General relativity
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Arip Nurahman, Department of Physics. Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics
Indonesia University of Education
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Follower Open Course Ware at MIT-Harvard University, U.S.A.
General Relativity and Cosmology at Cambridge University
Relativity and Gravitation Group Arip Nurahman, Department of Physics. Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics
Indonesia University of Education
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Follower Open Course Ware at MIT-Harvard University, U.S.A.
General Relativity and Cosmology at Cambridge University
The interests and membership of this large group overlap with those of the High Energy Physics group. It hosts the COSMOS supercomputer, a national facility dedicated to studies of early Universe physics and the new Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC). Despite its infancy the CTC has already hosted several conferences and workshops, including ‘The Very Early Universe; 25 years on’. The group is active in numerical relativity, supergravity, discrete gravity, M-theory/string theory and cosmology.
- Dr E. Anderson
- Professor J.D. Barrow
- Dr A.D. Challinor
- Dr P.D. D'Eath
- Professor A.C. Davis
- Dr M. Dunajski
- Professor G.W. Gibbons
- Professor S.W. Hawking
- Dr H.K. Kunduri
- Professor M.J. Perry
- Dr H.S. Reall
- Dr O. Rinne
- Professor E.P.S. Shellard
- Dr J.M. Stewart
- Dr D. Tong
- Professor P.K. Townsend
- Professor N.G. Turok
- Dr R.M. Williams
The Relativity & Gravitation Group is part of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, which in turn is part of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Cambridge. The group was founded by Dennis Sciama in 1961, and is currently headed by Professor Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS.
It is internationally renowned for a number of important developments in Einstein's classical theory of gravitation, including the no hair and area theorems for black holes and the theorems indicating that singularities would occur both in gravitational collapse and at the beginning of the expansion of the Universe.
In recent years the group's main effort has been towards the inclusion of quantum effects, and the development of a theory of quantum gravity; in particular, the semi-classical quantization of black holes (leading, e.g, to the discovery of the thermal radiation produced by them) and the formulation of the Euclidean path integral approach to quantum gravity (leading to the no boundary condition for the Universe).
Furthermore, the group has expertise in the areas of supergravity, string and membrane theories of gravity, cosmology, cosmic strings and other topological defects in cosmology, numerical relativity and Regge calculus.
In addition, the group houses and operates COSMOS, the UK national cosmology supercomputer.
Please feel free to browse our public pages, which attempt to describe our work in non-technical terms.
Contact details:
Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge, CB3 0WA
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge, CB3 0WA
Telephone and Fax
Telephone: +44 1223 764 267
Fax: +44 1223 764 984
Fax: +44 1223 764 984
Location
Since 2000, we have been housed in The Märit and Hans Rausing Pavilion (Pavilion B) of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
Publications by Year
Recent Publications
- An axisymmetric evolution code for the Einstein equations on hyperboloidal slices
- by Oliver Rinne (2009-10-01)
- Moment transport equations for non-Gaussianity
- by David J. Mulryne, David Seery, Daniel Wesley (2009-09-16)
- On the Stability of Static Ghost Cosmologies
- by J. D. Barrow, C. G. Tsagas, Classical and Quantum Gravity 26, 195003, 2009. (2009-09-10)
- Maxwell-Sim
- by G. W. Gibbons, J. Gomis, C. N. Pope (2009-09-01)
- The Classical Stability of Sudden and Big Rip Singularities
- by J. D. Barrow, S. Z. W. Lip, Physical Review D 80, 043518, 2009 (2009-08-20)
- Static Near-Horizon Geometries in Five Dimensions
- by Hari K Kunduri, James Lucietti (2009-07-02)
- Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project
- by Laura Cadonati et al. (Oliver Rinne), Class. Quantum Grav. 26, 114008, 2009 (2009-06-01)
- Gravity Dual of a Tachyon Condensation
- by G. W. Gibbons, K. Hashimoto, S. Hirano (2009-05-29)
- Bernstein's Conjecture, Minimal Cones and Critical Dimensions
- by G. W. Gibbons, K. Maeda, U Miyamoto (2009-05-27)
- Does Bulk Viscosity Create a Viable Unified Dark Matter Model?
- by B. Li, J. D. Barrow, Physical Review D 79, 103521 (2009-05-21)
- Generalized Killing-Yano equations and D=5 gauged supergravity
- by D. Kubiznak, H. K. Kunduri, Y. Yasui (2009-04-30)
- Collider constraints on interactions of dark energy with the Standard Model.
- by P. Brax, C. Burrage, A. C. Davis, D. Seery, A. Weltman (2009-04-22)
- Einstein Metrics on Group Manifolds and Cosets
- by G. W. Gibbons, H. Lu, C. N. Pope (2009-03-06)
- On the supersymmetric limit of Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics
- by D. Kubiznak (2009-02-11)
- Deformed General Relativity and Torsion
- by Gary W. Gibbons, Steffen Gielen, Class. Quantum Grav. 26 (2009) 135005 (2009-02-11)
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