During the 2024–25 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a seminar on General Relativity, organized by Uri Kol and Puskar Mondal.

This seminar will take place on Tuesdays from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Eastern time). 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.

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The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.

  • 9/10/2021 General Relativity Seminar

    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 […]

  • 9/17/2021 General Relativity Seminar

    Title: Stable Big Bang formation for the Einstein equations Abstract: I will discuss recent work concerning stability of cosmological singularities described by the generalized Kasner solutions. There are heuristics in […]

  • 9/24/2021 General Relativity Seminar

    Title: On the Observable Shape of Black Hole Photon Rings Abstract: The photon ring is a narrow ring-shaped feature, predicted by General Relativity but not yet observed, that appears on […]

  • Causality Comparison and Postive Mass

    Speaker: Xiaoning Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences Title: Causality Comparison and Postive Mass Abstract: Penrose et al. investigated the physical incoherence of the space-time with negative mass via the bending […]

  • General Relativity 2021-22

    During the 2021–22 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a seminar on General Relativity, organized by Aghil Alaee, Jue Liu, Daniel Kapec, and Puskar Mondal. This seminar will take […]

  • The Large D Limit of Einstein’s Equations

    Abstract: Taking the large dimension limit of Einstein’s equations is a useful strategy for solving and understanding the dynamics that these equations encode. I will introduce the underlying ideas and the […]

  • The stability of charged black holes

    Abstract: Black holes solutions in General Relativity are parametrized by their mass, spin and charge. In this talk, I will motivate why the charge of black holes adds interesting dynamics to […]

  • Sharp decay for Teukolsky equation in Kerr spacetimes

    Abstract: Teukolsky equation in Kerr spacetimes governs the dynamics of the spin $s$ components, $s=0, \pm 1, \pm 2$ corresponding to the scalar field, the Maxwell field, and the linearized […]