| Preface |
| Scientific Organizing Committee |
| Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors |
| First Generation Interferometers / B. C. Barish |
| The Second Generation LIGO Interferometers / P. Fritschel |
| Resonant Detectors of Gravitational Radiation / W. O. Hamilton |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics in the 21st Century |
| Particle, Nuclear, and Gravitational Wave Astrophysics in the Decadal Survey / T. K. Gaisser |
| The National Virtual Observatory / R. J. Hanisch |
| High Energy Astrophysics Missions / N. E. White |
| LIGO Data and Data Analysis |
| Data from the LIGO I Science Run / A. Lazzarini |
| Gravitational Wave Data Analysis in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration / P. R. Brady |
| LIGO's "Science Reach" / L. S. Finn |
| Coalescing Compact Binaries: Rates, Scenarios, and Simulations |
| Event Rates for Binary Inspiral / V. Kalogera ; K. Belczynski |
| Black Hole Binaries from Star Clusters / S. L. W. McMillan ; S. F. P. Zwart |
| Hydrodynamics of Neutron Star Mergers / J. A. Faber ; F. A. Rasio |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational Waves / M. Ruffert ; H.-T. Janka |
| Simulations of Black Hole--Neutron Star Binary Coalescence / W. H. Lee |
| Collisions of Black Holes: Cracks in a Hard Problem / R. A. Matzner |
| The Innermost Stable Circular Orbit in Compact Binaries / T. W. Baumgarte |
| Cosmology |
| Stochastic Gravitational Radiation from Phase Transitions / A. Kosowsky ; A. Mack ; T. Kahniashvili |
| The Cosmic Microwave Background: A Gravity Wave Detector / D. N. Spergel |
| Stellar Collapse and Rotational Instabilities |
| Gravitational Waves from Stellar Collapse / C. L. Fryer |
| Rotational Instabilities and Centrifugal Hangup / K. C. B. New ; J. M. Centrella |
| Rotational Instabilities in Post-Collapse Stellar Cores / J. D. Brown |
| Secular Bar-Mode Evolution and Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars / D. Lai |
| Rotating Neutron Stars, R-Modes, and LXMBs |
| X-ray Observations of Low Mass X-ray Binaries: Accretion Instabilities on Long and Short Time-Scales / J. H. Swank |
| X-ray Observations of Neutron Star Binaries: Evidence for Millisecond Spins / T. E. Strohmayer |
| R-Modes in Accreting and Young Neutron Stars / G. Ushomirsky |
| Conference Rapporteurs |
| The Future Looks Bright / J. E. Tohline ; P. Saulson ; R. Weiss |
| List of Participants |
| Author Index |
| Preface |
| Scientific Organizing Committee |
| Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors |
| First Generation Interferometers / B. C. Barish |
| The Second Generation LIGO Interferometers / P. Fritschel |
| Resonant Detectors of Gravitational Radiation / W. O. Hamilton |
