General Information

Professor:

Prof. Dr. Frans R. Klinkhamer

Assistants:

Dr. José Queiruga & Dr. Viacheslav Emelyanov

Seminar time:

The first meeting is sheduled for April 26, 2019 at 11.30.

Further dates will be determined later.

Seminar place:

Seminar room 12-01 in the building 30.23

Sign-up:

This seminar is aimed at Diplom/Master-level students. We will discuss some of the most important publications in General Relativity and Cosmology.

If you would like to participate in the seminar, you must attend the first meeting, in which the seminar topics will be distributed.

If for some reason you cannot attend the first meeting, please contact Dr. Queiruga beforehand.

Schedule

1a

10.05.2019

A. Friedmann, "On the curvature of space," Z. f. Phys. 10 (1922) 377

1b

10.05.2019

A. Friedmann, "On the possibility of a world with constant negative curvature of space," Z. f. Phys. 21 (1924) 326

2a

24.05.2019

G. Gamov, "The origin of elements and the separation of Galaxies," Phys. Rev. 74 (1948) 505.

2b

24.05.2019

R. A. Alpher and R. C. Herman, "Remarks of the evolution of the expanding Universe," Phys. Rev. 75 (1949) 1089.

3a

07.06.2019

A. Penzias and R. W. Wilson, "A measurement of excess antenna temperature at 4080 Mc/s," Astrophys. J. 142 (1965) 419.

3b

07.06.2019

R.H. Dicke, P.J.E. Peebles, P.G. Roll and D.T. Wilkinson, "Cosmic black-body radiation ," Astrophys. J. 142 (1965), 414.

3c

07.06.2019

D. J Fixsen et al. , "The cosmic microwave background spectrum from the full COBE FIRAS data set," ArXiv: astro- ph/9605054].

4a

28.06.2019

R. V. Wagoner, W. A. Fowler and F. Hoyle, "On the synthesis of elements at very high temperatures," Astrophys. J. 148 (1967), 3.

4b

28.06.2019

S. Burles, K. M. Nollett and M. S. Turner, "Big-bang nu- cleosynthesis predictions for precision cosmology," ArXiv: astro- ph/0010171.

5

12.07.2019

C. Brans and R. H. Dicke, "Mach's principle and a relativistic theory of gravitation," Phys. Rev. 124 (1961) 124.

6

19.07.2019

M. Visser, "Sakharov's induced gravity: A modern perspective," Mod. Phys. Lett. A17 (2002) 977.