The IMPRS for Gravity at the Extreme offers four recurring courses, roughly on a two-year cycle, which are taught in Potsdam and streamed to Hannover. The subjects of the four courses are: gravitational-wave theory and source modeling, gravitational-wave data analysis, computational physics with applications to black holes and neutron stars, and astrophysics of compact objects. In addition, Lecture Weeks are organized.

This website contains an overview of all the courses of the IMPRS. On the individual pages below you will find the synopsis, course material, lecture recordings (if available), and problem sets. We also include an incomplete list of some courses of earlier IMPRS of our institute.

IMPRS for Gravity at the Extreme

2025

• Computational Physics

• Joint Potsdam-Hannover Lecture Week March

2024

• Gravitational Waves
• Joint Potsdam-Hannover Lecture Week September

IMPRS for Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

2023

• Making sense of data: introduction to statistics for gravitational wave astronomy
• Astrophysics of compact objects

2022

• Gravitational Waves
• Computational Physics

2021

• Making sense of data: introduction to statistics for gravitational wave astronomy
• Astrophysics of compact objects

2020

• Gravitational Waves

2019

• Making sense of data: introduction to statistics for gravitational-wave astronomy

2017

• Gravitational Waves

2016

• Basic Astrophysics of Compact Objects