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.

To learn how to attend, please fill out this form to join the mailing list.

The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.

  • Recent advances in scalar curvature and positive mass theorems

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/kGpZ0nRcZRU General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Tin Yau Tsang, University of California Irvine Title: Recent advances in scalar curvature and positive mass theorems Abstract:  First, we have a review of classical […]

  • The localized seed-to-solution method for the Einstein constraints

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/eGU1AQBcxNw General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Philippe G. LeFloch, Sorbonne University and CNRS Title: The localized seed-to-solution method for the Einstein constraints Abstract: I will discuss advances on asymptotically Euclidian initial data […]

  • Testing GR with GWs

    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/Bm3FA2avr4I General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Vitor Cardoso, IST, Lisbon and The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen Title: Testing GR with GWs Abstract: One of the most remarkable possibilities of General Relativity concerns gravitational collapse […]

  • Positivity of Static quasi-local Mass in general relativity

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/b4vyZvml0aw General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Aghil Alaee, Clark University Title: Positivity of Static quasi-local Mass in general relativity Abstract: In this talk, we review results on the PMT of quasi-local […]

  • Grey Galaxy’ as the endpoint of the Kerr-AdS super radiant blackhole

    Jefferson 453 17 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, MA

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Suman Kundu (Weizmann Institute) Title: ‘Grey Galaxy’ as the endpoint of the Kerr-AdS super radiant blackhole Abstract: Kerr AdS$_{d+1}$ black holes for $d\geq 3$ suffer from classical […]

  • Pole skipping, quasinormal modes, shockwaves and their connection to chaos

    https://youtu.be/cxdPO4L4GDk General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Diandian Wang(Harvard University) Title: Pole skipping, quasinormal modes, shockwaves and their connection to chaos Abstract: A chaotic quantum system can be studied using the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC). […]

  • Quantization of causal diamonds in 2+1 dimensional gravity

    https://youtu.be/TOfxA6N0Eds General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Rodrigo Silva, University of Maryland Title: Quantization of causal diamonds in 2+1 dimensional gravity Abstract: We develop the reduced phase space quantization of causal diamonds […]

  • Geometry at Strong coupling for amplitudes/Wilson loops

    https://youtu.be/WQlkQf25np4 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Lionel Mason (Oxford) Title: Geometry at Strong coupling for amplitudes/Wilson loops Abstract: The amplitude/Wilson loop correspondence identifies planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills amplitudes with certain null polygonal […]

  • A Smooth Horizon without a Smooth Horizon

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Chethan Krishnan (IISc Bangalore) Title: A Smooth Horizon without a Smooth Horizon Abstract: I will talk about some work that is about to appear, where we note one […]

  • Tidal Squeezing of Black Holes

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Maria Rodriguez (Utah) Title: Tidal Squeezing of Black Holes Abstract: Recent developments indicate that Kerr black holes do not deform when perturbed by a static external gravitational field. Relying on […]

  • Resolving memory in numerical relativity, and fixing BMS frames for modeling

    https://youtu.be/zG4xkY8JI1A General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Leo Stein (Mississippi) Title: Resolving memory in numerical relativity, and fixing BMS frames for modeling Abstract: Numerical relativity waveforms serve as ground truth for detection and parameter estimation […]

  • Fluid stabilization in slowly expanding cosmological spacetime

    Hybrid - G10

    https://youtu.be/SCIi6R_uTZM General Relativity Seminar Speaker: David Fajman (Vienna) Title: Fluid stabilization in slowly expanding cosmological spacetime Abstract: Relativistic fluids are known to form shocks during their evolution from near-homogeneous initial data. In […]