Mathematical and Numerical General Relativity
Reading Course and Seminar


Organizers:
      Michael Holst, Melvin Leok, Jacob Sterbenz; UC San Diego
      Lee Lindblom; Caltech
      Jim Isenberg; Oregon
      Don Estep; CSU
     
As part of a new NSF FRG Award involving UCSD, Caltech, and CSU, in 2011-2012 we are running a seminar series/reading course in the overlapping areas of mathematical and numerical general relativity (MNGR). We are planning for about 6-8 talks to be spread throughout the Fall 2011 quarter, with a few additional seminars in the Spring 2012 quarter, depending on the travel schedules of some key participants. (There will be no seminars in the Winter quarter.) Some of the talks will be streamed via Evo to (or from) remote participants at CSU (Colorado) and SAMSI (North Carolina), and in these cases we will try to post MP4/M4V audio/video captures of the Evo-hosted talks as links at the bottom of the abstract for the particular talk. The MNGR talks each week are listed below, and will be announced on the CCoM Website. The time and place for the MNGR Seminars will usually be 11am Thursdays in AP&M 2402 (unless listed otherwise).

We are also running a related UCSD workshop and multi-part minisymposium at the SIAM PDE Conference in November; see the GPDE2011 website. In May 2012, we will hold the Southern California Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Conference (SCAPDE) at UCSD, with a focus on mathematical and numerical general relativity; see the SCAPDE website.

Fall 2011
September 22
MNGR Seminar
(Thursday, 11:00am, AP&M 2402)
Speaker: Lee Lindblom, Caltech
Title: Solving Einstein's Equations: PDE Issues (Part 1 of 2)
September 29
MNGR Seminar
(Thursday, 11:00am, AP&M 2402)
Speaker: Lee Lindblom, Caltech
Title: Solving Einstein's Equations: PDE Issues (Part 2 of 2)
EVO VideoConf
MNGR Seminar
(EVO-Streamed and Recorded)
Speaker: Don Estep, CSU
Title: Duality, Adjoint Operators, and Uncertainty in PDE Models (Part 1 of 4)
EVO VideoConf
MNGR Seminar
(EVO-Streamed and Recorded)
Speaker: Don Estep, CSU
Title: Duality, Adjoint Operators, and Uncertainty in PDE Models (Part 2 of 4)
EVO VideoConf
MNGR Seminar
(EVO-Streamed and Recorded)
Speaker: Don Estep, CSU
Title: Duality, Adjoint Operators, and Uncertainty in PDE Models (Part 3 of 4)
EVO VideoConf
MNGR Seminar
(EVO-Streamed and Recorded)
Speaker: Don Estep, CSU
Title: Duality, Adjoint Operators, and Uncertainty in PDE Models (Part 4 of 4)
October 27
MNGR Seminar
(Thursday, 11:00am, AP&M 2402)
Speaker: Jim Isenberg, Oregon
Title: Solutions of the Initial Value Constraint Equations of General Relativity (Part 1 of 2)
November 3
MNGR Seminar
(Thursday, 11:00am, AP&M 2402)
Speaker: Jim Isenberg, Oregon
Title: Solutions of the Initial Value Constraint Equations of General Relativity (Part 2 of 2)
November 10
MNGR Seminar
(Thursday, 11:00am, AP&M 2402)
Speaker: Jacob Sterbenz
Title: The Cauchy Problem in General Relativity (Part 1 of approximately 4)
November 17
MNGR Seminar
(Thursday, 11:00am, AP&M 2402)
Speaker: Jacob Sterbenz
Title: The Cauchy Problem in General Relativity (Part 2 of approximately 4)