General Relativity and cosmology summer 2023
Lecturer: Esteban Chalbaud & Daniel Galviz
Content
The course is evaluated with assignments (60%), seminars (10%) and a final exam (30%).
Applications are now closed
Lecture Notes
Guest Talk
Ruben Campos [Thermodynamics of Quantum Black Holes] [Slides]
Prof. Fernando Quevedo [Cosmology and String Theory] [Slides]
Prof. Alejandra Castro [Black Holes] [Slides]
Nikolina Šarčević [Cosmology with Weak Lensing] [Slides]
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro [Cosmology and Artificial Intelligence] [Slides]
Judith Perez [The Dark Components of the Universe and Their Gravitational Imprint] [Slides]
LITERATURE
Differential Geometry
John Lee. Introduction to Smooth Manifolds.
Loring W. Tu. An Introduction to Manifolds.Riemannian Geometry
John Lee. Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds.General Relativity
Sean M. Carroll. Spacetime and Geometry.
David Tong. Lectures on General Reltivity.
C.Misner, K. S. Thorne, J. A. Wheeler, D. Kaiser. Gravitation.
Robert M. Wald. General Relativity.Cosmology
Daniel Baumann. Cosmology
Steven Weinberg. Cosmology.
successfully passed students
Carlos Coronel 🇻🇪
(Universidad Simón Bolívar, VE)
Julian Cortez 🇨🇴
(Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, CO)
Luis Desa Salas 🇵🇪
(Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, PE)
Jean Gómez 🇻🇪
(University Simón Bolı́var , VE)
Daniel Herrera🇨🇴
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, CO)
Allan Hurtado 🇬🇹
(University of San Carlos of Guatemala, GT)
Félix Ibarra Castor 🇲🇽
(Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, MX)
Carlos Mayorga 🇨🇴
(Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, CO)
Carlos Meza 🇨🇴
(Universidad del Atlántico, CO)
Javier Molina Ariza 🇨🇴
(Universidad del Atlántico, CO)
Juan Sepulveda 🇨🇴
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, CO)
Dennis Viveros 🇨🇴
(Universidad Industrial de Santander, CO)
Guest SPEAKERs
Ruben Campos
(BCTP & Uni Bonn, DE)
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro
(AIFI (MIT) / CFA (Harvard), USA)
Prof. Fernando Quevedo
(University of Cambridge, UK)
Prof. Alejandra Castro
(University of Cambridge, UK)
Judith Perez
(Nova Gorica U. - CAC, SI)
Nikolina Šarčević
(Newcastle University, UK)
Teaching assistanTS
Irvin Matínez
(Carnegie Mellon University,USA)
Mauricio Gamonal San Martin
(Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Lecturers
Esteban Chalbaud
LIP-Coimbra
(University of Coimbra, PT)
Lecturer & Organizer
Daniel Galviz
YMSC (Tsinghua University, CN)
ICTS (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IN)