In February 2016, physicists announced the breakthrough discovery of the gravitational waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein in his century-old theory of General Relativity. These gravitational waves were emitted as a result of the collision of two massive black holes that happened about 1.3 billion years ago. They were discovered at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States and thus marked a new milestone for physics. However, it remains unclear to physicists how the gravitational interaction can be included in the Standard Theory of particle physics which describes the electroweak and the strong interactions in our universe.In this volume are the lectures, given by the speakers at the conference on cosmology and particle physics. The discussed topics range from gravitational waves to cosmology, dark matter, dark energy and particle physics beyond the Standard Theory.

In February 2016, physicists announced the breakthrough discovery of the gravitational waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein in his century-old theory of General Relativity. These gravitational waves were emitted as a result of the collision of two massive black holes that happened about 1.3 billion years ago. They were discovered at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States and thus marked a new milestone for physics. However, it remains unclear to physicists how the gravitational interaction can be included in the Standard Theory of particle physics which describes the electroweak and the strong interactions in our universe. In this volume are the lectures, given by the speakers at the conference on cosmology and particle physics. The discussed topics range from gravitational waves to cosmology, dark matter, dark energy and particle physics beyond the Standard Theory.

The ICGAC-12 aimed to serve as a common platform around the Asia-Pacific region for the exchange and communication among all researchers in the fields of gravitation, astrophysics and cosmology. The scope covered in the conference includes dark matter, dark energy, experimental study of gravity, black holes, quantum Yang-Mills gravity, GR extension, variation of constants, fundamental physics space projects, relativistic astrophysics, white dwarfs, neutron stars, and gamma ray bursts.

"The ICGAC-12 aimed to serve as a common platform around the Asia-Pacific region for the exchange and communication among all researchers in the fields of gravitation, astrophysics and cosmology. The scope covered in the conference includes dark matter, dark energy, experimental study of gravity, black holes, quantum Yang-Mills gravity, GR extension, variation of constants, fundamental physics space projects, relativistic astrophysics, white dwarfs, neutron stars, and gamma ray bursts."--Provided by publisher.

This book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics. It presents a brilliant overview of the status and future potential and trends in experimental and theoretical particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics, in the complimentary sectors of accelerator, non-accelerator and space physics.

The Newtonian gravitational constant : the history of the determination and the environmental noise problem for the experimental measurement / Vadim Milyukov -- A new determination of G with time-of-swing method / Shan-Qing Yang [und weitere] -- Cryogenic test of the gravitational inverse-square law / Ho Jung Paik [und weitere] -- Testing relativistic gravity and detecting gravitational waves in space / Wei-Tou Ni -- Cryogenic Advanced Gravitational Wave Detector (LCGT) / K. Kuroda and LCGT collaboration -- Ground-based study of an inertial sensor with an electrostatic-controlled torsion pendulum / Hai-Bo Tu [und weitere] -- Orbit design and optimization for the gravitational wave detection of LISA / Y. Xia [und weitere] -- Angular resolution of multi-LISA constellations / Yan Wang and Xue-Fei Gong -- Development of a DMT monitor for statistical tracking of gravitational-wave burst triggers generated from the OMEGA pipeline / Jun-Wei Li and Jun-Wei Cao -- Testing gravitational waves with total-phase-count Doppler tracking in Chinese Mars mission / Kun Shang, Chun-Li Dai and Jin-Song Ping -- Shear viscosity from the effective coupling of gravitons / Rong-Gen Cai, Zhang-Yue Nie and Ya-Wen Sun -- Principle of relativity, 24 possible kinematical algebras and new geometries with Poincaré symmetry / C.-G. Huang -- Physical decomposition of the gauge and gravitational fields / Xiang-Song Chen and Ben-Chao Zhu -- Physical decomposition of gauge fields in QED and in Yang-Mills gravity with translation gauge symmetry / Daniel C. Katz, Xiang-Song Chen and Jong-Ping Hsu -- On uniqueness of Kerr space-time near null infinity / Xiao-Ning Wu -- Pulsars and gravitational waves / K.J. Lee, R.X. Xu and G.J. Qiao -- Braneworld stars : anisotropy minimally projected onto the brane / J. Ovalle -- Quantum Yang-Mills gravity : the ghost particle and its interactions / Jong-Ping Hsu -- Gravitational energy / James M. Nester -- Interaction of dark energy with other components / Sung-Won Kim and Yong-Yeon Keum -- Brief introduction of Yinghuo-1 Mars orbiter and open-loop tracking techniques / Jin-Song Ping [und weitere] -- Apply moving puncture method to ADM formalism / Zhou-Jian Cao and Chen-Zhou Liu -- Analytic solution for matter density fluctuations in f(R) models of cosmic acceleration / Hayato Motohashi, Alexei A. Starobinsky and Jun'ichi Yokoyama -- Normal modes, zero modes and super-radiant modes for scalar fields in rotating black hole spacetime / M. Kenmoku -- An analysis for the effective spectrum indices for FSRQs / Jiang-He Yang [und weitere] -- Refinements of trapped surfaces / Sean A. Hayward -- Analytical spectra of RGW and its induced CMB anisotropies and polarization / Yang Zhang -- Evolution of large-scale magnetic fields and state transitions in black hole x-ray binaries / Ding-Xiong Wang, Chang-Yin Huang and Jiu-Zhou Wang -- Pulsars mass and radius estimation by the kHz QPO / C.M. Zhang, Y.Y. Pan and Y.H. Zhao -- The central black hole masses for [symbol]-ray loud blazars / Jiang-He Yang and Jun-Hui Fan -- Hawking radiation and thermalization phenomena in open quantum systems / Hong-Wei Yu and Jia-Lin Zhang -- Repulsive Casimir force, realizable or not? / Xiang-Hua Zhai -- The role of variations of central density of White Dwarf progenitors upon type Ia Supernovae / R. Fisher [und weitere]

The 16th conference of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR16), held at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, from 15 to 21 July, was attended by 450 delegates from around the world. The scientific programme comprised 18 plenary lectures, 1 public lecture and 19 workshops which, excepting 3 plenary lectures, are presented in this proceedings. It was the first major international conference on general relativity and gravitation held on the African continent.

This volume contains the proceedings of the twelfth triannual International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, the premier conference for presentation and discussion of new ideas in relativity and cosmology. The volume will contain the invited talks as well as short reports on the parallel workshops that took place at the meeting. It will be essential reading for all research workers in relativity, cosmology and astrophysics.