Conformal Geometry, Einstein Metrics, and General Relativity – January 26-30, 2026

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DUE TO STATE EMERGENCY, ALL WORKSHOP ACTIVITY IS CANCELED FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2026.  WORKSHOP ACTIVITY WILL RESUME ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2026.

Organized by:

  • Marcus Khuri (Stony Brook University)
  • Jaroslaw Kopinski (University of California at Davis)
  • Ramiro Lafuente (University of Queensland)
  • Marika Taylor (University of Birmingham)
  • Andrew Waldron (University of California at Davis)

The theory of General Relativity is founded upon on the mathematics of Einstein metrics and conformal geometries. This workshop will bring together mathematicians and physicists working in these three areas to solve problems whose solutions demand interdisciplinary approaches. Key topics include the construction of Einstein metrics, conformal compactifications and boundary problems, bulk to boundary dualities for any sign of the cosmological constant, geometric flows, and conformal methods in numerical relativity.

This workshop is related to the program: Einstein 4-Manifolds and Gravitational Instantons: January 5- February 6, 2026

Talk Schedule


Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am One-sided type-D metrics, vacuum and aligned Einstein-Maxwell Paul Tod SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Gravitational instantons, special geometry, and symmetry Lars Andersson SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
12:00pm Group Photo N/A SCGP Lobby
1:00pm Desingularizations of Conformally Kaehler, Einstein Orbifolds Claude LeBrun SCGP 102
2:30pm The geometry of null-infinity Jörg Frauendiener SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm Memory of Robinson-Trautman waves Glenn Barnich SCGP 102
5:15pm Danfords Shuttle N/A SCGP Entrance
6:00pm Danfords Shuttle N/A SCGP Entrance

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Local structure theory of Einstein manifolds with boundary Lan-Hsuan Huang SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Poincaré-Einstein manifolds: conformal structure meets metric geometry Ruobing Zhang SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:00pm The AdS/CFT correspondence and conformal geometry Kostas Skenderis SCGP 102
2:30pm The Killing connection and a Calabi operator for locally symmetric spaces Thomas Leistner SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm CR structures in Lorentzian conformal geometry: old and new results Arman Taghavi-Chabert SCGP 102
5:15pm Danfords Shuttle N/A SCGP Entrance
6:00pm Danfords Shuttle N/A SCGP Entrance

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Petrov’s Other Classification Ian Anderson SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am A Boundary DeTurck Trick Stephen McKeown SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:00pm Conformally Kähler–Einstein metrics on toric surfaces Rosa Sena-Dias SCGP 102
2:30pm Einstein—Maxwell gravitational instantons Maciej Dunajski SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
4:00pm Integrable deformations and stability of the Ricci flow Alex Waldron SCGP 102
6:00pm Banquet Dinner N/A SCGP Cafe
8:15pm Danfords Shuttle N/A SCGP Entrance
9:00pm Danfords Shuttle N/A SCGP Entrance

Time Title Speaker Location
8:30am Breakfast N/A SCGP Cafe
9:30am Asymptotically Euclidean Solutions of the Constraint Equations with Prescribed Asymptotics James Wheeler SCGP 102
10:30am Coffee Break N/A SCGP Cafe
11:00am Ricci flow and integral curvature pinching Eric Chen SCGP 102
12:00pm Lunch N/A SCGP Cafe
1:00pm Gravitational instantons and harmonic map Song Sun SCGP 102
2:30pm Local and global invariants of Poincare-Einstein manifolds and their conformal boundaries Jeffrey Case SCGP 102
3:30pm Tea Time N/A SCGP Cafe
5:15pm Danfords Shuttle N/A SCGP Entrance
6:00pm Danfords Shuttle N/A SCGP Entrance