augusto Sagnotti
1998 Massimo Porrati
2000 Alberto Zaffaroni
2002 Massimo Giovannini
2004 Carlo Angelantonj
2006 Claudio Dappiaggi
2008 Gianguido Dall’Agata
2010 Dario Martelli, Alessandro Tomasiello
2012 Fabrizio Canfora, Dario Francia
2014 Simone Giombi
2016 Paolo Pani
2018 Riccardo Ciolfi
2021 Andrea Giusti
2023 Giulia Gubitosi
= List of the recipients for the “Astrophysics, Cosmology and Experimental Gravity” prize
=1994 Pietro Tricarico
1998 Gabriele Ghisellini
2000 Alessandra Buonanno, Luigi Stella, Mario Vietri
2002 Livia Conti, Viviana Fafone, Alberto Vecchio
2004 Giovanni Miniutti
2006 Marta Burgay
2008 Michele Vallisneri
2010 Rosalba Perna
2012 Mariafelicia De Laurentis
2014 Michele Liguori, Giovanni Marozzi, Giulia Pagliaroli
2016 Marco Drago, Enrico Barausse
2018 Marica Branchesi
2021 Micol Benetti, Davide Gerosa
2023 Sunny Vagnozzi
References
External links
SIGRAV website