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 schedule PHYS 7810 Special Topics: Extreme Energy Spring 2026: Timetable


Week Tuesday Thursday
1. Syllabus Jan 6 Jan 8
First day of classes
2. Relativity & Black Holes Jan 13
SR website
Ch 2 General Relativity
metric.nb 		Jan 15
Ch 2.4
3. Jan 20
Summary last week: Ch 2.25
Spacetime diagrams (website)
Inside Black Holes (website)
Ch 7 Schwarzschild geometry 		Jan 22
Ch 8 Reissner-Nordström geometry
RN spacetime diagrams
Penrose diagrams
Problem Set 1 due in class
Fri Jan 23
Last day to drop for free
4. Jan 27
Ch 9 Kerr geometry 		Jan 29
Ch 11 Tetrads
Ch 20 Spherical spacetimes
tetrad.nb
5. Cosmology Feb 3
Ch 21 Mass inflation 		Feb 5
Ch 10
Problem Set 2 due in class
6. Feb 10 Feb 12
QFT Ch 42
7. Feb 17
Inflation Ch 38 		Feb 19
Problem Set 3 due in class
8. The Standard Model Feb 24 Feb 26
Reading day (no class)
9. Mar 3 Mar 5
Problem Set 4 due in class
10. Mar 10 Mar 12
Assign reviewers for Project
11. Spring Break
12. String Theory Mar 24 Mar 26
Project video presentation due
13. Mar 31 Apr 2
14. Apr 7
Project presentations 		Apr 9
Project presentations
15. Apr 14 Apr 16
Problem Set 5 due in class
16. Last week of classes Apr 21 Apr 23
Last day of classes
17. Exam week Apr 28 Apr 30
Take-home final due 11.59pm
18. Mon May 4
Grades due 		May 5 May 7

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