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Mathematics | University of Alabama at Birmingham
1300 University Blvd | Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
Phone: 943 2154 | Fax: 934 9025 |
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- Monday, March 18, 2002
Jose Escobar (UAB)
TBA
10:00 AM in Room CH 402
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- Monday, March 11, 2002
Sumio Yamada (UAB)
Brief Introduction to General Relativity: Lecture 6
10:00 AM in Room CH 402
Abstract: We discuss the geodesics of the Schwazschild
solution.
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- Monday, February 11, 2002
Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
Brief Introduction to General Relativity: Lecture 5
10:00 AM in Room CH 402
Abstract: We discuss the spherically symmetric case of the
Einstein vacuum equations, and begin the study of the Schwazschild
solution.
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- Monday, February 4, 2002
Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
Brief Introduction to General Relativity: Lecture 4
10:00 AM in Room CH 402
Abstract: In this lecture, we continue our formulation of the
Cauchy Problem in the maximal gauge.
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- Monday, January 28, 2002
Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
Brief Introduction to General Relativity: Lecture 3
10:00 AM in Room CH 402
Abstract: In this lecture, we formulate the Cauchy Problem in the maximal gauge,
and discuss the constraint equations
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- Monday, January 14, 2002
Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
Brief Introduction to General Relativity: Lecture 2
10:00 AM in Room CH 402
Abstract: In this lecture, we determine the character of the Einstein Vacuum
Equations, and formulate the Cauchy Problem in the maximal gauge.
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- Monday, January 7, 2002
Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
Brief Introduction to General Relativity: Lecture 1
11:00 AM in Room CH 458
Abstract: In this first lecture, we introduce the Einstein Equations, and show that
they are the Euler-Lagrange Equations for the Einstein-Hilbert Action.
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- Tuesday, December 4, 2001
Organizational Meeting
11:25 AM in Room CH 458
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| The geometry seminar will continue in the Spring Term with an emphasis on
general relativity and conformal geometry. Knowledge of differential geometry and partial
differential equations will be useful. However, we will attempt to make the subject
accessible to some degree to all in attendance. The emphasis will be on asymptotically
flat 3-d Riemannian manifolds of non-negative scalar curvature. After a brief introduction
on General Relativity, we plan to discuss the following results:
Other subject may be covered depending on time, and we plan to have some occasional
outside guests giving lectures on their work.
Students past the JPE may take the seminar for credit. Students taking the seminar for
credit will be expected to deliver a number of lectures (equal to a constant times the
number of credit hours they register for). Please contact me
for details. |
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