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Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein over 75 years ago. Their detection is one of the great challenges of contemporary experimental physics. This Conference intended to honour Edoardo Amaldi for his role in this research and brought together scientists engaged all over the world in gravitational wave experiments with resonant mass, interferometers and space detectors. The book gives a broad view of the detectors presently in operation and of the new generation of interferometric and resonant mass detectors now being built or under design. The book also contains lectures on neutrino telescopes and γ ray bursts observations, underlying the role of coincidence experiments among different detectors in opening new windows on the Universe.Contents: Sources of Gravitational Radiation for Detectors of the 21st Century (B F Schutz) Neutrino Telescopes (C Bemporad) γ Ray Bursts (P F Michelson) LISA — Laser Interferometer Space Antenna for Gravitation Wave Measurements (J Hough et al) The LIGO Project: Progress and Prospects (F J Raab) The VIRGO Experiment: Status of the Art (A Giazotto et al) GEO 600 — A 600-m Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antenna (K Danzmann et al) 300-m Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detector (TAMA300) in Japan (K Tsubono) Operation of the ALLEGRO Detector at LSU (W W Johnson et al) Preliminary Results of the New Run of Measurements with the Resonant Antenna EXPLORER (F Ricci et al.) Operation of the Perth Cryogenic Resonant-Bar Gravitational Wave Detector (M E Tobar et al.) The NAUTILUS Experiment (E Coccia et al) Status of the AURIGA Gravitational Wave Antenna and Perspectives for the Gravitational Waves Search with Ultracryogenic Resonant Detectors (M Cerdonio) Electromechanical Transducers and Bandwidth of Resonant-Mass Gravitational-Wave Detectors (H J Paik) The Local Supernova Production (M Turatto et al) and other papersReadership: Astrophysicists and cosmologists.

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