HPS 2821 - GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Over a period of eight years, 1907 to 1915, working almost single handedly, Einstein made the greatest discovery of his scientific life, the general theory of relativity. We have a detailed record of his process of discovery in both published papers and private notebooks. After the initial excitement, work in general relativity stagnated until the 1960s when a new cohort of mathematical physicists revived work in general relativity with geometrical methods and celebrated singularity theorems. Modern topics include the physics of black holes and gravitational waves
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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