Proceedings of the international summer school on experimental physics of gravitational waves, Urbino, Italy, september 6-18, 1999

General relativity and gravitational waves, P. Tourrenc physics of the sources of gravitational waves, S. Bonazzola and E. Gourgoulhon supernovae, N. Panagia what have we learned about ray bursts from their afterglows, M. Vietri the mystery of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, A.V. Olinto optical modelling of gravitational wave interferometers, J.-Y. Vinet optics manufacturing and testing for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, V. Loriette resonant bar gravitational wave detectors, M. Visco and L. Votano an optical transducer for bar detectors, F. Marin et al the VIRGO Project, A. Giazotto low friction materials for high sensitivity gravitational wave detectors, C. Cattuto et al an introduction to feedback control systems, L. Benvenuti and M.D. di Benedetto introduction to the mechanical simulation of the seismic isolation systems, A. Vicere active controls in interferometric detectors of gravitational waves - inertial damping of VIRGO superattenuators, G. Losurdo signal processing - elements of detection and estimation theory, A. Vannucci and M.G. di Benedetto time-frequency analysis - an introduction, P. Flandrin introduction to the data analysis in interferometric gravitational wave experiments, A. Vicero R&D for interferometric GW detectors, A. Brillet.