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 |