MA3403 Algebraic Topology I

Fall Semester 2011

 
Messages: 12.05: The first meeting will be on Tuesday August 23.

Lecturer: Idar Hansen. Room 1254, Sentralbygg II. Telephone 73 59 35 28.
E-mail: idar.hansenatmath.ntnu.no.
Office hours: Wednesday 11-12.

Lectures: Tuesday 12:15 - 14:00, Seminar room 734, Sentralbygg II.
Thursday 10:15 - 12:00, Seminar room 734, Sentralbygg II.

Course material: James W. Vick: Homology Theory - An Introduction to Algebraic Topology, 2nd edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics vol. 145, Springer, 1994.
Final syllabus: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 (To the middle of page 135 where the discussion of the Hopf invariant starts. Also the Acyclic Model Theorem and later proofs using that theorem are not included in the syllabus) and 6 (Only the statement in Corollary 6.28 on page 174).
Final exam: Oral exam.