Math 867

MWF 9:30 - 10:18 AM in CC 248
    Course number:  27322

Texts:


1.  
Milnor, Lectures on Differential Topology  
2.    Milnor, Morse Theory 

Others:  Hatcher, Vector Bundles,    Nicolescu, Morse Theory,      Whitney, Annals, 1944 pdf,    Annals, 1936 (Whitney's 1st paper) pdf
    Whitney, Triangulations of manifolds pdf,    Milnor, Mflds homeo to S7 pdf,    Lee, Smooth Manifolds,  




Speaking schedule for Milnor's lecture notes

Speaker Chapter
topics
approx.
dates




Aliska Gibbins
Thm 1.5 - Cor 1.17
Inverse Function Thm.
1/4
Aliska Gibbins
1.18 - Thm 1.21
max rank
1/8
Zhenan Sui
1.22 - Cor 1.32
Whitney Embedding Thm
1/11 - 1/13
Marc Carnovale
rest of Section 1
transversality
1/15
Jenny George
2.1 - 2.9
vector bundle defn's
1/20
Jose Cervantes
2.10 - 2.24
normal bundles
1/22
Jose Cervantes
2.25 - end of Section 2
Grassmannians
1/25 - 1/29
Mike Davis
Whitney - 1944
Whitney Trick
2/1 -2/3
Yang Liu
3.1 - 3.7
Cobordism
2/5 - 2/12
Kun Wang
3.8  - 3.17
Pontrjagin-Thom construction
2/12 - 2/17





Morse Theory


Tapopriya Majumdar
I.1 - I.2
Definitions and lemmas
2/17 - 2/24
Xiaolei Zhao
I.3
Homotopy type and critical values
2/24 - 3/1
Jenny George
I.4 -I.5
Morse inequalities
3/3 - 3/5
Tao Yang
I.6
Existence of Morse functions

Zhenan Sui
I.7
The Lefschetz Theorem