Committee on Gravitational Physics

National Research Council

Statement of Task

The committee will prepare a report that will cover the following topics:

The study will treat experimental tests and detectors that are both ground-based and space based. It will assess the status of theoretical and experimental work in gravitation, describe the forefronts of the field, and identify the major opportunities for progress. This report is part of Physics in a New Era, a new survey of the field.

Committee Members:

James Burkett Hartle, Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara

Eric G. Adelberger, University of Washington

Abhay V. Ashtekar, Pennsylvania State University

Beverly K. Berger, Oakland University

Gary T. Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara

Peter F. Michelson, Stanford University

Ramesh Narayan, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Peter R. Saulson, Syracuse University

Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., Princeton University

Saul A. Teukolsky, Cornell University

Clifford M. Will, Washington University

NRC Staff: