MATTERS OF GRAVITY, The newsletter of the APS Topical Group on Gravitation

Contents: -Report from the APS Topical Group in Gravitation, Beverly Berger -Some remarks on the passing of S. Chandrasekhar, Robert Wald -LIGO Project Status, Syd Meshkov and Stan Whitcomb -New Hyperbolic forms of the Einstein Equations, Andrew Abrahams -Massless Black Holes, Gary Horowitz -A plea for theoretical help from the gravity wave co-op, William Hamilton -Why Quantum Cosmologists are Interested in Quantum Mechanics, James Hartle -Probing the Early Universe with the Cosmic Microwave Background, Rahul Dave and Paul Steinhardt -G measurements, Riley Newman -Is general relativity about null surfaces?, Carlo Rovelli -ITP program solicitation, James Hartle -7th Gregynog workshop in general relativity, Miguel Alcubierre -Third Annual Penn State Conference: Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves, Curt Cutler -General news from GR14, Abhay Ashtekar -VIth Canadian General Relativity Conference, Jack Gegenberg