The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research supports a number of programs chosen for their high intellectual promise and interdisciplinary character. The CIAR Cosmology and Gravity Program connects CIAR Fellows, Scholars and Associates at nodes across Canada, with a distinguished group of international Associates and Advisory Board members. The interests of Program members span a broad range of interconnected fields: string theory and quantum gravity, early universe physics, physical cosmology (including observations, theory and phenomenology of the CMB, large scale structure and galaxy formation), computational cosmology, numerical relativity, high energy astrophyics, neutrino astrophyics, and black holes. At CITA, Dick Bond and Lev Kofman are CIAR Fellows, Ue-Li Pen is a CIAR Scholar, Chris Thompson is a CIAR Associate, and Carlo Contaldi is a CIAR Reporter. The Program was renewed for a fourth five-year term, which began in July 2002, when Dick Bond took over from Scott Tremaine as the Director. The University of Toronto node also has members in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department and in the Physics Department (Ray Carlberg, Barth Netterfield and Amanda Peet). Other nodes are at the University of British Columbia (Bill Unruh and Matt Choptuik), at the University of Alberta (Valery Frolov and Don Page), at the University of Victoria (Werner Israel and Julio Navarro), at McMaster University (Hugh Couchman), at the Perimeter Institute (Rob Myers), at Queen's University (Mark Chen), and at McGill University (Vicky Kaspi). The support of CIAR of the years, and the administrative cooperation between CITA and CIAR in attracting excellent researchers, has been fundamental to CITA's success -- locally, nationally, and internationally. The Program fields covered and the cross-Canada networking mesh extremely well with the aims of CITA, and the strong interaction between CIAR Program members, other CITAzens, and visitors make Toronto and Canada a lively place for cosmological and gravitational research.
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