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 schedule PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity) Spring 2014: Timetable

Week Tuesday Thursday
1 Jan 14
Special Relativity (website)
Jan 16
2 Jan 21
Problem Set 1 due in class
Jan 23
3 Jan 28
Problem Set 2 due in class
Jan 30
4 Feb 4
Problem Set 3 due in class
Feb 6
5 Feb 11
Problem Set 4 due in class
Feb 13
Falling into a Black Hole (website)
Inside Black Holes (website)
6 Feb 18
Problem Set 5 due in class
Feb 20
7 Feb 25
Problem Set 6 due in class
Feb 27
8 Mar 4
I will be away. Class rescheduled to...
Mar 6
Problem Set 7 due in class
24-hour take-home Midterm available
9 Mar 11
Tetrad approach to general relativity
Mar 13
Midterm due
10 Mar 18 Mar 20
Problem Set 8 due in class
11 Spring Break
12 Apr 1
Black Hole Interiors
Apr 3
13 Apr 8
Problem Set 9 due in class
Apr 10
14 Apr 15
General Relativistic Perturbation Theory
Problem Set 10 due in class
Apr 17
15 Apr 22
Cosmological Perturbations
Apr 24
Canceled: Problem Set 11 due in class
16 Apr 29 May 1
24-hour take-home Final available
17 May 6 May 8
Final due

 General relativistic volume rendering of a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a disk and jet around a black hole Spring 2014 PHYS 5770 Homepage

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Updated 2014 Apr 22