Scientific Committees

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Chair: Susan M. Scott The Australian National University
Deputy Chair: David E. McClelland The Australian National University
Treasurer: John D. Steele The University of New South Wales
Malcolm Anderson Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Leo Brewin Monash University
Li Ju The University of Western Australia
Peter Veitch The University of Adelaide
David Wiltshire University of Canterbury

GRG18 SCIENTIFIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Chair: B.S. Sathyaprakash UK
Miguel Alcubierre Mexico
Nils Andersson UK
Piotr Chrusciel France
Curt Cutler USA
Valeria Ferrari Italy
Bala Iyer India
Roy Maartens UK
Malcolm MacCallum UK
Donald Marolf USA
David McClelland Australia
Jorge Pullin USA
Norna Robertson USA
Misao Sasaki Japan
Bernard F Schutz Germany
Susan M. Scott Australia
Matt Visser New Zealand
Clifford M. Will USA

AMALDI7 SCIENTIFIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE

(The Gravitational Wave International Committee – GWIC)
Chair: Massimo Cerdonio Italy
Eugenio Coccia Italy
Karsten Danzmann Germany
Georgio Frossati Netherlands
Masa-Katsu Fujimoto Japan
Adelberto Giazotto Italy
James Hough United Kingdom
William Hamilton United States
David McClelland Australia
Jay Marx United States
Benoit Mours France
Thomas Prince United States
Peter Saulson United States
Bernard Schutz Germany
Robin Stebbins United States
Kimio Tsubono Japan
Stefano Vitale Italy
Clifford Will United States

COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ON GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION

President: Clifford M. Will
Deputy-President: Robert M. Wald
Secretary and Treasurer: Malcolm A.H. MacCallum
IUPAP Representative: Odylio D. Aguiar
IUPAP Representative: Alexei Starobinskii
IUPAP Representative: Kimio Tsubono
IUPAP Representative: Xu Chong-Ming (C.-M. Xu)
Nils Andersson
Jacob D. Bekenstein
Vladimir B. Braginsky
Massimo Cerdonio
Piotr Chrusciel
Naresh K. Dadhich
Raymon (Ray) A. d'Inverno
John L. Friedman
James Isenberg
Andrzej Krasinski
Patricio Letelier
Ray G. McLenaghan
Jeanette E. Nelson
Gernot Neugebauer
Niall 'O Murchada
Jorge Pullin
Alan Rendall
Oscar Reula
Misao Sasaki
Peter Saulson
Susan M. Scott
José M.M. Senovilla
Claes Uggla
John A. Wainwright

Main banner captions:

image 1: 'Distribution of detached white-dwarf–white-dwarf binaries in our galaxy as a function of the gravitational wave frequency and chirp mass.' from Simulation of the white dwarf–white dwarf galactic background in the LISA data Jeffrey A Edlund, Massimo Tinto, Andrzej Królak, and Gijs Nelemans 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S913-S926

image 2: 'A three-dimensional visualization of the mesh including the excised region and the refinement around the particle.', from A toy model for testing finite element methods to simulate extreme-mass-ratio binary systems Carlos F Sopuerta, Pengtao Sun Pablo Laguna and Jinchao Xu 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 251-285

image 3: 'Scalar gravitational field > at time t = 140M (n = 30 000).', from A toy model for testing finite element methods to simulate extreme-mass-ratio binary systems Carlos F Sopuerta, Pengtao Sun Pablo Laguna and Jinchao Xu 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 251-285