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.

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Bill Press, UT Austin

March 2, 1:00 pm

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James Dent, Sam Houston State University

March 9, 1:00 pm

The Gertsenshtein Effect

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Andrew Strominger, Harvard University

March 23, 1:00 pm

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Edgar Shaghoulian, University of Pennsylvania

March 30, 1:00 pm

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Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano, Princeton University

April 6, 1:00 pm

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Charles Gale, McGill University

April 13, 1:00 pm

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Mark Trodden, University of Pennsylvania

April 20, 1:00 pm

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Frans Pretorius, Princeton University

April 27, 1:00 pm

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