Relativity, fall 2007!

I just checked the course's website and professor Siegel has updated it for this fall's Relativity course (formally know and Modern General Relativity). This website can be found here.

I am so excited! It definitely does not look like a traditional course in the sense of not having a first part on the mathematical formalisms like manifolds and curvature, among other topics from differential geometry. That will be good, I mean if the class is driven by the physics instead of some mindlessly index manipulation. The list of topics to be cover includes lots of quantum stuff like spinors, supersymmetry and supergravity, not to mention strings at the end. That would be awesome! I am also looking forward to learning about Yang-Mills theory. And the best part is that the textbook is free!

Also Warren has a link to what looks like a course on Advanced Field Theory for the 2008 spring term. This also looks pretty sweet, I hope I can take it. It is funny how he brags about the course having material like "stuff you may have missed if you didn’t take field theory (PHY 610 & 611) from me" :-).

I will try to blog about his lectures and my frustrations with the homework problems. Or maybe I should not blog to much and use my time on something else, like studying...