Table of Contents

Geometry From the Spectral Point of View, the Spectral Model of Space-Time (Alain Connes); The Formation of Black Holes by the Focusing of Incoming Gravitational Waves (Demetrios Christodoulou); On the Minimum Size of Astrophysical Compact Objects (Hernando Quevedo); Black Holes as a Source of Information (Juan Maldacena); Black Hole Entropy in the Extremal Limit (Ashoke Sen); Transplanckian String Collisions: An Update (Gabriele Veneziano); Ultraviolet Divergences and Scale-Dependent Coupling in Quantum Gravity (Herbert Hamber); Black Holes and Linear Waves (Igor Rodnianski); The Emerging Global Network of Gravitational Wave Detectors: LIGO and Virgo Open a New Window to the Universe (David Reitze); "Analytical Relativity" of Black Holes (Thibault Damour); Detection of Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing (Dick Manchester); Relativistic Spin-Precession in Binary Pulsars (Michael Kramer); Ground-Based Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Latest Highlights from Large and Robotic Telescopes (Massimo Della Valle); Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift/Fermi Era (Tsvi Piran); Fundamental Physics from Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Gamma-Ray Bursts (Remo Ruffini); The Fascinating TeV Sky (Felix Aharonian); Galaxy Clusters and Their Central Supermassive Black Holes (Eugene Churazov); Intergalactic Shock Fronts (Maxim Markevich); Studying Dark Energy by Counting Galaxy Clusters (Alexey Vikhlinin); Weak Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology (Yannick Mellier); and other papers.