MATTERS OF GRAVITY

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

Number 21 Spring 2003

• Editorial
• Correspondents
• GGR Authorities

  Community news:

• GGR Activities, by Richard Price
• We hear that..., by Jorge Pullin
• Institute of Physics Gravitational Physics Group, by Elizabeth Winstanley
• Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, a new NASA University Research Center, by Mario Diaz

  Research Briefs:

• LIGO's First Preliminary Science Results, by Gary Sanders
• Quantization of area: the plot thickens, by John Baez
• Convergence (?) of G Measurements - Mysteries Remain, by Riley Newman

  Conference reports:

• Brane world gravity, by Elizabeth Winstanley
• Massive Black Hole Coalescence Focus Session at Penn State, by Steinn Sigurdsson
• GWDAW 2002, by Peter Saulson
• Source simulation focus session at PennState, by Pablo Laguna
• Raman Research Institute Workshop on loop quantum gravity, by Fernando Barbero
• Lazarus/Kudu Meeting at PennState, by Warren Anderson

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