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CivilTowel8457 t1_je610w0 wrote

I am interested in Gravitational physics, Astrophysics, theory of relativity and String theory and i wanna work on one of these topics for my phd. I'm a first year masters student and i wanted to do a project / write a review paper on one of the following to get a head start but I'm confused where to start. Any ideas on specific topics where I can start reading before I decide on a particular topic?

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Redbiertje t1_je92cup wrote

Review papers are typically written by experts in the field (and even usually upon request from a journal), so this is not something you should aim for as a MSc student.

What I can recommend is that you email a few professors at your institute and say that you are orienting yourself for a possible future PhD, and you would like to ask if they have 15 minutes to talk about the current state of their field of research (or maybe they can direct you to one of their postdocs). That way, you get a basic idea about what the main questions are they are working on, and then you can decide which of those you find interesting.

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