TheGlucksternLectures/BioPhys

This 1 credit course provides graduate students with advanced training in specific areas of biological physics. The course activities will revolve around visits and lectures to be given by experts in the field (the Gluckstern Lecturers). The extended time spent with the Cluckstern visitors will provide an unusual educational experience for the enrolled students. Following this course, students should be fully qualified to read and critically assess the literature related to the course topics. There ar no pre-requisites but enrollment requires permission of the instructors.

General Relativity

Mathematical and conceptual aspects of the special and general theories of relativity. Lorentz transformations, covariant formulation of the laws of nature. The equivalence principle, curved spaces, solutions of the equations of relativity. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 606.
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