APM426/MAT1700S: Introduction to General Relativity

Time:  Tu-Th 2--3:30

Place:  Sidney Smith Hall Room SS5017A


Instructor: James Colliander

    3146 Earth Sciences Building, 22 Russell Street
    Office Hours:  Mondays 11:00-12:00 and by appointment.
    Email address:  colliand@math.toronto.edu
    Course homepage: http://www.math.toronto.edu/~colliand/426_03/426_03.html

Marking Scheme:

    Homework, a typeset term paper, and (possibly) an in class presentation will determine the mark. Papers
     from the 2002 version of the course are linked here.  

    NEW         The papers for this term are now available in the Papers Directory.


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

    There are tex/latex resources on cquest .

Resources:

    General Relativity by Robert M. Wald.  

    In addition to the book of Wald, I have found it useful to consult  General Relativity : An Introduction to the Theory of Gravitational Field by 
    Hans Stephani,  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. If there is sufficient interest,
    I can arrange to have Carroll's notes made available at a local copy shop.

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

    The 2002 version of this course had a  webpage .

Course Topics:

    An  emerging course outline is available.

Relativity Links:

    Sean Carroll's page
    Numerical Relativity Exhibitions
    Einstein explaining E=mc^2.
    The LIGO project
    The Lisa project
    Living Reviews (of topics in relativity)
    Caltech's Physics 236-General Relativity
    black hole animations
    star and black hole mpegs

Academic Calendar:

The University of Toronto academic calendar is linked here.