S4D4 – Graduate Seminar on Advanced Topology - Characteristic Classes II
Summer term 2020
Daniel Kasprowski and Julia Semikina
Wednesday 10:15 - 12:00; Zoom: 971-5991-5599
The following schedule is still preliminary. Please remember to register in Basis before April 30th. If you don't remember the meeting password, please send me an email.
The seminar will continue to follow the book Characteristic Classes by Milnor and Stasheff. I am assuming that you are familiar with chapters 1-12. The second part of the seminar follows the book
Surgery Theory: Foundations by Crowley, Lück and Macko.
Topic | Date | Reference | |||
1 | Complex manifolds and Chern classes | 29.04.2020 | Jonathan | MS §13-14 | |
2 | Pontrjagin classes | 06.05.2020 | Oliver | MS §15 | |
3 | Chern and Pontrjagin numbers | 13.05.2020 | Cara | MS §16 | |
4 | Thom spaces and the oriented cobordism ring | 20.05.2020 | Branko | MS §17-18 | |
5 | The signature theorem | 27.05.2020 | Hao | MS §19 | slides handout |
6 | Exotic spheres | 03.06.2020 | Thibaud | MS §20 | |
7 | The h-cobordism theorem and applications | 11.06.2020 4pm | Rui | L §1.1-1.2 | |
8 | Handle decompositions | 17.06.2020 | Antonio | L §1.2-1.4 | |
9 | The Whitney trick | 24.06.2020 | Dimitris | ||
10 | Proof of the s-cobordism theorem | 01.07.2020 | Dominik | L §1.4-1.5 |
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