PHYS 7810 Spring 2026 Timetable

Diverging energy at a black hole's inner horizon

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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

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

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 10.1-12 Cosmology introduction

Problem Set 2 due in class

Feb 10
Ch 10.13-24 Cosmological evolution

Feb 12
Ch 42 QFT
Inflation Ch 38

Feb 17
Spacetime wheel
Ch 7.30 Rindler space
Ch 43 Acceleration radiation

Feb 19
Planck constraints on inflation
Slow-roll inflation Ch 38.3

Problem Set 3 due in class

8. The Standard Model

Feb 24
Ch 48 Standard Model

Feb 26

Reading day (no class)

Mar 3
Ch 40, Ch 41 Spinors and geometric algebras

Mar 5
Ch 49 Unification

10.

Mar 10
Ch 50 Symmetry breaking

Mar 12
Ch 39 Lie groups
Assign reviewers for Project

Problem Set 4 due in class

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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