Le 6 janvier 2017
De 10h30 à 12h00
Aurélien HEES
UCLA
In this talk, I will review the basic principles of General Relativity and give motivations to search for alternative theories of gravitation. Then, I will review some of the very recent tests of the gravitational theory performed in the Solar System insisting on their implications. I will also discuss how the monitoring of short-period stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in our Galactic Center can be used to test General Relativity. Recent results in the fifth force formalism will be presented and plans to measure relativistic effects during the closest approach of the star S0-2 in 2018 will also be developed.