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Previous Minicourses

This is a list of all minicourses that have been taught at GraSP. Recordings from previous GraSP editions are available at our YouTube channel.

Black Hole Perturbation Theory: An Introduction

Lecturer: Vitor Fernandes Guimarães (UFABC, Brazil)
Language: English
Workload: 10h
Prerequisites: A standard introductory course in general relativity.

The Physics of the Early Universe

Lecturer: Rosa Laura Lechuga Solis (ICN-UNAM, Mexico)
Language: English
Workload: 10h
Prerequisites: A standard introductory course in general relativity.

Infrared Symmetries of General Relativity

Lecturer: Níckolas de Aguiar Alves (UFABC, Brazil)
Language: English
Workload: 10h
Prerequisites: A standard introductory course in general relativity.

Introdução à Física de Buracos Negros

Ministrante: Níckolas de Aguiar Alves (UFABC, Brasil)
Língua: português
Carga horária: 10h
Pré-requisitos: Matemática a nível de ensino médio, especialmente polinômios (fórmula de Bháskara, etc). Conhecimentos prévios sobre gravidade Newtoniana e eletrostática são bem-vindos. Não é necessário saber cálculo.

Philosophy of Relativity

Lecturer: Antonio Ferrero (Utrecht U., The Netherlands)
Language: English
Workload: 6h
Prerequisites: A standard introductory course in general relativity.

Relatividade Restrita

Ministrante: Caio César Rodrigues Evangelista (UFC, Brasil)
Língua: português
Carga horária: 10h
Pré-requisitos: Cálculo de funções de uma variável e mecânica Newtoniana.

Testing Gravity Where It Is Strong

Lecturer: Prajwal Hassan Puttasiddappa (UFES, Brazil and U. Oslo, Norway)
Language: English
Workload: 10h
Prerequisites: Introductory astronomy, basic Python and Mathematica.

Introduction to Twistor Theory

Lecturer: Rafael Grossi e Fonseca (IFUSP, Brazil)
Language: English
Workload: 10h
Prerequisites: Quantum field theory and basic notions of general relativity. Some previous exposure to supersymmetry and algebraic topology is helpful but not necessary.