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Take university courses at one of the world’s more pre-eminent centres for theoretical physics research. Perimeter Institute offers university-level credit courses, as well as non-credit mini-courses on current topics for researchers and students at Perimeter and surrounding universities.

Throughout the year, Perimeter Institute offers several courses available to all university students. Some courses award post-secondary credits for students’ home institutions, excluding mini-courses.

Courses offered at Perimeter Institute may be taken for credit by qualified students at any Ontario university with the permission of their departmental graduate advisor. Students who wish to register for credit from an Ontario university should ask their graduate advisor to contact Perimeter Institute's Academic Program Coordinator to make the necessary arrangements.

To arrange attendance (including students who wish to audit courses), transportation, and ensure you are on the course change contact list, please contact Debbie Guenther.

 

Current Courses

Career Series 2012

Career Series

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Elements of General Relativity

Advanced General Relativity graduate course - Rafael Sorkin

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General Relativity for Cosmology

This course begins by introducing the differential geometry of Lorentzian manifolds from scratch and then builds up quickly to the advanced framework in terms of differential forms and the vielbein formalism. These methods are then used to define general relativity, also as a gauge theory. We then study some of general relativity's deeper properties, such as the formalism of spinors, and aspects of the causal structure and singularities. One key goal is to lay the foundations for students who wish to proceed to studies in quantum gravity. We then apply general relativity to cosmological models and to cosmological perturbation theory. Thereby, we are covering the theory of cosmic inflation which is very successful in predicting, in particular, the properties cosmic microwave background radiation.

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Introduction to Quantum Field Theory for Cosmology

Introduction to Quantum Field Theory for Cosmology - PHYS 785 (Achim Kempf) - Master booking

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Past Courses

Resident and visiting scientists are offering four courses in 2012, enhancing and complementing the course offerings of universities across the region.