VandyGRAF Initiative

The Vanderbilt Initiative for Gravity, Waves, and Fluids is an interdisciplinary research venture providing mathematicians, physicists, and astrophysicists with the resources and space to connect and collaboratively work on problems of outstanding scientific merit, such as:
- General relativity: theoretical, mathematical, numerical, or experimental, including, but not restricted to, black holes, gravitational radiation, and multimessenger astrophysics.
- Fluid mechanics: theoretical, mathematical, numerical, or experimental, including, but not restricted to, relativistic fluids far from equilibrium.
- Evolution of partial differential equations related to fluids and gravity, including, but not restricted to, the geometric analysis of waves and fluids.
- The physics and mathematics of neutron star mergers and high-energy nuclear collisions.
VandyGRAF Fall Seminar Series
All VandyGRAF talks will take place in SC 6333, unless indicated below.
Bill Press, UT Austin
March 2, 1:00 pm
James Dent, Sam Houston State University
March 9, 1:00 pm
The Gertsenshtein Effect
Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
March 23, 1:00 pm
Edgar Shaghoulian, University of Pennsylvania
March 30, 1:00 pm
Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano, Princeton University
April 6, 1:00 pm
Charles Gale, McGill University
April 13, 1:00 pm
Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania
April 20, 1:00 pm
Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
April 27, 1:00 pm