Matters of Gravity-new issue today

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Matters of Gravity---new issue today

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
..."
 
Physics news on Phys.org
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
 
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Marcus,

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