GRG18 Parallel Sessions

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GRG18 Workshop Chairs

• A1 Exact Solutions and their Interpretation – Jose Senovilla
• A2 Complex Methods, Twistors and Connection Variables – Lionel Mason
• A3 Mathematical Studies of the Field Equations – Lars Andersson
• A4 Alternative Theories of Gravity – Gilles Esposito-Farese
• B1 Relativistic Astrophysics – Geoff Bicknell
• B2 Numerical Relativity, Other Computational Methods and their Applications – Carsten Gundlach
• B3 Analytic Approximations and Perturbation Methods and their Applications – P. Jaranowski
• B4 Early Universe, Pre-Big Bang, etc. – Misao Sasaki
• B5 Dark Energy and Cosmological Constant – Rob Crittenden
• B6 CMB, Large Scale Structure, Gravitational Lenses – Rob Crittenden and Chung-Pei Ma
• C1 Other Experimental and Observational Tests of Gravitational Theories – C. Laemmerzahl
• D1 Quantum Aspects of Black Holes – Simon Ross, Martin Bojowald
• D2 Quantum Aspects of Cosmology – Simon Ross, Martin Bojowald
• D3 Other Quantum Aspects – Steve Carlip
• E1 Analogue Gravity – Ralf Schutzhold

Main banner captions:

image 1: 'Distribution of detached white-dwarf–white-dwarf binaries in our galaxy as a function of the gravitational wave frequency and chirp mass.' from Simulation of the white dwarf–white dwarf galactic background in the LISA data Jeffrey A Edlund, Massimo Tinto, Andrzej Królak, and Gijs Nelemans 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S913-S926

image 2: 'A three-dimensional visualization of the mesh including the excised region and the refinement around the particle.', from A toy model for testing finite element methods to simulate extreme-mass-ratio binary systems Carlos F Sopuerta, Pengtao Sun Pablo Laguna and Jinchao Xu 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 251-285

image 3: 'Scalar gravitational field > at time t = 140M (n = 30 000).', from A toy model for testing finite element methods to simulate extreme-mass-ratio binary systems Carlos F Sopuerta, Pengtao Sun Pablo Laguna and Jinchao Xu 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 251-285