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SUMMARY:Rotating shells\, non-spherical gravitational collapse and cosmic 
 censorship - Jorge Rocha (IST/Lisbon)
DTSTART:20150227T130000Z
DTEND:20150227T140000Z
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CONTACT:Benson Way
DESCRIPTION:The study of gravitational collapse is a subject of great impo
 rtance\,\neither from an astrophysical\, fundamental or holographic point 
 of\nview. In this respect\, exact solutions can be very helpful but known\
 nexamples are scarce\, especially when considering dynamical processes\nwi
 th rotation.\nI will identify a convenient setup in which gravitational co
 llapse of\nrotating matter shells can be addressed with analytic tools\, a
 t the\nexpense of going to higher dimensions and considering equal angular
 \nmomenta spacetimes. The framework for such exact studies is developed\,\
 nrelying on the thin shell formalism.\nI will then discuss applications of
  this machinery to confrontations\nof the weak cosmic censorship conjectur
 e and to constructions of\nstationary solutions describing matter around r
 otating black holes.
LOCATION:Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)
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