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  {\huge\bf
THE EIGHTH}\\[\bigskipamount]
  {\huge\bf
MARCEL GROSSMANN}\\[\bigskipamount]
  {\huge\bf 
MEETING}\\[\bigskipamount]
  {\Large\bf
on recent developments in theoretical and experimental\\[\medskipamount]
general relativity, gravitation, and relativistic field theories}
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Proceedings of the Meeting held at}\\[\medskipamount]
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The Hebrew  University of Jerusalem}\\[\smallskipamount]
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22--27 June  1997}
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\centerline{\LARGE\bf PART A}
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  {\large
Editor}\\[\bigskipamount]
  {\Large\bf
Tsvi Piran}\\[\smallskipamount]
The Racah Institute for Physics\\
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\\
Jerusalem 91904 Israel\\
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THE EIGHTH}\\[\bigskipamount]
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MARCEL GROSSMANN}\\[\bigskipamount]
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MEETING}\\[\bigskipamount]
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on recent developments in theoretical and experimental\\[\medskipamount]
general relativity, gravitation, and relativistic field theories}
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  {\Large\bf
Tsvi Piran}\\[\smallskipamount]
The Racah Institute for Physics\\
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\\
Jerusalem 91904 Israel\\

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\centerline{\bf THE MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETINGS}

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\noindent
The Marcel Grossmann Meetings 
were %have been 
conceived with the aim of reviewing
recent developments in gravitation and general relativity, with major emphasis
on mathematical foundations and physical predictions.  
Their main objective 
 is to bring together scientists from diverse backgrounds in order to 
 %is to elicit contributions which  
deepen our understanding of spacetime structure 
 %as well as to 
 and
review the status of experiments testing 
Einstein's theory of gravitation.

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\centerline{\bf Publications in the Series of Proceedings}

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{\parindent=0pt
Proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on 
General Relativity\\  -- these volumes\\
\place{Jerusalem, Israel, 1997}
Edited by T. Piran\\
World Scientific, 1998\\
\null\\ %
Proceedings of the Seventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on 
General Relativity \\
\place{Stanford, USA, 1994}
Edited by R.T. Jantzen and G.M. Keiser\\
World Scientific, 1996\\
\null\\ %
Proceedings of the Sixth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity\\
\place{Kyoto, Japan, 1991}
Edited by H. Sato and T. Nakamura\\
World Scientific, 1992\\
\null\\ %
Proceedings of the Fifth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity\\
\place{Perth, Australia, 1988}
Edited by D.G. Blair and M.J. Buckingham\\
World Scientific, 1989\\
\null\\ %
Proceedings of the Fourth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity\\
\place{Rome, Italy, 1985}
Edited by R. Ruffini\\
World Scientific, 1986\\
\null\\ %
Proceedings of the Third Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity\\
\place{Shanghai, People's Republic of China, 1982}
Edited by Hu Ning\\
Science Press -- Beijing and North-Holland Publishing Company, 1983\\
\null\\ %
Proceedings of the Second Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity\\
\place{Trieste, Italy, 1979}
Edited by R. Ruffini\\
North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982\\
\null\\ %
Proceedings of the First Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity\\
\place{Trieste, Italy, 1976}
Edited by R. Ruffini\\
North-Holland Publishing Company, 1977
}

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\centerline{{\bf Series Editor:} REMO RUFFINI}

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\centerline{\bf ORGANIZING BODIES}
\centerline{\bf OF THE EIGHTH  MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING:}
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\centerline{\bf INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE}
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\centerline{%
 David Blair,
 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat,
 Dimitris Christodoulou,
 Thibault Damour,
 }

\centerline{%
 Jurgen Ehlers,
 Francis Everitt,
 Fang Li Zhi,
 Stephen Hawking,
 Yuval Ne'eman,
 }

\centerline{%
 Remo Ruffini (Chair),
 Humitaka Sato,
 Rashid Sunayev,
 Steven Weinberg
 }

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\centerline{\bf LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE}
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\centerline{%
   T. Piran (chair), J. Bekenstein, M. Carmeli, A. Casher, 
}
\centerline{%
 A. Dar, A. Dekel, J. Horwitz, J. Katz, M. Milgron, 
}
\centerline{%
 S. Nussinov, A. Ori, C. Sonnenschein
}
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\centerline{\bf LOCAL SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT }
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\centerline{S. Ayal, H. El-Ad, E. Cohen, S. Hod, S. Kobayashi, R. Sari}
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\centerline{\bf SPONSORS}
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\centerline{International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA)}
%\centerline{International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)}
%\centerline{International Science Foundation (ISF)}
\centerline{International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)}
\centerline{UNESCO}
\centerline{National Science Foundation - USA (NSF)}
\centerline{The Israeli Ministry of Science}
\centerline{The Hebrew University of Jerusalem}
\centerline{The Technion}
\centerline{Tel Aviv University}


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\noindent
The recipients of the Marcel Grossmann Awards 
(from left):  Menachem Magidor,  Francis Everitt, Tulio Regge.

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\centerline{\bf MARCEL GROSSMANN AWARDS}

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\meeting{Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting}

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\Institutionalaward{	THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM}


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``for its role as a cradle of Science and Humanities}
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and for hosting the manuscripts of Albert Einstein"}

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\centerline{TULLIO REGGE}

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``for his contributions to the interface between mathematics and physics
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leading to new fields of research of paramount importance
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in relativisic astrophysics and particle physics"
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\centerline{FRANCIS EVERITT}

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``for leading the development of extremely precise space experiments
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utilizing superconducting technology to test General Relativity 
}\centerline{\it 
and the Equivalence Principle"
}

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Each recipient is presented with a silver casting of the TEST
sculpture by the artist A.~Pierelli. 
The original casting was presented to His
Holiness Pope John Paul II on the first occasion of the Marcel
Grossmann Awards.

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\Individualawardspast{WILLIAM FAIRBANK}{ABDUS SALAM}

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\Individualawardspast{SATIO HAYAKAWA}{JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER} 

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\centerline{\Large\bf PREFACE}
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The Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG8), dedicated to Yuval Ne'eman
on the occasion of his 70th birthday, took place on June 22--27, 1997.
The meeting was held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
Israel.  The meeting took place on the Givat Ram campus, where
Einstein's archives are kept today at the National Library.  Albert
Einstein, who helped found the University, was a member of the first
board of trustees.

The opening ceremonies began the evening of June 22 with welcoming
addresses by Remo Ruffini, Menachem Magidor, David Harari and Humitaka
Sato.  The three Marcel Grossmann Awards were presented by Remo
Ruffini and Humitaka Sato.  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was the
recipient of the institutional award, which was accepted on behalf of
the Institute by its President, Menachem Magidor.  The individual award
recipients were Francis Everitt and Tulio Regge. Each received a
silver replica of the TEST (Traction of Events in Space-Time)
sculpture by Attilio Pierelli.  The audience received an elegantly
printed award pamphlet including pictures of the individual recipients
and some spectacular glossy photographs of the TEST sculpture taken by
the artist Shu Takahashi, who helped design the two meeting posters
and the meeting tote bag.  Also included in the pamphlet was an essay
by Anna Imponente %(reproduced in these proceedings) 
about the
interaction between science and art which is concretely embodied in
the TEST sculpture, the three-dimensional extension of the Marcel
Grossmann Meeting logo used in the meeting posters and other
promotional materials since the fourth meeting.

After the opening ceremonies, the meeting began with a public talk by
Yuval Ne'eman ``On the clouds in the sky of Physics at the end of the
twentieth century.''

The scientific program included five days of 25 morning plenary talks
and four afternoons of a total of 40 parallel sessions including
approximately 400 presented papers.  No poster sessions were
held. Instead, everyone not able to be allotted a longer time to speak
was guaranteed their ``at least five minutes of fame" to announce
their work for further discussion on an individual level.

%Some 
Close to 425 registered participants and 120 registered accompanying
persons were present for the meeting during a week of truly fine
weather in Jerusalem.  The participants were able to enjoy not only
the scientific discussion but also to visit the three thousand
year old city of Jerusalem.  During the afternoon of June 25th all
participants enjoyed a tour that passed through the new and the old
sections of the city, visiting some of the
holiest sites for Christianity, Judaism and Islam. On this trip 
could be seen the
location that was considered for generations as the ``center of the
Universe,'' a concept of particular interest to relativitists.

The combined efforts of the local organizing committee chaired by Tsvi
Piran went into making the meeting become a reality.  The assistance
of the enthusiastic local scientific secretariat, S. Ayal, H. El-Ad,
E. Cohen, S. Hod, S. Kobayashi, R. Sari, in every single aspect of the
meeting from preparation of the WWW pages to the electronic
registration procedure and the publishing of the proceedings was
essential to the success of this conference.


%a roundtable discussion with John Wheeler,\typeout{IS THIS TRUE?} 

The farewell banquet was held in the outdoor sculpture garden of the
Israeli Museum, overlooking the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew
University and the mountains of Jerusalem.  Those present enjoyed an
Easter style dinner and were treated to a wonderful after-dinner talk
by Ivor Robinson.

The meeting was closed on June 27 by Remo Ruffini, who used the
occasion to announce the setting of a UNESCO supported net of centers
for Relativistic Astrophysics.  A warm expression of thanks was given
to the participants, speakers, and organizers, and to all those whose
financial help made possible the realization of this eighth meeting.

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     Dedication\\
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