PROJECTS

Written reports should be about 20 pages long.  Plan on 20 minutes for your oral presentation.  This should not be just a show and tell, nor the result of reading a single authorative, technical article.  You will be required present a technical topic in a way that you understand it, and not focussed entirely on detail, to an audience essentially unfamiliar with the technical details of your topic.

Selected topics

Cosmology: Role of gravitation in large scale structure
Nimit Agarwal
Newman-Penrose spinor formalism
Ali Ashrafi
Numerical relativity methods
Benjamin Hall
Black hole perturbations
Steven Hochman
Conserved quantities in general relativity
Lex Kemper
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LISA
William Korth
Holographic theory on the cosmological scale – viability, constraints and implications
Nick Kypreos
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LIGO
Hsin-Jung Lin
Post-Newtonian Theory
Tomoyuki Nakayama
Spinning black hole mergers
Shawn Mitryk
Hamiltonian formulation
Hridis Pal
The inflationary theory of primordial cosmological perturbations
Sohyun Park
Black hole stability: theory and results
Jason Ybarra

Other suggested topics

Spinning black hole mergers
Black hole perturbations
Numerical relativity methods
Black hole stability theory
Newman-Penrose spinor formalism
Recent numerical relativity results
Post-Newtonian theory
Initial value formulation
Hamiltonian formulation
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LIGO
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LISA
Conserved quantities in general relativity
Cosmology: Role of gravitation in large scale structure
Cosmology: Big bang nucleosynthesis