General Relativity and Cosmology
Module Text
Course taught from 2010 to 2013
Lecture Notes:
Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: Key Aspects of Special Relativity
Lecture 3: Key Aspects of Special Relativity - applications
Lecture 4: 4-Vectors
Lecture 5: Special Relativity - mechanics
Lecture 6: Differential Geometry
Lecture 7: Moving from SR to GR
Lecture 8: GR Spacetime tells matter how to move
Lecture 9: Problems Class 1
Lecture 10: Geodesics and Spacetime Curvature
Lecture 11: Einstein's Field Equation (part 1)
Lecture 12: Einstein's Field Eqn (part 2) Newtonian Limit
Lecture 13: Schwarzschild Solution
Lecture 14: Schwarzschild Spacetime Orbits
Lecture 15: Jumping Into Black Holes
Lecture 16: Black Hole Event Horizons and advanced topics
Lecture 17: Cosmology Robertson Walker Metric
Lecture 18: Cosmology Freedman Equations
Lecture 19: Cosmological Models
Lecture 20: Cosmology Cosmic Microwave Background
Lecture 21: Problems Class
Lecture 22: Revision
Exoplanet Summer School
2017
Series of Lectures delivered for the 2nd Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science in Vietri sul Mare, Italy.
Lecture Notes to be published by Springer in the Astrophysics and Space Science Library Series. Authors manuscript draft available here.
Slides available below:
General Intro and History of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Past and Current Science Topics in Exoplanet Atmospheres
Transmission Spectra Data Reduction Walkthrough
Interpreting a Transmission Spectrum
Exoplanets and their Atmospheres
2019
Graduate Level course at JHU
Covers the observations and theory of exoplanet atmospheres.