Name: Jamie B. Jorgensen
Email: slr49@cc.usu.edu
Affiliation: Utah State Univeristy, Dept. of Physics (undergrad)


Title:
What's my Symmetry?  Classifying Spacetimes According to Petrov


Abstract:
We are developing a coordinate invariant classification of spacetimes
according to their isometries.  This includes improving Petrov's 1961
isometry algebra classification.  We are also developing software and an
online database to allow us to find the classification of any given metric.
This talk will report our progress towards these goals and a summary of
results of our classification of known exact solutions to date.