Geometry, Analysis, and General Relativity
2008 fall
Seminar program
Thursday, December 11, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Juan A. Valiente Kroon, Queen Mary, University of London
Regularity conditions at spatial infinity revisited
15.30-16.30 Todd Oliynik, Monash University, Vic, Australia
The fast Newtonian limit for perfect fluids
Tuesday, December 9, 2008:
15.30-16.30 Thomas Bäckdahl, University of Linköping
Multipole moments of stationary spacetimes
Thursday, December 4, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Göran Bergqvist, University of Linköping
Causal tensors
15.30-16.30 Justin Corvino, Lafayette College, Easton
The center of mass of isolated systems from a geometric point of view
Thursday, November 27, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Alfonso Garcia-Parrado, University of Linköping
Kerr initial data
15.30-16.30 Håkan Andreasson, CTH, Gothenburg
Sharp bounds on the critical stability radius for relativistic charged spheres
Thursday, November 20, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Sergio Dain, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Axisymmetric evolution of Einstein equations and mass conservation
15.30-16.30 Mark Heinzle, Universität Wien
Mixmaster: fact and belief
Tuesday, November 18, 2008:
15.30-16.30 Jie Qing, UC Santa Cruz
Scattering in conformal geometry
Thursday, November 13, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Dietrich Häfner, CNRS, Bordeaux
Decay estimates for the wave equation on a curved background; spectral approaches
15.30-16.30 Florian Beyer, KTH, Stockholm
Investigations of instabilities of the Nariai solution
Tuesday, November 11, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Fabrice Planchon, Université Paris 13
On uniqueness for the Cauchy problem in general relativity
15.30-16.30 Woei-Chet Lim, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm
Spikes -- nonlocal component of the generalized Mixmaster attractor
Thursday, November 6, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Jeff Winicour, University of Pittsburgh
Boundary conditions for an isolated system
15.30-16.30 Claes Uggla, Karlstad University
Asymptotic silence, asymptotic locality, and asymptotic self-similarity - and breaking thereof
Tuesday, November 4, 2008:
15.30-16.30 Jean-Philippe Nicolas, Université Brest
Regularity at spacelike and null infinity
Thursday, October 30, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Jim Isenberg, University of Oregon, Eugene
Non constant mean curvature solutions of the Einstein constraint equations
15.30-16.30 Oscar Reula, FaMAF, Córdoba, Argentina
Boundary conditions for coupled quasilinear wave equations with application to isolated systems
Thursday, October 23, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Michael Anderson, SUNY, Stony Brook
On Bartnik's static extension conjecture
15.30-16.30 Francesco Nicolo, Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome
Some peeling properties for asymptotically flat spacetimes in a very "external region"
Thursday, October 16, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Gregory Galloway, University of Miami
Stability of marginally trapped surfaces, and applications
15.30-16.30 Lan-Hsuan Huang, Stanford University
Constant mean curvature foliation for isolated systems with general asymptotics
Thursday, October 9, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Alan Rendall, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm
Cosmological weak null singularities
15.30-16.30 Paul Allen, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Golm
The Cauchy problem for timelike minimal submanifolds
Thursday, October 2, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Catherine Williams, Stanford University
Asymptotic behavior of marginally trapped tubes
15.30-16.30 Piotr T. Chrusciel, Oxford and Tours Universities
Vacuum initial data sets with positive cosmological constant
Thursday, September 25, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Vincent Moncrief, Yale University
Regularity of Einstein's equations at null infinity
15.30-16.30 Jacob Sterbenz, University of California, San Diego
Blowup dynamics for critical field equations
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 23-25, 2008:
16.30 - Mihalis Dafermos, University of Cambridge
MINI-COURSE ON: Wave equations on black hole backgrounds
Thursday, September 18, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Robert Beig, University of Vienna
Static 2-body configurations (in Newtonian theory)
15.30-16.30 Jerzy Kijowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Hamiltonian description of radiation: role of the Trautman-Bondi energy and corner conditions
Tuesday, September 16, 2008:
15.30-16.30 Nikodem Szpak, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm
Pointwise decay estimates and asympotics fore semilinear wave equations
Thursday, September 11, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Hans Lindblad, UCSD, La Jolla
TBA
15.30-16.30 Pieter Blue, University of Edinburgh
Energy estimates about black holes
Thursday, September 4, 2008:
14.00-15.00 Richard Schoen, Stanford University
Ricci flow, minimal surfaces, and positive curvature
15.30-16.30 Fabrice Planchon, Université Paris 13
Wave and Schrodinger equations on domains
Tuesday, September 2, 2008:
15.30-16.30 Paul Tod, Oxford University
On Mason's rigidity theorem
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