Title: Matters of Gravity, the newsletter of the APS TG on gravitation

Abstract: Contents:
*News:
April 1997 Joint APS/AAPT Meeting, by Beverly Berger
The physics survey and committee on gravitational physics, by Jim Hartle
*Research Briefs:
Instability of rotating stars to axial perturbations, by Sharon Morsink
LIGO project status, by Stan Whitcomb
The Search for Frame-Dragging, by Clifford Will
*Conference Reports:
Conference of the Southern African Relativity Society, by Nigel Bishop
II Warszaw workshop on canonical and quantum gravity, by Carlo Rovelli
Alpbach summer school on fundamental physics in space, by Peter Bender
MG8, an experimentalists' summary, by Riley Newman and Peter Saulson
Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, by M. Alessandra Papa
Santa Fe workshop on simplicial quantum gravity, by Lee Smolin
VII Canadian Conference on General Relativity, by David Hobill