Matters of Gravity---new issue today

[marcus]

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0409046

Jorge Pullin's newsletter, comes out around twice a year

sampling from this issue's table of contents

"Research Briefs:
Gravity Probe B is launched, by Bill Hamilton
...
...
Summary of recent preliminary LIGO results, by Alan Wiseman for the LSC
...
Conference reports:
Einstein 125, by Abhay Ashtekar
...
...
GR17, by Brian Nolan

Loops and Spinfoams, by Carlo Rovelli
..."

[marcus]

among other things the newsletter has Carlo Rovelli's brief report
on the Marseille conferences
includes some pictures of people
Phillipe Roche
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille031.JPG
Carlo Rovelli
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille007.JPG
John Baez
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille123.JPG
Renate Loll
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille011.JPG


here are the thumbnails, showing everybody
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/activities/scientific/cws/marseille.cfm

some of these pictures are a bit haphazard---not portraits---
we understand that the homemade wine of the French Mathematical Society was being served. many people are grinning, but some look even more
serious than usual

[sol2]

Marcus,

Nice to know who's who. The thumbnails are definitely better quality.

[marcus]

Are these the same person?
http://www.ift.uni.wroc.pl/JK-G/

http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille003.JPG

http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille130.JPG

by the sea with Fotini Markopoulou

http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille059.JPG

[marcus]

A wild guess, the person with Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman in this picture
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille003.JPG
is Olaf Dreyer.

does anyone know if this is Etera Livine?
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille023.JPG
or, if not, is there a thumbnail of Etera in this batch

[marcus]

the editor of Matters of Gravity playing the bagpipes
(and other information)
http://www.physicscentral.com/people/people-01-12.html

Abhay Ashtekar posing at the blackboard
http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/display/?person_id=169

Leonardo Modesto as a budding string theorist
(has since applied QG to remove black hole singularity)
http://www.strings.to.infn.it/members/modesto.html

Laurent Freidel
http://cosmos.nirvana.phys.psu.edu/online/Html/Seminars/Spring1999/Freidel/freidel.jpg

snaps of Olaf Dreyer, Florian Girelli (scroll down the page) et al.
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/about/facilities/current.cfm

Jerzy Lewandowski in Vienna
http://mayu.physics.duq.edu/~simo/photo9.html
and at the Marseille conference
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille075.JPG

Golam Mortuza Hossain and Ghanashyam Date just posted a string of papers in LQC (bounce, inflation, effective hamiltonian):
http://www.imsc.res.in/~golam/second_page.html

Hermann Nicolai is a string theorist at AEI Potsdam who has taken an active interest in LQG research and had an impact on it:
http://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/mphys2/pictures/Lecturers%20and%20Audience/Hermann%20Nicolai.jpg

unidentified person at Marseille (Ashtekar with a haircut?)
http://perimeterinstitute.ca/images/marseille/marseille076.JPG