General Relativity and Gravitation

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Foreword

• Honour Committee

• International Organising Committee

• National Organising Committee

• Sponsorship

• List of Speakers

• List of Workshops

• The “Basilis Xanthopoulos Award”

• Carlo Rovelli, 1995 Xanthopoulos Int. Award, Acceptance Speech

• Invited Lectures

  • Polymer Geometry at Planck Scale and Quantum Einstein Equations

  • Going Round in Circles

  • Numerical Investigation of Singularities

  • Gravitational Wave Detection from Space

  • Resonant-Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors

  • Theoretical Aspects of Gravitational Radiation

  • A Numerical Approach to Binary Black Hole Coalescence

  • Structural Issues in Quantum Gravity

  • Observations and Theory of the Microwave Background

  • Stellar Stability According to Newtonian Theory and General Relativity

  • Spacetime Singularities and Cosmic Censorship

  • Dark Matter: What Is It? How Much?

  • Solutions of the Einstein Equations with Matter

  • Universality of Einstein's General Relativity

  • Gravitational Lensing: A Tool for Astronomers

  • Cosmology: One Vision of the Future

  • Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime

• Workshops

  • A.1: Exact Solutions and Their Interpretations

  • A.2: Complex Methods and New Variables

  • A.3: Mathematical Studies of Relativistic Field Equations

  • A.4: Analytic Approximation and Perturbation Methods

  • A.5(i): Numerical Relativity

  • A.5(ii): Computer Methods in General Relativity — Algebraic Computing

  • B.1: Relativistic Astrophysics

  • B.3: Physics of the Very Early Universe

  • B.4: Theoretical and Mathematical Cosmology

  • D.1: Quantum Gravity

  • D.2: Quantum Cosmology and Conceptual Problems in Quantum Gravity

  • D.3: Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime

• List of Participants