LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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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 |