Centre for Strings, Gravitation and Cosmology

We are living in an age of discovery in gravitation and cosmology. In particular, the detection of gravitational waves and the dawn of precision cosmology have given us precise tools to understand the most extreme cosmic events from the quantum fluctuations of the inflationary universe just a Planck time after its birth to the merging of black holes that radiate three or more solar masses in the form of gravitational radiation. The aim of the Centre will be to pool together our efforts and connect theorists with various expertise and phenomenologists to examine whether we can systematically test the fundamental paradigms of classical and quantum theories of gravitation and understand our universe.