Featured Speaker:  Benjamin Dodson (Johns Hopkins University)

Title:  Global well-posedness and scattering for the conformal nonlinear wave equation in higher dimensions with radial data.

Abstract:  In this talk, we prove global well-posedness and scattering for the conformally invariant, radially symmetric nonlinear wave equation in the defocusing case. This result is sharp in the radial case. We spend the first half of the talk discussing the broader context of the nonlinear wave equation. We also explain why the result is sharp.