Workshop II: Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Gravitation - IPAM

Workshop II: Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Gravitation

Part of the Long Program Mathematical and Computational Challenges in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
October 25 - 29, 2021

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 25, 2021

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia)
08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Jonathan Luk (Stanford University)
A tale of two tails
09:55-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Anna Sakovich (Uppsala University)
Virtual Talk: Positivity of mass for asymptotically hyperbolic initial data sets
11:05-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
Georgios Moschidis (Princeton University)
The instability of Anti-de Sitter spacetime for the Einstein-scalar field system

Afternoon Session

12:25-13:45
Lunch (on your own)
13:45-14:25
Frans Pretorius (Princeton University)
Virtual Talk: Testing General Relativity with Black Hole Mergers
14:35-15:00
Break
15:00-15:40
Pengyu Le (University of Michigan)
Virtual Talk: Null hypersurfaces and the Penrose inequality for a perturbed Schwarzschild black hole
16:30-17:30
Andrea M. Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Green Family Lecture: “From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole”

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Marco Cavaglia (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Pau Figueras (Queen Mary, University of London)
Virtual Talk: Binary black hole mergers in cubic Horndeski theory
09:50-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)
Seeing Through Space-Time
11:10-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Martin Taylor (Imperial College London)
Virtual Talk: The nonlinear stability of the Schwarzschild family of black holes

Afternoon Session

12:20-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:40
Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman (University of Toronto)
Virtual Talk: On Naked Singularities for the Einstein Vacuum Equations
14:50-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia)
Multi-oscillating Boson Stars
16:10-17:45
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Cécile Huneau (Ecole Polytechnique)
Virtual Talk: Global existence for a system of wave equations on a product space.
09:50-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Katy Clough (Queen Mary University of London)
Virtual Talk: Simulating fundamental fields in strong gravity environments: opportunities and challenges
11:05-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University)
Virtual Talk: Strong Cosmic Censorship versus Λ

Afternoon Session

12:20-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:40
Robert Wald (University of Chicago)
Virtual Talk: The Memory Effect and Infrared Divergences
14:50-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
Yiran Wang (Emory University)
Some inverse problems in cosmology
16:10-16:30
Break
16:30-17:15
Zvi Bern (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
A new approach to the binary inspiral problem

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-08:00
SESSION CHAIR: Dimitra Tseneklidou (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Anne Franzen (Instituto Superior Técnico)
Virtual Talk: Flat FLRW and Kasner big bang singularities - analyzed on the level of scalar waves
09:50-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
David Hilditch (Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon)
Virtual Talk: Dual-Frame Generalized Harmonic Gauge on Hyperboloidal Slices
11:05-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Igor Rodnianski (Princeton University)
Virtual Talk: On the characteristic gluing problem

Afternoon Session

12:20-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Rita Teixeira da Costa (Princeton University)
The Teukolsky equation on Kerr black hole spacetimes
14:55-15:15
Break
15:15-15:55
Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan)
Virtual Talk: New Structures in Gravitational Radiation

Friday, October 29, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-08:00
SESSION CHAIR: Georgios Moschidis (Princeton University)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Matti Lassas (University of Helsinki)
Virtual Talk: Inverse problems for Einstein’s equations and other non-linear hyperbolic equations
09:50-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Grigorios Fournodavlos (Princeton University)
Stable Big Bang formation
11:10-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
András Vasy (Stanford University)
The black hole stability problem
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