Math 549 - Fall 2009 - Course Progress


Week Monday Wednesday Friday
08/24 - 08/28 Submanifolds of Eucl. space: definition and examples Equivalent definitions for submanifolds; more examples Implicit function theorem (IFT), inverse fct thm, parametrizations
08/31 - 09/04 Proof of IFT Tangent spaces for submanifolds Differentiability of maps between submanifolds
09/07 - 09/11 Labor day Abstract manifolds: definitions and examples Tangent spaces to manifolds
09/14 - 09/18 Tangent spaces: equivalent definitions Derivations Submanifolds
09/21 - 09/25 Regular values, Sard's theorem Manifolds with boundary Neat submanifolds, Retractions
09/28 - 10/02 Transversality; Embeddings into Eucl. space Embeddings into Eucl. space Degree mod 2 of maps
10/05 - 10/09 Partitions of unity Approximation of continuous by smooth maps Approximation of continuous by smooth maps, degree mod 2 revisited
10/12 - 10/16 Tangent bundle, vector bundles Vector fields Vector fields
10/19 - 10/23 Flow of a vectorfield; one-parameter group of diffeomorphisms Covariant tensor product No class - midterm exam
10/26 - 10/30 Class rescheduled Exterior product Covariant tensor bundles
11/02 - 11/06 Tensor fields and differential forms Tensor fields and differential forms Exterior derivative
11/09 - 11/13 Lie derivative Orientations and volume forms Orientations and volume forms
11/16 - 11/20 Integration on manifolds Stokes' Theorem No class - class rescheduled
11/23 - 11/27 Stokes' Theorem + applications De Rham cohomology groups Thanksgiving
11/30 - 12/04 The Brouwer degree Introduction to Riemannian geometry Introduction to Riemannian geometry