last update:
2016-06-22

Teaching

Lecture on General Relativity - GEO-Q lecture week - June 2016

Handout accompanying my lecture on GR given in the context of the GEO-Q lecture week. Questions, comments, and corrections are most welcome.

Introduction to General Relativity - UiO - Fall 2007

Students/staff with interests in gravitation and cosmology are welcome to participate in this fall semesters set of introductory lectures on General Relativity. The lectures are supplementary to other courses at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics and will be held Fridays 14:00ct-16:00 in room 304. Please click on the picture above or here to have a look at the corresponding flyer. The first lecture is scheduled for 21 September, the dates of subsequent lectures and further information will be made available on this site and via email. Do not forget to sign up with me if you want to receive email announcements of the single lectures!

Schedule

Date	Time	Room	Title

21.09.2007	14:15-16:00	304	First meeting & Introduction
28.09.2007	14:15-16:00	304	Lecture II You can find some supplementary biographical information on H. Minkowski here. His famous lecture from 1908 is also available online.
05.10.2007			No regular lecture due to the workshop on Conceptual problems in computational gravity. All of you are welcome to participate in this workshop!
12.10.2007	14:15-16:00	304	Lecture III
19.10.2007			No regular lecture due to Mathisson conference.
26.10.2007	14:15-16:00	304	Lecture IV
02.11.2007	14:15-16:00	304	Lecture V
09.11.2007	14:15-16:00	304	Lecture VI
16.11.2007	14:15-16:00	304	Lecture VII
23.11.2007	14:15-16:00	304	Lecture VIII
30.11.2007	14:15-17:00	304	Lecture IX/X

Small research projects - UiO - Fall 2005 / Spring 2006 / Fall 2006 / Spring 2007 / Fall 2007

Students (undergraduate/graduate) who are interested in performing their own research in the field of gravitation and cosmology are encouraged to contact me. We offer several small research projects which cover manageable subject areas and will help students to develop their own independent research skills. Check out the corresponding flyer.

Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology - ISU -Fall 2004

Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology, will be part of this semesters Astrophysics 405/505 course at Iowa State University (starts 1 December, MWF 3:10-4:00, Physics Hall 43, Cr.3). Lecture material will be made available online on this page after each lecture.

For students who want to have a glance at the literature before the lectures start I compiled a short list of textbooks.

Click on the links below for the script accompanying the single lectures. Note that this is a "living" script in which any of the parts might change without notice (last-update: 2004-12-09).

Lecture 1 [ pdf ]
Lecture 2 [ pdf ]
Lecture 3 [ pdf ]
Lecture 4 [ pdf ]
Lecture 5 [ pdf ]

Current version of the script in one file can be found here [ pdf ].

You can download the latest version of GRTensorII (the add-on for computer algebra systems like Maple or Mathematica for performing calculations with tensors which I talked about in the lecture) for different systems here.

I also prepared some tiny Maple worksheets for you to play around with. With them you can work out the vacuum field equations for the spherically symmetric line element, convince yourself that Schwarzschild's solution really solves the field equations, and have a look at the lightlike geodesics in Schwarzschild and Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates.