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The second of the annual BritGrav meetings on current research in Gravitational Physics in Britain took place at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Queen Mary, University of London on June 10/11, 2002. 47 plenary talks of 12min duration…
GGR News: we hear that... 100 years ago GGR program at the APS meeting in Savannah, GA Conference reports: GR20/Amaldi10 Conference in Warsaw, Poland School and workshop on quantum gravity in Brazil
The talks presented in the string theory and supergravity session of the GR16 conference in Durban, South Africa are described below for the proceedings.
A brief account of the development of the concept of the gravitational constant and the debate around in in Britain at the end of the 19th century.
This article is based on an invited talk given at the Workshop on Mathematical Physics Towards XXIst Century, held at Beer-Sheva, Israel in 1993. It contains an introduction to quantum gravity for mathematical physicists with an emphasis on…
GGR News: we hear that... 100 years ago GGR program at the APS meeting in Denver, CO
GGR News: we hear that... GR Centenial Speakers Bureau GGR $\to$ DGR GGR program at the APS meeting in Baltimore, MD Conference reports: New Frontiers in Dynamical Gravity Frontiers of Neutron Star Astrophysics Quantum Information in…
Contents: *News: April 1997 Joint APS/AAPT Meeting, by Beverly Berger The physics survey and committee on gravitational physics, by Jim Hartle *Research Briefs: Instability of rotating stars to axial perturbations, by Sharon Morsink LIGO…
This is the report of the "Quantum General Relativity" session, at the 16th International Conference on General Relativity & Gravitation, held on July 15th to 21st 2001, in Durban, South Africa. The report will appear on the Proceedings of…
GGR News: -we hear that..., by David Garfinkle -News from the GRG Society, by Abhay Ashtekar -LIGO/GEO/Virgo work together, by Peter Saulson -GWIC Ten Years on, by Stan Whitcomb Research Briefs: -Quasi-local energy, by Bjoern S. Schmekel…
This is a summary of the workshop A.6 on Alternative Theories of Gravity, prepared for the proceedings for the GR15 conference.
This article has a dual purpose: i) to provide a flavor of the scientific highlights of the landmark conference, GR3, held in July 1962 at Jablonna, near Warsaw; and, ii) to present a bird's eye view of the tremendous advances that have…
We review the status of different approaches to lattice quantum gravity indicating the successes and problems of each. Recent developments within the dynamical triangulation formulation are then described. Plenary talk at LATTICE 95 July…
We present a talk given by Bryce DeWitt on Quantum Gravity, and present many references. This article is the first installment of the book "The Pursuit of Quantum Gravity 1946-2004; Memoirs of Bryce DeWitt" that Cecile DeWitt is preparing.
This is a talk presented at XXXVIth Rencontres de Moriond, ElectroWeak Interactions and Unified Theories, March 2001. A short review of modern status of multigravity, i.e. modification of gravity at both short and large distances is given.
This article is based on the opening lecture at the third quantum geometry and quantum gravity school sponsored by the European Science Foundation and held at Zakopane, Poland in March 2011. The goal of the lecture was to present a broad…
This paper is a set of notes that we wrote concerning the first version of Emergent Gravity [gr-qc/0602022]. It is our version of an exercise that we proposed to some of our students. The idea was to find mathematical errors and…
GGR News: New Matters of Gravity Correspondents, by David Garfinkle we hear that..., by David Garfinkle Research Briefs: Numerical Relativity Studies of Black Hole Kicks, by Pablo Laguna Conference Reports: AbhayFest, by Chris Beetle…
This is a non-technical talk given at the Sixth Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity, Kyoto, Japan in June 1991. Some developments in string theory over the last six years are discussed together with their qualitative implications…
This is a brief summary with comments on selected contributions to the Cosmology and Gravitation section at the $24^{th}$ Brazilian Meeting on Particle and Fields (ENFPC XXIV), held at Caxambu, from September 30 to October 4, 2003.