Math 549 - Fall 2009

Instructor: Stefan Wenger
Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50 am
Location: 117 TH

Office hours: Monday, 4 - 5pm; Friday, 1 - 2pm, or by appointment

Exercise sessions: On select Wednesdays from 5 - 6pm in SEO 512 (see below for the dates).

Textbook: Frank Wilson Warner, Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups, New York Springer, 1983
Some other books which might be useful are given in the following list.

Exams:
- Take home midterm exam, will be online from October 22, due on October 29
- Take home final exam, will be online from December 5, due on December 9

Homework: There will be regular homework assignments, posted on this page. Selected problems will be discussed in special exercise sessions.

Course goals: Manifolds, embeddings, degree mod 2, vector fields, covariant tensors and differential forms, integration on manifolds and Stokes' theorem, Brouwer degree, Riemannian metrics

Course progress: If you have to miss a class, you may find out here what we will cover (have covered).


Homework problems:


Due date (in class) Exercises
Will be discussed on Wednesday, September 9 Homework 1
Will be discussed on Wednesday, September 16 Homework 2
Due on Friday, September 25th, at noon (either in class or my mailbox) Homework 3
Will be discussed on Wednesday, October 7 Homework 4
Will be discussed on Wednesday, October 14 Homework 5
Take home midterm exam, will be discussed on Wednesday, November 11 Midterm exam
Will be discussed on November 18 Homework 6
Will be discussed on December 2 Homework 7
Final exam, due on December 9, at 3pm Final exam
Supplementary problems Contact instructor