Overview
Professor Bray uses differential geometry to understand general relativity, and general relativity to motivate interesting problems in differential geometry. In 2001, he published his proof of the Riemannian Penrose Conjecture about the mass of black holes using geometric ideas related to minimal surfaces, scalar curvature, conformal geometry, geometric flows, and harmonic functions. He is also interested in the large-scale unexplained curvature of the universe, otherwise known as dark matter, …
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Mathematics
·
2004 - Present
Mathematics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Education, Training & Certifications
Stanford University ·
1997
Ph.D.
Rice University ·
1992
B.A.