Math 761 — Seminar in Geometry

Fall 2002

Instructor: Brian Smith

Time: TR 10:10-11:25

Room: Malott 206

After a brief development of the basics this course will cover the following topics in general relativity: cosmological spacetimes, causal structure, asymptotically flat spacetimes, black holes and singularities, the cosmic censorship conjecture, the Cauchy problem. It will be assumed that the audience is familiar with Riemannian geometry.