Date | Speaker | Topic | Literature |
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Oct 15 | Preparatory meeting
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Nov 26 | Patrick Wong | Gravitomagnetism | B. Mashhoon, Gravitoelectromagnetism: A Brief
Review,
arXiv:gr-qc/0311030v2; C. Kiefer and C. Weber, On the interaction of mesoscopic quantum systems with gravity, Annalen der Physik 14, 253–278 (2005), arXiv:gr-qc/0408010v2; C. Everitt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 221101 (2011), arXiv:1105.3456v1; for an English translation of the original Thirring–Lense papers with commentary, see B. Mashhoon, F. W. Hehl, and D. S. Theiss, On the Gravitational Effects of Rotating Masses: The Thirring-Lense Papers, Gen. Rel. Grav. 16, 711–750 (1984). |
Dec 3 | Jens Boos | Topology of the Universe | M. Lachièze-Rey and J.-P. Luminet, Cosmic
topology,
Physics Reports 254, 135–214 (1995), arXiv:gr-qc/9605010v2; J.-P. Luminet, The Shape and Topology of the Universe, arXiv:0802.2236. |
Dec 17 | Pranjal Dhole | The concept of energy in General Relativity
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R. Wald, General Relativity (Chicago 1984), chap. 11.2: Energy. |
Jan 14 | Uddhipan Thakur | Scalar–tensor theories of gravity | Y. Fujii und K.-I. Maeda, The scalar–tensor
theory of gravitation (Cambridge 2003), chap. 1 to
3;
S. Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology (Wiley 1972), chap. 16.4; C. Brans und R. H. Dicke, Physical Review 124, 925–935 (1961). |
Jan 21 | Ripunjay Acharya | The inflationary Universe | V. Mukhanov, Inflation: Homogeneous Limit,
arXiv:astro-ph/0511570; D. Baumann, TASI Lectures on Inflation, arXiv:0907.5424, lectures 2 and 3. |
Feb 4 | Kamran Ghanei | Singularity theorems
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R. Wald, General Relativity (Chicago
1984), chap. 9: Singularities;
S. Hawking und R. Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton University Press 1996), or the German translation: Raum und Zeit (Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag 2000). |
April 15 | Arezu Dehghanfar | The cosmological constant and Dark Energy | S. M. Carroll,
The cosmological constant;
S. Weinberg, Rev. Mod. Phys. 61, 1–23 (1989). |
Further topics and literature
Topic | Literature |
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How Einstein found his field equations | J. Norton, in: Einstein and the History of
general relativity,
eds.: D. Howard and J. Stachel (Birkhäuser 1989). |
The problem of the rotating disk | Landau and Lifschitz vol. II, chap. 89: The
rotation;
T. Kaluza, Physikalische Zeitschrift 11, 977–978 (1910). |
Exact solutions for gravitational waves | |
Pulsars and gravitational waves | M. Kramer et al., Annalen der Physik 15,
34–42 (2006);
I. H. Stairs, Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing. |
Rotating black holes | J. Hartle, Gravity (Addison-Wesley), Chap.
15;
M. Begelman and M. Rees, Gravity’s fatal attraction (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press 2010); P. Townsend, Black Holes, arXiv:gr-qc/9707012v1. |
Thermodynamics of black holes | |
Einstein–Cartan theory |