These are the proceedings of the XVIII Conference of the Indian Association
for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG) held at the Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, Madras, INDIA during Feb. 15-17, 1996. The Conference
was dedicated the late Prof. S. Chandrasekhar.
The proceedings consists of 17 articles on:
- Chandrasekhar's work (N. Panchapkesan);
- Vaidya-Raychaudhuri Lecture (C.V. Vishveshwara)
- Gravitational waves (B.R. Iyer, R. Balasubramanian)
- Gravitational Collapse (T.P. Singh)
- Accretion on black hole (S. Chakrabarti)
- Cosmology (D. Munshi, S. Bharadwaj, G.S. Mohanty, P. Bhattacharjee);
- Classical GR (S. Kar, D.C. Srivatsava)
- Quantum aspects (J. Maharana, Saurya Das, P. Mitra, G. Date, N.D. Hari
Dass)
The body of THIS article contains ONLY the title, contents, foreword,
organizing committees, preface, list of contributed talks and list of
participants. The plenery talks are available at:
http://www.imsc.ernet.in/physweb/Conf/ both as post-script files of individual
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