First Announcement: Gravitational Wave Phenomenology Workshop Sponsored by the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics Penn State University 6 ? 8 November 2001 Web: ; Email: The forthcoming generation of ground and space-based gravitational wave detectors have unleashed exciting challenges and opportunities in both physics and astronomy. The waves these new detectors will observe arise in strong, dynamical gravitational fields, offering the first opportunities to test our understanding of fully non-linear relativistic gravity. Simultaneously, the observations' astrophysical implications are likely to be novel, diverse and rich as they reveal the inner dynamics of processes hidden from electromagnetic astronomy: e.g., the collision of black holes in the center of a galaxy at high redshift. Emerging in response to these new opportunities, and at the interface of general relativity, astrophysics and experimental physics, is the new discipline of Gravitational Wave Phenomenology: the physics and astrophysics that can be explored by gravitational wave observations in all wavebands. The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested researchers from the gravitational physics, astrophysics, and experimental gravity communities to explore this new discipline and chart its future. -- Scientific Organizing Committee Lee Samuel Finn (Chair), Abhay Ashtekar, Pablo Laguna, Peter Meszaros, Steinn Sigurdsson, Alex Wolszczan (Penn State) Warren Anderson, Mario Diaz, Joseph Romano (University of Texas, Brownsville) Patrick Brady (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia) Eanna Flanagan (Cornell University) Gabriela Gonzalez, Jorge Pullin, Joel Tohline (Louisiana State University) Richard Price (University of Utah) Kenneth Strain (University of Glasgow) Robin Stebbins (Goddard Spaceflight Center) The gravitational waves are not viscous ome want to make them to appear the radial energy that wines given off e' does not continue but pacchettizzata very determined frequencies of emission to the ends of the gravitational motor we have second give ufficilali a densita spiral to you of of energy that by hand moves to spiral and diminiuisce its densita delta of energy hand that the space of the spira;ela umenta gio none' vorosimile in sure conditions: those that we want to sfutttare for the motor ij practical serve us a motor that not e' nientalatro that with of energetic conteniitori (defiiamo what it means gravitational container siccome the gravita' puo' to condense itself and therefore puo' to conddensare also its energy the motor not e' nietaltro that piccoo a black hole cioe' a container of nergia that gives off its force to impulses just as ago a black hole does not exist null thus To effcace in the human locomozione and spaces them like putting of agreement an impulse GTAVITAZIONALE aaahe e' gia' be measured to the perifaeria of the black holes to the container e' the same motor: as in a reactor nuclear in the whose kernel we find the energy and the motor and covering that distribui (they give you from the center of gravitazinali waves of pert Australia) Being the gravitational wave a wave with 4 poles and therefore quardupoli l to its undulation in a peak moment is crushed becoming a wave from 8p g/4 c a wave of seganle that till now us e' always escaped nelal detainment hour we know what to try? once characterized dovrebeb to be useful to take advantage of instruments as spectrometers polarimetri elettromagneto, memtri interpretation of the phenomena of Hessdallen (Norway) E' a phenomenon with a frequency e' this renders it compatible with the phenomena of frequency of the waves gravitazional in the zone we have had precipitations of mateoriti and qundi one of these potrbeb essereun or mirror of gravitational waves or qualcosaltro E' a phenomenon to frequency this First the my experiments are give to you they give to you important to Trieste symposium on the waves gravitazionalie measurements http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~pub_off/lectures/vol3.html Gravitational Waves: To Challenge to Theoretical Astrophysics. -- Important Dates: October 8: Accommodation reservations in reserved room block (see below) October 17: Registration to guarantee banquet seating (see below) November 6-8: Workshop