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Info/News |
[26.07.2019] |
You may now pick up your certificates by our secretary Renate Weiss. |
[16.07.2019] |
The 13th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[09.07.2019] |
The 12th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[02.07.2019] |
The 11th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[25.06.2019] |
The 10th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[18.06.2019] |
The 9th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[11.06.2019] |
The 8th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[06.06.2019] |
Since coming Monday is an official holiday (Whit Monday), you may hand in your solutions on coming Tuesday by 12:30. |
[04.06.2019] |
The 7th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[28.05.2019] |
The 6th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[21.05.2019] |
The 5th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
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The 4th exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[07.05.2019] |
The third exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[30.04.2019] |
The second exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
[24.04.2019] |
The first exercise sheet has been uploaded. |
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Lectures |
Lecturer: |
Prof. Dr. Frans R. Klinkhamer |
Assistant: |
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Lecture time: |
Mondays 11:30 - 13:00 and Wednesdays 11:30 - 13:00 |
The first lecture is scheduled for 24.04.2019 |
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Lecture place: |
Seminar room 12.01 in the building 30.23 |
Outline: |
4. PHYSICS OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE 4.0 Résumé et envoi 4.1 CMB 4.2 Nucleosynthesis 4.3 Baryogenesis 4.4 Leptogenesis 4.5 Inflation 5. SPACETIME STRUCTURE 5.1 C, P, and T, and all that 5.2 Topology 5.3 Anomalous Lorentz and CPT violation 5.3.1 CPT anomaly 5.3.2 Modified QED 5.4 Spacetime defects 5.5 Taming the Big Bang 6. QUANTUM GRAVITY AND SUPERSTRINGS 6.1 QFT for gravitation 6.2 Bosonic strings 6.3 Superstrings |
Lecture Dates |
Monday |
Wednesday |
22.04.2019 & 24.04.2019 |
Yes |
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29.04.2019 & 01.05.2019 |
Yes |
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06.05.2019 & 08.05.2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
13.05.2019 & 15.05.2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
20.05.2019 & 22.05.2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
27.05.2019 & 29.05.2019 |
No |
Yes |
03.06.2019 & 05.06.2019 |
Yes |
No |
10.06.2019 & 12.06.2019 |
Yes |
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17.06.2019 & 19.06.2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
24.06.2019 & 26.06.2019 |
Yes |
No |
01.07.2019 & 03.07.2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
08.07.2019 & 10.07.2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
15.07.2019 & 17.07.2019 |
No |
Yes |
22.07.2019 & 24.07.2019 |
Yes |
Yes |
Exercises |
Tutor: |
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Tutorial time: |
Tuesdays 14:00 - 15:30 |
The first exercise is scheduled for 30.04.2019 |
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Tutorial place: |
Seminar room 12.01 in the building 30.23 |
Handing-in: |
Your solutions to the exercise sheets need to be handed in on Mondays at 11:00 o'clock sharp to the mailbox on the ground floor of 30.23. If you do that later, your solutions will be not considered. |
Handing-in |
Discussion |
Exercise Sheet |
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1 |
29.04.2019 |
30.04.2019 |
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2 |
06.05.2019 |
07.05.2019 |
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3 |
13.05.2019 |
14.05.2019 |
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4 |
20.05.2019 |
21.05.2019 |
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5 |
27.05.2019 |
28.05.2019 |
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6 |
03.06.2019 |
04.06.2019 |
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7 |
10.06.2019 |
11.06.2019 |
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8 |
17.06.2019 |
18.06.2019 |
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9 |
24.06.2019 |
25.06.2019 |
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10 |
01.07.2019 |
02.07.2019 |
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11 |
08.07.2019 |
09.07.2019 |
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12 |
15.07.2019 |
16.07.2019 |
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13 |
22.07.2019 |
23.07.2019 |
Certificate |
You can get a certificate (Schein) at the end of the course if you have passed the exercises, i.e., have obtained 50% of the total exercise points. |
Literature |
C. Misner et.al. |
Gravitation (W.H. Freeman and Co., 1973) |
V. Mukhanov |
Physical Foundations of Cosmology (Cambridge University Press, 2005) |
B. Schutz |
A First Course in General Relativity (2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2009) |
R. Wald |
General Relativity (University of Chicago Press, 1984) |
S. Weinberg |
Gravitation and Cosmology (J. Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1972) |