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3. Postdoctoral Program - MSRI

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Black Holes in Relativity<br />

September 14 to September 18, 2009<br />

Monday September 14, 2009<br />

09:40AM - 10:00AM Welcoming, Robert Bryant, <strong>MSRI</strong> Director<br />

An introduction to the problem of evolution in general<br />

10:00AM - 11:00AM Mihalis Dafermos<br />

relativity<br />

11:00AM - 11:30AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

11:30AM - 12:30PM Demetrios Christodoulou Formation of black holes<br />

12:30PM - 02:00PM Lunch<br />

The characteristic initial value problem in General<br />

02:00PM - 03:00PM Alan Rendall<br />

Relativity<br />

03:00PM - 03:30PM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

Tuesday September 15, 2009<br />

10:00AM - 11:00AM Demetrios Christodoulou Formation of black holes<br />

11:00AM - 11:30AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

Aspects of marginally trapped surfaces in 2+1 and<br />

11:30AM - 12:30PM Greg Galloway<br />

higher dimensional gravity<br />

12:30PM - 02:00PM Lunch<br />

02:00PM - 03:00PM James Isenberg Constraint equations of General Relativity<br />

03:00PM - 03:30PM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

Wednesday September 16, 2009<br />

10:00AM - 11:00AM Demetrios Christodoulou Formation of black holes<br />

11:00AM - 11:30AM Coffee, tea in tha atrium<br />

11:30AM - 12:30PM Spyridon Alexakis On black holes uniqueness<br />

12:30PM - 02:00PM Lunch<br />

02:00PM - 03:00PM Robert Bartnik ADM revisited<br />

03:00PM - 04:00PM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

Thursday September 17, 2009<br />

10:00AM - 11:00AM Demetrios Christodoulou Formation of black holes<br />

11:00AM - 11:30AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

11:30AM - 12:30PM Mihalis Dafermos The black hole stability problem<br />

12:30PM - 02:00PM Lunch<br />

Hidden symmetries and decay for the wave equation in<br />

02:00PM - 02:30PM Pieter Blue<br />

Schwarzschild and Kerr spacetimes<br />

02:30PM - 03:00PM Gustav Holzegel The massive wave equation on Kerr-AdS spacetimes<br />

03:00PM - 03:30PM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

Strichartz estimates on Schwarzschild and Kerr<br />

03:30PM - 04:00PM Mihai Tohaneanu<br />

spacetimes<br />

The Klein-Gordon equation on asymptotically de Sitter<br />

04:00PM - 04:30PM Dean Baskin<br />

spaces<br />

05:00PM - 07:00PM Reception in the atrium<br />

Friday September 18, 2009<br />

10:00AM - 11:00AM Igor Rodnianski On the short pulse method and its applications<br />

11:00AM - 11:30AM Coffee, tea in the atrium<br />

11:30AM - 12:30PM Maciej Zworski Quasinormal modes (resonances) for black holes<br />

12:30PM - 02:00PM Lunch and beyond discussion of open problems<br />

02:00PM - 03:00PM Mu-Tao Wang Quasi-local mass<br />

03:00PM - 03:30PM Coffee, tea in the atrium

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