Advanced Seminar on Relativity and Cosmology14756.5001 | Winter term 2023/24
This seminar will take place on
Wednesdays,
10:00–12:00, Preparatory meeting: Oct 11, 2023 Advanced seminar within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT Contact person: Tatevik Vardanyan (3.04 new building ThP) ContentsTopics from the lecture courses on Relativity and Cosmology I and II. The attendance to these courses is required.It is recommended to give a blackboard talk. But you can, of course, use the projector to show graphs and images. The talk time should not exceed 60 minutes in order to allow for questions and discussions. |
Date | Speaker | Topic | Literature |
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Oct 11 | Preparatory meeting
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Dec 6 | Lorenzo Santoni | Kerr Black Hole
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J. Hartle, Gravity (Addison-Wesley), ch.
15;
M. Begelman and M. Rees, Gravity’s fatal attraction (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press 2010); P. Townsend, Black Holes, arXiv:gr-qc/9707012. |
Dec 13 | Lisa Galvagni | The Shadow of Black Holes
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A. Grenzebach, The Shadow of Black Holes, Springer, 2016;
Event Horizon Telescope; The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 875 (2019) L1, arXiv:1906.11238. |
Dec 20 | Michael Behrendt | Thermodynamics of Black Holes
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S. Carlip, Black Hole Thermodynamics, arXiv:1410.1486. |
Jan 17 | Ahmed Elsherbini | The inflationary universe
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V. Mukhanov, Inflation: Homogeneous Limit,
arXiv:astro-ph/0511570; D. Baumann, TASI Lectures on Inflation, arXiv:0907.5424, lectures 2 and 3. |