Conference on Mathematical Relativity

The Canberra Conference on Mathematical Relativity was the highlight of a special program at the CMA which ran from June - August 1988. With over 40 people taking part and 27 talks packed into three days, the conference was a very stimulating and exhausting experience for all concerned.

Axisymmetric asymptotically flat radiative spacetimes with another symmetry: the general definition and comments -- On the energy of the gravitational field -- On radiative space-times -- Gravitation with Gauss Bonnet terms -- Momenta and reduction for general relativity II: the level sets -- The shape of infinity -- Space-time splitting theorems -- Regularity of spacelike hypersurfaces -- Describing spacetimes by their curvature -- The Yamabe theorem and general relativity -- The reduction problem for Einstein's equations -- A survey of the Weyl metrics -- A general theorem on gravitational metrics in prolate spheroidal coordinates -- Kerr-Schild spacetimes revisited -- Unitary spinor methods in general relativity -- Inhomogeneities in a Friedman universe -- New Kaluza-Klein theory -- The motion of membranes in space-time -- Some open problems in mathematical relativity.