1.Logistic details

•Dates & time: 13:30 on Tuesdays and Fridays every week

-First class: 30 October; last class 14 December

•Rooms:

-30 Oct (Tue): INIT Auditorium 1

-2 Nov (Fri): REC-JK B.25

-6 Nov (Tue): M623 at VU

-9 Nov (Fri): P647 at VU

-13 Nov (Tue): MF-A311 at VU

-16 Nov (Fri): P647 at VU

-20 Nov (Tue): HG-02A06 at VU

-23 Nov (Fri): P647 at VU

-27 Nov (Tue): M129 at VU

-30 Nov (Fri): D107 at VU

-4 Dec (Tue): C669 at VU

-7 Dec (Fri): C623 at VU

-11 Dec (Tue): HG-04A05 at VU

-14 Dec (Fri): P647 at VU

•Final exam: 19 December, 9:00–12:15, SP C1.110

•Teaching assistant: Ariana Stylianidi Christodoulou (m.christodoulou {at} student.uva.nl)

•Credit: 6EC

2.Textbooks

•S. M. Carroll: “Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity” (Benjamin Cummings, 2003)

•B. Shutz: “A First Course in General Relativity” (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2009)

•R. W. Wald: “General Relativity” (University of Chicago Press, 1984)

•S. Weinberg: “Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity” (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,1972)

•L. D. Landau & E. M. Lifshitz: “The Classical Theory of Fields” (Butterworth-Heinemann, 4th edition, 1980)

3.Covered contents (equivalent of sections in Carroll 2003) and exercise problems

•October 30: Secs. 1.1–1.3

•November 2: Secs. 1.4–1.8, part of Sec. 1.9 (Exercises)

•November 6: Secs. 2.1−2.3 (Exercises)

•November 9: Secs. 2.4, 2.5, part of Secs. 2.8 and 2.10 (Exercises)

•November 13: Secs. 3.1−3.6 (Exercises)

•November 16: Secs. 3.7, 3.10, part of Sec. 1.9

•November 20: Secs. 1.9, 4.1, 4.2

•November 23: Secs. 1.10, 4.3, 5.1

•November 27: Secs. 5.4, 5.5, part of Sec. 5.6 (Exercises)

•November 30: part of Sec. 5.6, Secs. 5.7, 7.1, 7.2 (Exercises)

•December 4: Secs. 7.3, 7.4

•December 7: Secs. 7.5, 7.6 (Exercises)

•December 11: Secs. 8.2−8.4