Session on Differential Geometry and General Relativity -- WCNA 2008 --
5th World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts,
Orlando, Florida,
July 2 - July 9, 2008

Organizers: Krishan Duggal (University of Windsor), Paul Ehrlich (University of Florida)

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

• Luis J. Alias
  Departamento de Matematicas
  Universidad de Murcia
  E-30100 Espinardo, Murcia
  Spain
  ljalias@um.es
  
  Geometric analysis of the Lorentzian distance function on spacelike hypersurfaces (with V. Palmer and A. Hurtado)
  
  

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• Howard E. Brandt
  U.S. Army Research Laboratory
  Adelphi, Maryland 20783
  U.S.A.
  hbrandt@arl.army.mil
  
  Riemannian geometry of quantum computation
  
  

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• Vladimir Chernov
  Department of Mathematics
  Dartmouth University
  
  Vladimir.Chernov@Dartmouth.edu
  
  Linking of skies and causality in globally hyperbolic spacetimes (with Y. Rudyak)
  
  

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• Andrzej Derdzinski
  Department of Mathematics
  Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio 43210
  U.S.A.
  andrzej@math.ohio-state.edu
  
  Self-dual neutral Einstein four-manifolds of Petrov type III
  
  

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• Krishan L. Duggal
  Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  University of Windsor
  Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4
  yq8@uwindsor.ca
  
  
  Solutions of Einstein's Equations With Conformal Symmetries and a Contact Slice (with Ramesh Sharma)
  
  

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• Fabrice Debbasch
  Universite Paris 6
  Equipe de Relativite, Gravitation et Astrophysique - LERMA UMR 8112
  3, rue Gallilee
  94200 IVRY
  France
  fabrice.debbasch@gmail.com
  
  Large-scale non linear effects of fluctuations in relativisitic gravitation (with C. Chevalier)
  
  

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• Paul Ehrlich
  Department of Mathematics
  P.O. Box 118105
  University of Florida
  Gainesville, FL 32611-8105
  U.S.A.
  ehrlich@bellsouth.net, ehrlich@math.ufl.edu
  
  Comparison theory in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry (hour address)
  (with Seon-Bu Kim)
  
  

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• Steven Harris
  Department of Mathematics
  Saint Louis University
  St. Louis, MO 63101
  U.S.A
  harrissg@slu.edu
  
  Topology of the boundary in non-product static space-times
  
  

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• Adam Helfer
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Missouri-Columbia
  Columbia, Missouri 65211
  adam@math.missouri.edu
  
  Angular momentum of isolated systems in general relativity
  
  

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• Juan Nunez Valdes
  Departamento de Geometria y Topologia
  Facultad de Matematicas
  Universidad de Sevilla
  Apartado 1160
  41080 Sevilla
  Spain
  jnvaldes@us.es
  
  Abelian subalgebras in some particular types of Lie algebras (with Manuel Ceballos Gonzalez, Angel F. Tenorio)
  
  

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• Phillip E. Parker
  Math. Dept. # 33
  Witchita St. Univ.
  1845 N. Fairmount
  Wichita, KS 67260-0033
  U.S.A.
  phil@math.wichita.edu
  
  Parallelism and holonomy for nonlinear connections
  
  
  
  

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• Volker Perlick
  Physics Department
  Lancaster University
  Lancaster LA1 4YB
  United Kingdom
  v.perlick@lancaster.ac.uk
  
  Multiple imaging in plane gravitational wave spacetimes
  
  
  

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• Lilia Del Riego
  Facultad de Ciencias
  UASLP
  Lateral Av. Salvador Nava S/N
  78290 San Luis Potosi, SLP
  Mexico
  lilia@fciencias.uaslp.mx
  
  Nonlinear connections : applications to Finsler spaces
  
  

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• Miguel Sanchez
  Departamento de Geometria y Topologia
  Facultad de Ciencias
  Avda. Fuentenueva s/n
  Universidad de Granada
  E-18071 Granada
  Spain
  sanchezm@ugr.es
  
  Causal boundaries of spacetimes and holography on pp-waves
  
  

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• Keti Tenenblat
  Departamento de Matematica
  Universidade de Brasilia
  70910-900 Brasilia DR
  Brasil
  keti@mat.unb.br
  
  On conformal metrics and Ricci tensors