Calendar

Week #	Topics	Presenters
1	Introduction to the Class	Edmund Bertschinger
2	The Universe: Questions You were Afraid to Ask	Edwin Taylor and Kristin Burgess
3	No Evening Seminar this Week, Just Recitation Section
4	Global Positioning System	Thomas Herring
5	Einstein's Field Equations	Edmund Bertschinger
6	Tracing Einstein's Development of the Special Relativity Theory	Gerald Holton
7	Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy --Sagittarius A*	Frederick K. Baganoff
8	X-Ray Binaries and the Search for Black Holes	Jeffrey McClintock
9	Review Prepare for mid-term exam. The test covers: EBH, Thorne, Handouts, Homework, Weekly Seminars
10	The Universe and Three Examples	Alan Guth
11	No Evening Seminar this Week, Just Recitation Section
12	LIGO: Detecting Gravitational Waves	Nergis Mavalvala
13	Cosmic Structure Formation; From Inflation to Galaxies	Edmund Bertschinger
14	Project Reports in Seminar; Project Reports in Recitation Section