| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Homotopy Theory | ||
| 1 | Limits, Colimits, and Adjunctions | |
| 2 | Cartesian Closure and Compactly Generated Spaces | |
| 3 | Basepoints and the Homotopy Category | |
| 4 | Fiber Bundles | |
| 5 | Fibrations, Fundamental Groupoid | |
| 6 | Cofibrations | Problem set 1 due |
| 7 | Cofibration Sequences and Co-exactness | |
| 8 | Weak Equivalences and Whitehead’s Theorems | |
| 9 | Homotopy Long Exact Sequence and Homotopy Fibers | |
| The Homotopy Theory of CW Complexes | ||
| 10 | Serre Fibrations and Relative Lifting | |
| 11 | Connectivity and Approximation | |
| 12 | Cellular Approximation, Obstruction Theory | Problem set 2 due |
| 13 | Hurewicz, Moore, Eilenberg, Mac Lane, and Whitehead | |
| 14 | Representability of Cohomology | |
| 15 | Obstruction Theory | |
| Vector Bundles and Principal Bundles | ||
| 16 | Vector Bundles | |
| 17 | Principal Bundles, Associated Bundles | |
| 18 | I-invariance of BunG, and G-CW Complexes | Problem set 3 due |
| 19 | The Classifying Space of a Group | |
| 20 | Simplicial Sets and Classifying Spaces | |
| 21 | The Čech Category and Classifying Maps | |
| Spectral Sequences and Serre Classes | ||
| 22 | Why Spectral Sequences? | |
| 23 | The Spectral Sequence of a Filtered Complex | |
| 24 | Serre Spectral Sequence | Problem set 4 due |
| 25 | Exact Couples | |
| 26 | The Gysin Sequence, Edge Homomorphisms, and the Transgression | |
| 27 | The Serre Exact Sequence and the Hurewicz Theorem | |
| 28 | Double Complexes and the Dress Spectral Sequence | |
| 29 | Cohomological Spectral Sequences | Problem set 5 due |
| 30 | Serre Classes | |
| 31 | Mod C Hurewicz and Whitehead Theorems | |
| 32 | Freudenthal, James, and Bousfield | |
| Characteristic Classes, Steenrod Operations, and Cobordism | ||
| 33 | Chern Classes, Stiefel-Whitney Classes, and the Leray-Hirsch Theorem | |
| 34 | H*(BU(n)) and the Splitting Principle | |
| 35 | The Thom Class and Whitney Sum Formula | |
| 36 | Closing the Chern Circle, and Pontryagin Classes | Problem set 6 due |
| 37 | Steenrod Operations | |
| 38 | Cobordism | |
| 39 | Hopf Algebras | |
| 40 | Applications of Cobordism | |
