Table of Contents

# Results from GW Experiments (LIGO, VIRGO, GEO, TAMA, bars) (B Barish) # The Information Paradox for Black Holes (S Hawking) # The Cosmological Tests (P J E Peebles) # Cosmic F and D Strings (J Polchinski) # Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei (M Rees) # Complex Methods, Twistors, and Connection Variables (J Lewandowski) # Early Universe (M Sasaki) # Dark Energy and The Cosmological Constant (V Sahni) # Gravitational Wave Sources: Source Science and Statistical Methods (A Buonanno) # Detector Performance, Operation, and Commissioning (E Coccia) # Laboratory and Observational Tests of Gravitational Theories (J Gundlach) # Quantum Fields in Curved Space-Times (K Fredenhagen) # and other papers

Reviews

"... this volume provides a nice summary of a considerable portion of general relativity just after the turn of the century ... It contains some thought-provoking articles as well as some useful, thoughtful reviews."General Relativity and Gravitation