Table of Contents

1 General Relativity Essentials
2 Black Holes
3 Cosmology I: The Expanding Universe
4 Cosmology II: The Inflationary Universe
5 QFT on Curved Backgrounds, Vacuum Energy and Quantum Gravity
6 Hawking Radiation, the Information Paradox and Black Hole Thermodynamics
A Differential Geometry Primer

About the Author

Badis Ydri is currently a professor of theoretical particle physics, at the Institute of Physics, Annaba University, Algeria. He is also a research associate at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, and a regular ICTP Associate at the Abdus Salam Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.