Hyperbolic & Dispersive PDE Seminar

About the Seminar

This is the website of our weekly Hyperbolic & Dispersive PDE Seminar at Rutgers University. Welcome!

Organizers: Maxime Van de Moortel, Avy Soffer.

The topics covered by the seminar are very broad and also include, among others: General Relativity, Fluid Mechanics, Harmonic Analysis, Quantum Mechanics, Spectral Theory and Applied Mathematics, always with a strong emphasis on Analysis.

Upcoming Events

March 5, 2026, Thursday, 3:50-4:50pm, Hill 705

Speaker: Serban Cicortas Princeton University

Title: Critical collapse in 2+1 gravity

Abstract: Starting with the work of Choptuik '92, numerical relativity predicts that naked singularity spacetimes arise on the threshold of non-collapse and black hole formation, a phenomenon referred to as critical collapse. In this talk, I will present for 2+1 gravity the first rigorous construction of threshold naked singularities in general relativity. Joint work with Igor Rodnianski (Princeton University).

March 12, 2026, Thursday, 3:50-4:50pm, Hill 705

Speaker: Hamed Masaood Princeton University

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March 26, 2026, Thursday, 3:50-4:50pm, Hill 705

Speaker: Sanchit Chaturvedi NYU

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April 2, 2026, Thursday, 3:50-4:50pm, Hill 705

Speaker: Ben Pineau NYU

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April 16, 2026, Thursday, 3:50-4:50pm, Hill 705

Speaker: Christoph Kehle MIT

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