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01/26/2011 - 01/26/2011 | Wien

INAUGURAL LECTURE: General Relativity: Physics or Mathematics?

Inaugural Lecture of Piotr T. Chrusciel, Professor of Gravitational Physics at the University of Vienna.

PIOTR T. CHRUSCIEL
born 1957 in Zabrze, Poland, has been appointed Professor of Gravitational Physics at the University of Vienna in April 2010. He studied Physics at the University of Warsaw. After his PhD graduation 1986 in Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences he became a Research Associate until 1996 there. From 1994 until 2010 he held a professorship for Mathematics at the University of Tours, France (on leave of absence from 2006). In 2006, Chruściel became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford until 2010. He has been Fellow of Clare Hall College, Cambridge (Life Member since 2006), as well as a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Golm and a EPSRC Research Fellow at the Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge. He is editorial board member of Annales Henri Poincaré and Communications in Mathematical Physics.

Research interests:
mathematical problems that arise in Einstein‘s theory of gravitation, partial differential equations of mathematical physics, global differential geometric problems in physics.

Information on participating / attending:

Date:

01/26/2011 17:00 - 01/26/2011 19:00

Event venue:

Main Ceremonial Chamber (Großer Festsaal)
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1
1010 Wien
Vienna
Austria

Target group:

all interested persons

Email address:

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Mathematics, Physics / astronomy

Types of events:

Presentation / colloquium / lecture

Entry:

01/23/2011

Sender/author:

Veronika Schallhart

Department:

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Veranstaltungsmanagement

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event33895

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