GRG18 & Amaldi7 proceedings (CQG Special Issue) - orders close April 9

As some of you may know, the proceedings for the GRG18 and Amaldi7
conferences held in Sydney in July 2007 will appear as a Special Issue
of Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP. As the Special Issue is due to
be published very soon, orders for the Special Issue can only be
accepted by the IOP up until APRIL 9. If you wish to order a copy,
please complete the attached order form and fax or email it directly
to the IOP.

PLEASE NOTE:  Do not send your order form to Conexion. Please email or
fax it directly to the IOP by April 9.

IOP email:  custserv@iop.org

IOP fax address:   +44 (0) 117 929 4318

The cost of the proceedings is =A330 (not AUD$85 as listed on the form).

For your information, the Special Issue will contain:

1.  articles by the plenary speakers

Daniel Eisenstein  (University of Arizona)
Observing dark energy

Francis Everitt  (Stanford University)
Testing Einstein in space: Gravity Probe B & STEP

Jonathan Feng  (University of California Irvine)
Collider physics and cosmology

Laurent Friedel  (Perimeter Institute)
Spin foam models or the dynamics of quantum space time

Badri Krishnan  (Albert Einstein Institute Golm)
Quasi-local black hole horizons and their applications

Renate Loll  (Utrecht University)
The emergence of spacetime, or, quantum gravity on your desktop

Steve McMillan  (Drexel University)
Gravitational dynamics of large stellar systems

Robert Myers  (Perimeter Institute)
Quark soup al dente: applied string theory

Maria Alessandra Papa  (Albert Einstein Institute Golm)
Gravitational wave astronomy from ground and space

Hans Ringstrom  (KTH, Stockholm)
Cosmic censorship

Ralf Schuetzhold  (University of Technology, Dresden)
Effective horizons in the laboratory

Daniel Shaddock  (JPL California Institute of Technology)
Space-based gravitational wave detection with LISA

Stan Whitcomb  (California Institute of Technology)
Ground-based gravitational wave detection: now and future

2.  summaries of each of the GRG18 workshops by the workshop Chairs

A1 Exact Solutions and their Interpretation - Jose Senovilla
A2 Complex Methods, Twistors and Connection Variables - Lionel Mason
A3 Mathematical Studies of the Field Equations - Lars Andersson
A4 Alternative Theories of Gravity - Gilles Esposito-Farese
B1 Relativistic Astrophysics - Geoff Bicknell
B2 Numerical Relativity, Other Computational Methods and their
Applications -Carsten Gundlach
B3 Analytic Approximations and Perturbation Methods and their
Applications -P. Jaranowski
B4 Early Universe, Pre-Big Bang, etc. - Misao Sasaki
B5 Dark Energy and Cosmological Constant - Rob Crittenden
B6 CMB, Large Scale Structure, Gravitational Lenses - Rob Crittenden
C1 Other Experimental and Observational Tests of Gravitational
Theories - C. Laemmerzahl
D1 Quantum Aspects of Black Holes - Simon Ross, Martin Bojowald
D2 Quantum Aspects of Cosmology - Simon Ross, Martin Bojowald
D3 Other Quantum Aspects - Steve Carlip
E1 Analogue Gravity - Ralf Schuetzhold

3.  highlights of the Amaldi7 presentations as selected by the Amaldi7
Chairs

As you can see, this Special Issue will provide a very timely snapshot
of the entire field of gravitation and cosmology at this moment in time.

Happy reading!

Susan M. Scott
David E. McClelland
(co-editors of the Special Issue)

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