Courses

General Relativity Trimester IHP

Introductory Courses
18 September - 13 October 2006

(One course = 16 hours)

General Relativity : a Primer, N. Deruelle (IHES), 18-25 Sept.
Relativistic Astrophysics, J.-P. Lasota (IAP), 5-13 Oct.
Cosmology, J. Silk (Oxford Univ.) and J.-P. Uzan (IAP), 19-22 Sept., 2-4 Oct.
Gravitation: theories and experiments, C. Will (WUSL), G. Esposito-Farèse (IAP), 26-29 Sept., 10-12 Oct.
Advanced General Relativity, T. Damour (IHES), 26-28 Sept., 3-5 Oct.

Advanced Courses

16 October - 8 November 2006

(One course = 16 hours)

Experimental Gravity, J. Mester (Stanford) and J.Y. Vinet (OCA), 16-19 Oct., 26-27 Oct.
Theory of Gravitational Wave Emission, L. Blanchet (IAP), 31 Oct., 2-8 Nov.
3+1 Formalism and Numerical Relativity, E. Gourgoulhon (LUTH), 19, 23-27 Oct.

Short Courses on Advanced Topics

16 October - 15 December 2006

(One course = 5 hours)

Gravitational Wave analysis (I), Sathyaprakash (Cardiff), 16-17 Nov.
Gravitational Wave analysis (II), A. Buonanno (Maryland and APC), 2-3 Nov.
The Gravitational Wave dectector VIRGO, F. Bondu (Nice), 9-10 Nov.
The spatial Gravitational Wave Detector LISA, B. Schutz (Golm), 20 Oct.

Hamiltonian Formalism of General Relativity, M. Henneaux (Bruxelles), 6-7 Nov.
Equations of Motion in ADM formalism, G. Schäfer (Jena), 14-15 Nov.
Geometry of Lie groups and coset spaces, P. Spindel (Univ. Mons-Hainaut), 30 Nov., 1 Dec
Theory of gravitational radiation, B. Iyer (Bangalore), 8-9 Nov.
Black Hole Perturbations, M. Sasaki (Kyoto), 17-18 Oct.
Equation of State of Compact Objects, P. Haensel (Varsovie), 30-31 Oct.
Supernovae and Gravitational Waves, E. Müller (Garching), 21-22 Nov.
Black Holes Energetics and Gamma Ray Bursts, R. Ruffini (Rome), 29 Nov., 5-7 Dec.
Gamma Ray Bursts, R. Mochkovitch (IAP), 23-24 Nov.

Weak Lensing, Y. Mellier (IAP), 28-29 Nov.
CMB anisotropies, F. Bouchet (IAP), 27-28 Nov.
Inflationary Cosmology, V. Mukhanov (Munich), 4-5 Dec.
Dark Energy, A. Starobinski (Moscou), 5-6 Dec.

History of General Relativity, J. Eisenstaedt (Observatoire de Paris), 13 & 23 Oct.
Quantum Black Holes, G. Gibbons (Cambridge), 29-30 Nov., 6-7 Dec.
Quantum Gravity and Supergravity, S. Deser (Brandeis), 10 Nov., 1, 7, 8 Dec.