Conference on “Mathematical methods in general relativity and quantum field theories”, November 4 – 6, 2009, Paris

Conference

on

Mathematical methods in general relativity

and quantum field theories

November 4–6, 2009, Paris

Poster of the conference

Invited speakers

• Lars Andersson, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam
• Daniel Bennequin, IMJ, Paris 7
• Piotr Bizon, Cracow
• Luc Blanchet, IAP, Paris
• Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette
• Mihalis Dafermos, Cambridge
• Dan Freed, Austin
• Carsten Gundlach, Southampton
• Alan D. Rendall, Potsdam
• Jérémie Szeftel, Princeton and Paris
• Gabriele Veneziano, College de France, Paris
• Alan Weinstein, Berkeley

Practical informations

• Registration is free. Please register by sending an email to: LeFloch@ann.jussieu.fr
• Location: Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu et Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 175 rue du Chevaleret, Paris. Subway station: Chevaleret.
• Supported by the  research project ANR MATH-GR .
• Organizers: Cécile Barbachoux (LERMA, UPMC), Frédéric Hélein (IMJ, Paris Diderot), Joseph Kouneiher (Nice & LUTH), and Philippe LeFloch (Laboratoire J.-L. Lions, UPMC).

Schedule of the conference

Wednesday November 4, 2009   – Room  2E01  – chairman P. LeFloch

• 10h00 – 10h50 :  Mihalis Dafermos The black hole stability problem

Coffee break

• 11h30 – 12h20 :  Luc Blanchet Post-Newtonian methods and applications

Lunch break    chairman J. Kouneiher

• 14h00 – 14h50 :   Dan Freed Dirac charge quantization, K-theory, and orientifolds

Tea break

• 15h30 – 16h20 :   Lars Andersson Hiddden symmetries and linear fields on Kerr

Thursday November 5, 2009  –  Room 0C02  – chairman F. Helein

• 9h00 – 9h50 : Alan Weinstein Groupoid symmetry and initial value constraints for the Einstein equations

Coffee break

• 10h30 – 11h20 :  Alan Rendall Relations between Gowdy and Bianchi spacetimes

• 11h30 – 12h20 :  Daniel Bennequin “Geometry of duality on curves, surfaces and moduli” (Lecture given on blackboard.)

Lunch break  Chaiman C. Barbachoux

• 14h00 – 14h50 :   Jérémie Szeftel Around the bounded L2 curvature conjecture in general relativity

Tea break

• 15h30 – 16h20 :  Gabriele Veneziano Black holes from transplanckian-energy collisions of ultra-relativistic sources

Friday November 6, 2009  –  Room 1C18  – chairman P. LeFloch

• 9h00 – 9h50 :    Carsten Gundlach A review of critical phenomena in gravitational collapse

Coffee break

• 10h30 – 11h20 :  Piotr Bizon Late-time tails of self-gravitating waves

• 11h30 – 12h20 : Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat Cauchy problem on a characteristic cone for the Einstein equations in arbitrary dimensions

Lunch and end of the conference

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