edited by Mário Novello (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) , Santiago Perez Bergliaffa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) , editor of the Marcel Grossmann Meeting series Remo Ruffini (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)

Table of Contents (135k)
Preface (148k)
Part A: Plenary and Review Talks
The Initial Value Problem Using Metric and Extrinsic Curvature (566k)
Part B: Plenary and Review Talks
The Largest Optical Telescopes: Today VLT; Tomorrow Owl. (951k)
Part C: Parallel Sessions
Numerical Simulation of General Relativistic Stellar Collapse (1,337k)

The Marcel Grossmann meetings were conceived to promote theoretical understanding in the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics and to direct future technological, observational, and experimental efforts. They review recent developments in gravitation and general relativity, with major emphasis on mathematical foundations and physical predictions. Their main objective is to bring together scientists from diverse backgrounds and their range of topics is broad, from more abstract classical theory and quantum gravity and strings to more concrete relativistic astrophysics observations and modeling.

This Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting was organized by an international committee composed of D Blair, Y Choquet-Bruhat, D Christodoulou, T Damour, J Ehlers, F Everitt, Fang Li Zhi, S Hawking, Y Ne'eman, R Ruffini (chair), H Sato, R Sunyaev, and S Weinberg and backed by an international coordinating committee of about 135 members from scientific institutions representing 54 countries. The scientific program included 29 morning plenary talks during 6 days, and 57 parallel sessions over five afternoons, during which roughly 500 papers were presented.

These three volumes of the proceedings of MG10 give a broad view of all aspects of gravitation, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments.

• The Initial Value Problem Using Metric and Extrinsic Curvature (J W York Jr)
• Mathematics, Physics and Ping-Pong (Y Ne'eman)
• Thermal Decay of the Cosmological Constant into Black Holes (C Teitelboim)
• Structure Formation in the Universe by Exact Methods (A Krasinski & C Hellaby)
• Overview of D-brane Worlds in String Theory (A M Uranga)
• Tachyons, D-brane Decay, and Closed Strings (B Zwiebach)
• String Compactifications — Old and New (A Dabholkar)
• Covariant Quantization of the Superstring (N Berkovits)
• Limiting Braneworlds with the Binary Pulsar (R Durrer & P Kocian)
• Cosmological Instabilities from Vector Perturbations in Braneworlds (R Durrer et al.)
• Principles of Affine Quantum Gravity (J R Klauder)
• Developments in GRworkbench (A Moylan et al.)
• Constants of Nature? (H B Sandvik)
• Gravitational Wave Detection: A Survey of the Worldwide Program (J Degallaix & D Blair)
• Evidence for Coincident Events Between the Gravitational Wave Detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS (G Pizzella)
• The LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories: Recent Results and Future Plans (G M Harry et al.)
• General Relativity in Space and Sensitive Tests of the Equivalence Principle (C Lämmerzahl)
• Multiwavelength Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts (E Pian)
• Black Hole Physics and Astrophysics: The GRB-Supernova Connection and URCA-1 — URCA-2 (R Ruffini et al.)
• Black Holes from the Dark Ages: Exploring the Reionization Era and Early Structure Formation with Quasars and Gamma-Ray Bursts (S G Djorgovski)
• The Diagnostic Power of X-Ray Emission Lines in GRBs (M Böttcher)
• The Collapsar and Supranova Models (C D Dermer)
• Spectral Index and Quasi-Periodic Oscillation Frequency Correlation in Black Hole (BH) Sources: Observational Evidence of Two Phases and Phase Transition in BHs (L Titarchuck & R Fiorito)
• Extragalactic Jets: The High Energy View (F Tavecchio)
• Observational Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources (E J M Colbert & M C Miller)
• Formation of Super-Massive Black Holes (W J Duschl & P A Strittmatter)
• Role of Disk Models in Identifying Astrophysical Black Holes (S K Chakrabarti)
• Clusters and Superclusters in the Sloan and Las Campanas Surveys (J Einasto)
• Black Hole Jet Sources (F Mirabel)
• The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy (F Melia)
• Binary-Pulsar Tests of Strong-Field Gravity and Gravitational Radiation Damping (G Esposito-Farese)
• Microlensing towards LMC and M31 (P Jetzer & S C Novati)
• Frontiers in Cosmic Rays (L A Anchordoqui et al.)
• Anisotropies in Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (J Swain)
• The Stability of a Bouncing Universe (M Novello & J M Salim)
• Theodor Kaluza and His Five-Dimensional World (D Wuensch)
• Loop Quantum Cosmology and Boundary Proposals (M Bojowald & K Vandersloot)
• Update on Cosmic Microwave Background Physics (A Gangui)
• Short-Range Non-Newtonian Gravity and Constraints on It (V Mostepanenko)
• and other papers