MATTERS OF GRAVITY

The newsletter of the Topical Group on Gravitation of the American Physical Society

Number 15 Spring 2000

 

• Editorial
• Correspondents

  News:

• TGG session in the April meeting, by Cliff Will
• NRC report, by Beverly Berger
• MG9 Travel Grant for US researchers, by Jim Isenberg

  Research Briefs:

• How many coalescing binaries are there waiting to be detected?, by Vicky Kalogera
• Black hole critical phenomena: a brief update, by Pat Brady
• Optical black holes?, by Matt Visser
• "Branification:" an alternative to compactification, by Steve Giddings
• Current Searches for non-Newtonian Gravity at Sub-mm Distance Scales, by Riley Newman
• Quiescent cosmological singularities, by Bernd Schmidt
• The debut of LIGO II, by David Shoemaker
• Is the universe still accelerating?, by Sean Carroll

  Conference reports:

• Journées Relativistes Weimar 1999, by Volker Perlick
• The 9th Midwest Relativity Meeting, by Thomas Baumgarte
  
  

  Editor:

  
  Jorge Pullin
  

  Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry
  The Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, PA 16802-6300
  Fax: (814)863-9608
  Phone (814)863-9597
  Internet: pullin@phys.psu.edu
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  ISSN: 1527-3431