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 Dustin A Tracy
Cosmology: Role of gravitation in large scale structure Changlong Wang
Newman-Penrose spinor formalism Sankha Chakrabarty
Post-Newtonian Theory Yaqi Han
Cosmology: Big bang nucleosynthesis Elisa Maria Todarello
Holographic theory on the cosmological scale – viability, constraints and implications Songge Sun
Theory and detection of primordial gravitational waves Mackenzie W Turvey
Spinning black hole mergers Andrew Chilton
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LISA Luyi Yan
Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity Spencer Rosenfeld
Black hole stability: theory and results Peisen Ma
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LIGO Zach Bush
Conserved quantities in general relativity Alexander Weaver
Black hole thermodynamics Dipsikha Debnath
Numerical relativity methods
Initial value formulation Danny Brooker
Black hole perturbations Bobby Bond
Recent numerical relativity results
Holographic theory, and emergent gravity as an entropic force Nicole Crisosto