School of 2021
Twentyseventh School: Heigenbrücken,
30.8.-10.9.2021
funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
Lecture Program:
| Valerie Domcke (CERN) | Gravitational waves from the early Universe |
| Björn Garbrecht (TU München) | Metastable vacua in field theory and cosmology |
| Volker Perlick (ZARM Bremen) | Gravitational lensing by black holes |
| Jan Steinhoff (AEI-Potsdam) | The relativistic binary problem and gravitational waves |
| Larus Thorlacius (University of Iceland) | Holographic aspects of black holes |
The instruction language is English.
Some lecture notes may appear later and will be made available here
Recommended Literature:
- Domcke:
M. Maggiore, Graviational Waves Volume 1, Oxford Master Series in Physics, 2007
M. Maggiore, Gravitational wave experiments and early universe cosmology
C. Caprini and D. Figueroa, Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves
- Garbrecht:
Coleman “Aspects of Symmetry” Chapters 7.2, 7.6
Andreassen, Farhi, Frost, Schwartz 1604.06090
Garbrecht, Millington 1501.07466
Ai, Garbrecht, Tamarit 1905.04236
lecture notes: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6
- Perlick:
V. Perlick: ‘Gravitational lensing from a spacetime perspective’,
Living Rev. Relativ. 7, 9 (2004) https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-2004-9
V. Perlick, O. Yu. Tsupko: ‘Calculating black hole shadows: review of analytical studies’, arXiv:2105.07101 - Circular Geodesics in Kerr (Problem sheet)
- Steinhoff:
M. Maggiore “Gravitational Waves Volume 1: Theory and Experiments”
LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations, “The basic physics of thebinary black hole merger GW150914” https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01940
E. E. Flanagan, S. A. Hughes “The basics of gravitational wave theory” https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0501041
- Thorlacius:
J. Polchinski, The Black Hole Information Problem, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04036.pdf
Veronika E. Hubeny, The AdS/CFT Correspondence, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.00007.pdf
lectures 1-3 lecture 4
