A Symposium on General Relativity

C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics
Stony Brook University
Thursday and Friday, 20-21 October 2005

Speakers: Titles: Sean Carroll Chicago Dark energy, or worse? Thibault Damour IHÉS Bures General relativity, experiment and gravitational waves Jürgen Ehlers MPI Potsdam Einstein's path to GR Francis Everitt Stanford Testing Einstein with orbiting gyroscopes Gary Gibbons Cambridge Singularity theorems and black holes Maurice Goldhaber BNL Remembering Einstein James Hartle Santa Barbara The future of gravity Daniel Kennefick Arkansas History of gravity waves Michael Kramer Manchester From the binary to the double pulsar: Precision tests of general relativity Robert Pound Harvard Gravitational redshift Remo Ruffini Rome Energy of black holes, dark matter, dark energy Irwin Shapiro Harvard Past and future GR experiments: Equivalence principle, time delay, black holes John Stachel Boston Einstein's odyssey: from special to general relativity Peter van Nieuwenhuizen Stony Brook From spinors to supergravity Erik Verlinde Amsterdam Strings and black holes Organizing committee: Alfred Goldhaber, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, William Weisberger Supported by the Simons Foundation and Stony Brook University, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics.