Matters of Gravity, the newsletter of the APS Topical Group on Gravitation, Fall 2002

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Contents: * Community news: Einstein prize update, by Clifford Will World year of physics, by Richard H. Price We hear that... by Jorge Pullin * Research briefs: R-mode epitaph? by John Friedman and Nils Andersson Gravitational waves from bumpy neutron stars, by Ben Owen LIGO science operations begin!, by Gary Sanders * Conference reports: Fourth international LISA symposium, by Peter Bender Initial Data for Binary Systems, by Gregory Cook Report on Joint LSC/Source Modeling Meeting, by Patrick Brady Greek Relativity Conference, NEB-X by Kostas Kokkotas and Nick Stergioulas Gravity, Astrophysics, and Strings @ the Black Sea, by Plamen Fiziev Quantum field theory at ESI, by Robert Wald School on quantum gravity in Chile, by Don Marolf Apples with apples workshop, by Miguel Alcubierre Radiation reaction focus session and 5th Capra meeting, by Eanna Flanagan Numerical Relativity Workshop at IMA, by Manuel Tiglio