Ten years ago and in a friendly atmosphere, several Spanish research groups interested on the area of Lorentzian Geometry, its applications and related mathematical topics, initiated the biennial Meetings on Lorentzian Geometry and its Applications in Benalmadena-2001 (Malaga) (http://webdeptos.uma.es/agt/). This meeting had a vocation to be the first of a forthcoming series on the same topic. As a result, some others took place in Murcia 2003 (http://www.um.es/gelomur/), Castelldefels 2005 (http://galia.fc.uaslp.mx/~jvallejo/Lorentz2005/), Santiago de Compostela 2007 (http://xtsunxet.usc.es/gelosantiago/) and Martina Franca (Italy) (http://www.dm.uniba.it/geloba2009/), the last one outside of Spain as the international character of these meetings had increased spectacularly. The excellent surroundings in which this series of meetings originated, led us to speak about the «Benalmadena spirit».

Lorentzian Geometry was born as the mathematical theory used in General Relativity. Nowadays, Lorentzian Geometry constitutes a branch of Differential Geometry where many mathematical techniques are involved (Geometric Analysis, Functional Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Lie groups and Lie algebras...)

The present edition will be held in the city of Granada (Spain), September 6-9, 2011. Topics on pure and applied Lorentzian geometry such as geodesics, submanifolds, causality, black holes, Einstein equations, geometry of spacetimes or AdS-CFT correspondence, will be covered.

Intived speakers

• Luis Alías (Universidad de Murcia): Calabi-Bernstein results and parabolicity of maximal surfaces in Lorentzian product spaces
• Erasmo Caponio (Politecnico de Bari): Stationary-to-Randers correspondence and convexity
• José Carlos Díaz-Ramos (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): Polar actions on symmetric spaces of noncompact type
• Jónatan Herrera Fernández (Universidad de Córdoba): The c-boundary of spacetimes and its related boundaries in Di
• Ines Kath (Universitat Greifswald, Germany): Indefinite extrinsic symmetric spaces
• Marc Mars (Universidad de Salamanca): Stability of marginally outer trapped surfaces and applications
• Vladimir S. Matveev (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitt Jena, Germany): How to reconstruct a metric by its unparameterized geodesics
• Masaaki Umehara (Tokyo Institute of Technology): New examples of maximal surfaces in Lorentz Minkowski 3-Space.