During the 2023–24 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a seminar on General Relativity, organized by Jue Liu, Daniel Kapec, and Puskar Mondal. This seminar will take place on Tuesdays from 11:00 am–12:00 pm (Eastern Time). To learn how to attend, please fill out this form. The meetings will take place in Room G10 at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138, and some meetings will take place virtually on Zoom or be held in hybrid formats. The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.

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  • September 10, 2021 09:30 AM
Speaker: Philippe G. LeFloch
Title: 9/10/2021 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual

Title: Asymptotic localization, massive fields, and gravitational singularities Abstract: I will review three recent developments on Einstein’s field equations under low decay or low regularity conditions. First, the Seed-to-Solution Method for Einstein’s constraint equations, introduced in collaboration with T.-C. Nguyen generates asymptotically Euclidean manifolds with the weakest or strongest possible decay (infinite ADM mass, Schwarzschild decay, etc.). The ‘asymptotic localization problem’ is also proposed an alternative to the ‘optimal localization problem’ by Carlotto and Schoen. We solve this new problem at the harmonic level of decay. Second, the Euclidian-Hyperboloidal Foliation Method, introduced in collaboration with Yue Ma, applies to nonlinear wave systems which need not be asymptotically invariant under Minkowski’s scaling field and to solutions with low decay…

  • February 14, 2020 10:30 AM
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Title: 2/14/2020 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • February 07, 2020 10:30 AM
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Title: 2/7/2020 General Relativity
Venue: Virtual
  • April 26, 2019 02:30 PM
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Title: 4/26/2019 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • December 05, 2018 11:00 AM
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Title: 12/05/2018 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • November 14, 2018 11:00 AM
Speaker:
Title: 11/14/2018 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • November 07, 2018 11:00 AM
Speaker:
Title: 11/7/2018 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • October 31, 2018 11:00 AM
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Title: 10/31/2018 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • October 17, 2018 11:00 AM
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Title: 10/17/2018 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • October 10, 2018 06:12 PM
Speaker:
Title: 10/10/2018 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • October 03, 2018 06:03 PM
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Title: 10/03/2018 GR Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • September 26, 2018 05:59 PM
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Title: GR Seminar 9/26/2018
Venue: Virtual
  • September 12, 2018 05:52 PM
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Title: 9/12/2018 GR Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • May 18, 2016 05:02 PM
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Title: 05-18-2016 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • May 11, 2016 04:58 PM
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Title: 05-11-2016 General Relativity Seminar
Venue: Virtual
  • April 06, 2016 12:00 PM
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Title: General Relativity Seminar, Wednesdays
Venue: Virtual

The Seminar on General Relativity will take place every Wednesday from 12pm – 1pm in CMSA Building, 20 Garden Street, G10. The list of speakers is below and will be updated as details are confirmed. Date Name Title 04-06-2016 Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton) The black hole stability problem: the inside story 04-13-2016 Felix Finster, University of Regensburg Linear stability of Kerr black holes 04-20-2016 Paul Chesler, Harvard Physics Numerical relativity in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime 04-27-2016 Andy Strominger (Harvard Physics) & Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University) The Scattering Problem in General Relativity 05-04-2016 Robert Penna, MIT BMS invariance and the membrane paradigm 05-11-2016 Piotr T. Chruściel, University of Vienna Gluing things in general relativity 05-18-2016 Achilleas Porfyriadis, Harvard Physics Gravitational waves from the Kerr/CFT correspondence 05-25-2016 Scott Hughes, MIT…