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| Håkan Andréasson Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-41296 Göteborg, Sweden Research Interests: My research is in general relativity and I am interested in questions about spacetime singularities and cosmic censorship. The cosmic censorship conjecture was proposed by Roger Penrose in the sixties and the hypothesis is that spacetime singularities are always hidden within black holes and cannot be seen (i.e. there are no "naked singularities"). In my research I primarily work on global existence for solutions to Einstein's equations and in particular to the Einstein-Vlasov system where the matter is modelled by kinetic theory. A global existence theorem is the first step towards an understanding of cosmic censorship. I am also interested in kinetic equations in general (on a flat background spacetime) such as the Maxwell-Vlasov system, the Vlasov-Poisson system and the relativistic Boltzmann equation. Personal Homepage:  http://www.math.chalmers.se/~hand/index.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Peter Anninos Affiliation: University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Neil Ashby Affiliation: Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0390, U.S.A. Research Interests: The principal emphasis of Prof. Ashby's research is on theoretical general relativity with practical applications. Personal Homepage: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/Web/directory/faculty/ashby_n.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Abhay Ashtekar Affiliation: Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801, U.S.A. and Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4030, U.S.A. and Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany and Erwin-Schrödinger-Institut, Boltzmanngasse 9, 1090 Vienna, Austria Research Interests: Quantum Gravity, General Relativity, Gauge Theories, Geometry and Physics, Buddhist world-view Personal Homepage: http://cgpg.gravity.psu.edu/people/Ashtekar/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Matthew Benacquista Affiliation: Montana State University - Billings, 1500 N. 30th, Billings, MT 59101, U.S.A. Research Interests: My research interest is in relativistic astrophysics and mathematical physics. Currently, I am studying a variety of binary systems as sources for the space-based gravitational wave detector (LISA). In particular, I am looking at globular cluster populations of relativistic binaries, gravitationally lensed quasars, and supermassive black hole systems in the cores of galaxies. I also hope to begin studying isolated neutron stars as possible sources for ground based gravitational wave interferometers such as LIGO or Virgo. I am the chair of the Task Force on Galactic Binary Populations as part of Working Group 1 of the LISA International Science Team. Personal Homepage: http://www.msubillings.edu/sciences/mattb/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Beverly K. Berger Affiliation: Physics Department, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, U.S.A. and Physics Division, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230 U.S.A. Research Interests: My research interests include numerical simulations of mathematical cosmologies to study both the nature of generic collapse and the nature of generic expansion. I am especially interested in the use of simulations to test mathematical conjectures and to explore those properties of solutions to Einstein's equations that might be amenable to mathematical analysis. Published Reviews: | |
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| Zvi Bern Affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, U.S.A. Research Interests: Personal Homepage: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~bern/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Luc Blanchet Affiliation: Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, 98bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France Research Interests: Personal Homepage: http://www2.iap.fr/users/blanchet/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Cliff P. Burgess Affiliation: Physics Department, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2T8 Research Interests: At present my interests lie at the interface between string theory and lower-energy physics, with a particular emphasis on how the discovery of D-branes may have observable consequences in experiments and in cosmology. To the extent that there is a theme to my research, it would be the use of effective field theory techniques throughout high-energy physics and other fields. Personal Homepage: http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~cliff/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Steven Carlip Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A. Research Interests: quantum gravity; theoretical particle physics; mathematical physics Personal Homepage: http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/Text/Carlip.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Sean M. Carroll Affiliation: Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. Research Interests: My research interests include a variety of topics in theoretical physics, especially including cosmology, field theory, and gravitation, or elementary physics more broadly. This is an especially exciting time for this kind of science; a flood of data and suprising observational results are revolutionizing cosmology, new experiments (from accelerators and elsewhere) are invigorating particle physics, and advances in string theory have brought it into closer contact with low-energy physics and gravitation. Personal Homepage: http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Greg Cook Affiliation: Department of Physics, Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109-7507, U. S. A. Research Interests: My research interest are in numerical realativity and relativistic astrophysics. My research is centered on the simulation of compact binary systems and is currently focused on techniques for constructing astrophysically realistic initial data for binary black hole configurations. Personal Homepage: http://www.wfu.edu/~cookgb/ Published Reviews: | |
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| José A. Font Affiliation: Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Edificio de Investigación "Jeroni Muñoz", Universidad de Valencia, Dr. Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain Research Interests: Main field: Relativistic Astrophysics. Specific field: Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamics. Personal Homepage: http://www.uv.es/~jofontro/index.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Jörg Frauendiener Affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Research Interests: General Relativity, Spinor equations, Numerical methods Personal Homepage: http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~joergf/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Hubert F.M. Goenner Affiliation: University of Göttingen, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Tammannstr.1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany Research Interests: Relativistic theories of gravitation, in particular scalar-tensor theories and, recently, a Finsler generalization of flat space-time; relativistic thermodynamics; exact solutions of Einstein's equations and their symmetries; cosmology (but no speculations on early universe!); history of special and general relativity and its creator Einstein; science research. Personal Homepage: http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~goenner/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Carsten Gundlach Affiliation: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, U.S.A. and Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K. Research Interests: Numerical relativity, in particular well-posed continuum systems, boundary conditions and coordinate conditions. Critical phenomena in graviational collapse. Personal Homepage: http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/staff/Gundlach/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Markus Heusler Affiliation: ITP, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland Research Interests: My field of research is general relativity. In particular, my scientific activities include the theory of black holes and the interaction of gravity with nonlinear field theories. Personal Homepage: http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~heusler/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Jim Hough Affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K. Research Interests: Gravitational Wave Detection on ground (GEO 600 and Advanced LIGO) and in space (LISA); ultra stable lasers, ultra sensitive mechanical systems, and investigation of materials of ultra-low mechanical loss. Published Reviews: | |
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| Bei Lok Hu Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, U.S.A. Research Interests: Gravitation and Cosmology, Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, Quantum Processes in the Early Universe, Nonequilibrium Statistical Field Theory, Foundational Issues of Quantum Mechanics, Theoretical Aspects of Quantum and Atom Optics Personal Homepage: http://www.physics.umd.edu/people/faculty/hu.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Piotr Jaranowski Affiliation: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Białystok, Lipowa 41, 15-424 Białystok, Poland Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Aled Jones Affiliation: Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, U.K. Research Interests: Analysis of cosmic microwave background anisotropy measurements. Ground and space based CMB instruments. Large Scale Structure topology. Published Reviews: | |
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| Kostas D. Kokkotas Affiliation: Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece Research Interests: Personal Homepage: http://www.astro.auth.gr/~kokkotas/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Badri Krishnan Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany and Erwin-Schrödinger-Institut, Boltzmanngasse 9, 1090 Vienna, Austria Research Interests: Classical general relativity. Mathematical aspects of black hole physics with applications to numerical relativity. Gravitational wave data analysis and gravitational wave astrophysics. Published Reviews: | |
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| Andrzej Królak Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Golm, Germany and Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Śniadeckich 8, 00-950 Warsaw, Poland Research Interests: My field is application of mathematical methods to general theory of relativity. Published Reviews: | |
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| Ofer Lahav Affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K. and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, U.K. Research Interests: Estimation of cosmological parameters, Reconstruction of redshift surveys, The Cosmic Microwave Background, Clustering and evolution of galaxies, Classification of galaxy spectra and images Personal Homepage: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~lahav/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Anthony Lasenby Affiliation: Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, U.K. Research Interests: Anisotropy of the microwave background, cosmology, the Galactic Centre, telescope surface profile measurement, phase reconstruction problems, atmospheric spectral line broadening. Geometric algebras, the application of Clifford Algebras in physics. Personal Homepage: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~anthony/index.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Renate Loll Affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Postbus 80.195, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Duncan R. Lorimer Affiliation: Arecibo Observatory, HC3 Box 53995, Puerto Rico 00612, U.S.A. Research Interests: My research revolves around surveys for radio pulsars and what they tell us about the population of neutron stars. This work is carried out with many collaborators and uses some of the classic radio telescopes around the world. Of particular interest are young, energetic pulsars and binary systems where the orbiting companion is a white dwarf, a main sequence star, another neutron star, and (perhaps soon!) a stellar-mass black hole. Personal Homepage: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~drl/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Roy Maartens Affiliation: Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth University, Portsmouth PO12EG, U.K. Research Interests: Cosmological Perturbations, Brane-World Gravity, Cosmological Dynamics Personal Homepage: http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/maartenr/ Published Reviews: | |
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| José Maria Martí Affiliation: Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Ewald Müller Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany Research Interests: Cosmological Perturbations, Brane-World Gravity, Cosmological Dynamics Personal Homepage: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/hydro/index.shtml Published Reviews: | |
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| Ingo Müller Affiliation: Technical University Berlin, Thermodynamik, D-10623 Berlin, Germany Research Interests: Personal Homepage: http://www.thermodynamik.tu-berlin.de/english/staff/im_e/im_e.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Kimberly C.B. New Affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS B220, X-2 Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, U.S.A. Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Volker Perlick Affiliation: Institute of Theoretical Physics, TU Berlin, Sekr. PN 7-1, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany Research Interests: My research interests are subjects from classical general relativity, in particular applications from Lorentzian geometry, e.g. variational problems for geodesics, geometry of wave fronts, and related subjects with relevance to gravitational lensing. Published Reviews: | |
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| Eric Poisson Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 35 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2W9 Research Interests: My field of research is gravitational physics, with a focus on black holes and gravitational waves. Personal Homepage: http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/poisson/research/poisson.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Alan D. Rendall Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14424 Golm, Germany Research Interests: Spacetime singularities, cosmic censorship, mathematical justification of methods used in gravitational physics, applications of the theory of partial differential equations to the Einstein equations. Personal Homepage: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~rendall/rendall.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Oscar A. Reula Affiliation: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, FaMAF, Ciudad Universitaria, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina Research Interests: Newtonian Limit of General Relativity, Relativistic Dissipative Fluids, Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems, Boundary Conditions for General Relativity Personal Homepage: http://surubi.fis.uncor.edu/~reula/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Carlo Rovelli Affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A. Research Interests: The center of my research interest is in quantum gravity. Personal Homepage: http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/index.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Sheila Rowan Affiliation: Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4085, U.S.A. Research Interests: Gravitational Wave Detection on ground (GEO 600 and Advanced LIGO); ultra sensitive mechanical systems, and investigation of materials of ultra-low mechanical loss, lasers for Gravitational Wave Detectors. Published Reviews: | |
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| Misao Sasaki Affiliation: Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan Research Interests: General Relativity, Cosmology Personal Homepage: http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~misao/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Bernd Schmidt Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), D-14476 Golm, Germany Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Ingrid H. Stairs Affiliation: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada Research Interests: My work involves the observation of radio pulsars and their companions, with a general theme of studying binary pulsar evolution, and with sidelines in such areas as pulsar instrumentation and polarimetry, and some higher-frequency observations. Personal Homepage: http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/stairs/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Nikolaos Stergioulas Affiliation: Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124
Greece Research Interests: Rotating Relativistic Stars, Computational Relativistic Astrophysics Personal Homepage: http://www.astro.auth.gr/~niksterg/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Timothy J. Sumner Affiliation: Astrophysics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ, U.K. Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Yasushi Suto Affiliation: Department of Physics and Research Center for the Early Universe, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Research Interests: Theoretical cosmology. Specific examples include theory of structure formation in the universe, modeling galaxy clusters on the basis of multi-band observations, gravitational lens astronomy, cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, galaxy evolution model using the Monte-Carlo method, nonlinear gravitational many-body problems, general relativistic effects at high redshift universes, origin of biasing of astronomical objects relative to dark matter distribution, and search for extrasolar planets. Personal Homepage: http://www-utap.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~suto/ Published Reviews: | |
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| László B. Szabados Affiliation: Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest 114, P. O. Box 49, Hungary Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Hideyuki Tagoshi Affiliation: Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan Research Interests: Published Reviews: | |
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| Enric Verdaguer Affiliation: Departament de Fisica Fonamental and C.E.R. in Astrophysics, Particles and Cosmology
Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Research Interests: Soliton solutions of Einstein's equations; Quantum effects in the early universe: cosmic strings and inflation; Quantum field theory in curved spacetime; Semiclassical and stochastic gravity; Quantum to classical transitions and open quantum systems; Vaccum decay in field theory Published Reviews: | |
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| Robert M. Wald Affiliation: Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637-1433, U.S.A. Research Interests: My research mainly has focused upon the theory of quantum phenomena in strong gravitational fields, particularly quantum effects involving black holes and black hole thermodynamics. My interests also span attempts to formulate a quantum theory of gravitation (where no background classical metrical or causal structure of spacetime is present), mathematical investigations of classical general relativity, and applications of general relativity to cosmology and astrophysics (such as gravitational lensing phenomena and gravitational radiation reaction effects). Personal Homepage: http://physics.uchicago.edu/t_rel.html#Wald Published Reviews: | |
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| Joachim Wambsganss Affiliation: Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany Research Interests: The main scientific topics interests are gravitational lensing, clusters of galaxies and extrasolar planets. Personal Homepage: http://www.astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~jkw/ Published Reviews: | |
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| Clifford Will Affiliation: McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, U.S.A. Research Interests: His research interests are theoretical, encompassing the observational and astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity, including gravitational radiation, black holes, cosmology, the physics of curved spacetime, and the theoretical interpretation of experimental tests of general relativity. Personal Homepage: http://wugrav.wustl.edu/people/CMW/index.html Published Reviews: | |
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| Jeffrey Winicour Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), D-14476 Golm, Germany and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Research Interests: Theoretical General Relativity Personal Homepage: http://www.psc.edu/science/winicour.html Published Reviews: | |
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