Rafael Porto minicourse on gravitational waves

Speaker: Rafael Porto (IAS, Princeton)

Title: The effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics: from black holes to cosmology

All lectures will be in the IFT-UNESP auditorium

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 16:00-18:00
Lecture 1 – Preamble: EFTs in QCD
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Thursday, Nov. 29, 16:00-18:00
Lecture 2 – The two-body problem in General Relativity
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Friday, Nov. 30, 16:00-18:00
Lecture 3 – The EFT for gravitational wave radiation
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Monday, Dec. 3, 10:00-12:00
Lecture 4 – Applications to the binary inspiral problem
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Tuesday, Dec. 4, 10:00-12:00
Lecture 5 – Physics of the early Universe: The Inflationary paradigm and primordial perturbations
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Wednesday, Dec. 5, 10:00-12:00
Lecture 6 – The EFT of inflation
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