| Preface |
| Committees |
| Brane-World Theories: Cosmology and Astrophysics / Chapter 1： |
| The Current State of String Theory (Plenary Talk) / G. T. Horowitz |
| Brane-World Astronomy (Plenary Talk) / C. J. Hogan |
| Interaction of Bulk Matter with Brane-World Black-Holes / A. Chamblin |
| A Universe in a Global Monopole / K. Benson ; I. Cho |
| Dynamics of Cosmological Models in the Brane-World Scenario / A. Campos ; C. F. Sopuerta |
| Initial Conditions for Hybrid Inflation on the Brane / L. E. Mendes ; A. R. Liddle |
| Early Universe, Inflation, Baryogenesis, and Particle Production / Chapter 2： |
| New Constraints on Inflation from the CMB / W. H. Kinney ; A. Melchiorri ; A. Riotto |
| Natural Chaotic Inflation in Supergravity and Leptogenesis / M. Yamaguchi ; M. Kawasaki ; T. Yanagida |
| Diffractive Propagation of Light Waves in a Class of Anisotropically-Expanding Cosmological Models / B. Bochner |
| If the Parameters of the Vacuum Were Different, What Kind of Universe Would We Have? Self-organization of the Vacuum / V. Burdyuzha ; Y. Ponomarev ; G. Vereshkov |
| A Cosmological Model with Particle Creation / S. Chatterjee |
| Entropy and Adiabatic Components in Scalar Field Perturbations / C. Gordon |
| Dark Matter and the CDM Paradigm / Chapter 3： |
| The Dark Matter Crisis (Plenary Talk) / B. Moore |
| Recent Results from Super-Kamiokande (Plenary Talk) / M. Nakahata |
| Direct Search for Dark Matter Particles Deep Underground by DAMA Experiment (Plenary Talk) / P. Belli ; R. Bernabei ; R. Cerulli ; F. Montecchia ; M. Amato ; G. Ignesti ; A. Incicchitti ; D. Prosperi ; C. J. Dai ; H. H. He ; H. H. Kuang ; J. M. Ma |
| Status of the CDMS Search for Dark Matter WIMPs (Plenary Talk) / B. Cabrera ; R. Abusaidi ; D. S. Akerib ; P. D. Barnes, Jr. ; D. A. Bauer ; A. Bolozdynya ; P. L. Brink ; R. Bunker ; D. O. Caldwell ; J. P. Castle ; C. Chang ; R. M. Clarke ; P. Colling ; M. B. Cristler ; A. Cummings ; A. Da Silva ; A. K. Davies ; R. Dixon ; B. L. Dougherty ; D. Driscoll ; S. Eichblatt ; J. Emes ; R. J. Gaitskell ; S. R. Golwala ; D. Hale ; E. E. Haller ; D. Holmgren ; J. Hellmig ; M. E. Huber ; K. D. Irwin ; J. Jochum ; F. P. Lipshultz ; A. Lu ; C. Maloney ; V. Mandic ; J. M. Martinis ; P. Meunier ; S. W. Nam ; H. Nelson ; B. Neuhauser ; M. J. Penn ; T. A. Perera ; M. C. Perillo Isaac ; B. Pritychenko ; R. R. Ross ; T. Saab ; B. Sadoulet ; J. Sander ; D. N. Seitz ; P. Shestople ; T. Shutt ; A. Smith ; G. W. Smith ; R. W. Schnee ; A. H. Sonnenschein ; A. L. Spadafora ; W. Stockwell ; J. D. Taylor ; S. White ; S. Yellin ; B. A. Young |
| Microlensing: from Dark Matter to Planets (Plenary Talk) / A. Gould |
| CDM: Numerical Predictions on Small Scales / A. V. Kravtsov |
| Warm Dark Matter, Small Scale Crisis, and the High Redshift Universe / Z. Haiman ; R. Barkana ; J. P. Ostriker |
| The Evolution of Dark-Matter Dominated Cosmological Halos / M. Alvarez ; P. R. Shapiro ; H. Martel |
| The Equilibrium Structure of Cosmological Halos / I. T. Iliev |
| Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Flavor Mixing / M. V. Medvedev |
| Off-Axis Cluster Mergers / P. M. Ricker ; C. L. Sarazin |
| Cosmic Microwave Background / Chapter 4： |
| Images of the Early Universe from the BOOMERanG Experiment (Plenary Talk) / P. de Bernardis ; P. A. R. Ade ; J. J. Bock ; J. R. Bond ; J. Borrill ; A. Boscaleri ; K. Coble ; B. P. Crill ; G. De Gasperis ; G. De Troia ; P. C. Farese ; P. G. Ferreira ; K. Ganga ; M. Giacometti ; E. Hivon ; V. V. Hristov ; A. Iacoangeli ; A. H. Jaffe ; A. E. Lange ; L. Martinis ; S. Masi ; P. Mason ; P. D. Mauskopf ; L. Miglio ; T. Montroy ; C. B. Netterfield ; E. Pascale ; F. Piacentini ; G. Polenta ; D. Pogosyan ; S. Prunet ; S. Rao ; G. Romeo ; J. E. Ruhl ; F. Scaramuzzi ; D. Sforna ; N. Vittorio |
| AMiBA: Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy / K. Y. Lo ; T. H. Chiueh ; R. N. Martin ; K.-W. Ng ; H. Liang ; U.-L. Pen ; C.-P. Ma ; M. Kesteven ; R. Sault ; R. Subrahmanyan ; W. Wilson ; J. Peterson |
| First Results from the CBI / B. S. Mason ; T. J. Pearson ; A. C. S. Readhead ; M. Shepherd ; J. Sievers ; P. Udomprasert ; J. K. Cartwright ; S. Padin |
| Galactic Synchrotron versus CMB Polarized Signal in the Radiowavelength Region / M. Tucci ; E. Carretti ; S. Cecchini ; S. Cortiglioni ; R. Fabbri ; E. Pierpaoli |
| Revisiting Kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect / P. Zhang |
| The Role of CMB Polarization in Constraining Primordial Non-Adiabatic Fluctuations / M. Bucher ; K. Moodley ; N. Turok |
| Interpreting CMB Anisotropy Observations: Trying to Tell the Truth with Statistics / E. Gawiser |
| Separation of E and B Patterns in the Local CMB Polarization Map / T. Chiueh ; C.-J. Ma |
| New Method of Extracting non-Gaussian Signals in the CMB / J.-H. P. Wu |
| MAXIMA: Millimeter-wave Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array / C. Winant ; M. Abroe ; P. Ade ; A. Balbi ; D. Barbosa ; J. Bock ; J. Collins ; P. Ferreira ; S. Hanany ; V. Hristov ; B. Johnson ; A. T. Lee ; S. Oh ; B. Rabii ; P. L. Richards ; R. Stompor ; G. F. Smoot ; J. H. P. Wu |
| Large-Scale Structure, Galaxy Formation, and Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium / Chapter 5： |
| Cosmological Reionization (Plenary Talk) |
| Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals (Plenary Talk) / G. Soucail |
| Measuring Large-Scale Structure with the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (Plenary Talk) / J. A. Peacock |
| The Origin of the Magnetic Fields of the Universe: The Plasma Astrophysics of the Free Energy of the Universe / S. A. Colgate ; H. Li ; V. I. Pariev |
| Visualization of Gravitational Lenses / F. Frutos Alfaro |
| Explosions and Outflows during Galaxy Formation |
| Cosmological Parameter Survey Using the Gravitational Lensing Method / P. Premadi ; R. Matzner ; T. Futamase |
| Cosmological Matter Perturbations with Causal Seeds |
| Cluster Abundance and Large Scale Structure |
| Probes of the Accelerating Universe / Chapter 6： |
| The Quintessential Universe (Plenary Talk) / P. J. Steinhardt |
| Constraining the Properties of Dark Energy / D. Huterer ; M. S. Turner |
| Clusters in the Precision Cosmology Era / J. J. Mohr ; G. P. Holder |
| A Local Void and the Accelerating Supernovae / K. Tomita |
| Value of the Cosmological Constant: Theory versus Experiment / M. Carmeli ; T. Kuzmenko |
| Feasibility of Reconstructing the Quintessential Potential Using SNIa Data / T. Chiba ; T. Nakamura |
| Constraints on [Omega superscript m] and [Omega superscript A] from Future Cluster Surveys / G. Holder ; J. Mohr |
| Emergence of Discrete Structure Scales in Q-component Matter Background / M. P. Leubner |
| Conformal Gravity and a Naturally Small Cosmological Constant / P. D. Mannheim |
| The Vacuum Energy from a New Perspective / A. R. Mondragon ; R. E. Allen |
| Nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang and First Stars / Chapter 7： |
| The Early Formation, Evolution and Age of the Neutron-Capture Elements in the Early Galaxy / J. J. Cowan ; C. Sneden ; J. W. Truran |
| Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries and the First Stars / S. Rosswog ; C. Freiburghaus ; F.-K. Thielemann ; M. B. Davies |
| Neutrino Heating in an Inhomogeneous Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Model / J. F. Lara |
| Primordial Nucleosynthesis with Hadron Injection from Low-mass Primordial Black Holes / J. Yokoyama ; K. Kohri |
| Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution / Chapter 8： |
| Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei (Plenary Talk) / J. Kormendy ; K. Gebhardt |
| The X-ray Background and the Census of Quasars (Plenary Talk) / A. J. Barger |
| Discovery of a 2 kpc Binary Quasar / G. A. Shields ; V. Junkkarinen ; E. A. Beaver ; E. M. Burbidge ; R. D. Cohen ; F. Hamann ; R. W. Lyons |
| Black Holes and Galaxy Metamorphosis / J. K. Holley-Bockelmann |
| Acceleration and Collimation of Cosmic Jets / Chapter 9： |
| High Energy Phenomena in Blazars (Plenary Talk) / L. Maraschi |
| Jet Power and Jet Suppression: The Role of Disk Structure and Black Hole Rotation / D. L. Meier |
| Poynting Jets from Accretion Disks / R. V. E. Lovelace ; G. V. Ustyugova ; M. M. Romanova |
| Magnetorotational Explosion: Results of 2D Simulations / S. G. Moiseenko ; G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan ; N. V. Ardeljan |
| Jet Formation from Rotating Magnetized Objects / N. V. Ardelyan |
| Do Active Galactic Nucleus Jets Consist of a Pair Plasma? / K. Hirotani |
| Collimated Energy-Momentum Extraction from Rotating Black Holes in Quasars and Microquasars Using the Penrose Mechanism / R. K. Williams |
| A New Optically Thin Accretion Disk Model with Powerful Electron-Positron Outflow / T. Yamasaki ; F. Takahara ; M. Kusunose |
| Supernovae / Chapter 10： |
| Aspherical Supernova Explosions: Hydrodynamics, Radiation Transport, and Observational Consequences (Plenary Talk) / P. Hoflich ; A. Khokhlov ; L. Wang |
| General Relativistic Simulations of Stellar Core Collapse and Postbounce Evolution with Boltzmann Neutrino Transport / M. Liebendorfer ; O. E. B. Messer ; A. Mezzacappa ; W. R. Hix |
| Hypernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts / P. A. Mazzali ; K. Nomoto ; K. Maeda |
| Simulations of Astrophysical Fluid Instabilities / A. C. Calder ; B. Fryxell ; R. Rosner ; L. J. Dursi ; K. Olson ; F. X. Timmes ; M. Zingale ; P. MacNeice ; H. M. Tufo |
| Large Lepton Mixing and SN 1987A / M. Kachelriess ; R. Tomas ; J. W. F. Valle |
| Quenching Processes in Flame-Vortex Interactions / J. C. Niemeyer ; D. Q. Lamb |
| Pulsars, Magnetars, and Supernova Remnants / Chapter 11： |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts from Extragalactic Magnetar Flares / R. C. Duncan |
| Long-Term RXTE Monitoring of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937 / V. M. Kaspi ; F. P. Gavriil ; D. Chakrabarty ; J. R. Lackey ; M. P. Muno |
| Testing Neutron Star Thermal Evolution Theories / S. Tsuruta ; M. A. Teter |
| Ubiquity: Relativistic Winds from Young Rotation-Powered Pulsars / E. V. Gotthelf |
| Interaction of Evolved Pulsars and Magnetars with the ISM / O. D. Toropina ; Y. M. Toropin |
| New Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters / N. D'Amico ; A. Possenti ; R. N. Manchester ; J. Sarkissian ; A. G. Lyne ; F. Camilo |
| Gamma-Ray Emission from Pulsar Magnetospheres / S. Shibata |
| Cyclotron-annihilation Imprints of Magnetized Vacuum in MeV Emission from Neutron Stars / A. A. Belyanin ; V. V. Kocharovsky ; Vl. V. Kocharovsky |
| Large Redshifts from Compact Objects |
| Bardeen-Petterson Effect and QPOs in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries / P. C. Fragile ; G. J. Mathews ; J. R. Wilson |
| Galactic Population of Radio and Gamma-Ray Pulsars / P. L. Gonthier ; M. S. Ouelette ; S. O'Brien ; J. Berrier ; A. K. Harding |
| Exact Solutions with w-Modes: Trapping of Gravitational Waves Inside Neutron Stars / M. Ishak ; L. Chamandy ; K. Lake |
| Simulations of Glitches in Pulsars / M. B. Larson ; B. Link |
| On Companion-Induced Off-Center Supernova-Like Explosions / C.-H. Lee ; I. Yi ; H. K. Lee |
| Self-Similar Hot Accretion Flow onto a Neutron Star |
| Isolated Neutron Stars--Optical Non-Thermal Phenomenology / A. Shearer ; A. Gordon ; P. O'Connor ; R. Butler |
| "Inverse Mapping" of Non-Thermal Optical Emission from Isolated Neutron Stars / A. Golden ; S. Eikenberry |
| Magnetic Domain in Magnetar-Matters and Soft Gamma Repeaters / I.-S. Suh |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts / Chapter 12： |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts--When Theory Meets Observations (Plenary Talk) / T. Piran |
| GRB and Environment Interaction / P. Meszaros |
| A Survey of the Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts / S. Holland |
| Construction and Preliminary Application of the Variability [right arrow] Luminosity Estimator / D. E. Reichart |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts Statistical Properties and Limitations on the Physical Model |
| Modification of Relativistic Jets in the Presence of Neutron Component / E. V. Derishev |
| Cascaded sub-TeV Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts: Origin and Observational Tests |
| Effects of Self-Compton Cooling on the Synchrotron Spectrum of GRBs |
| An Analytic Model of Gamma-Ray Burst Pulse Profiles / D. Kocevski ; E. P. Liang |
| GRBs from Unstable Poynting-Dominated Outflows / M. Lyutikov |
| Generation of Magnetic Fields and Jitter Radiation in GRBs. I. Kinetic Theory |
| The Kinematics of the Lag-Luminosity Relationship / J. D. Salmonson |
| Near-infrared Polarimetric Observations of the Afterglow of GRB 000301C / B. Stecklum ; O. Fischer ; S. Klose ; R. Mundt ; C. Bailer-Jones |
| The Trans-Relativistic Blast Wave Model for SN 1998bw and GRB 980425 / J. C. Tan ; C. D. Matzner ; C. F. McKee |
| Magnetic Accretion into Black Holes / Chapter 13： |
| X-rays and Accretion Discs as Probes of the Strong Gravity of Black Holes (Plenary Talk) / A. C. Fabian |
| Convection in Radiatively Inefficient Black Hole Accretion Flows (Plenary Talk) / I. V. Igumenshchev ; M. A. Abramowicz |
| Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Black Hole Accretion / C. S. Reynolds ; P. J. Armitage ; J. Chiang |
| Magnetic Stresses at the Inner Edges of Accretion Disks Around Black Holes / J. H. Krolik |
| Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Warped Accretion Discs / U. Torkelsson ; G. I. Ogilvie ; A. Brandenburg ; J. E. Pringle ; A. Nordlund ; R. F. Stein |
| Formation and Dynamics of Neutron Haloes in Disk Accreting Black Holes |
| Shot Noise in USA Lightcurves of XTE J1118+480 and Cygnus X-1 / W. B. Focke ; E. D. Bloom ; B. Giebels ; G. Godfrey ; K. T. Reilly ; P. Saz Parkinson ; G. Shabad ; K. S. Wood ; P. S. Ray ; R. M. Bandyopadhyay ; M. T. Wolff ; G. Fritz ; P. Hertz ; M. P. Kowalski ; M. N. Lovellette ; D. Yentis ; J. D. Scargle |
| Magnetic Flux Through a Slightly Charged Kerr Black Hole / C. H. Lee ; H. Kim |
| Relativistic Slim Disk Model for NLS1s / T. Manmoto ; S. Mineshige |
| Estimation of Relativistic Accretion Disk Parameters from Iron Line Emission / B. C. Bromley ; W. A. Miller |
| Probing Black Holes with Constellation-X / K. A. Weaver |
| Numerical Relativity and Black Hole Collisions / Chapter 14： |
| Recent Developments in Classical Relativity (Plenary Talk) / B. G. Schmidt |
| Binary Neutron Star Mergers in Fully General Relativistic Simulations (Plenary Talk) / M. Shibata ; K. Uryu |
| Numerical Evolution of the Kruskal Spacetime Using the Conformal Field Equations |
| Semiglobal Numerical Calculations of Asymptotically Minkowski Spacetimes / S. Husa |
| Simulations of Black Hole Binaries: Providing Initial Data / P. Marronetti ; R. A. Matzner |
| The Lazarus Project: Plunge Waveforms from Inspiralling Black Holes / J. Baker ; B. Brugmann ; M. Campanelli ; C. Lousto ; R. Takahashi |
| Critical Phenomena Associated with Boson Stars / S. H. Hawley ; M. W. Choptuik |
| Gravitational Waves from Rotational Core Collapse in the Conformally Flat Spacetime Approximation / H. Dimmelmeier ; J. A. Font ; E. Muller |
| Application of the Galerkin Method to the Problem of Stellar Stability / A. V. Dorodnitsyn |
| Light Cone Consistency in Bimetric General Relativity / J. B. Pitts ; W. C. Schieve |
| Dynamical Bar Instability in Relativistic Rotating Stars / M. Saijo ; T. W. Baumgarte ; S. L. Shapiro |
| The Ultimate Future of the Universe, Black Hole Event Horizon Topologies, Holography, and the Value of the Cosmological Constant / F. J. Tipler |
| Gravity Wave Signatures / Chapter 15： |
| Post-Newtonian SPH Simulations of Binary Neutron Stars / J. A. Faber ; F. A. Rasio |
| Gravitational Radiation Evolution of Accreting Neutron Stars / R. V. Wagoner ; J. F. Hennawi ; J. Liu |
| Gravitational Wave Background from Coalescing Compact Stars in Eccentric Orbits / A. G. Kuranov ; V. B. Ignatiev ; K. A. Postnov ; M. E. Prokhorov |
| Detecting Eccentric Globular Cluster Binaries with LISA / M. Benacquista |
| Coalescing Binary Neutron Star Systems / F. D. Swesty ; E. Y. M. Wang |
| Quasi-Normal Modes in Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter Spacetimes / V. Cardoso ; J. P. S. Lemos |
| Constraining Post-Newtonian Parameters with Gravitational Waves / J. S. Graber |
| KiloHertz QPO and Gravitational Wave Emission as the Signature of the Rotation and Precession of a LMXB Neutron Star Near Breakup / J. G. Jernigan |
| A Semi-analytic Model for the Radiation Reaction Luminosity for Post-Newtonian Binary Neutron Star Mergers |
| Detection of Gravitational Waves from Gravitationally Lensed Systems / T. Wickramasinghe |
| Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays / Chapter 16： |
| The Origin of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: What We Know Now and What the Future Holds (Plenary Talk) / A. A. Watson |
| Recent Results from the High Resolution Fly's Eye Detector / D. Bergman |
| Probing Interactions beyond the Electroweak Scale with Ultra High Energy Cosmic Radiation / G. Sigl |
| Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos as Probe for Weak-scale String Theories? |
| Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays from Relic Topological Defects / K. D. Olum ; J. J. Blanco-Pillado |
| Cen A as the Source of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays / G. R. Farrar |
| On a Mechanism of Highest-Energy Cosmic Ray Acceleration / C. Litwin |
| Cerenkov Light from Cosmic Rays: a Comparison of Different Parametrizations / R. Barna ; A. Butkevich ; V. D'Amico ; D. De Pasquale ; A. Italiano ; A. Trifiro ; M. Trimarchi |
| Pressure Imbalance of FRII Radio Source Lobes: a Role of Energetic Proton Population / M. Ostrowski ; M. Sikora |
| GeV [gamma]-ray Astronomy with STACEE-64 / R. A. Scalzo ; L. M. Boone ; C. E. Covault ; P. Fortin ; D. Gingrich ; D. S. Hanna ; J. A. Hinton ; R. Mukherjee ; R. A. Ong ; S. Oser ; K. Ragan ; D. R. Schuette ; C. G. Theoret ; D. A. Williams |
| Miscellaneous Topics / Chapter 17： |
| Neutrino Factory Detector and Long Baseline Oscillations / E. J. Fenyves ; R. F. Burkart |
| Magnetic Support and Alfven Heating in Quasar Broad-Line Region Clouds / D. R. Goncalves ; A. C. S. Friaca ; V. Jatenco-Pereira |
| Quantum Singularity of Spacetimes with Dislocations and Disclinations / D. A. Konkowski ; T. M. Helliwell |
| From Stellar Entropy to Black Hole Entropy / M. Mbonye ; F. C. Adams ; M. J. Perry |
| Gest / S. H. Rhie |
| Conference Summary / Chapter 18： |
| Appendices / S. Weinberg |
| After Dinner Remarks / Appendix A： |
| Texas Symposium 20 / W. Schild |
| 20th Texas Symposium / E. L. Schucking |
| Reprint of the Report of the First Texas Symposium in Austin / Appendix B： |
| Relativistic Astrophysics: A Report on the Second Texas Symposium / I. Robinson ; A. Schild |
| The Formation of a Black Hole / Appendix C： |
| Recipe for Black Hole Formation / J. C. Wheeler |
| List of Attendees |
| Author Index |
