PHYSICS 7777 -Advanced General Relativity, Spring 2015.
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Instructor: Jorge Pullin
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This is a one credit course in which we will discuss the second part of the book by Wald and other assorted topics in advanced general relativity. We will meet Mondays at 3pm in 241 Nicholson. Due to significant travel by the instructor, we will also meet on Fridays at 2pm. The schedule for the course and 
assorted materials are as follows:
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<li> Friday January 23rd Chapter 7.1-7.2. <a href=ryanshepley.pdf>Pages from</a> Ryan and Shepley.
<li> Monday January 26th. Review of Diffeomorphisms, Lie derivatives, Killing vectors, Lagrangian formulation. <a href=http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712019>Carrol's notes</a>.
<li> Friday January 30th. Review of Diffeomorphisms.
<li> Monday February 23rd. Homogeneous cosmologies.
<li> Friday February 27th. Bianchi models: dynamics; algebraically special sols; discussion of Weyl tensor according to Carroll.
<li> Friday March 6th methods for generating solutions <a href=http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jmp/12/6/10.1063/1.1665681>Geroch's paper</a>.
<li> Friday March 13th Black holes, Carroll 7.57-7.80
<li> Monday March 16th Will continue with black holes from Carroll
<li> Friday March 20th Penrose diagrams
<li> Monday April 27th
<li> Friday May 1st