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SUMMARY:Non-Spherically Symmetric Collapse in Asymptotically AdS Spacetime
 s - Hans Bantilan (Queen Mary University of London\, DAMTP)
DTSTART:20180216T130000Z
DTEND:20180216T140000Z
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CONTACT:Michalis Agathos
DESCRIPTION:The main purpose of this talk is to describe\, by way of a con
 crete example\, how the field of numerical relativity contributes to our u
 nderstanding of asymptotically AdS spacetimes. I will begin by motivating 
 these studies in terms of gauge/gravity duality\, heavy ion physics\, and 
 gravitational collapse. I will then describe in detail preliminary results
  from a first study of gravitational collapse in AdS with inhomogeneous de
 formations away from spherical symmetry\, which explicitly demonstrate tha
 t the evolution to smaller spatial scales that leads to black hole formati
 on persists in the non-spherically symmetric setting.
LOCATION:Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)
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