Jerusalem, 22 - 27 June 1997
at the Givat Ram Campus, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

The cornerstone for Hebrew University was laid in 1918 on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem and the University opened its gates in 1925. The university operates today four campuses with nearly 23,000 students. The conference took place in the Givat Ram campus that houses the Science faculty. Albert Einstein, who help founding the University, was a member of the first board of trustees. Einstein's archives are kept today at the National Library at Givat Ram.

General topics discussed:

• Rigorous and Exact Solutions
• Quantum Gravity
• Cosmology
• Mathematical Astrophysics
• Observational Astrophysics
• Precision Experiments

Over five days the Symposium included invited review talks on the major topics along with contributed presentations describing current research in the many sub-fields represented. Contributed papers have been presented in parallel sessions and in poster format.

International Organizing Committee

D. Blair, Y. Choquet-Bruhat, D. Christodoulou, T. Damour, J. Ehlers, F. Everitt, Fang Li Zhi, S. Hawking, Y. Ne'eman, R. Ruffini (chair), A. Salam, H. Sato, R. Sunayev, S. Weinberg

Local Organizing Committee

J. Bekenstein, M. Carmeli, A. Casher, A. Dar, A. Dekel, J. Horwitz, J. Katz, M. Milgron, S. Nussinov, A. Ori, T. Piran (chair), C. Sonnenschein

Local Scientific Secretariat

S. Ayal, H. El-Ad, S. Hod, S. Kobayashi, R. Sari

For Further Information contact:

Prof. Tsvi Piran
Racah Inst. of Physics
Hebrew Univ.
Jerusalem 91904
ISRAEL
Phone: +972-(0)2-658 4233
Fax: +972-(0)2-561 1519
Mail: mg8@shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il

Conference secretariat:
ORTRA,
P.O. Box 50432
Tel Aviv 61500
ISRAEL
Phone: +972-(0)3-5177888
Fax: +972-(0)3-5174433,
Mail: ortra@trendline.co.il

International Coordinating Committee

• Bob Jantzen (chair)
• ARGENTINA: Chimento L.P., Jakubi A.S.
• ARMENIA: Gurzadyan V. 
• AUSTRALIA: Fackerell E.D.,Lun T., Manchester R., Opat G., Scott S., Szekeres P. 
• AUSTRIA: Urbantke H. 
• AZERBAIJAN: Seidov Z.F. 
• BELGIUM: Henneaux M. 
• BELORUSSIA: Inkevich A.V. 
• BOLIVIA: Aguirre C. 
• BRAZIL: Aguiar O., Novello M., Villela T. 
• CANADA: Cooperstock F., Israel W., Unruh W. CHILE: Teitelboim C.
  
• CHINA: Gao J.G., Cheng Fu Zhen, Li Qibin 
• COLOMBIA: Torres S. 
• COSTA RICA: de Teramond G. 
• CZECK REPUBLIC: Bicak J. 
• CROATIA: Tadic Z. 
• DENMARK: Novikov I. 
• ECUADOR: Hoeneissen B. 
• EL SALVADOR: Violini G. 
• ESTONIA: Einasto J. 
• FRANCE: Deruelle N., Iliopoulos J., Mignard F.
  
• GEORGIA: Kharadze E.K. 
• GERMANY: Hehl F.H., Hillebrandt W., Neugebauer G. 
• GREECE: Kotsakis, S. 
• HONG KONG: Yu A. 
• HUNGARY: Perjes Z. INDIA: Chitre S.M., Narlikar J., Radakrishnan,
• IRELAND: O'Murchada N. 
• ISRAEL: Finzi A., Jamer M., Peres A. 
• ITALY: Preparata G., Regge T., Treves A. 
• JAPAN: Fujimoto M., Futamase T., Nakamura T., Sasaki M., Sato K., Tomimatsu A. 
• KAZACHSTAN: Abdildin A.M. 
• KOREA: Cho Y.M., Lee C.H., Song D.J. 
• KYRGYZSTAN: GurovichV.Ts. 
• LITHUANIA: Pyragas K.A. 
• MEXICO: Plebanski J., Rosenbaum M., Ryan M. 
• MOLDOVA: Chernigovsky S., Gaina A. 
• MORROCO: Chamcham K. 
• NETHERLANDS: Berends F.A. 
• POLAND: Demianski M., Sokolowski L., Trautman A. 
• ROMANIA: Visinescu M.
  
• RUSSIA: Bisnovatyi-Kogan G.S., Boyarchuck A.A., Chechetkin V.M., Khriplovich Yu.B., Melnikov V., Starobinsky A.A. 
• SLOVENIA: Cadez A 
• SPAIN: Ibanez J., Perez-Mercader J., Verdaguer E.
  
• SOUTH AFRICA: Maharaj S. 
• SWEDEN: Rosquist K. 
• SWITZERLAND: Hajicek P., Jetzer P. 
• TAIWAN: Ni W.T. 
• TURKEY: Nutku Y. UK: Barrow J., Gibbons G.W, Ross G. 
• UKRAINE: Fomin P.I. 
• USA: Ashtekar A., Bardeen J., DeWitt-Morette C., Finkelstein D., Frieman J., Halpern L., Hellings R., Klauder J., Mashhoon B., Nordtvedt K., Parker L., Schwarz J., Shapiro I., Smoot G., Teukolsky S., Thorne K.S., York J. 
• UZBEKISTAN: Zalaletdinov R.M. 
• VATICAN CITY: Stoeger W. 
• VENEZUELA: Percoco U. 
• VIETNAM: Van Hieu Nguyen 
• YUGOSLAVIA: Sijacki D.

There will be a 20 minutes coffee break between 16:00 and 16:20 (10:00-10:20 on Friday)

There will be a tour of Jerusalem on wednesday afternoon.