General Information

Professor:

Prof. Dr. Frans R. Klinkhamer

Assistant:

Dr. José Queiruga

Seminar time:

The first meeting is sheduled for October 19, 2017 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 Einstein papers.

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

02.11.2017

X.Y.

On the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous ether (A. Michelson and E. Morley)

1b

09.11.2017

X.Y.

An experimental study of the rate of a moving atomic clock (H. Ives and G. Stilwell)

2

16.11.2017

X.Y.

Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig? (A. Einstein))

3

30.11.2017

X.Y.

Über den Einfluß der Schwerkraft auf die Ausbreitung des Lichtes (A. Einstein)

4a

07.12.2017

X.Y.

Die Nordströmsche Gravitationstheorie vom Standpunkt des absoluten Differentialkalküls (A. Einstein and A. Fokker)

4b

14.12.2017

X.Y.

Scalar Gravitation+Erratum (M. Wellner and G. Sandri)

5

21.12.2017

X.Y.

Die Gundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Sections A-B (A. Einstein)

6

11.01.2018

X.Y.

Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Sections C-E (A. Einstein)

7a

25.01.2018

X.Y.

Plane Gravitational Waves in General Relativity (H. Bondi)

7b

01.02.2018

X.Y.

Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger (B.P. Abbott et al.)

8

08.02.2018

X.Y.

Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (A. Einstein)