Seminar: Topics in Topology, Sommersemester 2018

General information

Instructor: Prof. Chris Wendl (for contact information and office hours see my homepage)

Time and place: Thursdays 15:00-17:00 (c.t.) in room 3.007 (Rudower Chaussee 25) except in isolated special cases

Prerequisites: Knowledge of singular and cellular homology/cohomology as in Topologie II. Some knowledge of smooth manifolds (as in Differentialgeometrie I) will also be helpful.

Content: By a vaguely democratic process we have decided to focus the seminar on bordism theory, following approximately the first 12 chapters of the lecture notes from this course by Dan Freed. The seminar will be run in English.

Requirements: All (students and otherwise) are welcome to attend the seminar and may volunteer to give talks. For students to receive credit, the requirements are the following:

1. Give at least one of the talks (normally this will mean one 90-minute session), with careful attention to fitting all necessary material within the given time constraints;
2. Submit clearly readable notes for your talk (handwritten is fine), so that they can be scanned and uploaded to the website by the following day;
3. Attend the seminar regularly (at most two absences in the semester).