Slow decay of waves in gravitational solitons Sharmila Gunasekaran Gnanam Memorial University of Newfoundland Gravitational solitons are globally stationary horizonless asymptotically flat spacetimes. In this talk, I will describe the methodology used to prove that massless scalar waves in a

Geometric Horizons in the Szekeres Spacetime Nicholas Layden (Dalhousie University) A new conjecture for geometric horizons has been introduced which may provide a potential alternative to using apparent horizons and related surfaces for analyzing the dynamics of black hole spacetimes.

The Reissner-Nordstrom Near Horizon Geometry is a Tangent Spacetime The near horizon geometry (NHG) of an extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole is obtained in conventional global AdS coordinates and in the coordinates of the parent spacetime. Geometrical objects, specifically Killing vectors

Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Gravitational Solitons In this talk, I will consider the stability of asymptotically anti-de Sitter gravitational solitons. These are globally stationary, asymptotically (globally) AdS spacetimes with positive energy but without horizons. I will introduce my ongoing project investigating

Outer entropy equals Bartnik-Bray inner mass, and the gravitational ant conjecture Jinzhao Wang (ETH Zurich) Entropy and energy are found to be closely tied on our quest for quantum gravity. We point out an interesting connection between the recently proposed

Marginally Outer Trapped (Open) Surfaces in 4+1 Dimensional Schwarzschild In the case of binary black hole mergers, the surface of most obvious interest, the Event Horizon, is often computationally difficult to locate. Instead, it is useful to turn to quasi-local

Holographic Complexity and Thermodynamic Volume I will discuss recent work exploring the holographic complexity conjectures for rotating black holes. A relationship between the complexity of formation and the thermodynamic volume of the black hole is found, and I discuss the