Lorentz Manifolds

Banff Meeting 2004

Below you will find some information related to the workshop on Lorentzian geometry held at the Banff International Research Station from November 6-11, 2004.

• BIRS workshop page
• Participant list
• Conference Report
• Open Problems
• Outline of Geoff Mess' Lorentz spacetimes of constant curvature (LSCC)
• Introduction to the published version of LSCC
• PDF version of LSCC, retyped by Taejung Kim

San Diego Meeting 2008

Here are the slides from the special session on Conformally Flat Lorentzian Manifolds held at the Joint AMS/MAA Meetings in San Diego, January 2008.

• Lars Andersson: Asymptotic behavior of flat spacetimes
• Shinpei Baba: Admissible decomposition of complex projective structures
• Thierry Barbot: Quasi-Fuchsian representations into SO(2,n)
• Francesco Bonsante: Earthquakes on hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary and multi black holes
• Virginie Charette: Involutions of the Einstein universe
• Todd Drumm: Crooked planes and surfaces
• Charles Frances: Rigidity of boundaries in conformal Lorentz geometry
• Steve Harris: Causal boundary of flat Lorentzian manifolds and other spacetimes, given as quotient spaces
• Alessandra Iozzi: Actions on Hermitian symmetric spaces
• Jaejeong Lee: Fundamental domains of properly convex real projective structures
• Alan McRae: Conformal geometry and possible kinematics for 2-dimensional spacetimes
• Karin Melnick: Conformal actions of nilpotent Lie groups on compact Lorentz manifolds