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Introductory Workshop: Mathematical Relativity September 09, 2013 - September 13, 2013

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Sep 09, 2013
Monday
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
  Welcome
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Spacetime Geometry: A Setting for General Relativity
Daniel Pollack (University of Washington)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  The Einstein Field Equations: A PDE Perspective
Daniel Pollack (University of Washington)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  The conformal method of constructing Cauchy data for the Einstein equations
David Maxwell (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
  MSRI Evans Talk: On the topology of black holes and beyond.
Greg Galloway (University of Miami)
Sep 10, 2013
Tuesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Introduction to decay of fields outside black holes.
Pieter Blue (University of Edinburgh)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  The conformal method of constructing Cauchy data for the Einstein equations
David Maxwell (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  The cosmic censorship conjectures
Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Constructing localized solutions of the Einstein constraint equations
Richard Schoen (Stanford University)
04:30 PM - 06:20 PM
  Reception
Sep 11, 2013
Wednesday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Further topics in decay of fields outside black holes.
Pieter Blue (University of Edinburgh)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  The cosmic censorship conjectures
Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University)
Sep 12, 2013
Thursday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Quasi-local mass in general relativity
Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian spacetimes
Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Density Theorems for the Einstein Constraint Equations
Lan-Hsuan Huang (University of Connecticut)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  An introduction to the Penrose inequality conjecture
Marc Mars (University of Salamanca)
Sep 13, 2013
Friday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Quasi-local mass in general relativity
Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Tea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Gravitational radiation - a geometric-analytic approach
Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan)
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Cosmology
Hans Ringstrom (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
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