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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 10.1-12 Cosmology introduction
Problem Set 2 due in class
6. Feb 10
Ch 10.13-24 Cosmological evolution 		Feb 12
Ch 42 QFT
Inflation Ch 38
7. 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)
9. Mar 3
Class canceled 		Mar 5
Ch 13, Ch 14 Geometric algebras
10. Mar 10
Ch 40 Spinors
Ch 49 Unification 		Mar 12
Ch 50 Symmetry breaking
Assign reviewers for Project
Problem Set 4 due in class
11. Spring Break
12. String Theory Mar 24
Ch 51 String Theory without Supersymmetry 		Mar 26
Ch 52 Bosonic String Theory
Project video presentation due
13. Mar 31 Apr 2
Invited lecture by Prof. Chris Akers “Black Hole Information Paradox”
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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