Modern Geometry (2012 Spring)




Course Description

The material that will be covered in the course includes (but not restricted to) the following: However, the exact material is not determined at this point

References

Syllabus

  • 2/20: Introduction
  • 2/21: Manifolds
  • 2/27: No Classes (holiday)
  • 2/28: No Classes (holiday)
  • 3/5: Smooth Maps: submersion
  • 3/6: Smooth Maps: immersion, embedding
  • 3/12: Tangent vectors and Tangent spaces
  • 3/13: Vector bundle and Tangent bundle
  • 3/19: Vector fields
  • 3/20: Lie bracket, integral curves, local flow
  • 3/26: Lie derivative
  • 3/27: Covector, cotangent bundle, differential 1-form
  • 4/2: No Classes (holiday)
  • 4/3: No Classes (holiday)
  • 4/9: K-tensor
  • 4/10: Differential K-forms and operators
  • 4/16: Orientation
  • 4/17: Orientation and Volume form

(continue)

  • 4/23: Manifold with boundary
  • 4/24: Stokes' Theorem
  • 4/30: Homotopy operator
  • 5/1: Midterm (from the beginning to differential 1-form)
  • 5/7: 換時間
  • 5/8: 換時間
  • 5/14: De Rham cohomology
  • 5/15: De Rham cohomology, Hodge Star
  • 5/21: Adjoint operator, Harmonic form
  • 5/22: Hodge Theorem, Poincare duality (compact manifold)
  • 5/28: Differential Complex
  • 5/29: Mayer-Vietoris, Compactly supported cohomology
  • 6/4: Finiteness of de Rham
  • 6/5: Poincare duality (general)
  • 6/11: Lie group
  • 6/12: Group action on manifold
  • 6/19: Final 10:00am 許 (application of de Rham) 10:30am 陳冠 (application of de Rham) 11:00 吳 (proof of homotopy invariance) 11:30 陳哲(Stokes' Thm) 1:00pm 韓 (application of de Rham) 1:30 翁 (TBA) 2:00pm 賴 (Lie group) 2:30 洪 (proof of de Rham or application of de Rham)
  • 6/26: Final 1:00 翁(TBA) 2:00 林(Example of de Rham cohomology)

Evaluation


Last Updated: June 10, 2012
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