PROGRAM


Workshop on the Cauchy problem for the Einstein equations
September 24-28, 2003


WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
(Introductory Lectures)
08:30 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345)
09:30 - 10:30
G. Huisken
"Initial data and the Cauchy problem for Einsteins equations"
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:00
A. Ashtekar
"Hamiltonian framework and the origin of Energy-momentum
and angular momentum"
14:00 - 15:00
G. Huisken
"Energy inequalities, spherical foliations and normal
coordinates near infinity"
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break (Room 6245)
15:30 - 16:30
A. Ashtekar
"Introduction to Black holes"
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
09:30 - 10:30
G. Galloway
"On the positivity of mass for asymptotically AdS
spacetimes"
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:00
J. Isenberg
"What We Know and Don't Know about Solutions of the
Einstein Constraint Equations"
14:00 - 15:00
A. Ashtekar
"Dynamical Horizons and their properties"
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break (Room 6245)
15:30 - 16:30
J. Lewandowski
"Isolated Horizons in 4 and other dimensions"
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
09:30 - 10:30
H. Friedrich
"Smoothness at null infinity and the structure of initial data"
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:00
A. Butscher
"The Cauchy Problem in the Conformal Setting"

14:00 - 15:00
J. Kijowski
"Boundary data in Canonical Relativity"
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break (Room 6245)
15:30 - 16:30
P. Chrusciel
"Towards cosmic censorship in Gowdy space-times"
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
09:30 - 10:30
G. Huisken
"Classification of 3-manifolds and 3-surfaces by geometric
flows"
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:00
D. Pollack
"On solving the Einstein constraint equations with apparent
horizon boundary"
14:00 - 15:00
M. Choptuik
"Recent Developments in Black Hole Critical Phenomena"
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break (Room 6245)
15:30 - 16:30
F. Nicolo
"The null infinity behaviour of the Riemann tensor in a
class of vacuum Einstein spacetimes"
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
09:30 - 10:30
E.T. Newman
"Gravitational Lensing Theory from a Covariant Point of
View"
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00 - 12:00
B. Ammann
"A nonlinear Dirac equation of Yamabe type and constant
mean curvature surfaces"