General Relativity and Gravitation Book

	Opening address
	John Lighton Synge : a memorial lecture
	Comments on the death of Peter Bergmann
	The status of numerical relativity	3
	Loop quantum gravity, quantum geometry and spin foams	23
	Towards detection of gravitational waves	24
	Advances in relativistic astrophysics	35
	Recent results in mathematical relativity	36
	Black holes and the information paradox	56
	Gravitation and cosmology in Brane-worlds	63
	A few words on entropy, thermodynamics, and horizons	83
	Advanced gravitational-wave detector technologies : future generations of interferometers	104
	Probing general relativity on the scales of cosmology	106
	Relativity and astrophysics with LISA	118
	The gravitational self-force	119
	Cosmic superstrings revisited	142
	Quantum computation	161
	Black holes in active galactic nuclei	162
	The implications for cosmology of WMAP data	165
	Exact solutions and their interpretation	169
	Complex methods, twistors, and connection variables	189
	Mathematical studies of the field equations	199
	Analytic approximation and perturbation methods	210
	Numerical relativity and algebraic computing	224
	Alternative theories of gravity	234
	Relativistic astrophysics	238
	Cosmology : early universe	245
	Cosmology : late universe and gravitational lenses	251
	Cosmology : dark energy and the cosmological constant	259
	Gravitational wave sources : source science, statistical methods	269
	Gravitational-wave detection : detector performance, operation, and commissioning	282
	Gravitational-wave detection : current gravitational wave detector results	284
	Gravitational-wave detection : advanced detector research and development	293
	Gravitational-wave detection : space-based interferometers	305
	Laboratory and observational tests of gravitational theories	312
	Quantum general relativity	327
	String and M theory	335
	Quantum field theory on curved spacetime	344