PHY529 Advanced Topics in General Relativity and Gravitational Waves
General Information
Lecturer: | Prof. Philippe Jetzer |
Assistants: |
Yannick Boetzel (Irchel, Y36 K32) |
Lecture: | Friday 13:00-14:45 (Irchel, Y16-G-05) |
Exercises classes: | Friday 15:00-15:45 (Irchel, Y16-G-05) |
Misc: |
Lecture Notes
Advanced Topics in General Relativity and Gravitational Waves (PDF, 1300 KB)
Please note that this is a work in progress and will be updated regularly. Please report any mistakes or typos to Yannick.
General Relativity (PDF, 1131 KB)
Applications of General Relativity in Astrophysics and Cosmology (PDF, 740 KB)
Exercises
06.10.2017 |
Journal club |
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13.10.2017 |
Journal club |
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20.10.2017 |
LOSC Event Tutorial |
Download the tutorial and prepare your python environment if you want to follow along |
27.10.2017 |
Journal club |
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03.11.2017 | Exercise class | Exercise 1 (PDF, 85 KB) |
10.11.2017 | Exercise class | Solution 1 (PDF, 129 KB) |
17.11.2017 | Journal club | |
24.11.2017 | Journal club | |
01.12.2017 | Journal club | Testing General Relativity with gravitational wave data |
08.12.2017 | Journal club | |
15.12.2017 | Journal club |
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Additional Material
- Popular lecture notes by Sean Caroll
Recommended Books
- S. Carroll, Spacetime and Geometry, Pearson, 2003
- S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology, Wiley, 1972
- N. Straumann, General Relativity with applications to Astrophysics, Springer Verlag, 2004
- C. Misner, K. Thorne and J. Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman, 1973
- R. Wald, General Relativity, Chicago University Press, 1984
- T. Fliessbach, Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Spektrum Verlag, 1995
- B. Schutz, A first course in General Relativity, Cambridge, 1985
- R. Sachs and H. Wu, General Relativity for mathematicians, Springer Verlag, 1977
- J. Hartle, Gravity, An introduction to Einstein's General Relativity, Addison Wesley, 2002
- H. Stephani, General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, 1990
- A. Zee, Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press, 2013