Mathematical Problems of General Relativity

(LTCC graduate course)

The course takes place on the 30^th September, 8^th, 14^th and 28^th October from 13:10 to 15:40. The lectures will take place at the London Mathematical Society headquarter, De Morgan House, Russell Square expect for the lectures on the 8^th October which will take place at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary (room 410). The purpose of the course is to provide an exposition of the basic ideas of the initial value problem in General Relativity.

Course details can be found here

Slides:

Slides from Lecture 1 (30^th September, 2013)

Slides from Lecture 2 (8^th October 2013)

Slides from Lecture 3 (14^th October 2013)

Slides from Lecture 4 (28^th October 2013)

Notes of the lectures so far can be found here (last updated on 28^th October 2013).

Problem sheets:

Problem sheet 1

Problem sheet 2

Problem sheet 3

Problem sheet 4

Assessment problems to be sent by email by the 11^th November, 2013.

Supplementary material:

A review of the basic ideas of modern Differential Geometry. These notes contain much more material than what is required for the course. Also, notice that some of the notation and conventions are different to those used in the course.