| UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences |
| Tuesday 09 August | |
| 10:30-11:30 Berger, B (National Science Foundation) | |
| Gowdy Cosmologies: Theorems and Simulations Working Together | |
| Thursday 11 August | |
| 10:30-12:00 Reula, O, Sarbach, O (Cordoba/California Inst. of Technology) | |
| The Bianchi system | |
| Monday 15 August | |
| 15:30-17:00 Choptuik, M (British Columbia) | |
| Numerical analysis and numerical relativity | |
| Tuesday 16 August | |
| 10:30-11:30 Andersson, L (A.E.I.) | |
| On the interaction of mathematical and numerical general relativity | |
| Wednesday 17 August | |
| 10:30-12:00 Gundlach, C (Southampton) | |
| Hyperbolicity of second order in space systems of evolution equations | |
| Thursday 18 August | |
| 09:00-17:00 | |
| Friday 19 August | |
| 09:00-17:00 | |
| Monday 22 August | |
| 09:55-10:00 | |
| Introduction | |
| 10:00-11:00 Rees, M (Cambridge) | |
| Current status of black hole observations | |
| 11:30-12:30 Rodnianski, I (Princeton) | |
| Harmonic coordinates and the stability of Minkowski space-time | |
| 14:00-15:00 Choquet-Bruhat, Y (Paris) | |
| Global properties of space-times with one Killing vector | |
| 15:30-16:30 Dafermos, M (Cambridge) | |
| Cosmic censorship in spherical symmetry | |
| Tuesday 23 August | |
| 10:00-11:00 Bizon, P (Cracow) | |
| Singularity formation in non-linear wave equations | |
| 11:30-12:30 Klainerman, S (Princeton) | |
| Radius of injectivity and curvature estimates | |
| 14:00-15:00 Lehner, L (Louisiana) | |
| Numerical black hole simulations | |
| 15:30-16:30 Anderson, M (Stony Brook) | |
| Conformal compactifications | |
| Wednesday 24 August | |
| 10:00-11:00 Galloway, G (Miami) | |
| Some mathematical aspects of dynamical horizons | |
| 11:30-12:30 Tao, T (UCLA) | |
| Progress in nonlinear wave equations | |
| Thursday 25 August | |
| 10:00-11:00 Wald, R (Chicago) | |
| Quantum field theories in curved spacetimes, mathematical aspects | |
| 11:30-12:30 Schoen, R (Stanford) | |
| Controlling global properties of solutions of the constraint equations | |
| 14:00-15:00 Isenberg, J (Oregon) | |
| Initial data engineering | |
| 15:30-16:30 Ringstroem, H (KTH Stockholm) | |
| Dynamical properties of cosmological models | |
| Friday 26 August | |
| 10:00-11:00 Gibbons, G (Cambridge) | |
| Black holes in higher dimensions | |
| 11:30-12:30 Lohkamp, J (Augsburg) | |
| Positivity of energy | |
| 14:00-15:00 Rendall, A (AEI Golm) | |
| Asymptotic expansions for cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations | |
| 15:30-16:30 Moncrief, V (Yale) | |
| Curvature propagation in general relativity - exploiting the Yang-Mills analogy | |
| Tuesday 30 August | |
| 15:30-16:30 Bray, H (Duke) | |
| Negative point mass singularities in general relativity | |
| Wednesday 31 August | |
| 15:30-16:30 Louko, J (Nottingham) | |
| Geons with spin and charge | |
| Thursday 01 September | |
| 14:00-15:00 Hawking, S (Cambridge) | |
| Information loss in black holes | |
| 15:30-16:30 Horowitz, G (UCSB) | |
| A new endpoint for Hawking evaporation | |
| Friday 02 September | |
| 10:00-11:00 Hafner, D (Bordeaux) | |
| On scattering theory for field equations in the Kerr metric | |
| 11:30-12:30 Galloway, G (Miami) | |
| On the topology of black holes in higher dimensions | |
| 14:00-15:00 Reall, H (California) | |
| Higher dimensional black holes | |
| 15:30-16:30 Dafermos, M (Cambridge) | |
| Decay of radiation in spacetimes with black holes | |
| Monday 05 September | |
| 14:00-15:00 Gibbons, G (Cambridge) | |
| Self-similar gravitational collapse and gravitational instantons | |
| 15:30-16:30 Ishibashi, A (Chicago) | |
| On stability of higher dimensional static black holes | |
| Tuesday 06 September | |
| 15:30-16:30 Nicolas, J-P (Bordeaux 1) | |
| Conformal scattering and the Goursat problem, main ideas and what perspectives for black hole space-times? | |
| Wednesday 07 September | |
| 15:30-16:30 Simon, W (University of Salamanca) | |
| Stability of marginally trapped surfaces and local existence of dynamical and trapping horizons | |
| Monday 12 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Bizon, P (Jagellonian) | |
| Vacuum gravitational collapse in 4+1 dimensions | |
| Tuesday 13 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Ringstroem, H (AEI Golm) | |
| Dynamics of Bianchi space-times | |
| Thursday 15 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Heinzle, M (Max Planck Institute) | |
| Asymptotic expansions and nonlinear stability of power-law inflation models | |
| Friday 16 September | |
| 09:00-10:00 Berger, B (National Science Foundation) | |
| Numerical studies of expanding $T2$-symmetric cosmologies | |
| 10:00-11:00 Lim, WC (Dalhousie) | |
| Dynamical systems approach to inhomogeneous cosmology | |
| 11:30-12:30 Uggla, C (Karlstad) | |
| What have we learned and what can we learn from spatially homogenous cosmology? | |
| 14:30-15:30 Andreasson, H (Chalmers) | |
| Cosmological solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system | |
| 16:00-17:00 Andersson, L (A.E.I) | |
| Future asymptotics of cosmological spacetimes | |
| Monday 19 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Lee, H (Max-Planck-Institut ) | |
| Accelerated expanding models with Vlasov matter | |
| Tuesday 20 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Tchapnda, B (Yaounde I) | |
| The surface-symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system with positive cosmological constant | |
| Thursday 22 September | |
| 16.00-17:00 Calogero, S (Minho Portugal) | |
| Global classical solutions to the 3D Nordstrom-Vlasov system | |
| Tuesday 27 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Bourguignon, J-P (IHES) | |
| Killing spinors, from general relativity to supergravity | |
| Wednesday 28 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Herzlich, M (Montpellier) | |
| Eigenvalue extremality for the Dirac operator on the sphere | |
| Thursday 29 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Qing, J (UCSC) | |
| On the uniqueness of the foliation of spheres of constant mean curvature in asymptotically flat 3-manifolds | |
| Friday 30 September | |
| 16:00-17:00 Anderson, MT (Stony Brook) | |
| Conserved quantities and rigidity for locally AdS spaces | |
| Monday 03 October | |
| 10:00-11:00 Graham, CR (Washington) | |
| Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for Poincare-Einstein metrics | |
| 11:30-12:30 Singer, M (Edinburgh) | |
| Toric Poincare-Einstein metrics | |
| 14:30-15:30 Albin, P (MIT) | |
| The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for Poincare-Einstein metrics | |
| 16:00-17:00 Skenderis, K (Amsterdam) | |
| Conserved charges and positivity of energy for asymptotically locally AdS spacetimes | |
| Tuesday 04 October | |
| 16:00-17:00 Woolgar, E (Alberta) | |
| A gradient flow for the nonlinear sigma model at 1-loop: the physics of Perelman's entropy | |
| Thursday 06 October | |
| 16:00-17:00 Biquard, O (Strasbourg) | |
| Einstein metrics on product spaces | |
| Friday 07 October | |
| 16:00-17:00 Hall, G (Aberdeen) | |
| Sectional curvature and general relativity | |
| Monday 10 October | |
| 16:00-17:00 Goldman, W (Maryland) | |
| Complete Flat Lorentzian 3-Manifolds | |
| Tuesday 11 October | |
| 16:00-17:00 Bartnik, R (Monash) | |
| Barriers and CMC hypersurfaces | |
| Wednesday 12 October | |
| 10:00-11:00 Beguin, F (Paris-Sud) | |
| AdS geometry and Mess' work | |
| 11:30-12:30 Benedetti, R (Pisa) | |
| Canonical Wick rotations in 3D gravity | |
| 14:30-15:30 Barbot, T (Lyon) | |
| A geometric insight into BTZ multi black-holes | |
| 16:00-17:00 Schlenker, J-M (Paul Sabatier) | |
| Minimal surfaces in singular constant curvature manifolds | |
| Thursday 13 October | |
| 16:00-17:00 Zeghib, A (Lyon) | |
| On CMC foliations | |
| Monday 17 October | |
| 16:00-17:00 Bartnik, R (Monash) | |
| Second variation in general relativity | |
| Tuesday 18 October | |
| 16.00-17.00 Lewandowski, J (Warsaw) | |
| Mathematical introduction to loop quantum gravity | |
| Wednesday 19 October | |
| 11:00-12:30 Fewster, CJ (York) | |
| Introduction to algebraic quantum field theory in curved spacetime | |
| 16:00-17:00 Ehrlich, P (Florida) | |
| Comparison theory in Lorentzian geometry | |
| Thursday 20 October | |
| 16.00-17.00 Bojowald, M (Max-Planck-Institute) | |
| Loop quantum cosmology | |
| Friday 21 October | |
| 11:00-12:30 Fewster, CJ (York) | |
| Energy conditions in quantum field theory | |
| 16:00-17:00 Nicolo, F (Rome Tor Vergata) | |
| A global solution for a characteristic problem for the Einstein vacuum equations with small initial data | |
| Monday 24 October | |
| 11:00-12:30 Ashtekar, A | |
| Discussions on recent developments in mathematical quantum gravity | |
| Tuesday 25 October | |
| 15:30-16:30 Sahlmann, H (Utrecht) | |
| Uniqueness of the kinematical representation of loop quantum gravity | |
| Wednesday 26 October | |
| 11:00-12:30 Ashtekar, A | |
| Discussions on recent developments in mathematical quantum gravity | |
| Thursday 27 October | |
| 16.00-17.00 Ashtekar, A (Pennsylvania State) | |
| Quantum geometry and space-time singularities | |
| Friday 28 October | |
| 11:00-12:30 Moss, I, Jennings, D (Newcastle upon Tyne) | |
| Radiation-reaction on timelike surfaces in AdS | |
| Tuesday 01 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Louko, J (Nottingham) | |
| Constrained systems: Dirac and post-Dirac quantisation | |
| Wednesday 02 November | |
| 11:00-12:30 Thiemann, T (Perimeter Institute) | |
| The Hamiltonian constraint in loop quantum gravity | |
| Thursday 03 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Vickers, J (Southampton) | |
| Colombeau algebras in GR | |
| Friday 04 November | |
| 11:00-12:30 Thiemann, T (Perimeter Institute) | |
| The master constraint programme for loop quantum gravity | |
| Monday 07 November | |
| 14:00-15:00 Ashtekar, A (Penn State) | |
| Quantum riemannian geometry and its ramifications | |
| 15:00-16:00 Danzmann, K (Albert Einstein Institut and Hannover) | |
| Gravitational wave astronomy: The large detectors are going into operation! | |
| 16:30-17:30 Penrose, R (Oxford) | |
| Before the big bang? A new perspective on the Weyl curvature hypothesis | |
| Tuesday 08 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Barrett, J (Nottingham) | |
| Spin foam quantum gravity | |
| Wednesday 09 November | |
| 11:00-12:30 Perez, A (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille) | |
| The representation ambiguity in loop quantum gravity | |
| Thursday 10 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Rovelli, C (Marseille) | |
| Definition of n-point function in nonperturbative quantum gravity and low energy limit of the loop-spin foam formalism | |
| Friday 11 November | |
| 11:00-12:30 Rovelli, C (Marseille) | |
| Discussions on n-point functions in non-perturbative quantum gravity | |
| Monday 14 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Valiente Kroon, J (London) | |
| Time asymmetric spacetimes near null and spatial infinity | |
| Tuesday 15 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Hollands, S (Gottingen) | |
| Asymptotically AdS-spacetimes | |
| Wednesday 16 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Blue, P (Toronto) | |
| Decay and the conformal energy of waves around the Schwarzschild black hole | |
| Thursday 17 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Ishibashi, A (Chicago) | |
| Asymptotic flatness at null infinity in higher dimensional gravity | |
| Friday 18 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Flores, JL (Malaga) | |
| A new development of the causal boundary of spacetimes | |
| Monday 21 November | |
| 10:00-11:00 Mason, LJ (Oxford) | |
| The twistor theory of the Ernst Equation | |
| 11:30-12:30 Alekseev, GA (Steklov Mathematical Institute) | |
| Integrable reductions of Einstein's field equations: monodromy transform and the linear integral equation methods | |
| 14:30-15:30 Meinel, R (Jena) | |
| Quasi-stationary routes to the Kerr black hole | |
| Tuesday 22 November | |
| 11:30-12:30 Korotkin, D (Concordia) | |
| Isomonodromic tau-functions on Hurwitz spaces and their applications | |
| 14:30-15:30 Ward, RS (Durham) | |
| Periodic instantons \& monopoles in gauge theory (and gravity) | |
| 16:00-17:00 Ferapontov, E (Loughborough) | |
| Hydrodynamic reductions of multi-dimensional dispersionless PDEs: the test for integrability | |
| Wednesday 23 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Dunajski, M (Cambridge) | |
| Anti-self-dual conformal structures with null Killing vectors | |
| Monday 28 November | |
| 16:00-17:00 Beig, R (Vienna) | |
| On the motion of a compact elastic body | |
| Tuesday 29 November | |
| 14:30-15:30 Heinzle, JM (MPI, Golm) | |
| Static perfect fluid models - a dynamical systems approach | |
| 16:00-17:00 Petroff, D (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena) | |
| The extreme distortion of black holes due to matter | |
| Thursday 01 December | |
| 16:00-17:00 Winstanley, E (Sheffield) | |
| The abundant richness of Einstein-Yang-Mills | |
| Friday 02 December | |
| 16:00-17:00 Friedrich, H (MPI, Golm) | |
| On the convergence of certain expansions at space-like infinity of asymptotically flat, static vacuum solutions | |
| Tuesday 06 December | |
| 16:00-16:30 Chrusciel, P (Tours) | |
| The classification of static electrovacuum black holes | |
| 16:30-17:00 Isenberg, J (Oregon) | |
| Spherically symmetric dynamical horizons | |
| Thursday 08 December | |
| 16:00-17:00 Mars, M (Salamanca) | |
| Second order perturbations of rotating bodies in equilibrium; the exterior vacuum problem | |
| Friday 09 December | |
| 11:00-12:00 Bartnik, R (Monash) | |
| QL Mass definitions with positivity proofs | |
| 16:00-17:00 Holst, M (UC San Diego) | |
| Nonlinear Approximation Techniques in General Relativity and Geometric Analysis | |
| Monday 12 December | |
| 10:00-11:00 Bartnik, R (Monash) | |
| Hilbert structure on the ADM phase space | |
| 11:30-12:30 Huisken, G (Max Planck Institute for Gravitation) | |
| Radial foliations of asymptotically flat 3-manifolds | |
| 14:30-15:30 Dain, S (Max Planck Institute ) | |
| Spin-mass inequality for axisymmetric black holes | |
| 16:00-16:30 Delay, E (Universite d'Avignon) | |
| Nonsingular stationary metrics with a negative cosmological constant | |
| Tuesday 13 December | |
| 10:00-11:00 Khuri, M (Stanford) | |
| Global bounds and new existence theorems for the Yamabe problem | |
| 11:30-12:30 Bahri, A (Rutgers) | |
| A variational approach to the Yamabe problem | |
| 14:30-15:30 Pacard, F (Paris 12) | |
| Singular solutions of the Yamabe equation | |
| 16:00-16:30 Pollack, D (Washington) | |
| Constructing solutions of the constraint equations with sources: the Einstein-Scalar field system | |
| Wednesday 14 December | |
| 10:00-11:00 Brendle, S (Princeton) | |
| Global convergence of the Yamabe flow | |
| 11:30-12:30 Maxwell, D (Alaska Fairbanks) | |
| Rough initial data | |
| Thursday 15 December | |
| 10:00-11:00 Pfeiffer, H (Caltech) | |
| Numerical construction of the solutions of the constraint equations | |
| 11:30-12:30 Lindblom, L (Caltech) | |
| Optimal constraint projection in general relativity | |
| 14:30-15:30 Alexakis, S (Princeton) | |
| Global conformal invariants and their applications | |
| 16:00-16:30 Corvino, J (Lafayette College) | |
| Some applications of scalar curvature deformation in general relativity | |
| Friday 16 December | |
| 10:00-11:00 Galloway, GJ (Miami) | |
| Rigidity and positivity of mass for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds | |
| 11:30-12:30 Miao, P (Santa Barbara) | |
| On problems related to Bartnik's definition of quasi-local mass (sponsored by CQG) | |
| 14:30-15:00 Maerten, D (Montpellier II) | |
| Positive energy theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds | |
| 15:00-15:30 O'Murchadha, N (University College, Cork) | |
| Why we should not take the Liu-Yau quasi-local mass seriously | |
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