Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Lecture Notes ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
The 1960S

Sidney Coleman (1937–2007) earned his doctorate at Caltech under Murray Gell-Mann. Before completing his thesis, he was hired by Harvard and remained there his entire career. A celebrated particle theorist, he is perhaps best known for his brilliant lectures, given at Harvard and in a series of summer school courses at Erice, Sicily. Three times in the 1960s he taught a graduate course on Special and General Relativity; this book is based on lecture notes taken by three of his students and compiled by the Editors.

Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 2

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Steane
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Classical Field Theory ◽  
Weak Field ◽  
Stellar Structure ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Penrose Process ◽  
Low Amplitude

This is a textbook on general relativity and cosmology for a physics undergraduate or an entry-level graduate course. General relativity is the main subject; cosmology is also discussed in considerable detail (enough for a complete introductory course). Part 1 introduces concepts and deals with weak-field applications such as gravitation around ordinary stars, gravimagnetic effects and low-amplitude gravitational waves. The theory is derived in detail and the physical meaning explained. Sources, energy and detection of gravitational radiation are discussed. Part 2 develops the mathematics of differential geometry, along with physical applications, and discusses the exact treatment of curvature and the field equations. The electromagnetic field and fluid flow are treated, as well as geodesics, redshift, and so on. Part 3 then shows how the field equation is solved in standard cases such as Schwarzschild-Droste, Reissner-Nordstrom, Kerr, and internal stellar structure. Orbits and related phenomena are obtained. Black holes are described in detail, including horizons, wormholes, Penrose process and Hawking radiation. Part 4 covers cosmology, first in terms of metric, then dynamics, structure formation and observational methods. The meaning of cosmic expansion is explained at length. Recombination and last scattering are calculated, and the quantitative analysis of the CMB is sketched. Inflation is introduced briefly but quantitatively. Part 5 is a brief introduction to classical field theory, including spinors and the Dirac equation, proceeding as far as the Einstein-Hilbert action. Throughout the book the emphasis is on making the mathematics as clear as possible, and keeping in touch with physical observations.

scholarly journals Formation Models of Galaxies

1995 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 323-323
Author(s):  
S.D.M. White
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Lecture Notes

Unfortunately Dr. White was not able to finish a written version of his presentation at the Symposium in time for inclusion in these proceedings. He refers the interested readers to his lecture notes at the August 1993 Les Houches summer school (White, 1995).

Revisiting BISFT Summer School 1998, The College of St Mark and St John Plymouth, ‘Women Facing the Boundaries of Difference’

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
Mary Grey
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Second Wave

In her paper Expelled Again from Eden: Facing Difference through Connection, delivered in Plymouth in 1998, Mary Grey said the story of the Garden of Eden was a dilemma for Feminist Theologians. This because it both bears responsibility for the Fall of relationship between God and Man and the misogyny that has ensued through the ages but also underpinning the desire to return to a supposed golden age of matriarchy with the re-emergence of the Goddess and a related ecological and egalitarian epoch of harmony. Grey makes a connection between the Lost Garden myth and the second wave feminist ideal of global sisterhood of the 1960s. Reflecting on her paper and updating it later, Grey concluded she still felt the challenge of years ago: the sense of rightness of connection and mutuality, yet the crucial need to embrace difference.

scholarly journals The Way I See the Stars: Fibre Art Inspired by Astrobiology

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 413-420
Author(s):  
Merja Markkula
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Grand Rapids ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Lecture Notes ◽  
The Way

Throughout my life I have studied edges, borderlines, signs determining inside and outside, insider and outsider, seeking to understand the differences – or similarities – between scientific and artistic ways of appreciating life. In 2005 I had a special opportunity to follow the lectures of the Vatican summer school of astrobiology, and expand my understanding of the origin and limiting factors of life. Inspired by this, I made the strongly hairy, three-dimensional, black felt Dark Matter and Extraterrestrial art works, expressing something between known and foreign, visible and hidden, combining male and female and general mammalian features. These works were exhibited in Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, 2006. I continued reading my notes about the inspiring lectures by Lunine et al., resulting in making a series of fibre artworks called Lecture Notes and, finally, a series of twenty works about the origin and limitations of life. This exhibition, The way I see the Stars, felt inspired by astrobiology and has been shown in Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy and in Kaarina, Finland. All the works have been made using fibre techniques.

Nagel, Ernest (1901–85)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Levi
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
External World ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
The 1960S

Ernest Nagel was arguably the pre-eminent American philosopher of science from the mid 1930s to the 1960s. He taught at Columbia University for virtually his entire career. Although he shared with Bertrand Russell and with members of the Vienna Circle a respect for and sensitivity to developments in mathematics and the natural sciences, he endorsed a strand in the thought of Charles S. Peirce and John Dewey that Nagel himself called ‘contextual naturalism’. Among the main features of contextual naturalism is its distrust of reductionist claims that are not the outcomes of scientific inquiries. Nagel’s contextual naturalism infused his influential, detailed and informed essays on probability, explanation in the natural and social sciences, measurement, history of mathematics, and the philosophy of law. It is reflected, for example, in his trenchant critiques of Russell’s reconstruction of the external world and Russell’s epistemology as well as cognate views endorsed at one time or another by members of the Vienna Circle.

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