Conference: Between Geometry and Relativity


Schedule

Monday, July 24 Tuesday, July 25 Wednesday, July 26 Thursday, July 27 Friday, July 28
08:30-09:30 Registration
Chair:
Justin Corvino
Chair:
Bernd Ammann
Chair:
Annegret Burtscher
Chair:
Abhay Ashtekar
Chair:
Robert Beig
09:30-10:30 Richard Schoen (Irvine)
The high dimensional positive energy theorem
André Neves (Chicago)
Weyl Law and the volume spectrum
Alessandro Carlotto (ETH Zurich)
From scalar curvature rigidity phenomena to min-max embedded geodesic lines
Helmut Friedrich (Golm)
Einstein-lambda-matter flows near future time-like infinity
Nicolaos Kapouleas (Providence)
Recent gluing constructions in Differential Geometry
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Lan-Hsuan Huang (UConn)
Equality in the Spacetime Positive Mass Theorem
Neshan Wickramasekera (Cambridge)
Regularity of stable CMC hypersurfaces
Michael Kunzinger (Vienna)
Singularity theorems in regularity C1,1
Robert Wald (Chicago)
Canonical Energy
Gerhard Huisken (Tübingen)
Inverse mean curvature flow for entire graphs
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
Chair:
Luc Nguyen
Chair:
Peter Aichelburg
Chair:
Gilbert Weinstein
Chair:
Daniel Pollack
14:00-15:00 Michael Eichmair (Vienna)
The large-scale isoperimetric structure of initial data
Greg Galloway (Miami)
Topology and singularities in general relativity

Marc Mars (Salamanca)
Geometry of null shells
Jan Metzger (Potsdam)
On the uniqueness of small surfaces minimizing the Willmore functional subject to a small area constraint
15:00-15:30 Tea Break Tea Break Tea Break
15:30-16:30 Pengzi Miao (Miami)
Minimal hypersurfaces, isometric embeddings, and manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature
Mattias Dahl (Stockholm)
Outermost apparent horizons with non-trivial topology

Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia)
Linear stability of Schwarzschild black hole: the Cauchy problem for metric coefficients