Introduction to General Relativity: spacetime phenomena

• Grant number: 13/17423-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2013
• End date: September 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics
• Principal Investigator: Alberto Vazquez Saa
• Grantee: Guilherme Andretta Faustino
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/09357-9 - Physics and geometry of spacetime, AP.TEM

Abstract

We propose an introductory study of General Relativity, focusing initially the phenomena associated to non-trivial spacetimes.(AU)