Intern Experience Summer - 2019  

Keshav Janyani

Max Planck Institute of Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany

Process of Securing the Intern:

I had to App to the professor who selected me here and then I applied for DAAD Fellowship

Work:

I was working on Classical General Relativity. The work involved on how the spin of particles propagated along the particle trajectory. I in particular was working on Photons and my work involved trying to solve Maxwell's equations in Schwarschild geometry in a particular situation. The overall big picture that my group is working on could be termed as 'Gravitational spin hall effect'.

Tools used:

Maple

Courses that were part of the curriculum/ additional courses:

General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and interestingly even Photonics

Learning Experience:

Academically, I learnt how different is the way of working of mathematicians and physicists and I liked how being precise was always emphasized.

On the other hand, I learnt how to cook.

Places Visited:

Apart from Potsdam and Berlin, I visited Würzburg and Prague. I will be visiting Zurich towards the end of the internship.