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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.

  • 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 […]

  • Quasi-Local Mass in a Binary Black Hole Merger

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/cboxkchYFUk General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Daniel Kolb (Max Planck Institute) Title: Quasi-Local Mass in a Binary Black Hole Merger Abstract: One of the major open problems in classical general relativity is […]

  • Remarkable symmetries of rotating black holes

    https://youtu.be/cSgyLwg0v00 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: David Kubiznak (Charles University) Title: Remarkable symmetries of rotating black holes Abstract: It is well known that the Kerr geometry admits a non-trivial Killing tensor and its […]

  • The Feynman propagator and self-adjointness

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/xTnSasVv4_0 General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Andras Vasy (Stanford) Title: The Feynman propagator and self-adjointness Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the Feynman and anti-Feynman inverses for wave operators on certain Lorentzian manifolds; […]

  • A quasi-local mass in general relativity

    General Relativity Seminar
    CMSA Room G10 CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    https://youtu.be/hmRFX1Js6IA General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Aghil Alaee, Clark University Title: A quasi-local mass in general relativity Abstract: In this talk, we define a new gauge-independent quasi-local mass and energy with respect to the Minkowski spacetime. In contrast to other […]