Introduction to Differential Geometry Reading Seminar, Spring 2011
Schedule
| Date | Time | Location | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/18 | 9:00am | HLL-GSL | Organizational meeting. |
| 1/24 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | First meeting. Presenter: Glen Wilson. Please have Ch.1 read, look at problems 16--26. pick interesting problems from Ch.2 |
| 1/31 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | Presenter: Tom Sznigir. Please have Ch. 2 read. |
| 2/7 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | Chapter 2 Problems will be presented |
| 2/14 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | More problems |
| 2/21 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | Tangent vectors and vector bundles |
| 2/28 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | All about tensors |
| 3/7 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | Organizational meeting |
| 3/21 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | Lie groups, Lie brackets and more |
| 3/28 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | |
| 4/4 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | |
| 4/11 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | |
| 4/18 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL | |
| 4/25 | 4:30pm | HLL-GSL |
* GSL= Grad Student Lounge on 7th floor.
References
- Michael Spivak, A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Vol. 1, 3rd Edition.
- John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds.
- John Milnor, Topology From Differentiable Viewpoint.
- Frank Warner, Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups.
- Antoni Kosinski, Differential Manifolds.