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PHYS 786 - Introduction to General Relativity with Applications to Cosmology

Introduction to the differential geometry of Lorentzian manifolds. The priniciples of general relativity. Causal structure and cosmological singularities. Cosmological space-times with Killing vector fields. Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmologies, scalar, vector and tensor perburbations in the linear and nonlinear regimes. De Sitter space-times and inflationary models.

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Corequisites

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Antirequisites

None

Offerings

Fall 2023 [1239]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	8285	6 / 15	14:00 - 15:20	T,Th

Fall 2021 [1219]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	10294	7 / 15	16:00 - 17:20	M,Th		Achim Kempf
LEC 002	10295	0 / 15

Fall 2019 [1199]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	8039	14 / 15	16:00 - 17:20	T,F		Achim Kempf

Fall 2017 [1179]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	8237	12 / 20	16:00 - 17:20	T,F		Achim Kempf

Fall 2015 [1159]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	8432	11 / 20	13:30 - 14:50	M,F		Achim Kempf

Fall 2014 [1149]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	7175	0 / 20

Fall 2013 [1139]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	7843	8 / 20	16:00 - 17:20	T,Th		Achim Kempf

Fall 2011 [1119]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	7846	10 / 10	16:30 - 17:50	T,Th	C2 278	Achim Kempf
LEC 002	8198	1 / 1				Brian McNamara
LEC 003	8201	0 / 1

Winter 2010 [1101]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	7630	0 / 1

Fall 2009 [1099]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	7459	7 / 25	16:00 - 17:20	M,Th		Achim Kempf

Fall 2007 [1079]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	5715	3 / 38	16:00 - 17:20	T,Th	EIT 2053	Achim Kempf

Fall 2005 [1059]

Section	Class	Enrolled	Time	Days	Location	Instructor
LEC 001	5193	2 / 25	15:00 - 16:20	M,E,I,T		Achim Kempf