THE ELEVENTH MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING<br> On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories

THE ELEVENTH MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING
On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories
Proceedings of the MG11 Meeting on General Relativity

Berlin, Germany , 23 - 29 July 2006

CONTENTS

PART A


FRONT MATTER	i
PLENARY AND REVIEW TALKS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY IN GERMANY JOACHIM E. TRUEMPER	3
ON THE DISCOVERY OF THE KERR METRIC ROY PATRICK KERR	9
CHAOS AND SYMMETRY IN STRING COSMOLOGY THIBAULT DAMOUR	39
HIDDEN SYMMETRIES, COSMOLOGICAL SINGULARITIES AND THE E₁₀/K(E₁₀) SIGMA MODEL AXEL KLEINSCHMIDT and HERMANN NICOLAI	49
THE NATURE OF GENERIC COSMOLOGICAL SINGULARITIES CLAES UGGLA	73
QCD AND STRING THEORY IGOR R. KLEBANOV	90
THE COSMIC STRING INVERSE PROBLEM JOSEPH POLCHINSKI	105
LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY: FOUR RECENT ADVANCES AND A DOZEN FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABHAY ASHTEKAR	126
STRING THEORY LANDSCAPE AND THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE PHYSICS DIETER LÜST	148
THE STATUS OF THE VIRGO GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTOR F. ACERNESE, P. AMICO, M. ALSHOURBAGY, F. ANTONUCCI, S. AOUDIA, P. ASTONE, S. AVINO, D. BABUSCI, G. BALLARDIN, F. BARONE, L. BARSOTTI, M. BARSUGLIA, F. BEAUVILLE, S. BIGOTTA, S. BIRINDELLI, M.A. BIZOUARD, C. BOCCARA, F. BONDU, L. BOSI, C. BRADASCHIA, S. BRACCINI, A. BRILLET, V. BRISSON, L. BROCCO, D. BUSKULIC, E. CALLONI, E. CAMPAGNA, F. CARBOGNANI, F. CAVALIER, R. CAVALIERI, G. CELLA, E. CESARINI, E. CHASSANDE-MOTTIN, N. CHRISTENSEN, C. CORDA, A. CORSI, F. COTTONE, A.-C. CLAPSON, F. CLEVA, J.-P. COULON, E. CUOCO, A. DARI, V. DATTILO, M. DAVIER, M. del PRETE, R. De ROSA, L. Di FIORE, A. Di VIRGILIO, B. DUJARDIN, A. ELEUTERI, I. FERRANTE, F. FIDECARO, I. FIORI, R. FLAMINIO, J.-D. FOURNIER, S. FRASCA, F. FRASCONI, L. GAMMAITONI, F. GARUFI, E. GENIN, A. GENNAI, A. GIAZOTTO, G. GIORDANO, L. GIORDANO, R. GOUATY, D. GROSJEAN, G. GUIDI, S. HEBRI, H. HEITMANN, P. HELLO, S. KARKAR, S. KRECKELBERGH, P. La PENNA, M. LAVAL, N. LEROY, N. LETENDRE, B. LOPEZ, LORENZINI, V. LORIETTE, G. LOSURDO, J.-M. MACKOWSKI, E. MAJORANA, C. N. MAN, M. MANTOVANI, F. MARCHESONI, F. MARION, J. MARQUE, F. MARTELLI, A. MASSEROT, M. MAZZONI, L. MILANO, F. MENZINGER, C. MOINS, J. MOREAU, N. MORGADO, B. MOURS, F. NOCERA, C. PALOMBA, F. PAOLETTI, S. PARDI, A. PASQUALETTI, R. PASSAQUIETI, D. PASSUELLO, B. PERNIOLA, F. PIERGIOVANNI, L. PINARD, R. POGGIANI, M. PUNTURO, P. PUPPO, K. QIPIANI, P. RAPAGNANI, V. REITA, A. REMILLIEUX, F. RICCI, I. RICCIARDI, P. RUGGI, G. RUSSO, S. SOLIMENO, A. SPALLICCI, R. STANGA, M. TARALLO, M. TONELLI, A. TONCELLI, E. TOURNEFIER, F. TRAVASSO, C. TREMOLA, G. VAJENTE, D. VERKINDT, F. VETRANO, A. VICERÉ, J.-Y. VINET, H. VOCCA and M. YVERT	177
ANALYTICAL MODELING OF BINARY BLACK HOLE COALESCENCE ALESSANDRA BUONANNO	197
BINARY PULSARS AND GENERAL RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS MICHAEL KRAMER	225
SPACE ASTROMETRY AND RELATIVITY FRANCOIS MIGNARD and SERGEI A. KLIONER	245
NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY 2006 FRANCIS HALZEN	272
DARK MATTER AND STERILE NEUTRINOS PETER L. BIERMANN and FAUSTIN MUNYANEZA	291
SUPERCOMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF THE JOINT FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES AND QUASARS VOLKER SPRINGEL	309
CMB OBSERVATIONS: FROM BOOMERANG TO PLANCK … … AND BEYOND PAOLO DE BERNARDIS	326
THE ORIGINS AND THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF QUASARS AND SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES S. G. DJORGOVSKI, MARTA VOLONTERI, VOLKER SPRINGEL, VOLKER BROMM and GEORGES MEYLAN	340
ON GAMMA-RAY BURSTS R. RUFFINI, M.G. BERNARDINI, C.L. BIANCO, L. CAITO, P. CHARDONNET, C. CHERUBINI, M.G. DAINOTTI, F. FRASCHETTI, A. GERALICO, R. GUIDA, B. PATRICELLI, M. ROTONDO, J.A. RUEDA HERNANDEZ, G. VERESHCHAGIN and S.-S. XUE	368
PASSION FOR PRECISION HÄNSCH W. TREODOR	506
THE GENESIS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY JÜRGEN RENN	532
SUPERPOSITION OF FIELDS OF TWO REISSNER-NORDSTRÖM SOURCES G.A. ALEKSEEV and V.A. BELINSKI	543
QUASIPERIODIC OSCILLATIONS DUE TO AXISYMMETRIC AND NON-AXISYMMETRIC SHOCK OSCILLATIONS IN BLACK HOLE ACCRETION SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI, D. DEBNATH, P.S. PAL, A. NANDI, R. SARKAR, M.M. SAMANTA, P.J. WIITA, H. GHOSH and D. SOM	569
POWER SPECTRA OF BLACK HOLES (BH) AND NEUTRON STARS (NS) AS A PROBE OF HYDRODYNAMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE SOURCE: DIFFUSION THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO X-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF NS AND BH SOURCES LEV TITARCHUK, NIKOLAI SHAPOSHNIKOV and VADIM AREFIEV	589
QUARK MATTER IN COMPACT STARS: ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS AND POSSIBLE SIGNATURES IGNAZIO BOMBACI	605
GAUGE GRAVITY AND ELECTROWEAK THEORY DAVID HESTENES	629
BLACK HOLES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS (BLACK STRINGS AND BLACK RINGS) JUTTA KUNZ	648
SOME REMARKS ON MICROLENSING TOWARDS LMC AND M31 PHILIPPE JETZER	663
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb – GRAVITY REVEALS FIRST COOL ROCKY/ICY EXOPLANET MARTIN DOMINIK	670
THEORETICAL GRAVITATIONAL LENSING – BEYOND THE WEAK-FIELD SMALL-ANGLE APPROXIMATION VOLKER PERLICK	680
NONSINGULAR COLLAPSE OF SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC CHARGED DUST ANDRZEJ KRASIŃSKI and KRZYSZTOF BOLEJKO	700
QUANTUM COSMOLOGY STANDPOINT PAULO VARGAS MONIZ	708
GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXIES AND THE LINK TO STAR-FORMATION J. P. U. FYNBO, J. HJORTH, D. MALESANI, J. SOLLERMAN, D. WATSON, P. JAKOBSSON, J. GOROSABEL and A. O. JAUNSEN	726
GAMMA-RAY BURSTS WITH AND WITHOUT SUPERNOVA FIREWORKS M. DELLA VALLE	736
TALKING ABOUT SINGULARITIES SPIROS COTSAKIS	758
TIME MACHINES AND QUANTUM THEORY MARK J HADLEY	778
SLOWLY AND RIGIDLY ROTATING PERFECT FLUID BALLS OF PETROV TYPE D MICHAEL BRADLEY, DANIEL ERIKSSON, GYULA FODOR and ISTVÁN RÁCZ	795
NUMERICAL WAVE OPTICS AND THE LENSING OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES BY GLOBULAR CLUSTERS ANDREW J. MOYLAN, DAVID E. MCCLELLAND, SUSAN M. SCOTT, ANTONY C. SEARLE and G. V. BICKNELL	807
INFLATION, BIFURCATIONS OF NONLINEAR CURVATURE LAGRANGIANS AND DARK ENERGY ECKEHARD W. MIELKE, FJODOR V. KUSMARTSEV and FRANZ E. SCHUNCK	824
VIRGO DATA ANALYSIS FOR C6 AND C7 ENGINEERING RUNS F. ACERNESE, P. AMICO, M. ALSHOURBAGY, F. ANTONUCCI, S. AOUDIA, P. ASTONE, S. AVINO, D. BABUSCI, G. BALLARDIN, F. BARONE, L. BARSOTTI, M. BARSUGLIA, F. BEAUVILLE, S. BIGOTTA, S. BIRINDELLI, M.A. BIZOUARD, C. BOCCARA, F. BONDU, L. BOSI, C. BRADASCHIA, S. BRACCINI, A. BRILLET, V. BRISSON, L. BROCCO, D. BUSKULIC, E. CALLONI, E. CAMPAGNA, F. CARBOGNANI, F. CAVALIER, R. CAVALIERI, G. CELLA, E. CESARINI, E. CHASSANDE-MOTTIN, N. CHRISTENSEN, C. CORDA, A. CORSI, F. COTTONE, A.-C. CLAPSON, F. CLEVA, J.-P. COULON, E. CUOCO, A. DARI, V. DATTILO, M. DAVIER, M. del PRETE, R. De ROSA, L. Di FIORE, A. Di VIRGILIO, B. DUJARDIN, A. ELEUTERI, I. FERRANTE, F. FIDECARO, I. FIORI, R. FLAMINIO, J.-D. FOURNIER, O. FRANCOIS, S. FRASCA, F. FRASCONI, L. GAMMAITONI, F. GARUFI, E. GENIN, A. GENNAI, A. GIAZOTTO, G. GIORDANO, L. GIORDANO, R. GOUATY, D. GROSJEAN, G. GUIDI, S. HEBRI, H. HEITMANN, P. HELLO, S. KARKAR, S. KRECKELBERGH, P. La PENNA, M. LAVAL, N. LEROY, N. LETENDRE, B. LOPEZ, LORENZINI, V. LORIETTE, G. LOSURDO, J.-M. MACKOWSKI, E. MAJORANA, C. N. MAN, M. MANTOVANI, F. MARCHESONI, F. MARION, J. MARQUE, F. MARTELLI, A. MASSEROT, M. MAZZONI, L. MILANO, F. MENZINGER, C. MOINS, J. MOREAU, N. MORGADO, B. MOURS, F. NOCERA, A. PAI, C. PALOMBA, F. PAOLETTI, S. PARDI, A. PASQUALETTI, R. PASSAQUIETI, D. PASSUELLO, B. PERNIOLA, F. PIERGIOVANNI, L. PINARD, R. POGGIANI, M. PUNTURO, P. PUPPO, K. QIPIANI, P. RAPAGNANI, V. REITA, A. REMILLIEUX, F. RICCI, I. RICCIARDI, P. RUGGI, G. RUSSO, S. SOLIMENO, A. SPALLICCI, R. STANGA, T. MARCO, M. TONELLI, A. TONCELLI, E. TOURNEFIER, F. TRAVASSO, C. TREMOLA, G. VAJENTE, D. VERKINDT, F. VETRANO, A. VICERÉ, J.-Y. VINET, H. VOCCA and M. YVERT	844
LEOPOLD ERNST HALPERN AND THE GENERALIZATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY JAMES M. OVERDUIN and HANS S. PLENDL	870
POST-NEWTONIAN APPROXIMATIONS, COMPACT BINARIES, AND STRONG-FIELD TESTS OF GRAVITY LUC BLANCHET, L.P. Grishchuk and GERHARD SCHÄFER	881
TESTS OF LORENTZ SYMMETRY IN THE PHOTON SECTOR S. HERRMANN, A. SENGER, K. MÖHLE, E. KOVALCHUK and A. PETERS	895
OPTIS – HIGH PRECISION TEST OF SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY IN SPACE CLAUS LÄMMERZAHL, HANSJÖRG DITTUS, EVA HACKMANN, SILVIA SCHEITHAUER, ACHIM PETERS and STEPHAN SCHILLER	905
TESTING SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY: CLOCKS AND TRAJECTORIES HANSJÖRG DITTUS, CLAUS LÄMMERZAHL, ACHIM PETERS and CHRISTOPHE SALOMON	916
LABORATORY LIMITS FOR TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS: AN UPDATE E. PEIK, B. LIPPHARDT, H. SCHNATZ, C. TAMM, S. WEYERS and R. WYNANDS	941
SOME OLD AND SOME NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR QUANTUM GRAVITY PHENOMENOLOGY GIOVANNI AMELINO-CAMELIA	952
VISUALIZATION OF RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS HANNS RUDER, HANS-PETER NOLLERT, THOMAS MÜLLER and MARC BORCHERS	972

PART B
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Dark Matter
IMPACT OF DARK MATTER ON REIONIZATION AND HEATING MICHELA MAPELLI and EMANUELE RIPAMONTI	979
IMPACT OF DARK MATTER DECAYS AND ANNIHILATIONS ON STRUCTURE FORMATION EMANUELE RIPAMONTI and MICHELA MAPELLI	982
THERMAL AND CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE PRIMORDIAL CLOUDS IN WARM DARK MATTER MODELS WITH KEV STERILE NEUTRINOS IN ONE-ZONE APPROXIMATION JAROSLAW STASIELAK, PETER L. BIERMANN and ALEXANDER KUSENKO	985
RESTRICTIONS ON STERILE NEUTRINO PARAMETERS FROM ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS OLEG RUCHAYSKIY	988
UPPER LIMITS ON DENSITY OF DARK MATTER IN SOLAR SYSTEM IOSIF KHRIPLOVICH and ELENA PITJEVA	991
THE OBSERVED PROPERTIES OF DARK MATTER ON SMALL ASTROPHYSICAL SCALES G GILMORE	994
IS DARK MATTER FUTILE ON THE BRANE? LÁSZLÓ Á. GERGELY	997
DIRECT X-RAY CONSTRAINTS ON STERILE NEUTRINO WARM DARK MATTER CASEY R. WATSON	1000
LIMITS ON THE DARK MATTER PARTICLE MASS FROM BLACK HOLE GROWTH IN GALAXIES FAUSTIN MUNYANEZA	1003
DARK MATTER: THE CASE OF STERILE NEUTRINO MIKHAIL SHAPOSHNIKOV	1006
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Neutrino Masses — Experimental
NEUTRINO BACKGROUND, DIFFUSE BACKGROUNDS AND CMB: IS THE PICTURE CONSISTENT? L.A. POPA and A. VASILE	1019
CONSTRAINING THE COSMOLOGICAL LEPTON ASYMMETRY THROUGH COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND OBSERVATIONS MASSIMILIANO LATTANZI, REMO RUFFINI and GREGORY V. VERESHCHAGIN	1022
POSSIBLE NEUTRINO-ANTINEUTRINO OSCILLATION UNDER GRAVITY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES BANIBRATA MUKHOPADHYAY	1025
HOW GRAVITY CAN DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DIRAC AND MAJORANA NEUTRINOS DINESH SINGH, NADER MOBED and GIORGIO PAPINI	1028
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Cosmic Rays
ANISOTROPIES OF ULTRA-HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS PASQUALE D. SERPICO	1033
RECENT PROGRESS IN DESCRIBING COSMIC RAY TRANSPORT ROBERT C. TAUTZ	1036
PROPAGATION OF ULTRA-HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS: TOWARDS A NEW ASTRONOMY ALVISE MATTEI	1039
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes — Observations
EXTRAGALACTIC X-RAY JETS DIANA M. WORRALL	1045
INITIAL RESULTS FROM THE SUZAKU SATELLITE TADAYASU DOTANI and THE SUZAKU TEAM	1048
SOFT GAMMA REPEATERS AND MAGNETARS K. C. HURLEY	1051
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Theoretical Models of Observations from Black Hole Candidates
EPICYCLIC FREQUENCIES AND RESONANT PHENOMENA NEAR BLACK HOLES: THE CURRENT STATUS ALIKRAM N. ALIEV	1057
HUMPY LNRF-VELOCITY PROFILES IN ACCRETION DISCS ORBITING RAPIDLY ROTATING KERR BLACK HOLES ZDENĔK STUCHLÍK, PETR SLANÝ and GABRIEL TÖRÖK	1060
STANDING SHOCKS IN PSEUDO-KERR GEOMETRY SOUMEN MONDAL and SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI	1063
PROPERTIES OF ACCRETION SHOCK WAVES IN VISCOUS FLOWS WITH COOLING EFFECTS SANTABRATA DAS and SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI	1066
MODEL OF RADIATING ANNULI NEAR BLACK HOLES FOR IRON K_α LINE PROFILE INTERPRETATIONS ALEXANDER F. ZAKHAROV	1069
QPOS DUE TO CENTRIFUGALLY SUPPORTED SHOCKS AROUND STELLAR-MASS AND SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES T. OKUDA, V. TERESI and D. MOLTENI	1072
OBSERVING THE FLARES OF Sgr A* WITH THE VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETER THIBAUT PAUMARD, T. MÜLLER, R. GENZEL, F. EISENHAUER and S. GILLESSEN	1075
SIMULATING VLBI IMAGES OF Sgr A* SCOTT C. NOBLE, PO KIN LEUNG, CHARLES F. GAMMIE and LAURA G. BOOK	1078
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Astrophysical Black Holes
ASTROPHYSICAL BLACK HOLES – DO THEY HAVE BOUNDARY LAYERS? SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI, H. GHOSH and D. SOM	1085
SECONDARY PERTURBATION EFFECTS IN KEPLERIAN ACCRETION DISKS: ELLIPTICAL INSTABILITY BANIBRATA MUKHOPADHYAY	1098
GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF POPULATION III STARS YUDAI SUWA, TOMOYA TAKIWAKI, KEI KOTAKE and KATSUHIKO SATO	1101
NEAR-INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF SAGITTARIUS A* S. TRIPPE, T. PAUMARD, S. GILLESSEN, T. OTT, F. EISENHAUER, F. MARTINS and R. GENZEL	1104
LONG-TERM MONITORING OF THE HARD X-RAY/GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM GALACTIC BLACK HOLES WITH BATSE G. L. CASE, E. ANZALONE, M.L. CHERRY, J. C. RODI, J. C. LING, R. G. RADOCINSKI, D. WELLS and W. A. WHEATON	1107
MARGINALLY STABLE THICK DISCS ORBITING KERR–DE SITTER BLACK HOLES PETR SLANÝ and ZDENĔK STUCHLÍK	1110
BLACK HOLES IN SCALAR FIELD OR QUINTESSENTIAL COSMOLOGY TOMOHIRO HARADA	1113
A NEW SOLUTION FOR EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATION IN GENERAL RELATIVITY SADEGH MOUSAVI	1116
PSEUDO-KERR GEOMETRY SOUMEN MONDAL and SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI	1119
EXTREME GRAVITATIONAL LENSING BY SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES VALERIO BOZZA	1122
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Spectral and Timing Appearances of the Galactic and Extragalactic Black Holes
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF XTE-J1650 AND GRS 1915+105 WITH BEPPOSAX ENRICO MONTANARI, LEV TITARCHUK and FILIPPO FRONTERA	1127
SPECTRAL AND TIMING PROPERTIES OF MAGNETIZED ADVECTIVE FLOWS WITH STANDING SHOCKS SAMIR MANDAL and SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI	1130
ESTIMATING BLACK HOLE MASSES IN ULXs ROBERTO SORIA	1133
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Extreme Properties of Neutron Stars — Observations and Theory
EQUATION OF STATE OF DENSE MATTER IN NEUTRON STARS SLAVOMÍR ČERNÝ, JIŘINA ŘÍKOVSKÁ STONE, ZDENĚK STUCHLÍK and STANISLAV HLEDÍK	1139
DETECTABILITY OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM THE R-MODE INSTABILITY IN NEWLY-BORN NEUTRON STARS PAULO M. SÁ and BRIGITTE TOMÉ	1142
X-RAY DIM ISOLATED NEUTRON STARS: A REVIEW OF THE LATEST TIMING AND SPECTRAL PROPERTIES SILVIA ZANE	1145
X-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF NEUTRON STARS AND THE EQUATION OF STATE AT VERY HIGH DENSITIES JOACHIM TRÜMPER	1148
EIGENMODES OF RAPIDLY ROTATING NEUTRON STARS STRATOS BOUTLOUKOS	1152
PARAMETER SPACE STUDY OF MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC FLOWS AROUND MAGNETIZED COMPACT OBJECTS SANTABRATA DAS and SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI	1155
GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION FROM ACCRETING MILLISECOND PULSARS MATTHIAS VIGELIUS, DONALD PAYNE and ANDREW MELATOS	1158
DYNAMICAL STABILITY OF FLUID SPHERES IN SPACETIMES WITH A NONZERO COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT STANISLAV HLEDÍK, ZDENĚK STUCHLÍK and KRISTINA MRÁZOVÁ	1161
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Strange Stars
STRANGELETS IN COSMIC RAYS JES MADSEN	1167
CAN STRANGE STARS BE DISTINGUISHED FROM NEUTRON STARS? TIBERIU HARKO and KWONG SANG CHENG	1177
PAIR WINDS IN SCHWARZSCHILD SPACETIME WITH APPLICATION TO STRANGE STARS A.G. AKSENOV, M. MILGROM and V.V. USOV	1180
EVIDENCE FOR WHITE DWARFS WITH STRANGE-MATTER CORES GRANT J. MATHEWS, INSAENG SUH, NGUYEN Q. LAN, KAORI OTSUKI and FRIDOLIN WEBER	1183
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Thermal Behavior of Compact Stars
MAGNETARS: INTERNAL HEATING AND ENERGY BUDGET D. G. YAKOVLEV, A. D. KAMINKER, A.Y. POTEKHIN, P. S. SHTERNIN, G. CHABRIER and N. SHIBAZAKI	1189
TRAPPING OF NEUTRINOS IN EXTREMELY COMPACT STARS ZDENĔK STUCHLÍK, MARTIN URBANEC, GABRIEL TÖRÖK, STANISLAV HLEDÍK and JAN HLADÍK	1192
A SELF-CONSISTENT MODEL OF THE ISOLATED NEUTRON STAR RX J0720.4-3125 JUAN A. MIRALLES, JOSE A. PONS, J. FERNANDO PÉREZ-AZORÍN and GIOVANNI MINIUTTI	1195
kHz QPO PAIRS EXPOSE THE NEUTRON STAR OF CIRCINUS X-1 S. BOUTLOUKOS, M. VAN DER KLIS, D. ALTAMIRANO, M. KLEIN-WOLT and R. WIJNANDS	1198
NEUTRON STAR ATMOSPHERES AND X-RAY SPECTRA WOLFGANG KUNDT	1201
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Alternative Theories (A)
ANISOTROPICALLY INFLATING UNIVERSES SIGBJØRN HERVIK	1207
THICK BRANE SOLUTION WITH TWO SCALAR FIELDS VLADIMIR DZHUNUSHALIEV, HANS-JÜRGEN SCHMIDT, KAIRAT MYRZAKULOV and RATBAY MYRZAKULOV	1210
SHEAR DYNAMICS IN BIANCHI I COSMOLOGIES WITH Rⁿ-GRAVITY J. A. LEACH, P. K. S. DUNSBY and S. CARLONI	1213
SPONTANEOUS LORENTZ VIOLATION, GRAVITY AND NAMBU-GOLDSTONE MODES ROBERT BLUHM	1217
SPONTANEOUS LORENTZ BREAKING, NAMBU-GOLDSTONE MODES, AND GRAVITY ROBERTUS POTTING	1220
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MATTER COUPLING IN f(R) GRAVITY THOMAS P. SOTIRIOU	1223
CONSTRAINING ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF GRAVITY WITH THE ENERGY CONDITIONS SANTIAGO E. PEREZ BERGLIAFFA	1226
An f(R) GRAVITATION FOR GALACTIC ENVIRONMENTS Y. SOBOUTI	1230
CAUSALITY AND SUPERLUMINAL FIELDS JEAN-PHILIPPE BRUNETON	1233
GRAVITATION AS A VACUUM NONLINEAR ELECTRODYNAMICS EFFECT ALEXANDER A. CHERNITSKII	1236
ASYMPTOTIC FLATNESS AND BIRKHOFF'S THEOREM IN HIGHER-DERIVATIVE THEORIES OF GRAVITY T. CLIFTON	1239
COSMOLOGICAL MODEL WITH A BORN-INFELD TYPE SCALAR FIELD R. KERNER, E. SERIE and A. TROISI	1242
A TELEPARALLEL REPRESENTATION OF THE WEYL LAGRANGIAN DMITRI VASSILIEV	1245
NONLINEAR SUPERSYMMETRIC GENERAL RELATIVITY K. SHIMA and M. TSUDA	1248
BLACK HOLE SOLUTIONS IN N > 4 GAUSS-BONNET GRAVITY S.O. ALEXEYEV and N.N. POPOV	1251
ELECTROSTATICS AND CONFINEMENT IN EINSTEIN'S UNIFIED FIELD THEORY S. ANTOCI, D-E. LIEBSCHER and L. MIHICH	1254
GALACTIC DISKS IN THEORIES WITH YUKAWIAN GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL J. C. N. de ARAUJO and O. D. MIRANDA	1257
ON THE FIELD THEORETIC DESCRIPTION OF GRAVITATION THEO M. NIEUWENHUIZEN	1260
DE SITTER STABILITY IN THEORIES WITH SECOND ORDER CURVATURE TERMS A.V. TOPORENSKY and P.V. TRETYAKOV	1263
BASIC RELATIONS OF A UNIFIED THEORY OF ELECTRODYNAMICS, QUANTUM MECHANICS, AND GRAVITATION PETER OSTERMANN	1266
PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION AND VIABILITY OF VARIOUS METRIC NONLINEAR GRAVITY THEORIES LESZEK M. SOKOLOWSKI	1269
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Alternative Theories (B)
ARE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ELECTRIC CHARGES EQUAL? CLAUS LÄMMERZAHL, ALFREDO MACIAS and HOLGER MÜLLER	1275
CHARGED FLUID DYNAMICS IN SCALAR-TENSOR THEORIES OF GRAVITY WITH TORSION CHIH-HUNG WANG	1278
VALIDATION OF THE WEAK EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE IN A SPATIALLY-VSL GRAVITATION MODEL JAN BROEKAERT	1281
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Higher Dimensional Theories
EXACT SOLUTIONS OF THE 5D SPACE-TIME-MATTER UNIVERSE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS TAKAO FUKUI	1287
HAMILTONIAN THEORY OF BRANE-WORLD GRAVITY ZOLTÁN KOVÁCS and LÁSZLÓ Á. GERGELY	1290
CASIMIR FORCE TEST OF A 6D BRANE WORLD ROMÁN LINARES, HUGO A. MORALES-TÉCOTL and OMAR PEDRAZA	1293
ELECTRO-WEAK MODEL WITHIN A 5-DIMENSIONAL LORENTZ GROUP THEORY O. M. LECIAN and G. MONTANI	1296
SPACETIMES WITH CONSTANT SCALAR INVARIANTS SIGBJØRN HERVIK	1299
HIGHER DIMENSIONAL VSI SPACETIMES AND SUPERGRAVITY ANDREA FUSTER and NICOS PELAVAS	1302
VSI & VSI_i SPACETIMES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS ALENA PRAVDOVÁ	1305
THE ELECTRO-WEAK MODEL AS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ISSUE OF MULTIDIMENSIONS FRANCESCO CIANFRANI and GIOVANNI MONTANI	1308
HAMILTONIAN FORMULATION OF THE 5-D KALUZA-KLEIN MODEL AND TEST-PARTICLE MOTION VALENTINO LACQUANITI and GIOVANNI MONTANI	1311
ELECTROMAGNETISM AND PERFECT FLUIDS INTERPLAY IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACETIMES NIKOLAI V. MITSKIEVICH	1314
TORSION INDUCES GRAVITY RODRIGO AROS	1317
FINAL FATE OF HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL SPHERICAL DUST COLLAPSE IN EINSTEIN-GAUSS-BONNET GRAVITY HIDEKI MAEDA	1320
CLASSIFICATION OF THE WEYL TENSOR IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS AND ITS APPLICATIONS VOJTĚCH PRAVDA	1323
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Geometric Calculus in Gravity Theory
GEOMETRIC AND KINEMATICAL ASPECTS OF RINDLER OBSERVERS C. ROMERO and J. B. FORMIGA	1329
ON THE ZEROS OF SPINOR FIELDS AND AN ORTHONORMAL FRAME GAUGE CONDITION JAMES M. NESTER	1332
NEW SPECIAL SOLUTIONS OF THE RICCI FLOW EQUATION IN TWO DIMENSIONS USING A LINEARIZATION APPROACH ANCA VISINESCU and MIHAI VISINESCU	1335
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Black Hole and Pair Creation in Strong Fields
PAIR CREATION IN INHOMOGENEOUS FIELDS CHRISTIAN SCHUBERT	1341
MONOPOLE DECAY IN A VARIABLE EXTERNAL FIELD A. K. MONIN and A. V. ZAYAKIN	1346
WORLD-MAKING WITH EXTENDED GRAVITY BLACK HOLES FOR COSMIC NATURAL SELECTION IN THE MULTIVERSE SCENARIO AURELIEN BARRAU	1349
NEUTRAL NUCLEAR CORE VS SUPER CHARGED ONE M. ROTONDO, R. RUFFINI and S.-S. XUE	1352
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (Black Rings and Black Strings)
GRAVITATIONAL PERTURBATIONS OF HIGHER DIMENSIONAL ROTATING BLACK HOLES HARI K. KUNDURI, JAMES LUCIETTI and HARVEY S. REALL	1359
GRAVITATING NON-ABELIAN SOLITONS AND HAIRY BLACK HOLES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS MIKHAIL S. VOLKOV	1379
DERIVATION OF THE DIPOLE BLACK RING SOLUTIONS STOYTCHO S. YAZADJIEV	1397
CHARGED ROTATING BLACK HOLES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS JUTTA KUNZ, FRANCISCO NAVARRO-LÉRIDA, JAN VIEBAHN and DIETER MAISON	1400
SOLITONIC GENERATION OF SOLUTIONS INCLUDING FIVE-DIMENSIONAL BLACK RINGS AND BLACK HOLES TAKAHSI MISHIMA and HIDEO IGUCHI	1403
KALUZA-KLEIN BLACK HOLE WITH GRAVITATIONAL CHARGE IN EINSTEIN-GAUSS-BONNET GRAVITY HIDEKI MAEDA and NARESH K. DADHICH	1406
HIGHER DIMENSIONAL ROTATING CHARGED BLACK HOLES ALIKRAM N. ALIEV	1409
PERTURBATIVE STABILITY AND ABSORPTION CROSS SECTION IN STRING CORRECTED BLACK HOLES F. MOURA	1412
ULTRARELATIVISTIC BOOSTS OF BLACK RINGS MARCELLO ORTAGGIO, PAVEL KRTOUŠ and JIŘÍ PODOLSKÝ	1415
THE RESULTS OF A NEW SOLUTION OF THE EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY AND BLACK HOLE NEW MOVEMENT SADEGH MOUSAVI	1418
HAMILTONIAN TREATMENT OF STATIC AND COLLAPSING SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC CHARGED THIN SHELLS IN LOVELOCK GRAVITY GONÇALO A. S. DIAS, JOSÉ P. S. LEMOS and SIJIE GAO	1421
NEW NONUNIFORM BLACK STRING SOLUTIONS BURKHARD KLEIHAUS, JUTTA KUNZ and EUGEN RADU	1424
LOVELOCK GRAVITY AND THE COUNTERTERM METHOD NEDA BOSTANI, M. H. DEHGHANI and A. SHEYKHI	1427
LG (LANDAU-GINZBURG) in GL (GREGORY-LAFLAMME) BARAK KOL and EVGENY SORKIN	1431
CAUSAL STRUCTURE AROUND SPINNING 5-DIMENSIONAL COSMIC STRINGS REINOUD JAN SLAGTER	1434
SHORT DISTANCES, BLACK HOLES, AND TeV GRAVITY IVÁN AGULLÓ, JOSÉ NAVARRO-SALAS and GONZALO J. OLMO	1437
BLACK STRING SOLUTIONS WITH NEGATIVE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT ROBERT MANN, EUGEN RADU and CRISTIAN STELEA	1440
MATCHED ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION FOR CAGED BLACK HOLES DAN GORBONOS and BARAK KOL	1443
PERTURBATIVELY NON-UNIFORM CHARGED BLACK STRINGS: A NEW STABLE PHASE UMPEI MIYAMOTO and HIDEAKI KUDOH	1446
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Analog Models of and for General Relativity
FROM QUANTUM HYDRODYNAMICS TO QUANTUM GRAVITY GRIGORY VOLOVIK	1451
LOOKING BEYOND THE HORIZON EUGENY BABICHEV, VIATCHESLAV MUKHANOV and ALEXANDER VIKMAN	1471
A DIELECTRIC ANALOGUE MODEL OF THE KERR EQUATORIAL PLANE KJELL ROSQUIST	1475
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES AND QFT IN CURVED SPACE-TIME SERENA FAGNOCCHI	1479
ELECTROMAGNETIC LIGHT RAYS IN LOCAL DIELECTRICS VITORIO A. DE LORENCI and RENATO KLIPPERT	1482
SCATTERING PROBLEMS ON ROTATING ACOUSTIC BLACK HOLES CHRISTIAN CHERUBINI and SIMONETTA FILIPPI	1485
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Black Hole Thermodynamics
THERMODYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF HAIRY BLACK HOLES WITH COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT M. NADALINI, L. VANZO and S. ZERBINI	1491
RADIATION OF QUANTIZED BLACK HOLES: IS IT OBSERVABLE? IOSIF KHRIPLOVICH	1494
EFFECTS OF QUANTIZED FIELDS ON THE SPACETIME GEOMETRIES OF STATIC SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC BLACK HOLES PAUL R. ANDERSON, MATHEW BINKLEY, HECTOR CALDERON, WILLIAM A. HISCOCK, EMIL MOTTOLA and RUSLAN VAULIN	1497
THERMODYAMIC QUANTITIES OF KALUZA-KLEIN BLACK HOLES WITH SQUASHED HORIZONS YASUNARI KURITA and HIDEKI ISHIHARA	1500
HAWKING RADIATION AND BLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS DON N. PAGE	1503
ENTROPY FROM CONFORMAL HORIZON STATES IN D-DIMENSIONAL SPHERICAL, TOROIDAL, AND HYPERBOLIC ANTI-DE SITTER BLACK HOLES JOSÉ P. S. LEMOS and GONÇALO A. S. DIAS	1508
THERMODYNAMIC GEOMETRIES OF BLACK HOLES JAN E. ÅMAN, INGEMAR BENGTSSON, NARIT PIDOKRAJT and JOHN WARD	1511
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Alternative Black Hole Models
ON QUANTUM EFFECTS IN THE VICINITY OF WOULD-BE HORIZONS PIOTR MARECKI	1517
STABLE DARK ENERGY STARS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO BLACK HOLES? FRANCISCO S. N. LOBO	1520
HORIZON NEWS FUNCTION AND QUASI-LOCAL ENERGY-MOMENTUM FLUX NEAR BLACK HOLE YU-HUEI WU	1523
BLACK HOLES OR ETERNALLY COLLAPSING OBJECTS? ABHAS MITRA and NORMAN K. GLENDENNING	1526
THE PROPOSED BLACK HOLES AROUND US WOLFGANG KUNDT	1529
GRAVASTARS AND BIFURCATION IN QUASISTATIONARY ACCRETION EDWARD MALEC and KRZYSZTOF ROSZKOWSKI	1537
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Numerical Relativity, Black Hole Collisions, and Algebraic Computation
LIFETIME OF OSCILLONS GYULA FODOR, PÉTER FORGÁCS, PHILIPPE GRANDCLÉMENT and ISTVÁN RÁCZ	1543
A VIRTUAL TRIP TO THE SCHWARZSCHILD–DE SITTER BLACK HOLE PAVEL BAKALA, STANISLAV HLEDÍK, ZDENĔK STUCHLÍK, KAMILA TRUPAROVÁ and PETR ČERMÁK	1546
SIMILARITY SOLUTIONS USING DESOLV K. T. VU, J. BUTCHER and J. CARMINATI	1549
xTENSOR: A FREE FAST ABSTRACT TENSOR MANIPULATOR JOSÉ M. MARTÍN-GARCÍA	1552
TENSOR COMPUTER ALGEBRA JOSÉ M. MARTÍN-GARCÍA	1555
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Simulations of Relativistic Flows and Compact Objects
RELATIVISTIC MHD SIMULATIONS AND SYNTHETIC SYNCHROTRON EMISSION MAPS: A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR PULSAR WIND NEBULAE L. DEL ZANNA, D. VOLPI, E. AMATO and N. BUCCIANTINI	1561
GRMHD SIMULATIONS OF JET FORMATION WITH RAISHIN Y. MIZUNO, K.-I. NISHIKAWA, S. KOIDE, P. HARDEE and G. J. FISHMAN	1564
STANDING SHOCKS IN PSEUDO-KERR GEOMETRY SOUMEN MONDAL and SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI	1567
EVOLVING RELATIVISTIC FLUID SPACETIMES USING PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS AND FINITE DIFFERENCING MATTHEW D. DUEZ, LAWRENCE E. KIDDER and SAUL A. TEUKOLSKY	1570
3D RELATIVISTIC MHD SIMULATION OF A TILTED ACCRETION DISK AROUND A RAPIDLY ROTATING BLACK HOLE P. CHRIS FRAGILE, PETER ANNINOS, OMER M. BLAES and JAY D. SALMONSON	1573
FRAGMENTATION OF GENERAL RELATIVISTIC QUASI-TOROIDAL POLYTROPES BURKHARD SEBASTIAN ZINK, NIKOLAOS STERGIOULAS, IAN HAWKE, CHRISTIAN D. OTT, ERIK SCHNETTER and EWALD MÜLLER	1576
ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT AND RELATIVISTIC MHD DAVID NEILSEN, ERIC W. HIRSCHMANN, MATTHEW ANDERSON and STEVEN L. LIEBLING	1579
3-D GRMHD and GRPIC SIMULATIONS OF DISK-JET COUPLING AND EMISSION K.-I. NISHIKAWA, Y. MIZUNO, M. WATSON, P. HARDEE, S. FUERST, K. WU and G. J. FISHMAN	1582
RESISTIVE GENERAL RELATIVISTIC MHD SIMULATIONS OF JET FORMATION AROUND KERR BLACK HOLE SHINJI KOIDE, KAZUNARI SHIBATA and TAKAHIRO KUDOH	1585
MAKING UP A SHORT GRB: THE BRIGHT FATE OF MERGERS OF COMPACT OBJECTS MIGUEL-ANGEL ALOY and P. MIMICA	1589
SPACETIME MODES OF RAPIDLY ROTATING RELATIVISTIC STARS NIKOLAOS STERGIOULAS, KOSTAS D. KOKKOTAS and IAN HAWKE	1592
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Dynamics of Compact Binaries
REDUCING ORBITAL ECCENTRICITY IN BINARY BLACK HOLE SIMULATIONS HARALD P. PFEIFFER, DUNCAN A. BROWN, LAWRENCE E. KIDDER, LEE LINDBLOM, GEOFFREY LOVELACE and MARK A. SCHEEL	1597
NEGATIVE KOMAR MASSES IN REGULAR STATIONARY SPACETIMES MARCUS ANSORG and DAVID PETROFF	1600
CONSTRAINT RELAXATION PEDRO MARRONETTI	1603
RELATIVISTIC HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF MULTIPLE ORBITS FOR CLOSE NEUTRON STAR BINARIES G. J. MATHEWS, J. R. HAYWOOD and J. R. WILSON	1606
THE FINAL FATE OF BINARY NEUTRON STARS: WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE MERGER? MATTHEW D. DUEZ, YUK TUNG LIU, STUART L. SHAPIRO, BRANSON C. STEPHENS and MASARU SHIBATA	1609
HEAD-ON COLLISIONS OF DIFFERENT INITIAL DATA ULRICH SPERHAKE, BERND BRÜGMANN, JOSÉ A. GONZÁLEZ, MARK D. HANNAM and SASCHA HUSA	1612
TEARING INSTABILITY IN RELATIVISTIC MAGNETICALLY DOMINATED PLASMAS M.V. BARKOV, S.S. KOMISSAROV and M. LYUTIKOV	1615
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Black Hole Collisions
BLACK HOLE BREMSSTRAHLUNG IN THE NONLINEAR REGIME OF GENERAL RELATIVITY H. P. de OLIVEIRA, I. DAMIÃO SOARES and E. V. TONINI	1621
HYPERBOLOIDAL FOLIATIONS WITH ℐ-FIXING IN SPHERICAL SYMMETRY ANIL ZENGINOĞLU and SASCHA HUSA	1624
HIGH-ORDER PERTURBATIONS OF SPHERICAL SPACETIMES DAVID BRIZUELA, JOSÉ MARÍA MARTÍN-GARCÍA and GUILLERMO A. MENA MARUGÁN	1627
ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS OF THE LINEARIZED EINSTEIN EQUATIONS USED TO TEST AND DEVELOP A CHARACTERISTIC CODE NIGEL T. BISHOP	1630
THE KERR METRIC IN BONDI-SACHS FORM LIEBRECHT R. VENTER and NIGEL T. BISHOP	1633
BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER WAVEFORMS IN THE EXTREME MASS RATIO LIMIT THIBAULT DAMOUR and ALESSANDRO NAGAR	1636
PARALLEL SESSIONS: CMB Theory
CMB ANOMALIES FROM RELIC ANISOTROPY A. EMIR GÜMRÜKÇÜOĞLU, CARLO R. CONTALDI and MARCO PELOSO	1641
CAN EXTRAGALACTIC FOREGROUNDS EXPLAIN THE LARGE–ANGLE CMB ANOMALIES? ALEKSANDAR RAKIĆ, SYKSY RÄSÄNEN and DOMINIK J. SCHWARZ	1647
A NEW REALIZATION OF A LOW QUADRUPOLE UNIVERSE WO-LUNG LEE	1653
PERTURBATIONS OF DARK SECTORS FROM THE CMB SERGEI BASHINSKY	1659
PARALLEL SESSIONS: CMB Experiment Space
OBSERVATIONS OF THE CMB AND GALACTIC FOREGROUNDS AT 11-17 GHZ: THE COSMOSOMAS EXPERIMENT SERGI R. HILDEBRANDT	1667
PARALLEL SESSIONS: CMB Data Analysis
PROBING COSMIC DARK AGES WITH CMB POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS L.A. POPA, P. STEFANESCU and C. BURIGANA	1671
DARK ENERGY CONSTRAINTS FROM NEED LETS ANALYSIS OF WMAP3 AND NVSS DATA DAVIDE PIETROBON, AMEDEO BALBI and DOMENICO MARINUCCI	1674
THE MATTER POWER SPECTRUM AS A TOOL TO DISCRIMINATE DARK MATTER-DARK ENERGY INTERACTIONS GERMÁN OLIVARES, DIEGO PAVÓN and FERNANDO ATRIO-BARANDELA	1677
THE BRAIN EXPERIMENT G. POLENTA, M. CALVO, L. CONVERSI, P. de BERNARDIS, C. GIORDANO, A. IACOANGELI, M. MAIELLO, C. MARINI-BETTOLO, S. MASI, F. NATI, L. NATI, S. PETERZEN, F. PIACENTINI, R. SORDINI, M. VENEZIANI, J. BARTLETT, E. BRÉELLE, C. DUFOUR, S. GALLI, K. GANGA, A. GHRIBI, Y. GIRAUD-HERAUD, L. GUGLIELMI, J.C. HAMILTON, J. KAPLAN, M. PIAT, M. GERVASI, G. SIRONI, S. SPINELLI, A. TARTARI, M. ZANNONI, B. MAFFEI, L. PICCIRILLO, G. PISANO, P. ADE, A. ORLANDO, G. SAVINI, J. BROSSARD, M. GIARD, J. LANDÉ, L. BERGÉ, L. DUMOULIN, A. JUILLARD, S. MARNIEROS, F. PAJOT and C. ROSSET	1680
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Observational Gravitational Lensing
MICROLENSING WITH THE RADIOASTRON SPACE TELESCOPE ALEXANDER F. ZAKHAROV	1691
MICROLENSING TOWARDS M31 SEBASTIANO CALCHI NOVATI	1694
DOES THE LMC HALO CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE MACHO EVENTS? GAETANO SCARPETTA	1697
A NEW ANALYSIS OF THE MEGA M31 MICROLENSING EVENTS A.A. NUCITA, G. INGROSSO, F. DE PAOLIS, F. STRAFELLA, S. CALCHI NOVATI, G. SCARPETTA and Ph. JETZER	1700
ON THE LENS NATURE IN MICROLENSING SEARCHES F. DE PAOLIS, G. INGROSSO and A. A. NUCITA	1702
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Theoretical Gravitational Lensing
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING BY BRANEWORLD BLACK HOLES RICHARD WHISKER	1707
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING OF STARS SURROUNDING SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES V. BOZZA and L. MANCINI	1710
KERR BLACK HOLE GRAVITATIONAL LENSING IN THE STRONG DEFLECTION LIMIT: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH FABIANA De LUCA	1713
ON GRAVITATIONAL LENSING BY A KERR BLACK HOLE MAURO SERENO and FABIANA DE LUCA	1716
TESTING THEORIES OF GRAVITY WITH BLACK HOLE LENSING CHARLES R. KEETON and A. O. PETTERS	1719
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING BY HIGHER DIMENSIONAL BLACK HOLES ARCHAN S. MAJUMDAR and NUPUR MUKHERJEE	1722
IRON K_α LINE PROFILES AND SHADOW SHAPES AS EVIDENCES OF GRAVITATIONAL LENSING IN A STRONG GRAVITATIONAL FIELD NEAR BHs ALEXANDER F. ZAKHAROV, FRANCESCO DE PAOLIS, ACHILLE A. NUCITA and GABRIELE INGROSSO	1725
LENSING EFFECTS ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVES IN A CLUMPY UNIVERSE CHUL-MOON YOO, KEN-ICHI NAKAO, HIROSHI KOZAKI and RYUICHI TAKAHASHI	1728
QSO LENSING M. MIRANDA, P. JETZER and A.V. MACCIÒ	1731
JLENSES AND XFGLENSES FRANCISCO FRUTOS-ALFARO and Hugo Solís-Sánchez	1734
WAVE FRONTS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY FRANK GRAVE, FRANCISCO FRUTOS-ALFARO, THOMAS MÜLLER and DARIA ADIS	1737
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure
SPHERICAL VOIDS IN A NEWTON-FRIEDMANN UNIVERSE R. TRIAY and H. H. FLICHE	1743
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Dark Energy and Universe Acceleration
DARK ENERGY AND UNIVERSE ACCELERATION OF NONLINEAR SUIPERSYMMETRIC GENERAL RELATIVITY KAZUNARI SHIMA and MOTOMU TSDUDA	1749
TESTING THE DARK-ENERGY-DOMINATED COSMOLOGY BY THE SOLAR-SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS YURII V. DUMIN	1752
A DARKLESS SPACE TIME A. TARTAGLIA and M. CAPONE	1755
ON INTRINSIC INVARIANCE IN GURZADYAN-XUE COSMOLOGICAL MODELS H. KHACHATRIAN, G.V. VERESHCHAGIN and G. YEGORIAN	1758
PHANTOM DARK ENERGY AND ITS COSMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES MARIUSZ P. DĄBROWSKI	1761
THE GENERALIZED SECOND LAW IN DARK ENERGY DOMINATED UNIVERSES GERMÁN IZQUIERDO and DIEGO PAVÓN	1764
ACCELERATED EXPANSION BY NON-MINIMALLY COUPLED SCALAR FIELDS ROGER BIELI	1767
VACUUM ENERGY GENERATING MECHANISMS IN COSMIC EXPANSION WITH NATURAL UV CUTOFF ACHIM KEMPF	1770
NEW KINEMATICAL CONSTRAINTS ON COSMIC ACCELERATION DAVID RAPETTI, STEVE W. ALLEN, MUSTAFA A. AMIN and ROGER D. BLANDFORD	1773
DARK ENERGY AND DECAYING DARK MATTER GRANT J. MATHEWS, NGUYEN Q. LAN and JAMES R. WILSON	1776
GRAVITATIONAL INSTANTON SOLUTION TO COSMOLOGICAL TERM SHE-SHENG XUE	1779
AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE FOR DARK ENERGY M. I. WANAS	1782
AN AWESOME HYPOTHESIS FOR DARK ENERGY: THE ABNORMALLY WEIGHTING ENERGY ANDRÉ FÜZFA and JEAN-MICHEL ALIMI	1785
PERTURBATIONS OF A COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT DOMINATED UNIVERSE MÁTYÁS VASÚTH and VIKTOR CZINNER	1788
ON THE GURZADYAN-XUE COSMOLOGICAL MODELS AND THE DYNAMICS OF DENSITY PERTURBATIONS G. YEGORIAN	1791
SCALAR-TENSOR DARK ENERGY MODELS R. GANNOUJI, D. POLARSKI, A. RANQUET and A. A. STAROBINSKY	1794
RECONSTRUCTION OF DARK ENERGY USING SUPERNOVA AND OTHER DATASETS UJJAINI ALAM, VARUN SAHNI and ALEXEI A. STAROBINSKY	1797
F(R) DARK ENERGY: FROM THE TIME OF RECOMBINATION TILL PRESENT DAY VIKTOR GUROVICH, VLADIMIR FOLOMEEV and IYA TOKAREVA	1800
PROBING DYNAMICAL DARK ENERGY WITH PRESS-SCHECHTER MASS FUNCTIONS MORGAN LE DELLIOU	1803
BROKEN SCALE INVARIANCE AND QUINTESSENCE (a quarter of a century ago) GIOVANNI VENTURI	1807
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Topology of the Universe
AN AXISYMMETRIC OBJECT-BASED SEARCH FOR A FLAT COMPACT DIMENSION GRANT J. MATHEWS and DYLAN MENZIES	1813
TOPOLOGICAL GRAVITATION ON GRAPH MANIFOLDS N.V. MITSKIEVICH, V.N. EFREMOV and A.M. HERNÁNDEZ MAGDALENO	1816
SUPERNOVAE CONSTRAINTS ON COSMOLOGICAL DENSITY PARAMETERS AND COSMIC TOPOLOGY MARCELO J. REBOUÇAS	1819
SUPERNOVAE CONSTRAINTS ON DGP MODEL AND COSMIC TOPOLOGY MARCELO J. REBOUÇAS	1824
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Inhomogeneous Cosmology
REINTERPRETING DARK ENERGY THROUGH BACKREACTION: THE MINIMALLY COUPLED MORPHON FIELD JULIEN LARENA, THOMAS BUCHERT and JEAN-MICHEL ALIMI	1831
INITIAL CONDITIONS FOR PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLE FORMATION ILIA MUSCO and ALEXANDER G. POLNAREV	1834
IS THE APPARENT ACCELERATION OF THE UNIVERSE EXPANSION DRIVEN BY A DARK ENERGY-LIKE COMPONENT OR BY INHOMOGENEITIES? MARIE-NOËLLE CÉLÉRIER	1837
EVOLUTION OF A VOID AND AN ADJACENT GALAXY SUPERCLUSTER IN THE QUASISPHERICAL SZEKERES MODEL KRZYSZTOF BOLEJKO	1847
COVARIANT DESCRIPTION OF THE INHOMOGENEOUS MIXMASTER CHAOS R. BENINI and G. MONTANI	1857
THE MASS AND GEOMETRY OF THE COSMOS CHARLES HELLABY and HUI-CHING LU	1860
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Nonsingular Cosmology — Inflation
EMERGENT UNIVERSE WITH BULK VISCOSITY S MUKHERJEE, B C PAUL, N K DADHICH, S D MAHARAJ and A BEESHAM	1873
BULK VISCOSITY IMPACT ON THE SCENARIO OF WARM INFLATION JOSE PEDRO MIMOSO, ANA NUNES and DIEGO PAVÓN	1876
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Effects in the Early Universe
SCALAR FIELD PHASE DYNAMICS IN PREHEATING T. CHARTERS, A. NUNES and J. P. MIMOSO	1881
BRANCH WAVE FUNCTIONS FOR QUASI-CLASSICAL HOMOGENEOUS UNIVERSES DAVID CRAIG	1884
QUANTUM PHANTOM COSMOLOGY BARBARA SANDHÖFER	1887
GENERIC EVOLUTIONARY QUANTUM UNIVERSE MARCO VALERIO BATTISTI and GIOVANNI MONTANI	1890
QUANTUM COSMOLOGY FROM THREE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES GIAMPIERO ESPOSITO	1893
ON THE THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITION OF THE WAVE FUNCTION OF THE UNIVERSE MARIAM BOUHMADI-LÓPEZ and PAULO VARGAS MONIZ	1898
DARK ENERGY FROM QUANTUM WAVE FUNCTION COLLAPSE OF DARK MATTER ARCHAN S. MAJUMDAR and D. HOME	1901
COSMOLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS IN QUANTUM COSMOLOGICAL BACKGROUNDS NELSON PINTO-NETO	1904
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM ASPECTS OF THE INHOMOGENEOUS MIXMASTER CHAOTICITY R. BENINI and G. MONTANI	1909
COSMOLOGICAL DYNAMICS WITH VACUUM POLARIZATION A. V. TOPORENSKY and P. V. TRETYAKOV	1912
SOME COSMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY DAVID J. MULRYNE and REZA TAVAKOL	1915
SEMICLASSICAL SUPERSYMMETRIC QUANTUM GRAVITY CLAUS KIEFER, TOBIAS LÜCK and PAULO VARGAS MONIZ	1920
MULTIGRAVITY AND SPACE TIME FOAM REMO GARATTINI	1925
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND PREDICTIONS OF QUANTUM COSMOLOGY DON N. PAGE	1928
QUANTUM COSMOLOGY WITH NONTRIVIAL TOPOLOGY HELIO V. FAGUNDES and TEOFILO VARGAS	1933
NON-SINGULAR SOLUTIONS IN LOOP QUANTUM COSMOLOGY G.V. VERESHCHAGIN	1936
MINIMAL ENERGY AND FACTOR ORDERING IN QUANTUM COSMOLOGY F. HINTERLEITNER and R. ŠTEIGL	1939
ON THE FALSE VACUUM BUBBLE NUCLEATION BUM-HOON LEE, CHUL H. LEE, WONWOO LEE and CHANYONG PARK	1942

PART C
PARALLEL SESSIONS: The GRB – Supernova Connection
SWIFT OBSERVATIONS OF GRB050712 M. De PASQUALE, T. POOLE, S. ZANE, M. PAGE, A. BREEVELD, K. O'MASON, D. GRUPE, D. BURROWS, J. NOUSEK, P. ROMING, H. KRIMM, N. GEHRELS, B. ZHANG and S. KOBAYASHI	1947
NO ASTROPHYSICAL DYADOSPHERES DON N. PAGE	1950
MAGNETIZED HYPERMASSIVE NEUTRON STAR COLLAPSE: A CANDIDATE CENTRAL ENGINE FOR SHORT-HARD GRBs BRANSON C. STEPHENS, MATTHEW D. DUEZ, YUK TUNG LIU, STUART L. SHAPIRO and MASARU SHIBATA	1953
THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION OF LUMINOSITY AND SPECTRAL PROPERTIES OF GRB 031203 C.L. BIANCO, M.G. BERNARDINI, P. CHARDONNET, F. FRASCHETTI, R. RUFFINI and S.-S. XUE	1956
GRB980425 AND THE PUZZLING URCA1 EMISSION M. G. BERNARDINI, C. L. BIANCO, L. CAITO, M. G. DAINOTTI, R. GUIDA and R. RUFFINI	1959
PARALLEL SESSIONS: The Afterglow, Short and Long GRBs
THE E_p,i - E_iso CORRELATION AND THE NATURE OF SUB–ENERGETIC GRB LORENZO AMATI	1965
THE GRB DETECTED BY AVS-F APPARATUS ONBOARD CORONAS-F SATELLITE IN 2001-2005 YEARS IRENE V. ARKHANGELSKAJA, ANDREY I. ARKHANGELSKIY, ALEXANDER S. GLYANENKO, YURI D. KOTOV and SERGEY N. KUZNETSOV	1968
SPECIAL RELATIVISTIC SIMULATIONS OF MAGNETO-DRIVEN JET FROM CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE TOMOYA TAKIWAKI, KEI KOTAKE, SHOICHI YAMADA and KATSUHIKO SATO	1971
THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION OF "LONG" AND "SHORT" GRBs C.L. BIANCO, M.G. BERNARDINI, L. CAITO, P. CHARDONNET, M.G. DAINOTTI, F. FRASCHETTI, R. GUIDA, R. RUFFINI and S.-S. XUE	1974
THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION OF GRB 011121 LETIZIA CAITO, MARIA GRAZIA BERNARDINI, CARLO LUCIANO BIANCO, MARIA GIOVANNA DAINOTTI, ROBERTO GUIDA and REMO RUFFINI	1977
ON GRB 060218 AND THE GRBs RELATED TO SUPERNOVAE Ib/c MARIA GIOVANNA DAINOTTI, MARIA GRAZIA BERNARDINI, BIANCO CARLO BIANCOW, LETIZIA CAITO, ROBERTO GUIDA and REMO RUFFINI	1981
THE "FIRESHELL" MODEL IN THE SWIFT ERA C.L. BIANCO and R. RUFFINI	1989
GRB970228 AS A PROTOTYPE FOR THE CLASS OF GRBs WITH AN INITIAL SPIKELIKE EMISSION M. G. BERNARDINI, C. L. BIANCO, L. CAITO, M. G. DAINOTTI, R. GUIDA and R. RUFFINI	1992
THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION OF GRB060124: PRELIMINARY RESULTS R. GUIDA, M.G. BERNARDINI, C.L. BIANCO, L. CAITO, M.G. DAINOTTI and R. RUFFINI	1995
PARALLEL SESSIONS: GRBs and Host Galaxies
NUMERICAL COUNTERPARTS OF GRB HOST GALAXIES S. COURTY, G. BJÖRNSSON and E. H. GUDMUNDSSON	2003
THE HOST GALAXIES OF LONG GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: THE MID-INFRARED VIEW FROM THE SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE EMERIC Le FLOC'H	2006
GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXY GAS AND DUST RHAANA STARLING, RALPH WIJERS and KLAAS WIERSEMA	2009
LOW REDSHIFT GRBS AND THEIR HOST GALAXIES NIAL R. TANVIR	2012
THE ANALYSIS OF GRB REDSHIFT DISTRIBUTION IRENE V. ARKHANGELSKAJA	2015
FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF GRB-SELECTED GALAXIES: A SWIFT/VLT LEGACY SURVEY PÁLL JAKOBSSON, JENS HJORTH, JOHAN P. U. FYNBO, JAVIER GOROSABEL and ANDREAS O. JAUNSEN	2019
PARALLEL SESSIONS: GRB Observations by SWIFT
THE SWIFT XRT: EARLY X-RAY AFTERGLOW GIANPIERO TAGLIAFERRI	2025
INITIAL RESULTS FROM SWIFT/UVOT F.E. MARSHALL	2030
INVESTIGATION OF JET BREAK FEATURES IN SWIFT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS G. SATO, R. YAMAZAKI, K. IOKA, T. SAKAMOTO, T. TAKAHASHI, K. NAKAZAWA, T. NAKAMURA, K. TOMA, D. HULLINGER, M. TASHIRO, A. M. PARSONS, H. A. KRIMM, S. D. BARTHELMY, N. GEHRELS, D. N. BURROWS, P. T. O'BRIEN, J. P. OSBORNE, G. CHINCARINI and D. Q. LAMB	2033
RECENT RESULTS FROM THE SWIFT BURST ALERT TELESCOPE HANS A. KRIMM	2036
OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AT THE FIRST RUSSIAN ROBOTIC TELESCOPE MASTER N.V. TYURINA, V.M. LIPUNOV, V.G. KORNILOV, E.S. GORBOVSKOY and D.A. KUVSHINOV	2039
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Cosmological Singularities
FLAT, RADIATION UNIVERSES WITH QUADRATIC CORRECTIONS AND ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS SPIROS COTSAKIS and ANTONIOS TSOKAROS	2045
THE RECOLLAPSE PROBLEM OF CLOSED ISOTROPIC MODELS IN SECOND ORDER GRAVITY THEORY JOHN MIRITZIS	2048
BIG-RIP, SUDDEN FUTURE, AND OTHER EXOTIC SINGULARITIES IN THE UNIVERSE MARIUSZ P. DABROWSKI and ADAM BALCERZAK	2051
BRANEWORLD COSMOLOGICAL SINGULARITIES IGNATIOS ANTONIADIS, SPIROS COTSAKIS and IFIGENEIA KLAOUDATOU	2054
GENERALIZED PUISEUX SERIES EXPANSION FOR COSMOLOGICAL MILESTONES CÉLINE CATTOËN and MATT VISSER	2057
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Chaos in General Relativity and Cosmology
CHAOS IN THE YANG-MILLS THEORY AND COSMOLOGY: QUANTUM ASPECTS SERGEI MATINYAN	2063
CHAOS, GRAVITY AND WAVE MAPS WITH TARGET SU(2) S. J. SZYBKA	2078
CHAOS IN CORE-HALO GRAVITATING SYSTEMS T. GHAHRAMANYAN and V.G. GURZADYAN	2081
TRANSIENT CHAOS IN SCALAR FIELD COSMOLOGY ON A BRANE A. TOPORENSKY	2084
TOWARD A HOLOGRAPHIC ORIGIN OF COSMOLOGICAL LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE J. R. MUREIKA	2087
VECTOR FIELD INDUCED CHAOS IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL HOMOGENEOUS COSMOLOGIES R. BENINI, A. A. KIRILLOV and G. MONTANI	2090
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Einstein-Maxwell Systems
DYNAMO ACTION ON RELATIVISTIC SPHERICAL STARS N. MONTELONGO GARCIA and T. ZANNIAS	2095
EXTERNAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS OF A SLOWLY ROTATING MAGNETIZED STAR WITH NONVANISHING GRAVITOMAGNETIC CHARGE B.J. AHMEDOV, A.V. KHUGAEV and N.I. RAKHMATOV	2098
ALIGNED ELECTROMAGNETIC EXCITATIONS OF THE KERR-SCHILD SOLUTIONS ALEXANDER BURINSKII	2101
STATIC PERTURBATIONS OF A REISSNER-NORDSTRÖM BLACK HOLE BY A CHARGED MASSIVE PARTICLE DONATO BINI, ANDREA GERALICO and REMO RUFFINI	2104
CHARGED STRING SOLUTIONS OF THE EINSTEIN-MAXWELL EQUATIONS IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS CHUL H. LEE	2107
ON THE HYPOTHESIS OF GRAVIMAGNETISM M.M. ABDIL'DIN and M.E. ABISHEV	2110
STATIC PERTURBATIONS OF A REISSNER-NORDSTRÖM BLACK HOLE BY A CHARGED MASSIVE PARTICLE DONATO BINI, ANDREA GERALICO and REMO RUFFINI	2113
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Theoretical Issues in GR
A FRAMEWORK FOR THE DISCUSSION OF SINGULARITIES IN GENERAL RELATIVITY BENJAMIN E. WHALE and SUSAN M. SCOTT	2119
AXIAL SYMMETRIC GRAVITOMAGNETIC MONOPOLE IN CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES V.G. KAGRAMANOVA and B.J. AHMEDOV	2122
OPTICAL REFERENCE GEOMETRY AND INERTIAL FORCES IN KERR-DE SITTER SPACETIMES JIŘÍ KOVÁŘ and ZDENĔK STUCHLÍK	2125
ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SYZYGIES OF THE POLYNOMIAL INVARIANTS OF THE RIEMANN TENSOR ALLAN E. K. LIM and JOHN CARMINATI	2128
A GENERAL COVARIANT STABILITY THEORY M.I. WANAS and M.A. BAKRY	2131
RELATIVISTIC GENERALIZATION OF THE INERTIAL AND GRAVITATIONAL MASSES EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE NIKOLAI V. MITSKIEVICH	2134
STATIC PERTURBATIONS BY A POINT MASS ON A SCHWARZSCHILD BLACK HOLE DONATO BINI, ANDREA GERALICO and REMO RUFFINI	2137
SPATIAL NONCOMMUTATIVITY IN A ROTATING FRAME M. BECIU	2140
ON ENERGY AND MOMENTUM OF THE FRIEDMAN AND SOME MORE GENERAL UNIVERSES JANUSZ GARECKI	2143
QUASI-LOCAL ENERGY FOR AN UNUSUAL SLICING OF STATIC SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC METRICS CHIANG-MEI CHEN and JAMES M. NESTER	2146
QUASI-LOCAL ENERGY FOR COSMOLOGICAL MODELS JAMES M. NESTER, CHIANG-MEI CHEN and JIAN-LIANG LIU	2149
RELATIVE STRAINS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY DONATO BINI, FERNANDO DE FELICE and ANDREA GERALICO	2152
DYONIC KERR-NEWMAN BLACK HOLES, COMPLEX SCALAR FIELD AND COSMIC CENSORSHIP İBRAHIM SEMIZ	2155
THE IDEAS OF GR, QUANTIZATION, NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS AND GRAVIMAGNETISM IN PLANETARY COSMOGONY M.M. ABDIL'DIN, M.E. ABISHEV and N.A. BEISSEN	2158
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Wormholes, Energy Conditions and Time Machines
N-SPHERES: REGULAR BLACK HOLES, STATIC WORMHOLES AND GRAVASTARS WITH A TUBE-LIKE CORE O. B. ZASLAVSKII	2169
AVERAGED ENERGY INEQUALITIES FOR NON-MINIMALLY COUPLED CLASSICAL SCALAR FIELDS LUTZ W. OSTERBRINK	2172
SELF SUSTAINED TRAVERSABLE WORMHOLES AND THE EQUATION OF STATE REMO GARATTINI	2175
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM WORMHOLES IN A COSMOLOGY WITH DECAYING DARK ENERGY FARHAD DARABI	2178
NARIAI–BERTOTTI–ROBINSON SPACETIMES AS A BUILDING MATERIAL FOR ONE-WAY WORMHOLES WITH HORIZONS, BUT WITHOUT SINGULARITY NIKOLAI V. MITSKIEVICH, MARÍA GUADALUPE MEDINA GUEVARA and HÉCTOR VARGAS RODRÍGUEZ	2181
COSMIC TIME MACHINES AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS FERNANDO DE FELICE	2184
STATIC AND DYNAMIC TRAVERSABLE WORMHOLES JAROSLAW P. ADAMIAK	2187
WORMHOLES IN THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE PEDRO F. GONZÁLEZ-DÍAZ and PRADO MARTÍN-MORUNO	2190
TRAVERSABLE WORMHOLES SUPPORTED BY COSMIC ACCELERATED EXPANDING EQUATIONS OF STATE FRANCISCO S. N. LOBO	2193
ON WORMHOLES OF MASSLESS K-ESSENCE J. ESTEVEZ-DELGADO and T. ZANNIAS	2196
DYNAMIC WORMHOLE SPACETIMES COUPLED TO NONLINEAR ELECTRODYNAMICS AARÓN V. B. ARELLANO and FRANCISCO S. N. LOBO	2199
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Exact Solutions (Mathematical Aspects)
ROBINSON-TRAUTMAN SPACETIMES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS MARCELLO ORTAGGIO and JIŘÍ PODOLSKÝ	2205
SOLUTIONS OF SEIBERG-WITTEN AND EINSTEIN-MAXWELL-DIRAC EQUATIONS IN EUCLIDEAN SIGNATURE SAÇLIOĞLU CIHAN	2208
EULER NUMBERS ON COBORDANT HYPERSURFACES TINA A. HARRIOTT and J.G. WILLIAMS	2211
SYMMETRIES OF THE WEYL TENSOR IN BIANCHI V SPACETIMES A. R. KASHIF, K. SAIFULLAH and G. SHABBIR	2213
CLASSIFICATION OF SPACETIMES ACCORDING TO CONFORMAL KILLING VECTORS K. SAIFULLAH	2216
EXACT SOLUTIONS FOR RADIATING RELATIVISTIC STAR MODELS S. S. MISTHRY and S. D. MAHARAJ	2219
AN EMP MODEL OF BIANCHI 1 COSMOLOGY FLOYD L. WILLIAMS	2222
EXACT STATIC SOLUTIONS FOR SCALAR FIELDS COUPLED TO GRAVITY IN (3+1)- DIMENSIONS AYSE H. BILGE and DURMUS DAGHAN	2225
THERMODYNAMIC DESCRIPTION OF INELASTIC COLLISIONS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY GERNOT NEUGEBAUER and JÖRG HENNIG	2228
DISTORTED KILLING HORIZONS AND ALGEBRAIC CLASSIFICATION OF CURVATURE TENSORS V. PRAVDA and O. B. ZASLAVSKII	2231
QUASI-STATIONARY ROUTES TO THE KERR BLACK HOLE REINHARD MEINEL	2234
CLASSIFICATION RESULTS ON PURELY MAGNETIC PERFECT FLUID MODELS LODE WYLLEMAN and NORBERT Van den BERGH	2237
PURELY ELECTRIC PERFECT FLUIDS OF PETROV TYPE D LODE WYLLEMAN	2240
SELF-DUAL FIELDS ON THE SPACE OF A KERR-TAUB-BOLT INSTANTON ALIKRAM N. ALIEV and CIHAN SAÇLlOĞLU	2243
THE KERR THEOREM, MULTISHEETED TWISTOR SPACES AND MULTIPARTICLE KERR-SCHILD SOLUTIONS ALEXANDER BURINSKII	2246
ELECTRICAL FORCE LINES OF A 2-S0LITON SOLUTION OF THE EINSTEIN-MAXWELL EQUATIONS M. PIZZI	2249
MONODROMY TRANSFORM APPROACH IN THE THEORY OF INTEGRABLE REDUCTIONS OF EINSTEIN'S FIELD EQUATIONS AND SOME APPLICATIONS GEORGE ALEKSEEV	2252
CLOSED TIMELIKE CURVES AND GEODESICS OF GÖDEL-TYPE METRICS ÖZGÜR SARIOĞLU	2255
CONFORMAL SYMMETRIES IN SPHERICAL SPACETIMES S. D. MAHARAJ and S. MOOPANAR	2258
A THEOREM OF BELTRAMI AND THE INTEGRATION OF THE GEODESIC EQUATIONS DINO BOCCALETTI, FRANCESCO CATONI, ROBERTO CANNATA and PAOLO ZAMPETTI	2261
GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE AND HORIZON FORMATION IN 2+1 - DIMENSIONAL GRAVITY DIETER R. BRILL and PUNEET KHETARPAL	2264
PURELY MAGNETIC SILENT UNIVERSES DO NOT EXIST K. T. VU and J. CARMINATI	2268
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Exact Solutions (Physical Aspects)
ZEEMAN-TYPE DRAGGING IN THE KERR–NEWMAN AND NUT SPACETIMES NIKOLAI V. MITSKIEVICH and LUIS I. LÓPEZ BENÍTEZ	2273
PHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNIQUENESS OF THE VALUE OF THE INTEGRATION IN THE VACUUM SCHWARZSCHILD SOLUTION ABHAS MITRA	2276
SINGULARITY ANALYSIS OF GENERALIZED CYLINDRICALLY SYMMETRIC SPACETIMES D.A. KONKOWSKI and T.M. HELLIWELL	2279
SOME PROPERTIES OF KERR GEOMETRY WITH A REPULSIVE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT MARTIN PETRÁSEK and STANISLAV HLEDÍK	2282
SOLUTION GENERATING THEOREMS: PERFECT FLUID SPHERES AND THE TOV EQUATION PETARPA BOONSERM, MATT VISSER and SILKE WEINFURTNER	2285
SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF PERFECT FLUIDS P. LASKY and A. LUN	2288
HIGH-SPEED CYLINDRICAL COLLAPSE OF TWO DUST FLUIDS M. SHARIF and ZAHID AHMAD	2291
SOME PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE MULTIPOLE STRUCTURE OF THE KERR AND KERR-NEWMAN SOLUTIONS KJELL ROSQUIST	2294
VISUALIZING SPACETIMES VIA EMBEDDING DIAGRAMS STANISLAV HLEDÍK, ZDENĔK STUCHLÍK and ALOIS CIPKO	2299
CANONICAL ANALYSIS OF RADIATING ATMOSPHERES OF STARS IN EQUILIBRIUM ZOLTÁN KOVÁCS, LÁSZLÓ Á. GERGELY and ZSOLT HORVÁTH	2302
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Self-Gravitating Systems
PLATONIC SPHALERONS IN EINSTEIN-YANG-MILLS AND YANG-MILLS-DILATON THEORY BURKHARD KLEIHAUS, JUTTA KUNZ and KARI MYKLEVOLL	2307
COMMENT ON "GENERAL RELATIVITY RESOLVES GALACTIC ROTATION WITHOUT EXOTIC DARK MATTER" BY F.I. COOPERSTOCK & S. TIEU B. FUCHS and S. PHLEPS	2310
SOLITONIC AND NON-SOLITONIC Q-STARS Y. VERBIN	2313
ROTATING MONOPOLE-ANTIMONOPOLE PAIRS AND VORTEX RINGS ULRIKE NEEMANN, JUTTA KUNZ and BURKHARD KLEIHAUS	2316
SOURCES OF STATIC CYLINDRICAL SPACETIMES MARTIN ŽOFKA	2319
GRAVITATING MULTI-SKYRMIONS BURKHARD KLEIHAUS, THEODORA IOANNIDOU and JUTTA KUNZ	2322
A NEW EXACT STATIC THIN DISK WITH A CENTRAL BLACK HOLE GUILLERMO A. GONZÁLEZ	2325
BIFURCATIONS OF NONLINEAR CURVATURE LAGRANGIANS IN THE BOSON STAR MODEL FRANZ E. SCHUNCK	2328
APPROXIMATE DYNAMICS OF DARK MATTER ELLIPSOIDS GENNADY S. BISNOVATYI-KOGAN and OLEG YU. TSUPKO	2331
NONEXTENSIVE STATISTICAL THEORY OF DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN GRAVITATIONALLY CLUSTERED STRUCTURES MANFRED P. LEUBNER	2334
GENERAL RELATIVISTIC ACCRETION WITH BACKREACTION JANUSZ KARKOWSKI, BOGUSZ KINASIEWICZ, PATRYK MACH, EDWARD MALEC and ZDOBYSŁAW ŚWIERCZYŃSKI	2337
NON-HOMOGENEOUS AXISYMMETRIC MODELS OF SELF-GRAVITATING SYSTEMS CHRISTIAN CHERUBINI, SIMONETTA FILIPPI, REMO RUFFINI, ALONSO SEPULVEDA and JORGE I. ZULUAGA	2340
GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DAMPING FROM A SELF GRAVITATING VIBRATING RING OF MATTER AROUND A BLACK HOLE PRASAD BASU and S. K. CHAKRABARTI	2343
VARIATIONAL PRICIPLES AND HAMILTONIAN FORMULATION OF SPHERICAL SHELL DYNAMICS JERZY KIJOWSKI, GIULIO MAGLI and DANIELE MALAFARINA	2346
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Operating GW Detectors
VIRGO COMMISSIONING PROGRESS F. ACERNESE, P. AMICO, M. ALSHOURBAGY, F. ANTONUCCI, S. AOUDIA, P. ASTONE, S. AVINO, D. BABUSCI, G. BALLARDIN, F. BARONE, L. BARSOTTI, M. BARSUGLIA, F. BEAUVILLE, S. BIGOTTA, M.A. BIZOUARD, C. BOCCARA, F. BONDU, L. BOSI, C. BRADASCHIA, S. BIRINDELLI, S. BRACCINI, A. BRILLET, V. BRISSON, D. BUSKULIC, E. CALLONI, E. CAMPAGNA, F. CARBOGNANI, F. CAVALIER, R. CAVALIERI, G. CELLA, E. CESARINI, E. CHASSANDE-MOTTIN, N. CHRISTENSEN, A.C. CLAPSON, F. CLEVA, C. CORDA, A. CORSI, F. COTTONE, J.-P. COULON, E. CUOCO, A. DARI, V. DATTILO, M. DAVIER, M. DEL PRETE, R. de ROSA, L. di FIORE, A. di VIRGILIO, B. DUJARDIN, A. ELEUTERI, I. FERRANTE, F. FIDECARO, I. FIORI, R. FLAMINIO, J.-D. FOURNIER, S. FRASCA, F. FRASCONI, L. GAMMAITONI, F. GARUFI, E. GENIN, A. GENNAI, A. GIAZOTTO, G. GIORDANO, L. GIORDANO, R. GOUATY, D. GROSJEAN, G. GUIDI, S. HEBRI, H. HEITMANN, P. HELLO, S. KARKAR, S. KRECKELBERGH, P. La PENNA, M. LAVAL, N. LEROY, N. LETENDRE, B. LOPEZ, M. LORENZINI, V. LORIETTE, G. LOSURDO, J.-M. MACKOWSKI, E. MAJORANA, C.N. MAN, M. MANTOVANI, F. MARCHESONI, F. MARION, J. MARQUE, F. MARTELLI, A. MASSEROT, M. MAZZONI, F. MENZINGER, L. MILANO, C. MOINS, J. MOREAU, N. MORGADO, B. MOURS, F. NOCERA, C. PALOMBA, F. PAOLETTI, S. PARDI, A. PASQUALETTI, R. PASSAQUIETI, D. PASSUELLO, F. PIERGIOVANNI, L. PINARD, R. POGGIANI, M. PUNTURO, P. PUPPO, K. QIPIANI, P. RAPAGNANI, V. REITA, A. REMILLIEUX, F. RICCI, I. RICCIARDI, P. RUGGI, G. RUSSO, S. SOLIMENO, A. SPALLICCI, M. TARALLO, M. TONELLI, A. TONCELLI, E. TOURNEFIER, F. TRAVASSO, C. TREMOLA, G. VAJENTE, D. VERKINDT, F. VETRANO, A. VICERÉ, J.-Y. VINET, H. VOCCA and M. YVERT	2351
RESULTS FROM LIGO OBSERVATIONS: STOCHASTIC BACKGROUND AND CONTINUOUS WAVE SIGNALS NELSON CHRISTENSEN	2356
EXPLORER and NAUTILUS GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS - A STATUS REPORT P. ASTONE, D. BABUSCI, M. BASSAN, P. CARELLI, G. CAVALLARI, A. CHINCARINI, E. COCCIA, S. D'ANTONIO, M. Di PAOLO EMILIO, F. DUBATH, V. FAFONE, S. FOFFA, G. GEMME, G. GIORDANO, M. MAGGIORE, A. MARINI, Y. MINENKOV, I. MODENA, G. MODESTINO, A. MOLETI, G. V. PALLOTTINO, R. PARODI, G. PIZZELLA, L. QUINTIERI, A. ROCCHI, F. RONGA, S. STANLIO, R. STURANI, R. TERENZI, G. TORRIOLI, R. VACCARONE, G. VANDONI and M. VISCO	2359
AURIGA ON THE AIR: SENSITIVITY, CALIBRATION, DIAGNOSTICS AND OBSERVATIONS A. ORTOLAN	2365
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Advanced GW Detectors
OPTICAL SPRING AT THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM A. DI VIRGILIO	2373
MEASUREMENTS OF ELECTRICAL CHARGE DISTRIBUTION VARIATIONS ON FUSED SILICA L. G. PROKHOROV and V. P. MITROFANOV	2376
DEVELOPMENTS TOWARD MONOLITHIC SUSPENSIONS FOR ADVANCED GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS ALASTAIR HEPTONSTALL, CAROLINE CANTLEY, DAVID CROOKS, ALAN CUMMING, JAMES HOUGH, RUSSELL JONES, IAIN MARTIN, SHEILA ROWAN and GIANPIETRO CAGNOLI	2379
CONCEPT STUDY OF YUKAWA-LIKE POTENTIAL TESTS USING DYNAMIC GRAVITY-GRADIENTS WITH INTERFEROMETRIC GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTORS PÉTER RAFFAI, SZABOLCS MÁRKA, LUCA MATONE and ZSUZSA MÁRKA	2382
ASTROPHYSICAL SOURCES OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES V. M. LIPUNOV	2385
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Space and Third Generation GW Detectors
DECIGO: THE JAPANESE SPACE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ANTENNA MASAKI ANDO, SEIJI KAWAMURA, TAKASHI NAKAMURA, NAOKI SETO, KIMIO TSUBONO, KENJI NUMATA, RYUICHI TAKAHASHI, MITSURU MUSHA, KEN-ICHI UEDA, IKKOH FUNAKI, SHIGENORI MORIWAKI, TAKESHI TAKASHIMA, SHIN-ICHIRO SAKAI, TAKASHI SATO, NOBUYUKI KANDA, SHIGEO NAGANO, MIZUHIKO HOSOKAWA, TAKEHIKO ISHIKAWA, SHUICHI SATO, YOICHI ASO, MUTSUKO Y. MORIMOTO, KAZUHIRO AGATSUMA, TOMOMI AKUTSU, TOMOTADA AKUTSU, KOH-SUKE AOYANAGI, KOJI ARAI, YUTA ARASE, AKITO ARAYA, HIDEKI ASADA, TAKESHI CHIBA, TOSHIKAZU EBISUZAKI, MOTOHIRO ENOKI, YOSHIHARU ERIGUCHI, FENG-LEI HONG, MASA-KATSU FUJIMOTO, MITSUHIRO FUKUSHIMA, TOSHIFUMI FUTAMASE, KATSUHIKO GANZU, TOMOHIRO HARADA, TATSUAKI HASHIMOTO, KAZUHIRO HAYAMA, WATARU HIKIDA, YOSHIAKI HIMEMOTO, HISASHI HIRABAYASHI, TAKASHI HIRAMATSU, HIDEYUKI HORISAWA, KIYOTOMO ICHIKI, TAKESHI IKEGAMI, KAIKI T. INOUE, KUNIHITO IOKA, KOJI ISHIDOSHIRO, HIROYUKI ITO, YOUSUKE ITOH, SHOGO KAMAGASAKO, NOBUKI KAWASHIMA, FUMIKO KAWAZOE, HIROYUKI KIRIHARA, NAOKO KISHIMOTO, KENTA KIUCHI, WERNER KLAUS, SHIHO KOBAYASHI, KAZUNORI KOHRI, HIROYUKI KOIZUMI, YASUFUMI KOJIMA, KEIKO KOKEYAMA, WATARU KOKUYAMA, KEI KOTAKE, YOSHIHIDE KOZAI, HIDEAKI KUDOH, HIROO KUNIMORI, HITOSHI KUNINAKA, KAZUAKI KURODA, KEI-ICHI MAEDA, HIDEO MATSUHARA, YASUSHI MINO, JUN-ICHI MIURA, OSAMU MIYAKAWA, SHINJI MIYOKI, TOMOKO MORIOKA, TOSHIYUKI MORISAWA, SHINJI MUKOHYAMA, ISAO NAITO, NORIYASU NAKAGAWA, KOUJI NAKAMURA, HIROYUKI NAKANO, KENICHI NAKAO, SHINICHI NAKASUKA, YOSHINORI NAKAYAMA, ERINA NISHIDA, KAZUTAKA NISHIYAMA, ATSUSHI NISHIZAWA, YOSHITO NIWA, MASATAKE OHASHI, NAOKO OHISHI, MASASHI OHKAWA, AKIRA OKUTOMI, KOUJI ONOZATO, KENICHI OOHARA, NORICHIKA SAGO, MOTOYUKI SAIJO, MASAAKI SAKAGAMI, SHIHORI SAKATA, MISAO SASAKI, MASARU SHIBATA, HISAAKI SHINKAI, KENTARO SOMIYA, HAJIME SOTANI, NAOSHI SUGIYAMA, HIDEYUKI TAGOSHI, TADAYUKI TAKAHASHI, RYUTARO TAKAHASHI, KAKERU TAKAHASHI, HIROTAKA TAKAHASHI, TAKAMORI AKITERU, TADASHI TAKANO, TAKAHIRO TANAKA, KEISUKE TANIGUCHI, ATSUSHI TARUYA, HIROYUKI TASHIRO, MITSURU TOKUDA, MASAO TOKUNARI, MORIO TOYOSHIMA, SHINJI TSUJIKAWA, YOSHIKI TSUNESADA, MASAYOSHI UTASHIMA, HIROSHI YAMAKAWA, KAZUHIRO YAMAMOTO, TOSHITAKA YAMAZAKI, JUN'ICHI YOKOYAMA, CHUL-MOON YOO, SHIJUN YOSHIDA and TAIZOH YOSHINO	2393
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE LISA TECHNOLOGY PACKAGE OPTICAL BENCH INTERFEROMETER CHRISTIAN J. KILLOW, JOHANNA BOGENSTAHL, MICHAEL PERREUR-LLOYD, DAVID I. ROBERTSON, HENRY WARD, FELIPE GUZMÁN CERVANTES and FRANK STEIER	2398
COMPACT BINARY INSPIRAL AND THE SCIENCE POTENTIAL OF THIRD-GENERATION GROUND-BASED GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS CHRIS VAN DEN BROECK and ANAND S. SENGUPTA	2401
DISCRETE SAMPLING VARIATION MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE FOR SUB-SQL SENSITIVITY DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES S. L. DANILISHIN and F. YA. KHALILI	2404
THE DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES WITH MATTER WAVE INTERFEROMETERS P. DELVA, M.-C. ANGONIN and Ph. TOURRENC	2407
PARALLEL SESSIONS: GW Data Analysis
DETECTING LISA SOURCES USING TIME-FREQUENCY TECHNIQUES JONATHAN R. GAIR and GARETH JONES	2413
DETERMINING THE NEUTRON STAR EQUATION OF STATE USING THE NARROW-BAND GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTOR SCHENBERG J. C. N. de ARAUJO and G. F. MARRANGHELLO	2416
APPROXIMATE WAVEFORM TEMPLATES FOR DETECTION OF EXTREME MASS RATIO INSPIRALS WITH LISA JONATHAN R. GAIR	2419
GW - DETECTOR'S OUTPUT PROCESSING AT THE NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE BACKGROUND A. V. Gusev, S. M. Popov and V. N. Rudenko	2422
DETECTING A STOCHASTIC BACKGROUND OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES IN THE PRESENCE OF NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE YOSHIAKI HIMEMOTO	2426
COINCIDENCES BETWEEN THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS EXPLORER AND NAUTILUS IN THE YEARS 1998, 2001, 2003 AND 2004 G. PIZZELLA	2429
INCOHERENT STRATEGIES FOR THE NETWORK DETECTION OF PERIODIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVES P. ASTONE, S. FRASCA and C. PALOMBA	2438
SEARCH FOR CONTINUOUS GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: SIMPLE CRITERION FOR OPTIMAL DETECTOR NETWORKS REINHARD PRIX	2441
FIRST COINCIDENCE SEARCH AMONG PERIODIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SOURCE CANDIDATES USING VIRGO DATA F. ACERNESE, P. AMICO, M. ALSHOURBAGY, F. ANTONUCCI, S. AOUDIA, P. ASTONE, S. AVINO, D. BABUSCI, G. BALLARDIN, F. BARONE, L. BARSOTTI, M. BARSUGLIA, F. BEAUVILLE, S. BIGOTTA, S. BIRINDELLI, M. A. BIZOUARD, C. BOCCARA, F. BONDU, L. BOSI, C. BRADASCHIA, S. BRACCINI, A. BRILLET, V. BRISSON, L. BROCCO, D. BUSKULIC, E. CALLONI, E. CAMPAGNA, F. CARBOGNANI, F. CAVALIER, R. CAVALIERI, G. CELLA, E. CESARINI, E. CHASSANDE-MOTTIN, N. CHRISTENSEN, C. CORDA, A. CORSI, F. COTTONE, A.-C. CLAPSON, F. CLEVA, J.-P. COULON, E. CUOCO, A. DARI, V. DATTILO, M. DAVIER, M. del PRETE, R. de ROSA, L. di FIORE, A. di VIRGILIO, B. DUJARDIN, A. ELEUTERI, I. FERRANTE, F. FIDECARO, I. FIORI, R. FLAMINIO, J.-D. FOURNIER, O. FRANCOIS, S. FRASCA, F. FRASCONI, L. GAMMAITONI, F. GARUFI, E. GENIN, A. GENNAI, A. GIAZOTTO, G. GIORDANO, L. GIORDANO, R. GOUATY, D. GROSJEAN, G. GUIDI, S. HEBRI, H. HEITMANN, P. HELLO, S. KARKAR, S. KRECKELBERGH, P. La PENNA, M. LAVAL, N. LEROY, N. LETENDRE, B. LOPEZ, LORENZINI, V. LORIETTE, G. LOSURDO, J.-M. MACKOWSKI, E. MAJORANA, C. N. MAN, M. MANTOVANI, F. MARCHESONI, F. MARION, J. MARQUE, F. MARTELLI, A. MASSEROT, M. MAZZONI, L. MILANO, F. MENZINGER, C. MOINS, J. MOREAU, N. MORGADO, B. MOURS, F. NOCERA, A. PAI, C. PALOMBA, F. PAOLETTI, S. PARDI, A. PASQUALETTI, R. PASSAQUIETI, D. PASSUELLO, B. PERNIOLA, F. PIERGIOVANNI, L. PINARD, R. POGGIANI, M. PUNTURO, P. PUPPO, K. QIPIANI, P. RAPAGNANI, V. REITA, A. REMILLIEUX, F. RICCI, I. RICCIARDI, P. RUGGI, G. RUSSO, S. SOLIMENO, A. SPALLICCI, R. STANGA, T. MARCO, M. TONELLI, A. TONCELLI, E. TOURNEFIER, F. TRAVASSO, C. TREMOLA, G. VAJENTE, D. VERKINDT, F. VETRANO, A. VICERÉ, J.-Y. VINET, H. VOCCA and M. YVERTI	2444
PRIMORDIAL BLACK-HOLE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BACKGROUND NOISE IN THE LISA, DECIGO AND BBO FREQUENCY BANDS J. C. N. de ARAUJO, O. D. AGUIAR and O. D. MIRANDA	2448
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Recent Advances in the History of General Relativity
THE EINSTEIN-VARIĆAK CORRESPONDENCE ON RELATIVISTIC RIGID ROTATION TILMAN SAUER	2453
THE HISTORY OF THE SO-CALLED LENSE–THIRRING EFFECT H. PFISTER	2456
M.-A. TONNELAT'S RESEARCH CONCERNING UNIFIED FIELD THEORY HUBERT GOENNER	2459
ROSENFELD, BERGMANN, DIRAC AND THE INVENTION OF CONSTRAINED HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS D. C. SALISBURY	2467
STELLAR AND SOLAR POSITIONS IN 1701–1703 OBSERVED BY FRANCESCO BIANCHINI AT THE CLEMENTINE MERIDIAN LINE IN THE BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA DEGLI ANGELI IN ROME, AND ITS CALIBRATION CURVE COSTANTINO SIGISMONDI	2470
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Strong Gravity and Binaries
THE EFFACING PRINCIPLE IN THE POST-NEWTONIAN CELESTIAL MECHANICS SERGEI KOPEIKIN and IGOR VLASOV	2475
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES OF A LENSE-THIRRING SYSTEM MÁTYÁS VASÚTH and JÁNOS MAJÁR	2478
YORK MAP, NON-INERTIAL FRAMES AND THE PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE GAUGE VARIABLES OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD LUCA LUSANNA	2481
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Binary Objects
ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT GRAVITATIONAL WAVEFORMS FOR CERTAIN GALACTIC COMPACT BINARIES MANUEL TESSMER and ACHAMVEEDU GOPAKUMAR	2487
DIMENSIONAL REGULARIZATION OF THE GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION OF POINT MASSES IN THE ADM FORMALISM THIBAULT DAMOUR, PIOTR JARANOWSKI and GERHARD SCHÄFER	2490
NEW RESULTS AT 3PN VIA AN EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY OF GRAVITY RAFAEL A. PORTO	2493
ORBITAL PHASE IN INSPIRALLING COMPACT BINARIES MÁTYÁS VASÚTH, BALÁZS MIKÓCZI and LÁSZLÓ Á. GERGELY	2497
GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EMISSION FROM A STELLAR COMPANION BLACK HOLE IN PRESENCE OF AN ACCRETION DISK AROUND A KERR BLACK HOLE PRASAD BASU, S. K. CHAKRABARTI, SOUMEN MONDAL and KUSHALENDU GOSWAMI	2500
THE SECOND POST-NEWTONIAN ORDER GENERALIZED KEPLER EQUATION LÁSZLÓ Á. GERGELY, ZOLTÁN KERESZTES and BALÁZS MIKÓCZI	2503
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance
THE STANDARD-MODEL EXTENSION AND TESTS OF RELATIVITY NEIL RUSSELL	2509
NEW MEASUREMENT OF THE ONE-WAY SPEED OF LIGHT AND ITS RELATION TO CLOCK COMPARISON EXPERIMENTS C. S. UNNIKRISHNAN	2512
TEST OF TIME DILATION WITH A TWO-VELOCITY ATOMIC CLOCK G. SAATHOFF, S. KARPUK, S. REINHARDT, H. BUHR, T. W. HÄNSCH, R. HOLZWARTH, G. HUBER, C. NOVOTNY, D. SCHWALM, T. UDEM, A. WOLF, M. ZIMMERMANN and G. GWINNER	2515
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Laboratory Gravity Tests
ATOM INTERFEROMETRY FOR PRECISION TESTS OF GRAVITY: MEASUREMENT OF G AND TEST OF NEWTONIAN LAW AT MICROMETRIC DISTANCES A. BERTOLDI, L. CACCIAPUOTI, M. DE ANGELIS, R. E. DRULLINGER, G. FERRARI, G. LAMPORESI, N. POLI, M. PREVEDELLI, F. SORRENTINO and G. M. TINO	2519
DEVELOPMENT OF ACCELEROMETER PROTOTYPE FOR TESTING THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE IN FREE FALL V. IAFOLLA, D. LUCCHESI, V. MILYUKOV, S. NOZZOLI, F. SANTOLI, I. I. SHAPIRO, E. C. LORENZINI, M. L. COSMO, J. ASHENBERG, P. N. CHEIMETS and S. GLASHOW	2530
MEASUREMENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT G HINRICH MEYER, ULF KLEINEVOSS and HELMUT PIEL	2534
SOLAR RADIUS AT MINIMUM OF CYCLE 23 COSTANTINO SIGISMONDI	2537
THE NEWTONIAN GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT: MODERN STATUS AND PERSPECTIVE OF NEW DETERMINATION VADIM MILYUKOV and JUN LUO	2540
RELATIVISTIC ASTROMETRY WITH GAIA ADVANCES IN THE RAMOD PROJECT B. BUCCIARELLI, M. T. CROSTA, M. G. LATTANZI, A. VECCHIATO, G. PRETI and F. DE FELICE	2543
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Clock and Space Tests of Gravity
DYNAMICAL CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION IN EINSTEIN'S THEORY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ACES MISSION OF ESA LUCA LUSANNA	2549
STEP PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT STATUS C. MEHLS, C. BAYART, J. BOWER, B. CLARKE, C. COX, D. GILL, D. STRICKER, N. VORA, S. WANG, P. ZHOU, R. TORII, P. WORDEN, D. DEBRA, H. DITTUS and F. LOEFFLER	2553
ON STELLAR SYSTEM TESTS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT MAURO SERENO and PHILIPPE JETZER	2556
THE LENSE–THIRRING EFFECT AND THE PIONEER ANOMALY: SOLAR SYSTEM TESTS LORENZO IORIO	2558
THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE AND ITS TESTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GRAVITY, QUANTUM MECHANICS AND COSMOLOGY C. S. UNNIKRISHNAN	2561
THE FLYBY ANOMALY CLAUS LÄMMERZAHL and HANSJÖRG DITTUS	2564
GRAVITY TESTS AND THE PIONEER ANOMALY MARC-THIERRY JAEKEL and SERGE REYNAUD	2567
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Astrometry
A NICE TOOL FOR RELATIVISTIC ASTROMETRY: SYNGE'S WORLD FUNCTION PIERRE TEYSSANDIER and CHRISTOPHE LE PONCIN-LAFITTE	2573
LUNAR LASER RANGING: A SPACE GEODETIC TECHNIQUE TO TEST RELATIVITY JÜRGEN MÜLLER	2576
APOLLO: NEXT GENERATION LUNAR LASER RANGING T. W. MURPHY, Jr., E. L. MICHELSEN, A. E. ORIN, J. B. BATTAT, C. W. STUBBS, E. G. ADELBERGER, C. D. HOYLE and H. E. SWANSON	2579
METRIC EXTENSIONS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITY TESTS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM SERGE REYNAUD and MARC-THIERRY JAEKEL	2582
MEASUREMENT OF THE PPN-γ PARAMETER WITH A SPACE-BORN DYSON-EDDINGTON-LIKE EXPERIMENT A. VECCHIATO, M. GAI, M. G. LATTANZI and R. MORBIDELLI	2585
RELATIVISTIC LIGHT DEFLECTION NEAR GIANT PLANETS USING GAIA ASTROMETRY G. ANGLADA-ESCUDÉ, S. A. KLIONER and JORDI TORRA	2588
ASTROMETRICAL MICROLENSING WITH RADIOASTRON ALEXANDER F. ZAKHAROV	2591
ASTEROIDAL OCCULTATION OF REGULUS: DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT OF LIGHT BENDING COSTANTINO SIGISMONDI and DAVIDE TROISE	2594
TESTING GENERAL RELATIVITY BY ASTROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS CLOSE TO JUPITER, THE REAL GAREX- PART II MARIA TERESA CROSTA, DANIELE GARDIOL, MARIO G. LATTANZI and ROBERTO MORBIDELLI	2597
RELATIVISTIC TESTS FROM THE MOTION OF THE ASTEROIDS D. HESTROFFER, S. MOURET, J. BERTHIER and F. MIGNARD	2600
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
EFFECTIVE VACUUM REFRACTIVE INDEX FROM GRAVITY AND PRESENT ETHER-DRIFT EXPERIMENTS M. CONSOLI	2605
QUANTUM GRAVITY EFFECTS IN ROTATING BLACK HOLES M. REUTER and E. TUIRAN	2608
LORENTZ SYMMETRY FROM LORENTZ VIOLATION IN THE BULK ORFEU BERTOLAMI and CARLA CARVALHO	2611
QUANTUM GRAVITY AND SPACETIME SYMMETRIES RALF LEHNERT	2615
LORENTZ INVARIANCE VIOLATION IN HIGHER ORDER ELECTRODYNAMICS DENNIS LOREK and CLAUS LÄMMERZAHL	2618
HUBBLE MEETS PLANCK: A COSMIC PEEK AT QUANTUM FOAM Y. JACK NG	2621
EVOLUTIONARY REFORMULATION OF QUANTUM GRAVITY GIOVANNI MONTANI	2626
KERR'S GRAVITY AS A QUANTUM GRAVITY ON THE COMPTON LEVEL ALEXANDER BURINSKII	2631
A LINK BETWEEN GENERAL RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM MECHANICS KJELL ROSQUIST	2634
SPACETIME FLUCTUATIONS AND INERTIA ERTAN GÖKLÜ, CLAUS LÄMMERZAHL, ABEL CAMACHO and ALFREDO MACIAS	2639
QUANTUM GRAVITY IN CYCLIC (EKPYROTIC) AND MULTIPLE (ANTHROPIC) UNIVERSES WITH STRINGS AND/OR LOOPS T. J. CHUNG	2642
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Quantum Fields
QUANTUM LIOUVILLE THEORY WITH HEAVY CHARGES PIETRO MENOTTI and ERIK TONNI	2647
ON THE PATH INTEGRAL IN NON-COMMUTATIVE (NC) QFT CHRISTOPH DEHNE	2650
AN IRREDUCIBLE FORM FOR THE ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS OF THE HEAT KERNEL OF FERMIONS S. YAJIMA, M. FUKUDA, S. TOKUO, S.-I. KUBOTA, Y. HIGASHIDA and Y. KAMO	2653
QUANTUM ANOMALIES FOR GENERALIZED EUCLIDEAN TAUB-NEWMAN-UNTI-TAMBURINO METRICS MIHAI VISINESCU and ANCA VISINESCU	2656
A NEW EXPRESSION FOR THE TRANSITION RATE OF AN ACCELERATED PARTICLE DETECTOR JORMA LOUKO and ALEJANDRO SATZ	2659
ON THE GEOMETRIZATION OF THE ELECTRO–MAGNETIC INTERACTION FOR A SPINNING PARTICLE FRANCESCO CIANFRANI, IRENE MILILLO and GIOVANNI MONTANI	2662
CAN EPR CORRELATIONS BE DRIVEN BY AN EFFECTIVE WORMHOLE? E. SERGIO SANTINI	2665
IS TORSION A FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL FIELD? O. M. LECIAN, S. MERCURI and G. MONTANI	2668
UNITARY QUANTIZATION OF THE GOWDY T³ COSMOLOGY ALEJANDRO CORICHI, JERÓNIMO CORTEZ and GUILLERMO A. MENA MARUGÁN	2671
ON THE INTERACTION OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD OF A COSMIC STRING WITH SOME QUANTUM SYSTEMS GEUSA de A. MARQUES and V. B. BEZERRA	2674
EINSTEIN-ROSEN WAVES COUPLED TO MATTER J. FERNANDO BARBERO G., IÑAKI GARAY and EDUARDO J. S. VILLASEÑOR	2677
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION FROM A CHARGE ROTATING IN SCHWARZSCHILD SPACETIME JORGE CASTIÑEIRAS, LUÍS C. B. CRISPINO, RODRIGO MURTA and GEORGE E. A. MATSAS	2680
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN QUANTUM ENERGY INEQUALITIES CHRISTOPHER J. FEWSTER	2683
BLACK HOLES AS BOUNDARIES IN 2D DILATON SUPERGRAVITY LUZI BERGAMIN and DANIEL GRUMILLER	2686
QUASINORMAL MODES FOR ARBITRARY SPINS IN THE SCHWARZSCHILD BACKGROUND IOSIF KHRIPLOVICH and GENNADY RUBAN	2692
CAN QUANTUM MECHANICS HEAL CLASSICAL SINGULARITIES? T. M. HELLIWELL and D. A. KONKOWSKI	2695
QUANTIZING TWO-DIMENSIONAL DILATON GRAVITY WITH FERMIONS: THE VIENNA WAY RENÉ MEYER	2698
VACUUM POLARIZATION FOR A SPINOR MASSIVE FIELD IN AN EINSTEIN-MAXWELL SPACETIME V. B. BEZERRA and NAIL R. KHUSNUTDINOV	2701
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Casimir Effect and Short-Range Gravity
THE CASIMIR EFFECT IN RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES V. M. MOSTEPANENKO	2707
LOCAL AND GLOBAL CASIMIR ENERGIES IN A GREEN'S FUNCTION APPROACH K. A. MILTON, I. CAVERO-PELÁEZ and K. KIRSTEN	2727
BOUNDARY INDUCED QUANTUM FLUCTUATION EFFECTS: FROM MOVING MIRROR TO ELECTRON COHERENCE JEN-TSUNG HSIANG and DA-SHIN LEE	2746
A THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FLUCTUATIONS FOR METALLIC SURFACES AND VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS BETWEEN METALLIC BODIES GIUSEPPE BIMONTE	2749
THEORY OF THE CASIMIR EFFECT BETWEEN DIELECTRIC AND SEMICONDUCTOR PLATES G. L. KLIMCHITSKAYA and B. GEYER	2752
A NOVEL EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH FOR THE MEASURE OF THE CASIMIR EFFECT AT LARGE DISTANCES P. ANTONINI, G. BRESSI, G. CARUGNO, G. GALEAZZI, G. MESSINEO and G. RUOSO	2755
MEASUREMENT OF THE CASIMIR FORCE IN THE RANGE ABOVE 5 MICRONS AND DETECTION OF THE FINITE TEMPERATURE EFFECT G. I. RAJALAKSHMI, D. SURESH, R. COWSIK and C. S. UNNIKRISHNAN	2758
SCALAR CASIMIR EFFECT WITH NON-LOCAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ARAM SAHARIAN and GIAMPIERO ESPOSITO	2761
SAMPLE DEPENDENCE OF THE CASIMIR FORCE I. PIROZHENKO, A. LAMBRECHT and V. B. SVETOVOY	2764
CASIMIR INTERACTION BETWEEN ABSORBING AND META MATERIALS FRANCESCO INTRAVAIA and CARSTEN HENKEL	2767
CASIMIR ENERGY AND A COSMOLOGICAL BOUNCE CARLOS A. R. HERDEIRO	2770
PHOTON GENERATION FROM THE VACUUM: AN EXPERIMENT TO DETECT THE DCE CATERINA BRAGGIO, G. BRESSI, G. CARUGNO, G. RUOSO and D. ZANELLO	2773
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Loop Quantum Gravity, Quantum Geometry, Spin Foams
THE EMERGENCE OF AdS₂ FROM QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS J. AMBJØRN, R. JANIK, W. WESTRA and S. ZOHREN	2779
THE PONZANO-REGGE MODEL AND REIDEMEISTER TORSION JOHN W. BARRETT and ILEANA NAISH-GUZMAN	2782
THE PROCA FIELD IN LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY GABOR HELESFAI	2785
AMBIGUITY OF BLACK HOLE ENTROPY IN LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY TAKASHI TAMAKI and HIDEFUMI NOMURA	2788
EXPLORING THE DIFFEOMORPHISM INVARIANT HILBERT SPACE OF A SCALAR FIELD HANNO SAHLMANN	2791
NIEH-YAN INVARIANT AND FERMIONS IN ASHTEKAR-BARBERO-IMMIRZI FORMALISM SIMONE MERCURI	2794
A GENERALIZED SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION FOR LOOP QUANTUM COSMOLOGY D. C. SALISBURY and A. SCHMITZ	2797
SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF THE VOLUME OPERATOR IN LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY J. BRUNNEMANN and D. RIDEOUT	2800
COUNTING ENTROPY IN CAUSAL SET QUANTUM GRAVITY D. RIDEOUT and S. ZOHREN	2803
ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO 'QUANTUM SPACETIME GEOMETRY' IOANNIS RAPTIS, PETROS WALLDEN and ROMÀN R. ZAPATRIN	2806
NONCOMMUTATIVE TRANSLATIONS AND ⋆-PRODUCT FORMALISM MARCIN DASZKIEWICZ, JERZY LUKIERSKI and MARIUSZ WORONOWICZ	2809
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Brane Worlds and String Motivated Cosmology
BLACK HOLES ON COSMOLOGICAL BRANES LÁSZLÓ Á. GERGELY	2815
GENERALIZED COSMOLOGICAL EQUATIONS FOR A THICK BRANE SAMAD KHAKSHOURNIA	2818
CERENKOV RADIATION FROM COLLISIONS OF STRAIGHT COSMIC (SUPER)STRINGS ELENA MELKUMOVA, DMITRI V. GAL'TSOV and KARIM SALEHI	2821
HIGH-ENERGY EFFECTS ON THE SPECTRA OF COSMOLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS IN BRANEWORLD COSMOLOGY TAKASHI HIRAMATSU, KAZUYA KOYAMA and ATSUSHI TARUYA	2824
BRANEWORLDS AND QUANTUM STATES OF RELATIVISTIC SHELLS S. ANSOLDI	2827
ROTATING BRANEWORLD BLACK HOLES ALIKRAM N. ALIEV	2830
GENERAL SOLUTION FOR SCALAR PERTURBATIONS IN BOUNCING COSMOLOGIES VALERIO BOZZA	2833
CONSTRAINTS ON ACCELERATING BRANE COSMOLOGY WITH EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE BULK AND BRANE GRANT J. MATHEWS, K. UMEZU, T. KAJINO, K. ICHIKI, R. NAKAMURA and M. YAHIRO	2836
TESTING DGP MODIFIED GRAVITY IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM LORENZO IORIO	2839
THE DYNAMICS OF SCALAR-TENSOR COSMOLOGY FROM RS TWO-BRANE MODEL P. KUUSK, L. JÄRV and M. SAAL	2842
SELF-T-DUAL BRANE COSMOLOGY MASSIMILIANO RINALDI	2845
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Brane Worlds
CATCHING PHOTONS FROM EXTRA DIMENSIONS A. DOBADO, A. L. MAROTO and J. A. R. CEMBRANOS	2851
LORENTZ INVARIANCE VIOLATION IN BRANEWORLD MODELS P. A. KOROTEEV	2854
THE BAZANSKI APPROACH IN BRANE WORLDS: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION M. E. KAHIL	2857
PARALLEL SESSIONS: M-Theory and Dualities
M-THEORY AND DUALITIES OISÍN A. P. Mac CONAMHNA	2863
AdS SPACETIMES IN M-THEORY JEROME P. GAUNTLETT, OISÍN A. P. MAC CONAMHNA, TONI MATEOS and DANIEL WALDRAM	2875
GLOBAL ASPECTS OF SEVEN–BRANE CONFIGURATIONS ERIC A. BERGSHOEFF, JELLE HARTONG, TOMÁS ORTÍN and DIEDERIK ROEST	2878
DUALITY AND BLACK HOLE PARTITION FUNCTIONS THOMAS MOHAUPT	2881
M-THEORY ON CALABI-YAU FIVEFOLDS A. S. HAUPT and K. S. STELLE	2884
HAGEDORN TRANSITION AND CHRONOLOGY PROTECTION IN STRING THEORY CARLOS A. R. HERDEIRO	2887
KK-MASSES AND DIPOLE THEORIES KARL LANDSTEINER and SERGIO MONTERO	2890
BACK MATTER	2893
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