Introduction to General Relativity

Harvard FAS

Recent exploration of black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmology have revealed the relativistic Universe like never before. This course will introduce students to the theory of general relativity and some of its key applications. Topics include: review of special relativity, physics in curved spacetimes, the Einstein field equations, gravitational lensing, black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmology. Mathematics used in general relativity will be introduced along the way.