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.

Suggested topics

Black hole perturbations: theory and analysis
Black hole stability: theory and results (John Rotter)
Black hole thermodynamics (Analis Lawrence)
Conserved quantities in general relativity
Cosmology: Big bang nucleosynthesis and the role of neutrinos
Cosmology: Role of gravitation in large scale structure (Huanbo Sun)
Experimental tests of General Relativity (Fatemeh Taherasghari)
Gravitational waves from throughout the universe: implications for measurement
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LIGO (Tanmaya Mishra)
Gravitational waves – sources and rates for LISA
Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity
Holographic theory, and emergent gravity as an entropic force (Liu Tao)
Holographic theory on the cosmological scale – viability, constraints and implications (LingQin Xue)
Initial value formulation (Daniel Brotherton)
Newman-Penrose spinor formalism
Numerical relativity methods (Daniel George)
Post-Newtonian Theory (Jinye Yang)
Recent numerical relativity results
Spinning black hole mergers: potential for new tests of General Relativity? (Sourath Ghosh)
The Hubble constant: discrepant "measurements"? (Shubhagata Bhaumik)
The inflationary theory of primordial cosmological perturbations (Alexander Hipp)
Theory and detection of primordial gravitational waves (Farshad Kamalinejad)