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The Relativists and Cosmologists in India organized an
international conference in Goa, India, in 1987, known as the
International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC-87).
Encouraged by the success of this conference it was decided to have
such a meeting periodically, once in every four years. Accordingly,
ICGC- 91 was held at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL),
Ahmedabad, India. The third International Conference on Gravitation
and Cosmology, (ICGC-95) was held at the Inter-University centre
for Astronomy and Astrophysics, IUCAA, Pune, India during December
13 - 19, 1995. This series of conferences is co-sponsored by the
Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (lAGRG).
The Conference had 16 plenary lectures and five workshops
altogether. There were three plenary lectures per day and two
workshops running parallel each day. We were fortunate in getting
plenary speakers who are leading experts in their respective fields
drawn from all over the world. The conference was attended by about
105 persons from India and 55 from abroad. We thank all the
contributors who have taken time to write up their lectures amidst
their busy schedule. We regret we could not get the contributions
of a few plenary speakers. We would also like to thank the members
of Organizing Committees who have worked hard to make this
conference a success.
The Relativists and Cosmologists in India organized an
international conference in Goa, India, in 1987, known as the
International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC-87).
Encouraged by the success of this conference it was decided to have
such a meeting periodically, once in every four years. Accordingly,
ICGC- 91 was held at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL),
Ahmedabad, India. The third International Conference on Gravitation
and Cosmology, (ICGC-95) was held at the Inter-University centre
for Astronomy and Astrophysics, IUCAA, Pune, India during December
13 - 19, 1995. This series of conferences is co-sponsored by the
Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (lAGRG).
The Conference had 16 plenary lectures and five workshops
altogether. There were three plenary lectures per day and two
workshops running parallel each day. We were fortunate in getting
plenary speakers who are leading experts in their respective fields
drawn from all over the world. The conference was attended by about
105 persons from India and 55 from abroad. We thank all the
contributors who have taken time to write up their lectures amidst
their busy schedule. We regret we could not get the contributions
of a few plenary speakers. We would also like to thank the members
of Organizing Committees who have worked hard to make this
conference a success.
This book serves as a textbook for senior undergraduate students
who are learning the subject of general relativity and
gravitational waves for the first time. Both authors have been
teaching the course in various forms for a few decades and have
designed the book as a one stop book at basic level including
derivations and exercises. A spectacular prediction of general
relativity is gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were first
detected by the LIGO detectors in 2015, hundred years after their
prediction. Both authors are part of the LIGO Science Collaboration
and were authors on the discovery paper. Therefore, a strong
motivation for this book is to provide the essential concepts of
general relativity theory and gravitational waves with their modern
applications to students and to researchers who are new to the
multi-disciplinary field of gravitational wave astronomy. One of
the advanced topics covered in this book is the fundamentals of
gravitational wave data analysis, filling a gap in textbooks on
general relativity. The topic blends smoothly with other chapters
in the book not only because of the common area of research, but it
uses similar differential geometric and algebraic tools that are
used in general relativity.
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