Kick-off Workshop “A new geometry for Einstein’s theory of relativity and beyond”
February 24–28, 2025
The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from various fields relevant to our project (Optimal Transport, Lorentzian Geometry, General Relativity, Quantum Gravity, …) and to map out open problems and joint interests with our local group in Vienna. Thus the meeting will be centered along short presentations of open problems and new directions of research, followed by extensive open discussions (30 minutes of lectures plus 60 minutes of discussion). Further joint work in smaller groups is strongly encouraged.
Confirmed participants:- Matthias Braun (EFPL)
- Felix Finster (University of Regensburg)
- Lawrence Frolov (Rutgers University)
- Leonardo Garcia-Heveling (University of Hamburg)
- Nicola Gigli (SISSA)
- Melanie Graf (University of Hamburg)
- James Grant (University of Surrey)
- John Harvey (University of Cardiff)
- Christian Ketterer (Maynooth University)
- Eric Ling (University of Copenhagen)
- Davide Manini (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology)
- Jiri Podolsky (Charles University Prague)
- Olaf Müller (HU Berlin)
- Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh (Rutgers University)
- Simone Vincini (SISSA)
- Wolfgang Wieland (University of Nuremberg)
The meeting will take place at the Faculty of Mathematics of Vienna
University.
