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

The inflationary theory of primordial cosmological perturbations
Katie Leonard
Cosmology: Role of gravitation in large scale structure
Jesus Martinez
Newman-Penrose spinor formalism
M. Jay Perez
Post-Newtonian Theory
Jue Zhang
Cosmology: Big bang nucleosynthesis
Tongguang Cheng
Holographic theory on the cosmological scale – viability, constraints and implications
Yuning Wu
Theory and detection of primordial gravitational waves
Antonis Mytidis
Spinning black hole mergers
P. Alejandro Quintero
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LISA
Aaron Spector
Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity
Chris Mueller
Black hole stability: theory and results
Johannes Eichholz
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LIGO
Darsa Donelan
Conserved quantities in general relativity
Pedro Mora Jr
Black hole thermodynamics
Frank Avedo
Numerical relativity methods
Rashid Hamdan
Initial value formulation
Andrew Padgett
Black hole perturbations
Vaibhav Tiwari
Recent numerical relativity results
Brad Steele