BritGrav
BritGrav is an annual meeting, based in the United Kingdom and Ireland, for academics whose research is connected to gravitation. The meeting covers a broad range of topics, including general relativity, quantum gravity, gravitational-wave detection and astronomy, the astrophysics of black holes and neutron stars, cosmology, and experimentation.
Many of the talks are given by postdocs and graduate students, and are between 10 and 20 minutes. During BritGrav 15 at the University of Birmingham in 2015, 78% of the talks were by students and 18% were by post-docs.
The first meeting was held at the University of Southampton in 2001. The 2015 meeting was organised by the University of Birmingham; following the close of the meeting, there was a public lecture on gravitational-wave detection by James Hough. The most recent meeting was at the University of Portsmouth from 18–19 April 2018.
Past meetings
| Year | Meeting | Host | Notes |
| 2001 | University of Southampton | First meeting | |
| 2002 | BritGrav 2 | Queen Mary University of London | |
| 2003 | BritGrav 3 | University of Lancaster | |
| 2004 | BritGrav 4 | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | |
| 2005 | BritGrav 5 | University of Oxford | |
| 2006 | University of Nottingham | ||
| 2007 | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge | ||
| 2008 | University of York | ||
| 2009 | Cardiff University | ||
| 2010 | BritGrav 10 | Dublin City University | |
| 2011 | BritGrav 11 | University of Glasgow | Combined with Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Conference |
| 2012 | University of Southampton | ||
| 2013 | University of Sheffield | ||
| 2014 | Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge | Held at St Catharine's College, Cambridge | |
| 2015 | University of Birmingham | Public lecture on gravitational-wave detection by James Hough | |
| 2016 | University of Nottingham | 4-5 April | |
| 2017 | University of Oxford | 6-7 April | |
| 2018 | University of Portsmouth | 18-19 April | |
| 2019 | Durham University | 15-16 April | |
| 2020 | University College Dublin | 27-28 April |