Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Workshop on General Relativity

November 16-20, 2009

Stony Brook University

All talks will be in the Math Tower S-240.



Nov 16, 2009, Monday
9:15AM Coffee and Refreshments
10:00AM Robert Wald Derivation of Gravitational Self-Force
11:00AM Coffee Break
11:30AM Hans Lindblad The Weak Null Condition and the Asymptotic Behaviour of Solutions to Einstein's Equations
12:30PM Lunch
2:30PM Mu-Tao Wang Limit of Quasilocal Energy-Momentum at Infinity
3:30PM Coffee Break
4:00PM Greg Galloway Marginally Trapped Surfaces in 2+1 and Higher Dimensional Gravity
5:00PM Wine & Cheese Reception
Nov 17, 2009, Tuesday
9:15AM Coffee and Refreshments
10:00AM Gary Gibbons Antimatter in the Looking Glass
11:00AM Coffee Break
11:30AM Yuguang Shi Geometric Problems Related with Quasilocal Mass In General Relativity
12:30PM Lunch
2:30PM Mihalis Dafermos The Black Hole Stability Problem
3:30pM Coffee Break
4:00PM James Isenberg Gluing at Asymptopia and the Relativistic N-body Problem
Nov 18, 2009, Wednesday
9:15AM Coffee and Refreshments
10:00AM Gary Horowitz Uniqueness of Extremal Kerr and Kerr-Newman Black Holes
11:00AM Coffee Break
11:30AM Sergiu Klainerman Formation of Trapped Surfaces I
12:30pM Lunch
2:30PM Igor Rodnianski Formation of Trapped Surfaces II
3:30pM Coffee Break
4:00PM Gerhard Huisken Monotonicity and Rigidity Estimates for the Evolution of Hypersurfaces
7:00PM Banquet (Danfords Inn)
Nov 19, 2009, Thursday
9:15AM Coffee and Refreshments
10:00AM Richard Schoen On the High Dimensional Positive Mass Theorem
11:00AM Coffee Break
11:30AM Michael Douglas Effective Potentials for Kaluza-Klein Theories
12:30PM Lunch
2:30PM Robert Bartnik Mass-Minimizing Metrics and Critical Points of the Energy Functional
3:30PM Coffee Break
4:00PM Hubert Bray On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity
Nov 20, 2009, Friday
9:15AM Coffee and Refreshments
10:00AM Avy Soffer Price Law for All Angular Momentum
11:00AM Coffee Break
11:30AM Michael Eichmair Some Results on Scalar Curvature Rigidity