1st Doha International Astronomy Conference: “Gravitational Microlensing – 101 years from theory to practice”

1st Doha International Astronomy Conference: “Gravitational Microlensing – 101 years from theory to practice” – 2013 marks the 101st anniversary of Einstein’s notebook entry in which he first discussed the transient brightening of an observed distant star caused by the bending of light due to the gravitational field of an intervening foreground star – a phenomenon now commonly known as ‘gravitational microlensing’.