edited by Petros Florides (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) , Brien Nolan (Dublin City University, Ireland) , & Adrian Ottewill (University College Dublin, Ireland)

This authoritative volume provides a snapshot of the state of the art in gravitational physics and related mathematical fields, as well as a review of recent achievements and prospects for future work. With contributing authors among the world leaders in their respective fields, this proceedings volume is a worthy addition to this conference series, which constitutes one of the most important international meetings in the areas general relativity and gravitation.

• Towards Detection of Gravitation Waves (B C Barish)
• Black Holes and The Information Paradox (S Hawking)
• Probing General Relativity on the Scales of Cosmology (P J E Peebles)
• Cosmic Superstrings Revisited (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 H Gundlach)
• Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime (K Fredenhagen)
• and other papers