MATTERS OF GRAVITY

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

Number 19 Spring 2002

• Editorial
• We hear that...
• Correspondents

  Community news:

• Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, a new NSF Physics Frontier Center, by Sam Finn
  
• Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, by Lee Smolin

  Research Briefs:

• Detector and Data Developments within GEO 600, by Alicia Sintes
• Grid Physics, the Virtual Data Grid, and LIGO, by Patrick Brady and Manuela Campanelli
• 1000 hours of data taken on TAMA300, and the first lock of the recycled TAMA300, by Seiji Kawamura
  
• LIGO Takes Some Data!, by Stan Whitcomb
• Quantum gravity: progress from an unexpected direction, by Matt Visser

  Conference reports:

• Gravitational-wave phenomenology at PennState, by Nils Andersson
  

  Editor:

  
  Jorge Pullin
  

  Department of Physics and Astronomy
  Louisiana State University
  202 Nicholson Hall
  Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001
  Phone/Fax: (225)578-0464
  Internet: pullin@phys.lsu.edu
  WWW: http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/pullin
  ISSN: 1527-3431