Schedule Apr 23, 1999
Quiescent Cosmological Singularities
Dr. Alan Rendall, ITP & Max-Planck Inst.
In this talk I started by reviewing the history of investigations of spacetime singularities in general relativity, with special emphasis on the ideas of Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz (BKL). I then went on to describe recent work by Lars Andersson and myself on singularities in solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to a scalar field, which provides a rigorous mathematical justification for the BKL ideas in that context. I thank Jim Isenberg for taking the notes reproduced below.

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