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Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr
Faculty: Gilles Esposito-Farèse
Tutor: Antoine Bourget
ECTS credits: 3
Language of instruction: English
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General relativity is a relativistic theory of gravity. It is based on two independent hypotheses: the equivalence principle, which allows us to describe the motion of matter in a curved spacetime; and Einstein’s equations, which predict how such a curvature is generated by material sources. After having introduced the necessary tools of Riemannian geometry, we will study the observable effects in the solar system (Mercury perihelion shift, light deflection, ...) and in binary pulsars, notably their energy loss due to gravitational radiation. All these predictions are in remarkable agreement with experimental data. We will end these lectures by a brief introduction to relativistic cosmology.
Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr