APM426/MAT1700S: Introduction to General Relativity

Time: MWF 3:10-4:00p.m.

Place: Mondays and Fridays: Wilson Hall 523, Wednesdays 1074 Sydney Smith.

Instructor: James Colliander

    5016G Sydney Smith Hall
    Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 and by appointment.
    Email address: colliand@math.toronto.edu
    Course homepage: http://www.math.toronto.edu/~colliand/426/426.html

Marking Scheme:

    Students will be expected to read material outside of the lectures in the field of
    general relativity and prepare a typeset paper surveying a topic of interest. Selected
    papers may be presented in class by the student and/or me. Papers are due on or
    about 15 March.

    There are TeX related resources linked off of Professor Mary Pugh's homepage .
    I suggest you write your papers in LaTeX but feel to use other versions if you wish.

    NEW: There are tex/latex resources on cquest .

Textbooks:

General Relativity by Robert M. Wald (This will be our main text.)

    In addition to the book of Wald, I have found it useful to consult
    A first course in general relativity by Bernard Schutz, and The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by
    Hawking and Ellis.

Also, the lecture notes by Sean Carroll have been an excellent resource. Carroll's notes are available
at Alicos copy center on College just east of St. George for $10.

The lectures will also be supplemented with selections from The Classical Theory of Fields
by Landau and Lifschitz, and other sources.

Course Topics:

An emerging course outline is available. NEW

Answers to questions in lecture:

The OED2 entry for tensor is here.

Academic Calendar:

The University of Toronto academic calendar is linked here.