The Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Publications in this Series
• Organizing Committees and Sponsors
• Marcel Grossmann Awards
• Preface
• Dedication in Honor of Yuval Ne'eman's 70th Birthday
• PART A
  • PLENARY SESSIONS
    • Discrete Gravity
    • The Quantum and Gravity: The Wheeler-DeWitt Equation
    • Perturbative Dynamics of Quantum General Relativity
    • Broken Symmetry: Applying the Method of the Superconnection for Riemannian Gravity
    • Recent Developments in String Theory
    • Black Holes and D-Branes
    • The Notions of Time and Evolution in Quantum Cosmology
    • Quantum Black Holes as Atoms
    • Curvature-Based Hyperbolic Systems for General Relativity
    • Inner Structure of Spinning Black Holes
    • Has the Black Hole Equilibrium Problem Been Solved?
    • Progress in the Development of Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors
    • Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors Spanning 7 Decades of Frequency
    • Virgo Status Report – July 1998
    • Water Masers in Active Galactic Nuclei
    • Astrophysical Evidence for Black Hole Event Horizons
    • Large Scale Structure
    • Variations of the Cosmic Expansion Field and the Value of the Hubble Constant
    • Data Reduction, Error Analysis and Identification of Systematic Errors in the Gravity Probe B Experiment
  • PARALLEL SESSIONS
    • Conservation Laws
      • Brief Survey on Conservation Laws
      • Conservation Laws for Cosmological Perturbations and Mach's Principle
      • A Direct Method for Obtaining the Differential Conservation Laws
      • From Taub Numbers to the Bondi Mass
      • Machian Thought Experiments
      • The ADM Mass of Quasi-Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
      • On Superpotentials in General Relativity
      • Conservation Laws in General Relativity
      • The First Satisfactory Definition of Angular Momentum at Null Infinity
      • Conservation Laws in Cosmology
      • Nonlocal Conservation Laws Derived from an Explicit Equivalence Principle
    • Exact Solutions
      • The Lanczos Potential for the Weyl Tensor
      • Robinson-Trautman Radiative Space-Times with Cosmological Constant
      • Abrupt Changes in the Multipole Moments of a Gravitating Body
      • Fluid Spheres of Uniform Density with Variable Space Curvature
      • Physical Interpretation of Cylindrically Symmetric Gravitational Fields
      • Exact Wave Solution of Einstein's Equations
      • New Conformally Flat Radiation Metrics by GHP Integration
      • Toroidal Solutions to the Problem of Inhomogeneous Rotating, Gravitating Systems
      • On Some Group Properties of Structure Equations of Newtonian Static Stars in Radiative and Convective Equilibrium
      • Modeling Dilaton Stars with Arbitrary Electromagnetic Field
      • Stationary Axisymmetric Dust Disks and Hyperelliptic Riemann Surfaces
      • Relativistic Disks as Sources of Kerr-Newman Fields
      • Nonholonomic Approach to Rotating Matter in General Relativity
      • Thermodynamical Stability of Relativistic Stellar Systems
      • How Much Quasinormal Ringing in a Gravitational Wave?
      • A New Approach to Schwarzschild Perturbations
      • Similarity Reduction for a Class of Algebraically Special Perfect Fluids
      • Two-Lambda Spherically Symmetric Solution
      • Test Particles and Photons in the Kerr-Newman-De Sitter Dyon Spacetimes
      • Ideal Gas Sources for the Tolman-Lemaitre-Bondi Metrics
      • Point Symmetries of the Field Equations for Type III Spaces with at Least One Killing Vector
      • Classical and Quantum Aspects of Radiation Fluid Shells: Black Holes and Wormholes, Mass Amplification, Light Dark Matter
      • Monopole and Electrically Charged Dust Thin Shells in General Relativity: Classical and Quantum Comparison of Hollow and Atom-like Configurations
    • Inertial Forces in General Relativity
      • The Inertial Forces/Test Particle Motion Game
      • Geometric Approach to the Split and Propagation of Light Rays
      • Interplay between Forces in Kerr-Newman Field
      • Gravitoelectromagnetism and Motion of Spinning Test Particles in General Relativity
      • Circular Orbits in the Kerr Spacetime: Centrifugal Forces and Anti-Newtonian Behavior
      • Dirac Fermions in Almost Uniformly Accelerated Frames
      • Equations of Motion of Spinning Relativistic Particle in External Fields
      • A Gravitational Kaleidoscope
      • Penrose Processes and the Gravitomagnetic Field
      • Principle of Restricted Covariance in General Relativity
    • Alternative Theories in Four Dimensions
      • Alternative Gravitational Theories in Four Dimensions
      • Spinning Particle as Superblackhole
      • On the Non-Riemannian Manifolds as Framework for Geometric Unification Theories: Affine Connection Geometry with Asymmetric Metric
      • Tensor Expressions in Rosen's Theory of Gravitation
      • The Geometry of Deformation Quantization and Self-Dual Gravity
      • Scalar Field from Dirac Coupled Torsion
      • Is a ‘Hadronic’ Shear Current One of the Source in Metric-Affine Gravity?
      • Bianchi Cosmology with Spinning Matter and Magnetic Field in the Einstein-Cartan Theory
      • New Constraints on Space-Time Torsion from Hughes-Drever Experiments
      • Can the Electromagnetic Field Couple to Post-Riemannian Structures?
      • Space-time Averages in Macroscopic Gravity
      • General Relativity as Continuum with Microstructure. A Framework Based on Formal Theory of Lie Pseudogroups
      • On a Theory for Nonminimal Gravitational-Electromagnetic Coupling Consistent with Observational Data
      • Torsion, Thermodynamical, Quantum and Hydrodynamical Fluctuations
      • General Relativity in Terms of Dirac Eigenvalues
      • Unification of Gravitation and Electroweak Interactions
      • An Alternative Perspective in Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
      • Fluctuational Cosmology
      • Towards Hypergravity
      • Newton's Precession Theorem, Eccentric Orbits and Mercury's Orbit
      • Gravitation: Field and Curvature
      • Gravitation Spin Effect and Magnetic Inclination of Pulsars
    • Alternative Theories (Kaluza-Klein)
      • Geometric Extended Gravity Theory of Yang-Mills Type
      • Gravitating P-Brane Systems, Black Holes and Wormholes
      • Reasons for the Space-Time to be Four-Dimensional
      • Mathematical Problems in Higher Order Gravity and Cosmology
      • Multidimensional Geometrical Model of the Electrical and SU(2) Colour Charge with Splitting Off the Extra Coordinates
      • Multidimensional SU(2) Wormhole between Two Null Surfaces
      • Gravitational Theory without the Cosmological Constant Problem
      • Gravitational Excitons from Extra Dimensions
      • An Alternative KK Theory and Black Hole Formation
      • Multidimensional Gravity with P-Branes
      • Complete Classification of 1+1 Gravity Solutions
    • Hairy Black Holes
      • Summary Report on the Session on Hairy Black Holes
      • Extreme Black Holes Won't Wear Long Hair
      • Singularities Inside Hairy Black Holes
      • Mass Formulas for a Class of Stationary Black Holes
      • Static Regular and Black Hole Solutions with Axial Symmetry in EYM and EYMD Theory
      • The Non-Linear Sigma Model on De Sitter Space
      • Limiting Solutions of Sequences of Globally Regular and Black Hole Solutions in SU(N)-EYMD Theories
      • Spherical Black Holes Cannot Support Scalar Hair
      • Non-Abelian Black Holes in Brans-Dicke Theory
      • On Stationary Black Holes of the Einstein-Conformally Scalar Field System
    • Time Machines
      • Time Machines
      • The Principle of Self-Consistency and the Cauchy Problem for a Self-Interacting Relativistic Particle in the Presence of a Time Machine
      • Time Machine and Foliations
      • Causality in Topologically Nontrivial Space-Times
      • Time Machines with Non-Compactly Generated Cauchy Horizons and “Handy Singularities”
      • On Causality Violation and Singularities
      • Lorentzian Wormholes in a De Sitter Cosmos
      • On the Causal Structure of Spinning Einstein-Yang-Mills Strings
      • Gravity and Time Machines
      • The Reliability Horizon
    • Chaos in General Relativity
      • On the Turbulence near Cosmological Singularity
      • Fractals and Symbolic Dynamics as Invariant Descriptors of Chaos in General Relativity
      • The Mixmaster Universe is Unambiguously Chaotic
      • Chaotic Exit to Inflation: The Dynamics of Pre-Inflationary Universes
      • On the Stochasticity in the Mixmaster Model
      • Chaotic Exit to Inflation: Pre-Inflationary Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universes
      • Perturbation Theory in Macroscopic Gravity: On the Definition of Background
      • Chaos and Quantumlike Mechanics in Atmospheric Flows: A Superstring Theory for Supergravity
      • Chaos in Schwarzschild and Kerr Space time — The Motion of a Spinning Particle
      • Relaxations and Long Time Evolutions of One-Dimensional N-Body Systems
    • Einstein Maxwell Systems
      • New Two-Component Spinor Formulae for Classical General Relativity
      • Cauchy Problem for a Relativistic Charged Continuum
      • Electrostatic Field Generation in the Pulsar Magnetosphere Relativistic Plasma
      • Split Structures in General Relativity
      • Torsional Weyl-Dirac Electrodynamics
      • Can Non-Gravitational Black Holes Exists?
      • On Scattering Off the Extreme Reissner-Nordström Black Hole in N = 2 Supergravity
      • Knots in Simulations of Magnetized Relativistic Jets
    • Mass Inflation
      • Parallel Session on Mass Inflation
      • Mass Inflation Inside Non-Abelian Black Holes
      • Structure of the Cauchy Horizon Singularity
      • Some Cosmological Tails of Collapse
      • Oscillatory and Power-Law Mass Inflation in Non-Abelian Black Holes
      • Mass-Inflation in Dynamical Gravitational Collapse of a Charge Scalar-Field
      • Stability of Plane-Wave Cauchy Horizons
    • Critical Phenomena
      • Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse
      • Spherical Collapse of a Mass-Less Scalar Field With Semi-Classical Corrections
      • A Critical Look at Massive Scalar Field Collapse
      • Dynamical Instability and Critical Behavior of van Putten's “Approximate Black Hole”
      • Critical Behaviour and Universality in Gravitational Collapse of a Charged Scalar Field
      • Fine-Structure of Choptuik's Mass-Scaling Relation
      • The Structure of Singularity in Gravitational Collapse
      • Quantum Mass Gap at the Threshold of Black Hole Formation I
      • Quantum Mass Gap at the Threshold of Black Hole Formation II
    • Numerical Relativity
      • Gauge Schocks in Hyperbolic Relativity
      • Evolutions of Stellar Oscillations
      • Lattice Models of 2D Quantum Gravity
      • BH Punctures as Initial Data for General Relativity
      • Three Dimensional Distorted Black Holes: Initial Data and Evolution
      • The Matter Plus Black Hole Problem in Axisymmetry
      • New Coordinate Systems for Axisymmetric Black Hole Collisions
      • Free Evolution of Nonlinear Scalar Field Collapse in Double-Null Coordinates
      • Variational Method and Regge Equations
      • A 1D Solver for the Einstein Field Equations
      • Black Holes Illuminated by Infalling Material
      • Graph Theory in Mathematical Cosmology
      • Gravitational Radiation from Colliding Black Holes: The Close Limit Approximation
      • Nonlinear Wave Equations for Numerical Relativity: Towards the Computation of Gravitational Wave Forms of Black Hole Binaries
      • Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Binary Neutron Star Mergers
      • Lorentzian Dynamics in the Ashtekar Gravity
    • Algebraic Computations
      • EinS: A Mathematica Package for Computations with Indexed Objects
      • Tensign, the Philosophy Behind a New Userinterface
    • Quantum Fields in Curved Space Time
      • Quantum Fields in Anti-De Sitter Wormholes
      • On the Theory of the Unruh Effect
      • Somewhat Managable Propagators in Curved Space
      • Semiclassical Quantization on Black Hole Spacetimes
      • Instructive Properties of Quantized Gravitating Dust Shell
      • Gauge Dependence of the Effective Average Action in Einstein Gravity
      • Transition Amplitudes of Interacting Charged Particles in an Electric Field and the Unruh Effect
      • Acceleration-Induced Carrier of the Imprints of Gravitation
      • Gravitational Conical Bremsstrahlung and Differential Structures
      • Radiation by Static Sources Outside Static Black Hole?
      • Superluminal Velocities of Photons in Gravitational Background
      • Kinematics and Uncertainty Relations of a Quantum Test Particle in a Curved Space-Time
      • Particle Creation and Vacuum Polarization of Nonconformal Scalar Field Near the Isotropic Cosmological Singularity
      • Metric Fluctuations in Semiclassical Gravity
      • Energy-Momentum Tensor and Particle Creation in the De Sitter Universe
      • Scalar Perturbations in Open Semiclassical FLRW Universe
      • Classical Backgrounds with Vanishing Effective Lagrangians
      • An Approach to Quantum Statistical Mechanics on Robertson-Walker Space-Times
      • Spinning Particles on Curved Spaces and Constants of Motion
      • Gravitational Vacuum Polarization
• PART B
  • Time in Quantum Gravity
    • Thermodynamics for Gravitating Systems is Different
    • The Evolution Operator for Quantum Gravity: Signature Change in Minisuperspace
    • Kolmogorov's Algorithmic Complexity and its Probability Interpretation in Quantum Gravity
    • Covariant Introduction of the Planck Length in the Path Integral Formulation of Field Theory
    • Quantum Reference Frames and Quantum Space-Time
    • Time in Quantum Gravity
    • Time, Gauge, and the Superposition Principle in Quantum Gravity
    • Continuous Consistent Histories and the Tunneling Time Problem
  • Canonical Quantum Gravity
    • Canonical Quantum Gravity Session: Summary Report
    • The Equivalence Between the Connection and the Loop Representation of Quantum Gravity
    • On Generalized Dynamics of Bianchi IX Cosmology
    • Canonical Structure of Locally Homogeneous Systems on Compact 3-manifolds
    • CP-Symmetry in Chiral Gravity
    • Problems of Minisuperspace Canonical Quantization
    • Constants of the Motion and the Quantum Modular Group in (2+1)-Dimensional Gravity
    • From Reissner-Nordström Quantum States to Charged Black Holes Mass Evaporation
    • The Role of Dilations in Diffeomorphism Covariant Algebraic Quantum Field Theory
    • Loop Quantum Gravity
    • Eisenhart's Principle — on the Road to Desingularize Geodesic Motion in Minisuperspace
    • Hamiltonians for Compact Homogeneous Universes
  • Strings
    • Type I Vacua in the Web of String Dualities
    • 2D Induced Gravity from a WZNW System
    • Dirac Constraint Quantization of Matter-Coupled 2D Dilaton Gravity Models
    • Exact Path Integral Quantization of 2-D Dilaton Gravity
    • Minimum Size from Strings and Quantum Cosmology
  • The Casimir Effect
    • Casimir Effect in Schwarzschild Geometry
    • The Casimiro Experiment: Dynamical Detection of Casimir Forces
    • High Sensitivity Measurement of the Casimir Force and Observability of Finite Temperature Effects
    • Pair of Accelerated Frames: A Perfect Interferometer
    • Is Sonoluminescence Due to Dynamical Casimir Effect?
  • Black Hole Thermodynamics
    • Black Hole Thermodynamics Today
    • Constraints on the Geometries of Black Holes in Classical and Semiclassical Gravity
    • Rindler Space Entropy
    • Black Holes of Constant Curvature
    • The ‘Ups’ and ‘Downs’ of a Spinning Black Hole
    • Thermodynamics of Nonsingular Spherically Symmetric Black Hole
    • Black Hole Entropy and Entanglement Thermodynamics
    • Euclidean Instantons and Hawking Radiation
    • Toward the New Gravitational Noncommutative Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Black Holes
    • Loop Corrections for 2D Hawking Radiation
    • Black Hole Entropy from Loop Quantum Gravity
    • The Black Hole Entropy: A Spacetime Foam Approach
    • Covariant Path Integrals and Black Holes
  • Quantum Cosmology
    • Quantum Analysis of the Compactification Process in the Multidimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills System
    • Can Spontaneous Supersymmetry Breaking in a Quantum Universe Induce the Emergence of Classical Spacetimes?
    • The Old Frequency Decomposition Problem in the Light of New Quantization Methods
    • New Results in One-Loop Quantum Cosmology
    • Complex Inflaton Field in Quantum Cosmology
    • Quantum Inhomogeneous Mixmaster Model and the Origin of the Early Universe
    • Supersymmetric Quantum Cosmology: the Lorentz Constraint
    • Can We Obtain Conserved Currents in Supersymmetric Quantum Cosmology?
    • Quantum Cosmology in Some Scalar-Tensor Theories
  • Gravitational Wave Detectors—Bars
    • Gravitational Wave Resonant Detectors: Status and Perspectives
    • Operation of the Gravitational Wave Detector NAUTILUS
    • Advances and Perspectives in Capacitive Transducers and Associated Readout
    • Transducer Development for the Allegro Detector
    • Calibration and Filtering of Data from a Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Antenna
    • Sapphire Dielectric Resonant-Mass Transducer for Gravitational Wave Detection
  • Gravitational Wave Detectors—Interferonneters
    • Gravitational Waves Detection by Phase Interference
    • Sapphire Test Masses and Nb Flexure Suspensions to Reduce the Thermal Noise in Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detectors
    • Design of Suspension System for GEO 600
    • Progress on Low-Frequency Active Vibration Isolation
    • Performance of Vibration Isolation System for TAMA300
    • Ultra-Low Frequency Pre-Isolation
    • The Development of an 8m Suspended Power Recycling Interferometer
  • Gravitational Wave Detectors—Sources
    • Gravitational-Wave Sources
    • Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors and the Galactic White Dwarf Binary Background
    • On the Perturbation of Non-Rotating Compact Objects Excited by Massive Sources
    • Calculating the Cosmic Background of Supernova-Generated Gravitational Radiation
    • Searches of Inspiraling Compact Binaries with Interferometric Detectors
    • Radiation Backreaction in Spinning Binaries
    • Cylindrical Collapse and the Gravitational Radiation from van Stockum Space-Time Objects
    • Black Hole Perturbation Approach to Gravitational Radiation from Inspiralling Binaries
    • Radiation Reaction in Free Fall from Perturbative Geodesic Equations in Spherical Coordinates
    • Spinning Particle around Black Hole and Gravitational Wave
    • Supernovae as a Strong Source of Gravitational Radiation
  • Gravitational Wave Detectors—Future
    • Response of a Spaceborn Gravitational Wave Antenna to Solar Oscillations
    • Observing Coalescing Binaries with Space-Borne Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors: Angular Resolution and Astrophysical Parameter Measurements
  • General Relativity in Space
    • General Relativity in Space
    • Development of the Gravity Probe B Payload
    • The Technology Heritage of the Relativity Mission, Gravity Probe B
    • What can LLR provide to Relativity?
    • A Robust Squid System for Space Use
    • The Clock(s)-to-the-Sun Mission: A New Look
    • Testing for Preferred Inertial Frames with Laser Ranging
  • Experimental Tests
    • Session on Experimental Tests
    • SEE Project for Measuring the Gravitational Interaction Parameters
    • A New Inverse Square Law Test
    • Influence of the Gravitational Field on the Beam Splitting Process in Atom Interferometry
    • The TIFR Equivalence Principle Experiment
    • Local Reference Systems With PPN Parameters
    • Quantum Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle
    • Techniques for a High-Precision Frame-Dragging Measurement Using an Unsupported Gyroscope in a Drag-Free Satellite
    • Preparation for a Determination of G Using a Cryogenic Torsion Pendulum
    • A New Experiment to Measure G by Means of a Beam Balance
    • Search for Axions Using a Superconducting Differential Angular Accelerometer
    • Determination of the Gravitational Constant G Using a Fabry-Pérot Pendulum Resonator
    • Possibility of Observing the Gravitational Analogue of the Scalar Aharanov-Bohm Effect in Atom Interferometers
  • Equivalence Principle in Space
    • Tests of the Equivalence Principle in Space
    • MiniSTEP SQUID Position Sensor Development
    • The Using Two-Frequency Lasers in the Gravitational Experiments
    • Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle in Stratospheric Free Fall
    • Separating Out the Radial-Offset Error in a Two­-Sphere Equivalence-Principle Experiment in a Satellite
    • Suppressing Radial Non-Observability in a Concentric Two-Sphere Equivalence-Principle Experiment by Gravity-Gradient Cancellation
    • The Two-Color Transcollimator, a Precision Position Detector for a Satellite Two-Sphere Equivalence-Principle Experiment
    • Cosmic Tests for a More Explicit Equivalence Principle
    • High Sensitive SQUID Based Position Detectors For Application in Gravitational Experiments
  • Observational Cosmology
    • Large Scale Structure of the Universe — Introduction
    • Gravitational Potential Perturbations and Large Scale Bias
    • Has the Universe a Honeycomb Structure?
    • Renormalization Group Approach to Einstein Equation in Cosmology
    • Testing Relativistic Zel'dovich Approximation in Spherically Symmetric Model
    • On the Power Law Dependence of the Average Density of the Galaxies in the Universe
    • Power Spectra and Large Scale Structure Formation in Mixed Dark Matter Models With a Cosmological Constant
    • Large-Scale Mass Power Spectrum from Peculiar Velocities
  • Inflation
    • Tensor CMB Anisotropy in Open Inflation Models
    • Canonical Perturbations in the One Bubble Universe
    • On Classical Anisotropies in Models of Open Inflation
    • Second-Order Reconstruction of Inflationary Dynamics Compatible with Recent COBE Data
    • Cosmological Vacuum in Unified Theories
  • Topological Defects
    • Can a Self-Gravitating Thin Cosmic String Obey the Nambu-Goto Dynamics?
    • Current-Carrying Cosmic String Loops Leading to Vortons
    • On The Formation of Hierarchical Astronomical Objects in the Cosmic String Scheme
    • On the Perturbation of Domain wall Coupled to Gravitational Waves
    • Formation Probability of Non-Topological Electroweak Strings
    • Cylindrical Domain Walls and Gravitational Waves — Einstein Rosen Wave Emission from Momentarily Static Initial Configuration
    • Testing Theoretical Predictions of CMB Anisotropies Induced by Scaling Seeds Against Current Observational Data
    • Numerical Experiments in Cosmic String Networks in terms of a Three-Scale Model
    • Topology of the Universe and Topological Defects
  • Early Universe
    • FRW-Geometry Evolution due to Quantum Effects
    • Exact Solutions and Growth of Cosmological Perturbations in the Transition Era from the Radiation to Matter Dominance
    • Higher Derivative Theory with Viscosity
    • Baryogenesis Motivated on String CPT Violation
    • zero Energy Modes of Massless Fermions in S³ × R Spacetime
    • Self-Consistent Solutions for Low-Frequency Gravitational Background Radiation
    • Cosmological Structures in Generalized Gravity
    • Bubble Dynamics at Finite Temperature
    • Energy in the Primordial Plasma
    • The Cosmic Fluid is Essentially Transparent To Gravitational Radiation
    • Origin of Structure in a Supersymmetric Quantum Universe
    • Energy Conditions and Galaxy Formation
    • Cosmological Perturbations and Large-Scale Conservation Quantities
  • Cosmic Microwave Background
    • A Quick View of the CMB Session and Thermal History & CMB Anisotropies
    • The Signature of the Negative Curvature of the Universe in CMB Maps
    • Recent Results of the Tenerife CMB Experiments
    • CMB Anisotropies Caused by Gravitational Waves: A Parameter Study
    • Can the CMBR Dipole be Cosmological?
    • On Ergodic Perturbations in the Open Universe
  • Nonsingular Cosmology
    • The Program of the Eternal Universe
    • The Causal Interpretation of Dust and Radiation Fluids Non-Singular Quantum Cosmologies
    • Inflationary Cosmology in Weyl Integrable Geometry
    • Globally Hyperbolic Geodesically Complete Cosmological Model
    • Relativistic Cosmological Hydrodynamics
    • An Alternative Perspective in Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
    • Fluctuational Cosmology
  • Dark Matter
    • Dark Matter — An Introduction
    • Baryonic Dark Matter
    • Microlensing Implications for Halo Dark Matter
    • Landau Damping of Fermion Perturbations in an Expanding Universe
    • Some Geometrical Models the Possible Class of Particles Able to Travel Faster then Light
    • Evolution of Power Spectrum for Inos
    • Accelerator Test of the Dark Matter Neutrino Hypothesis
    • The Oscillating G Model: A Possible Explanation for the Apparent Periodicity in the Galaxy Distribution and for the Cosmological Non-Baryonic Matter
    • Boson Halo: Scalar Field Model for Dark Halos of Galaxies
    • Experimental Evidence of a New Type of Quantized Matter with Quanta as Integer Multiples of the Planck Mass
    • A Theory of Superluminal Particles with Real Mass Content in Agreement with Experimental Evidence of a New Type of Quantized Matter
    • Microlensing by Noncompact Objects
  • Astro-particles
    • Primordial Nucleosynthesis with Neutrino Degeneracy and Gravitational Constant Variation
    • The Search for Antimatter in the Universe
    • Neutrino Transport in Type II Supernovae Boltzmann Solver vs. Monte Carlo Method
  • Gravitational Lenses
    • Some Global Results on Gravitational Lensing
    • Defocusing Microlensing
    • The Fermat Principle in General Relativity and the Gravitational Lensing Effect
    • On the Classification of Stable Caustics
    • Properties of Point Mass Lenses on a Regular Polygon and the Problem of Maximum Number of Images
    • Counting Formulas and Bounds on Number of Fixed Points Due to Point Mass Lenses
    • Gravitational Lens Equation Near Cusps
  • Extragalactic Sources
    • Overwhelming Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in a Nearby Galaxy from Maser Emission Observations
  • Astrophysical Black Holes
    • Some Effects due to Interaction of Charged Particles and Charged Rotating Black Holes
  • QPO's
    • Lense-Thirring Precession and QPOs in Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
    • General Relativity and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations
  • Binary Neutron Stars
    • Report of the Workshop on Binary Neutron Stars/Black Holes
    • Dynamics of Relativistic Superfluid in Neutron Stars
    • Relativistic Studies of Close Neutron Star Binaries
    • Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Black Hole MACHO Binaries
    • May an Eclipsing Binary Radiopulsar Be a Strong-Field Gravitational Laboratory?
    • Location of the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of Binary Neutron Stars in the First Post Newtonian Approximation
    • Relativistic Equations of Motion for Binary Systems with Monopole, Spin and Complete Quadrupole Moments
  • Microlenses
    • Gravitational Microlensing Research
    • Microlensing Results and the Galactic Models
    • MACHO versus HST: How Bright Can Dark Matter Be?
    • Noncompact Astronomical Bodies as Microlenses
  • Gamma Ray Bursts
    • The Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery
    • Can internal shocks produce the variability in GRBs?
    • Gamma-Ray Bursts from Neutron Star Binaries
    • A Unified Model for Gamma Ray Bursters, Galactic Microquasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
    • Spectral Implications of Variability in GRB Fireballs
    • Numerical Simulations of Colliding Neutron Stars
  • Boson Stars
    • Boson Stars: Early History and Recent Prospects
    • Localized Mass and Spin in 2+1 Dimensional Topologically Massive Gravity
    • On the Stability of Real Scalar Boson Stars
    • Differentially Rotating Boson Stars
  • List of Participants
  • Author Index