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 | |||||
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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 |