Black Hole Merging and Gravitational Waves

I was tasked with covering a wide swath of gravitational wave astronomy—including theory, observation, and data analysis—and to describe the detection techniques used to span the gravitational wave spectrum—pulsar timing, ground based interferometers and their future space based counterparts. For good measure, I was also asked to include an introduction to general relativity and black holes. Distilling all this material into nine lectures was quite a challenge. The end result is a highly condensed set of lecture notes that can be consumed in a few hours, but may take weeks to digest.