PHY529 Advanced Topics in General Relativity and Gravitational Waves

General Information

Lecturer:	Prof. Philippe Jetzer
Assistants:	Yannick Boetzel (Irchel, Y36 K32) Maria Haney (Irchel, Y36 K34)
Lecture:	Friday 13:00-14:45 (Irchel, Y16-G-05)
Exercises classes:	Friday 15:00-15:45 (Irchel, Y16-G-05)
Misc:	VVZ UZH VVZ ETH

06.10.2017	Journal club	Einstein 1936 Zwicky 1937 Zwicky 1937
13.10.2017	Journal club	Oppenheimer & Volkoff 1939 Chandrasekhar 1964
20.10.2017	LOSC Event Tutorial	LOSC Tutorial Direct download Download the tutorial and prepare your python environment if you want to follow along
27.10.2017	Journal club	Detection paper MMA paper
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	Scheel, Thorne 2017
24.11.2017	Journal club	Padmanabhan 2016
01.12.2017	Journal club	Testing General Relativity with gravitational wave data
08.12.2017	Journal club	Microscope: First results
15.12.2017	Journal club	Weisberg 1981

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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