Course Identification

Title:

Advanced and Quantum Gravity

Code:

20201162

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Micha Berkooz

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2020

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Wednesday, 14:15 - 17:00

First Lecture:

30/03/2020

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 3.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 3.00 points

Comments

The course will be taught on-line via Zoom.

Prerequisites

1. QFT 1

2. A course in GR either at WIS or undergraduate

Restrictions

Participants:

100

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Attendance

25%

Assignments:

25%

Final:

50%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

3

Syllabus

The course will discuss some advanced classical and quantum aspects of gravity. A tentative list of topics includes:

1. Short review of General Relativity,

2. Supergravities,
3. Classical black holes and black branes,
4. Quantum Fields in curved spacetime,
5. Thermodynamics of black holes,

6. AdS/CFT and Holography

A subset of:

7. SUSY BH state precision counting
8. Microstates description of black holes in string theory
9. The RT formula,

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the students will be familiar with black holes and their thermodynamics properties. The student will be familiar with the AdS/CFT correspondence and BH in this context.

Reading List

TBA

Website

N/A