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 schedule PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity) Spring 2013: Timetable

Week Tuesday Thursday
1 Jan 15
Special Relativity (website)
Jan 17
2 Jan 22
Problem Set 1 due in class
Jan 24
3 Jan 29
Problem Set 2 due in class
Jan 31
4 Feb 5
I am away. Make-up class on Wed Feb 6, 5-6:15pm in Duane E126
Problem Set 3 due in class
Feb 7
5 Feb 12
Problem Set 4 due in class
Feb 14
Falling into a Black Hole (website)
Inside Black Holes (website)
6 Feb 19
Problem Set 5 due in class
Feb 21
7 Feb 26
Class preempted by Brian Greene Gamow lecture
Make-up class on Wed Feb 27, 5-6:15pm in Duane G2B47
Problem Set 6 due in class
Feb 28
8 Mar 5
Problem Set 7 due in class
Mar 7
24-hour take-home Midterm available
9 Mar 12
Tetrad approach to general relativity
Mar 14
Midterm due
10 Mar 19 Mar 21
Problem Set 8 due in class
11 Spring Break
12 Apr 2
Black Hole Interiors
Apr 4
13 Apr 9
Problem Set 9 due in class
Apr 11
14 Apr 16
General Relativistic Perturbation Theory
Problem Set 10 due in class
Apr 18
15 Apr 23
Cosmological Perturbations
Apr 25
Problem Set 11 due in class
16 Apr 30 May 2
24-hour take-home Final available
17 May 7 May 9
Final due

 General relativistic volume rendering of a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a disk and jet around a black hole Spring 2013 PHYS 5770 Homepage

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Updated 2013 Apr 16