Modern developments in General Relativity: Stephen Fairhurst

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Conference web page: http://grkcl.org

After Einstein the modern very active subject that general relativity has become, can be traced back to the work of a small number of researchers and institutions in 1950. One of the most important centres was the general relativity group in the Department of Mathematics at King's College London, created by Bondi. Members of this group initiated many of the main themes of this conference, including Pirani's work on gravitational waves, which provides the theoretical foundation of the LIGO experiment, Bondi and Sachs's investigation of symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes, known as the BMS group, the formulation of Penrose diagrams, Robinson's work on the uniqueness theorem of black holes, and the study by Davies, Ford and others of quantum effects in curved spacetimes. The conference also features a number of talks to recall this period of research at King's.

Michael Luck, Introduction
Peter West, Introduction
Stephen Fairhurst, Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run