Curriculum Vitae

Hubert Bray

Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708-0320

(email)

Education

Ph.D.	Stanford University	1997
B.A.	Rice University	1992

Areas of Research: Geometric Analysis, General Relativity, Theoretical Astrophysics

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Professor, Mathematics and Physics, 2011 - present

: Professor, Mathematics, 2004 - 2011

Columbia University: Associate Professor, Mathematics, 2003 - 2005 (on leave 2004 - 2005)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Associate Professor, Mathematics, 2003 - 2005 (on leave 2003 - 2005)

: Assistant Professor, Mathematics, 1999 - 2003 (Stanford, Jan-Aug, 2002)

: C. L. E. Moore Instructor, Mathematics, 1997 - 1999 (on leave 1997 - 1998)

Harvard University: NSF Fellowship Postdoc, Mathematics, 1997 - 1998

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Community Service Award, Duke University’s Office of Durham and Regional Affairs
Fellow of the AMS, Inaugural Class, The American Mathematical Society, January, 2013
Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, General Relativity section, August, 2003
Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians Satellite Conference on Differential Geometry, August, 2002
Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing, China, Differential Geometry section, August, 2002
Sloan Research Fellowship-Mathematics, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Invited Speaker, Current Developments in Mathematics Conference, Harvard University, November, 1999
1997 - 1999: Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation
Bronze Medal, International Math Olympiad, Sydney, Australia, 1988

Conferences Organized: Co-organizer (with Robert Bryant, Lenny Ng, Goncalo Oliveira, and Mark Stern), 32nd Annual Geometry Festival, March 31, 2017 - April 02, 2017; Organizer (with Otis Chodosh, Greg Galloway, and Pengzi Miao), Organizer (with Otis Chodosh, Greg Galloway, and Pengzi Miao). Special Session in "Geometric Analysis and General Relativity" . American Mathematical, March 2017; Organizer (with Andrew Cooper), Organizer (with Andrew Cooper). AMS Special Session on Geometric Analysis. American Mathematical Society. November 08, 2014 - November 09, 2014, November 8, 2014 - November 9, 2014; Organizer (with Greg Galloway, Rafe Mazzeo, and Natasa Sesum), Organizer (with Greg Galloway, Rafe Mazzeo, and Natasa Sesum). Park City Mathematics Institute Summer Program on Geometric Analysis. June 30, 2013 - J, June 30, 2013 - July 20, 2013; Organizer (with Mark Stern, Lenny Ng, Carla Cederbaum, Luca DiCerbo, and Chris Cornwell), Organizer (with Mark Stern, Lenny Ng, Carla Cederbaum, Luca DiCerbo, and Chris Cornwell). 27th Annual Geometry Festival. April 27, 2012 - April 29, 20, April 27, 2012 - April 29, 2012; Organizer and Presenter at Duke University (along with Andriy Badin), Organizer and Presenter at Duke University (along with Andriy Badin). Dark Matter Awareness Week. December 06, 2010, December 6, 2010; Organizer (with Benoit Charbonneau, Dick Hain, and Patrick Eberlein), 23rd Annual Geometry Festival, April 25 - 27, 2008; Organizer (with Richard Schoen and Jim Isenberg), Organizer (with Richard Schoen and Jim Isenberg). AIM / Stanford Relativity Workshop. 2002, 2002

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Flatly Foliated Relativity: Gravity without Gravitational Waves, University of Vienna, Austria, 1 August 2017; Flatly Foliated Relativity: Gravity without Gravitational Waves, 2 December 2016; Flatly Foliated Relativity: Gravity without Gravitational Waves, University of California, Santa Cruz, 11 May 2016; On Wave Dark Matter and the Axioms of General Relativity, Mathematics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, 10 May 2016; From Pythagoras to Einstein: The Geometry of Space and Time (General audience talk), University of Waterloo, March 09, 2015; The Geometry of the Universe (Research Lecture) : University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo, March 09, 2015; The Science behind "Trevor the Time Traveler” (For everyone, ages 8 and up), University of Waterloo, March 09, 2015; Two lectures on the geometry of space and time (General audience talks), University of Waterloo, March 09, 2015; The G. Milton Wing Lectures, University of Rochester (Series of 3 Lectures, 1 General Public, 1 Colloquium Style, 1 Research Talk), April 23 - 25, 2014; The G. Milton Wing Lectures, Lecture 1: "From Pythagoras to Einstein: The Geometry of Space and Time", University of Rochester (Broad Audience Talk), April 23, 2014; The G. Milton Wing Lectures, Lecture 2: "On Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Large Scale Geometry of the Universe", University of Rochester (Colloquium Style Talk), April 24, 2014; The G. Milton Wing Lectures, Lecture 3: "Black Holes and the Monotonicity of the Hawking Mass for Time Flat Surfaces", University of Rochester (Research Style Talk - link to paper), April 25, 2014; On the Monotonicity of the Hawking Mass for Time Flat Surfaces, New York General Relativity Seminar, Columbia University (Research Talk), October 11, 2013; On the Monotonicity of the Hawking Mass for Time Flat Surfaces (Research Talk), Columbia University, 11 October 2013; On Wave Dark Matter and the Geometry of Galaxies, JDG Conference, Lehigh University (Research Talk), May 24, 2013; On Wave Dark Matter and the Geometry of Galaxies (Research Talk), Lehigh University , 24 May 2013; On Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Large Scale Geometry of the Universe, The 20th Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar, UC-San Diego (Research Talk, slides only, but video of the similar talk below is available), February 24, 2013; On Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Large Scale Geometry of the Universe (Research Talk), UC-San Diego, 24 February 2013; On Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Large Scale Geometry of the Universe, Rice University, October 15, 2012; On Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Large Scale Geometry of the Universe, Northwestern University, May 21, 2012; On Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Large Scale Geometry of the Universe, The Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology, May 21, 2012; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, The 41st Barrett Memorial Lectures in Mathematical Relativity, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Research Talk, with video), May 12, 2011; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity (Research Talk), University of Tennessee, Knoxville , 12 May 2011; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, The 26th Annual Geometry Festival at the University of Pennsylvania (Research Talk - slides only - 100MB; the talk above was very similar and has video), April 15, 2011; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity (Research Talk), University of Pennsylvania, 15 April 2011; From Pythagoras to Einstein: How Geometry Describes the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (Part 1) (Broad Audience Talk), Duke University, March 26, 2011; From Pythagoras to Einstein: How Geometry Describes the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (Part 2) (Broad Audience Talk), Duke University, March 26, 2011; From Black Holes and the Big Bang to Dark Energy and (maybe even) Dark Matter: Successes of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity (Broad Audience Talk) : 45 minutes, University of Tennessee , December 13, 2010; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, 17th Southeast Geometry Seminar, University of Tennessee, December 13, 2010; Dark Matter in Galaxies (Dark Matter Awareness Week talk) by Hubert Bray and Andriy Badin (Survey Talk), Duke University, December 6, 2010; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, Duke University Graduate/Faculty Seminar (Broad Audience Talk) Audio only - however, a briefer version of this talk -with video- is given in the last 25 minutes of the "Dark Matter in Galaxies" Dark Matter Awareness Week lecture, September 24, 2010; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, Geometric Analysis and General Relativity, Banff International Research Station (BIRS), June 23, 2010; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, Southeast Geometry Conference, College of Charleston, April 24, 2010; On Dark Matter and Spiral and Elliptical Structures in Galaxies, Workshop on Dark Matter, Complex Methods, and Orbifolds in Gravitational Lensing, Petters Research Institute, Dangriga, Belize, March 20, 2010; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, Symposium on Geometric Analysis and Mathemematical Relativity, University of Miami, February 22, 2010; Voting Rules for Democracy without Institutionalized Parties, Duke University Graduate/Faculty Seminar (Broad Audience Talk), February 05, 2010; On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, "Workshop on General Relativity," Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY - Stony Brook, November 19, 2009; On the Geometry of Galaxies, Duke University Graduate/Faculty Seminar (Broad Audience Talk), October 16, 2009; An Overview of General Relativity (Broad Audience Talk), Duke University, October 3, 2008; An Overview of General Relativity, Wake Forest University, September 17, 2008; Negative Point Mass Singularites, Niels Bohr International Academy, April 11, 2008; On the Penrose Conjecture for Arbitrary Slices of a Spacetime, Niels Bohr International Academy, April 8, 2008; An Introduction to the Geometry of Black Holes, Niels Bohr International Academy, April 7, 2008; P.D.E.s Which Imply the Penrose Conjecture, Columbia University, October 4, 2007; What Do Black Holes and Soap Bubbles Have in Common? (Broad Audience Talk), Duke University, September 21, 2007; The Mass of Negative Point Mass Singularities in General Relativity (Conference on Global Differential Geometry), Muenster, Germany, August, 2006; Negative Point Mass Singularities in General Relativity, Rice University, November 16, 2005; Negative Point Mass Singularities in General Relativity, Michigan State University, November 08, 2005; Black Holes and the Curvature of Spacetime (Broad Audience Talk), Michigan State University, November 7, 2005; Negative Point Mass Singularities in General Relativity, Duke University, November 2, 2005; Negative Point Mass Singularities in General Relativity, Stanford University, September 21, 2005; Negative Point Mass Singularities in General Relativity, Sir Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England (Research Talk), August, 2005; Generalization of the Hawking Mass, International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, August, 2003; Penrose Inequalities, Program on Penrose Inequalities at Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, July, 2003; Quasi-local Mass Functionals in General Relativity, Perspectives in Differential Geometry conference at BIRS, Banff, Canada, July, 2003; The Yamabe Invariants of 3-Manifolds, Great Lakes Geometry Conference (Calabi's 80th birthday), University of Wisconsin, Madison, May, 2003; Classification of Prime 3-Manifolds with Yamabe Invariant Greater than RP^3, First Yamabe Memorial Symposium, University of Minnesota, September, 2002; Black Holes, the Penrose Conjecture, and Quasi-local Mass, 50 Years of the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity, Cargese, Corsica (Research Talk), August, 2002; Classification of Prime 3-Manifolds with Yamabe Invariant Greater than RP^3, Differential Geometry Satellite Conference for the ICM, Tianjin, China, August, 2002; Generalization of the Hawking Mass, 50 Years of the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity, Cargese, Corsica (Research Talk), August, 2002; Proof of the Poincare Conjecture for 3-Manifolds with Yamabe Invariant Greater than RP^3, 50 Years of the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity, Cargese, Corsica (Research Talk), August, 2002; Proof of the Poincare Conjecture for 3-Manifolds with Yamabe Invariant Greater than RP^3 (Research Talk), Cargese, Corsica, France, 1 August 2002; The Riemannian Penrose Inequality, International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing, China, August, 2002; On the Mass of Higher Dimensional Black Holes, 9th Annual Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar, UC Irvine, February, 2002; Black Holes, Minimal Surfaces, and Geometric Flows, Duke Math Journal Conference, Duke University (Research Talk), April 28, 2001; Quasi-local Mass and Black Holes in General Relativity, Geometry Seminar, Duke University (Research Talk), April 28, 2001; Proof of the Riemannian Penrose Inequality Using the Positive Mass Theorem, Current Developments in Mathematics Conference, Harvard University, November, 1999; Proof of the Riemannian Penrose Conjecture, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara (Research Talk), June 25, 1999; On Dark Matter, Galaxies, and the Large Scale Geometry of the Universe, Duke University Graduate / Faculty Seminar (Research Talk, video available, slides the same as the above talk) - Talk begins at 5:20 of, February 15, 2013

Doctoral Theses Directed: Andrew Goetz, The Einstein-Klein-Gordon Equations, Wave Dark Matter, and the Tully-Fisher Relation, (2015); Hangjun Xu, Uniformly Area Expanding Flows in Spacetimes, (2014); Alan R. Parry, Wave Dark Matter and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies, (2013); M. George Lam, The Graph Cases of the Riemannian Positive Mass and Penrose Inequalities in All Dimensions, (2011); Graham H. Cox, Scalar Curvature Rigidity Theorems for the Upper Hemisphere, (2011); Jeffrey Jauregui, Mass Estimates, Conformal Techniques, and Singularities in General Relativity, (2010); Nicholas Robbins, Negative Point Mass Singularities in General Relativity, (2007); Henri Roesch, Proof of a Null Penrose Conjecture Using a New Quasi-local Mass, (2017)

Publications

Papers Published

Bray, H; Hirsch, S; Kazaras, D; Khuri, M; Zhang, Y, Spacetime Harmonic Functions and Applications to Mass, edited by Gromov, ML; Lawson, HB, Perspectives in Scalar Curvature (February, 2023), World Scientific
Bray, H; Stern, D, Scalar curvature and harmonic one-forms on three-manifolds with boundary (November, 2019)
Bray, H; Stern, D; Khuri, M; Kazaras, D, Harmonic Functions and The Mass of 3-Dimensional Asymptotically Flat Riemannian Manifolds (November, 2019)
Bray, H; Liu, Z; Zhang, Y; Gui, F, Proof of Bishop's volume comparison theorem using singular soap bubbles (March, 2019)
Bray, H; Hamm, B; Hirsch, S; Wheeler, J; Zhang, Y, Flatly foliated relativity, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, vol. 15 no. 2 (January, 2019), pp. 707-747, International Press of Boston
Bray, HL; Minicozzi, WP, The mathematics of richard schoen, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 65 no. 12 (December, 2018), pp. 1349-1176, American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Bray, HL; Minicozzi, WP, Preface, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 65 no. 11 (December, 2018), pp. 1412-1413
Bray, H; Roesch, H, Proof of a Null Geometry Penrose Conjecture, Notices of the American Mathematical Society., vol. 65 (February, 2018), American Mathematical Society
Bray, HL; Jauregui, JL; Mars, M, Time Flat Surfaces and the Monotonicity of the Spacetime Hawking Mass II, Annales Henri Poincare, vol. 17 no. 6 (June, 2016), pp. 1457-1475, Springer Nature, ISSN 1424-0637
Martinez-Medina, LA; Bray, H; Mattos, T, On wave dark matter in spiral and barred galaxies, vol. 2015 no. 12 (December, 2015), pp. 025-025, IOP Publishing
Bray, HL; Jauregui, JL, On curves with nonnegative torsion, Archiv der Mathematik, vol. 104 no. 6 (June, 2015), pp. 561-575, Springer Nature, ISSN 0003-889X
Bray, HL; Jauregui, JL, Time Flat Surfaces and the Monotonicity of the Spacetime Hawking Mass, Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 335 no. 1 (April, 2015), pp. 285-307, Springer Nature, ISSN 0010-3616
Bray, HL; Parry, AR, Modeling wave dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies, 9TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM RELATIVISTIC DYNAMICS OF PARTICLES AND FIELDS (IARD 2014), vol. 615 no. 1 (2015), pp. 012001-012001, IOP Publishing, ISSN 1742-6588
Bray, H; Goetz, AS, Wave Dark Matter and the Tully-Fisher Relation (September, 2014)
Bray, HL, On Dark Matter, Spiral Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity, AMS Contemporary Mathematics Volume, vol. 599 no. Geometric Analysis, Mathematical Relativ (2013), American Mathematical Society
Bray, HL; Jauregui, JL, A geometric theory of zero area singularities in general relativity, Asian Journal of Mathematics, vol. 17 no. 3 (2013), pp. 525-560, International Press of Boston, ISSN 1093-6106
Bray, H, On Wave Dark Matter, Shells in Elliptical Galaxies, and the Axioms of General Relativity (December, 2012)
Bray, HL; Khuri, MA, P.D.E.'s Which Imply the Penrose Conjecture, Asian Journal of Mathematics, vol. 15 no. 4 (December, 2011), pp. 54, International Press
Bray, HL; Khuri, MA, P. D. E. 'S which imply the penrose conjecture, Asian Journal of Mathematics, vol. 15 no. 4 (January, 2011), pp. 557-610, International Press of Boston, ISSN 1093-6106
Bray, H, On the Positive Mass, Penrose, and ZAS Inequalities in General Dimension, in Surveys in Geometric Analysis and Relativity in Honor of Richard Schoen’s 60th Birthday, edited by Bray, H; Minicozzi, W (2011), Higher Education Press and International Press, Beijing and Boston
Bray, H; Brendle, S; Eichmair, M; Neves, A, Area-Minimizing Projective Planes in 3-Manifolds, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 63 no. 9 (September, 2010), pp. 1237-1247, WILEY, ISSN 0010-3640
Bray, HL; Khuri, MA, A jang equation approach to the penrose inequality, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, vol. 27 no. 2 (June, 2010), pp. 741-766, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), ISSN 1078-0947
Bray, H; Brendle, S; Neves, A, Rigidity of area-minimizing two-spheres in three-manifolds, Communications in Analysis and Geometry, vol. 18 no. 4 (January, 2010), pp. 821-830, International Press of Boston, ISSN 1019-8385
Bray, HL; Lee, DA, On the Riemannian Penrose inequality in dimensions less than eight, Duke Mathematical Journal, vol. 148 no. 1 (May, 2009), pp. 81-106, Duke University Press, ISSN 0012-7094
Bray, H; Miao, P, On the capacity of surfaces in manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature, Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 172 no. 3 (June, 2008), pp. 459-475, Springer Nature, ISSN 0020-9910
Bray, H; Hayward, S; Mars, M; Simon, W, Generalized inverse mean curvature flows in spacetime, Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 272 no. 1 (May, 2007), pp. 119-138, Springer Nature, ISSN 0010-3616
Bray, H, A Family of Quasi-local Mass Functionals with Monotone Flows, edited by Zambrini, JC, Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Physics (January, 2006), pp. 323-329, World Scientific, ISBN 981256201X
Bray, H, Geometric Flows and the Penrose Inequality, in Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics: Five-Volume Set (January, 2006), pp. V2-510-V2-520, ISBN 9780125126601
H.L. Bray, The Positve Energy Theorem and Other Inequalities in GR, in The Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (2005)
Bray, H, The Positve Energy Theorem and Other Inequalities, in The Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (2005)
Bray, HL; Neves, A, Classification of Prime 3-Manifolds with Yamabe Invariant Greater than RP^3, Annals of Mathematics, vol. 159 no. 1 (January, 2004), pp. 407-424, Annals of Mathematics, Princeton U
Bray, H, Geometric Flows and the Penrose Inequality, in Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics: Five-Volume Set (January, 2004), pp. 510-520, ISBN 9780125126663
Bray, H; Chrusciel, PT, The Penrose Inequality, in The Einstein Equations and the Large Scale Behavior of Gravitational Fields (50 Years of the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity), edited by Chrusciel, PT; Friedrich, HF (2004), Birkhauser
H.L. Bray, A Family of Quasi-local Mass Functionals with Monotone Flows, in Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, 2003, edited by Jean-Claude Zambrini (2003)
Bray, H; Morgan, F, An isoperimetric comparison theorem for schwarzschild space and other manifolds, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 130 no. 5 (January, 2002), pp. 1467-1472
Bray, H; Finster, F, Curvature estimates and the Positive Mass Theorem, Communications in Analysis and Geometry, vol. 10 no. 2 (January, 2002), pp. 291-306, International Press of Boston
Bray, H, Black Holes and the Penrose Inequality in General Relativity, in Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing, China, 2002, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, vol. 2 (2002), pp. 257-272
Bray, HL, Black Holes, Geometric Flows, and the Penrose Inequality in General Relativity, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 49 no. 11 (2002), pp. 1372-1381
Bray, HL; Iga, K, Superharmonic Functions in R^n and the Penrose Inequality in General Relativity, Communications in Analysis and Geometry, vol. 10 no. 5 (2002), pp. 999-1016, International Press of Boston
Bray, HL, Proof of the riemannian penrose inequality using the positive mass theorem, Journal of Differential Geometry, vol. 59 no. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 177-267, International Press of Boston
Bray, H; Schoen, RM, Recent Proofs of the Riemannian Penrose Conjecture, in Current Developments in Mathematics (1999), pp. 1-36, International Press
Bray, H; McCormick, K; Wells, RO; Zhou, XD, Wavelet variations on the Shannon sampling theorem., Bio Systems, vol. 34 no. 1-3 (January, 1995), pp. 249-257, Elsevier Science Ireland, ISSN 0303-2647

Other

Bray, H, The Penrose Inequality in General Relativity and Volume Comparison Theorems Involving Scalar Curvature (1997) (thesis, Stanford University.)

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