Math 549 - Fall 2010

Instructor: Stefan Wenger
Time: MWF 9:00 - 9:50 am
Location: 300 TH

Office hours: Mondays 4 - 5pm, Fridays 1 - 2pm

Exercise sessions: dates to be announced

Textbook: ''Introduction to smooth manifolds" by John M. Lee, Springer New York 2003

Exams:
- One take home midterm exam (dates to be announced)
- One take home final exam (dates to be announced)

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

Presentations: I will organize a Mini-workshop on December 6 - 7, 2010 during which each student will give a presentation on a given topic.


Homework problems:


Due date Exercises
Will be discussed on Friday, September 10 Homework 1
Will be discussed on Friday, September 24 Homework 2
Will be discussed on Friday, October 15 Homework 3
Due on Friday, November 5 Take home midterm
Due on Thursday, December 9 Take home final