Editorial – The how and the why
Democracy relies on an educated population. High quality schools and teachers, classrooms open for all and interesting and exact teaching materials help to teach successive generations. The western world has known 70 years of peaceful co-existence. And although there is considerable turmoil in the world, parts of Asia, Africa and South America are also experiencing unprecedented growth. There are more people that are receiving a high quality education than ever before.
MGXIV Awards
Celebrating the centenary of Einstein’s equations and the Golden Jubilee of Relativistic Astrophysics during this International Year of Light, the Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting saw nearly 1200 scientists from all over the world converge on the University of Rome Sapienza campus in mid-July for 6 days of impressive plenary talks and about 100 parallel sessions covering a broad range of topics in physics and astrophysics sharing the common thread of Einstein’s theory of gravitation.
