Newton Institute Program on Global Problems in Mathematical Relativity

University Of Miami, Coral Gables FL

Investigators

Abstract

Abstract Award: DMS-0505795 Principal Investigator: Gregory J. Galloway The Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is running a semester long program on Global Problems in Mathematical Relativity (GMR) in Cambridge, England from August to December, 2005. The purpose of this award is to provide partial travel and subsistence support for U. S. participants. The general aim of the GMR program is to bring together experts in the field, along with early career researchers and graduate students, to discuss recent striking advances in mathematical aspects of general relativity and related theories of gravity, and to address existing problems and challenges. The program consists of three focused conferences: (1) New Directions in Numerical Relativity, (2) Global General Relativity, and (3) The Constraint Equations, together with a series of thematic workshops that will run throughout the course of the program. The GMR program coincides with the 100 year anniversary of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. General Relativity, Einstein's geometric theory of gravity, which incorporates the special theory, has proven to be an extraordinarily accurate theory of gravity at both the local astrophysical and cosmological scales. The results of the collaborative research and analysis to be carried out during the program will have a significant bearing on various fundamental physical problems, such as the issue of the final state of gravitational collapse, and its implications for the detection of gravitational radiation. Participation of graduate students and recent PhD's is a key component of the program, and is crucial to the continuing vitality of the area.