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.

  • Positive scalar curvature with point singularities

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

    https://youtu.be/m9B003wQ0PY General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Rudolf Zeidler, Mathematical Institute, University of Münster Title: Positive scalar curvature with point singularities Abstract: I will explain a certain topological construction of positive scalar curvature […]

  • Unstable Fluids in Expanding Cosmologies

    Virtual

    https://youtu.be/2Aak8YqVsLw General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Elliot Marshal, School of Mathematics at Monash University Title: Unstable Fluids in Expanding Cosmologies Abstract: The FLRW solution is the simplest cosmological model in general […]

  • Low-regularity Local Well-posedness of the Elastic Wave System

    Virtual

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Sifan Yu, National University of Singapore Title: Low-regularity Local Well-posedness of the Elastic Wave System Abstract: In this talk, I will present a recent work on the elastic wave system […]

  • Positive mass theorem for ALE(AE) and ALF(AF) Toric 4-Manifolds

    CMSA G102 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Aghil Alaee, Clark University Title: Positive mass theorem for ALE(AE) and ALF(AF) Toric 4-Manifolds Abstract: One of the fundamental conjectures in mathematical relativity is the positivity […]

  • Hyperbolic equations in a double null gauge

    CMSA G102 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

    General Relativity Seminar Speaker: Christopher Stith, University of Michigan Title: Hyperbolic equations in a double null gauge Abstract: The hyperbolic nature of the Einstein equations is well-known and has been used in […]