GENERAL THEORY

 
   
GT1 Cosmological Singularities
Spiros Cotsakis
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GT2 Chaos in General Relativity and Cosmology
Vahe Gurzadyan
 
GT3 Einstein-Maxwell Systems
Chul Hoon Lee
 
GT4  Theoretical Issues in GR
Dieter Brill

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GT5 Wormholes, Energy Conditions and Time Machines
Mark Hadley
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GT6 Exact Solutions (mathematical aspects)
Georgy Alekseev
 
GT7 Exact Solutions (physical aspects)
Susan Scott
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GT8 Self-Gravitating Systems 1
Eckehard Mielke
 
GT9 Self-Gravitating Systems 2
Simonetta Filippi
 
    

 
ALTERNATIVE THEORIES

 
   
AT1 Alternative Theories (A)
Hans-Jürgen Schmidt
 
AT2 Alternative Theories (B)
Richard Hammond
 
AT3 Higher Dimensional Theories
Alan Coley and  Paul Wesson
 
AT4 Geometric Calculus in Gravity Theory
David Hestenes
 
    

STRING THEORY

 
   
S1 Brane Worlds and String Motivated Cosmology
Dmitry Gal'tsov
 
S2 Brane Worlds
Massimo Bianchi
 
S3 M-Theory and Dualities
Kellogg Stelle
 
S4 Integrability in Gauge and String Theories
Niklas Beisert and Matthias Staudacher
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THE QUANTUM AND GRAVITY

 
   
QG1 Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
Giovanni Amelino–Camelia
 
QG2 Quantum Fields
Volodia Belinski
 
QG3 Casimir Effect and Short-range Gravity
Vladimir Mostepanenko
 
QG4 Loop Quantum Gravity, Quantum Geometry, Spin Foams
Jerzy Lewandowski
 
   

higher order ppn theories and observations

 
   
PPN1 Strong Gravity and Binaries
Luc Blanchet and Leonid Grishchuk
 
PPN2 Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Binary Objects
Gerhard Schaefer
 
   

BLACK HOLES: THEORY

 
   
BHT1 Black Holes and Pair Creation in Strong Fields
Walter Greiner
 
BHT2 Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (Black Rings and Black Strings)
Jutta Kunz

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BHT3 Analog Models of and for General Relativity
Grisha Volovik
 
BHT4 Black Hole Thermodynamics
Iosef Khriplovich
 
BHT5 Alternative Black Hole Models
Pawel Mazur
 
    

NUMERICAL ASTROPHYSICAL RELATIVITY

 
   
CM1 Numerical Relativity, Black Hole Collisions, and Algebraic Computation
Sascha Husa
 
CM2 Simulations of Relativistic Flows and Compact Objects
Jose Antonio Font-Roda and Luciano Rezzolla
 
CM3 Dynamics of Compact Binaries
Pablo Laguna  and Luciano Rezzolla
 
CM4 Black Hole Collisions
Carlos Lousto
 
    

PRECISION TESTS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY

 
   
PT1 Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance
Achim Peters
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PT2 Laboratory Gravity Tests
Claus Laemmerzahl
and Rodney Torii
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PT3 Clock and Space Tests of Gravity
Christophe Salomon and Hansjoerg Dittus
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PT4 High Accuracy Astrometry and Relativity
Sergei Klioner and Francois Mignard
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GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

 
   
GW1 Operating GW Detectors
Adalberto Giazotto, Massimo Bassan
 
GW2 Advanced GW Detectors
David Blair, K. Tsubono
 
GW3 Space and Third Generation GW Detectors
James Hough, Albrecht Ruediger 

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GW4 GW Data Analysis
Fulvio Ricci, Valentin Rudenko
, M.-K. Fujimoto
 
    

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION

 
   
CMB1 CMB Theory
Olivier Dore
 
CMB2 CMB Experiment (ground based)
Silvia Masi
 
CMB3 CMB Experiment (space)
Paolo de Bernardis
 
CMB4 CMB Data Analysis
Paolo Natoli
 
     

THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY

 
   
COT1 Dark Energy and Universe Acceleration
Alexei Starobinsky
 
COT2 Topology of the Universe
Marek Demianski
 
COT3 Inhomogeneous Cosmology
Andrzej Krasinski
 
COT4 Nonsingular Cosmology - Inflation
Mário Novello
 
COT5 Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Effects in the Early Universe
Paulo Moniz
 
    

OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY

 
   
COO1 Observational Gravitational Lensing
Philippe Jetzer
 
COO2 Theoretical Gravitational Lensing
Volker Perlick
 
COO3 Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure
Ravi Sheth
 
COO4 The Origins of Massive Black Holes and Quasars at High Redshifts
George Djorgovski

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ASTROPHYSICS OF NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES: OBSERVATIONS

 
   
APO1/2 Observations from High Energy Astrophysics Satellites
Elena Pian
and Norbert Schulz
[formerly APO1: X-Ray Spectroscopy of High Energy Sources with the XMM-Newton Satellite and APO2:
Observations from the Chandra Observatory]

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APO3 Theoretical models of observations from black hole candidates
Sandip Chakrabarti

 

       

ASTROPHYSICS OF NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLEs: THEORY

 
     
APT1 Astrophysical Black Holes
Sandip Chakrabarti
 
APT2 Spectral and Timing Appearances of the Galactic and Extragalatic Black Holes
Lev Titarchuk
 
APT3 Extreme Properties of Neutron Stars: Observations and Theory
Mariano Mendez and Nanda Rea

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APT4 Strange Stars
V
ladimir Usov
 
APT5 Thermal Behavior of Compact Stars
Dany Page

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ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS


 
   
AP1 Dark Matter
Peter Biermann

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AP2 Neutrino Masses: Experimental
Guido Drexlin
 
AP3 Neutrino Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
merged with AP2
 
AP4 Cosmic Rays
Reinhard Schlickeiser
 
    

GAMMA RAY BURSTS: THEORY AND OBSERVATION

 
   
GRB1 The GRB - Supernova connection
Pascal Chardonnet
 
GRB2 The Afterglow, Short and Long GRBs
Irene Arkhangelskaja

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GRB3 GRBs and Host Galaxies
Gunnlaugur Bjornsson 
 
GRB4 GRB Observations by SWIFT
Lorella Angelini
   

HISTORY OF RELATIVITY

 
   
H1A Recent Advances in the History of General Relativity
Juergen Renn
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H1B Round Table Discussion: Physicists Meet Historians
Juergen Renn