Matters of Gravity, the newsletter of the APS Topical Group on Gravitation, Spring 2002

Community News:

• Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, by Sam Finn
• Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, by Lee Smolin Research Briefs:
• Detector and Data Developments within GEO 600, by Alicia Sintes
• The Virtual Data Grid and LIGO, by Pat Brady and Manuela Campanelli
• 1000 hours of data and first lock of the recycled TAMA300, by Seiji Kawamura
• LIGO Takes Some Data!, by Stan Whitcomb
• Quantum gravity: progress from an unexpected direction, by Matt Visser Conference report:
• Gravitational-wave phenomenology at PennState, by Nils Andersson