MATTERS OF GRAVITY

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

Number 20 Fall 2002

• Editorial
• Correspondents

  Community news:

• Einstein Prize update, by Cliff Will
• World year of physics 2005, by Richard H. Price
• We hear that..., by Jorge Pullin

  Research Briefs:

• R-mode epitaph?, by John Friedman and Nils Andersson
• Gravitational waves from bumpy neutron stars, by Ben Owen
• LIGO science operations begin!, by Gary Sanders

  Conference reports:

• Fourth international LISA symposium, by Peter Bender
• Initial Data for Binary Systems, by Gregory Cook
• Joint LSC/Source Modeling Meeting, by Patrick Brady
• Greek Relativity Conference, NEB-X, by Kostas Kokkotas and Nick Stergioulas
• Gravity, Astrophysics, and Strings @ the Black Sea, by Plamen Fiziev
• Quantum field theory on curved spacetime at ESI, by Robert Wald
• School on quantum gravity in Chile, by Don Marolf
• ``Apples with Apples no Oranges workshop'' by Miguel Alcubierre
• Radiation reaction focus session and the 5th Capra meeting, by Eanna Flanagan
• Numerical Relativity Workshop at IMA, by Manuel Tiglio
  

  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