Topics to be covered:

Quotient Spaces, Homotopy and the Fundamental Group,
Seifert-Van Kampen Theorem, Covering Spaces,  Classification of Coverings, Simplicial complexes,
Homology, Cohomology, Smooth manifolds, Orientation, Tangent bundles, Sard's theorem, Embedding theorem.
Roughly, we will cover the following.
Ch2, Ch 3, Ch 7, Ch8, Ch9, Ch 10, Ch 11, Ch 12, Ch 13 of  Introduction to Topological Manifolds
and Ch 2 of  Topology and Geometry.

Wk Date Sections
Covered
Topics Problems Pgs
1 Jan 9 Introduction
Ch 3
Introduction and Quotient Spaces hw1
Jan 11 Ch 3 Quotient Spaces

2 Jan 16 No Class!



Jan 18 Ch 7
Homotopy and the Fundamental Group hw2
hw2 texfile
macros.tex

3 Jan 23 Ch 7
Homotopy and the Fundamental Group

Jan 26 Ch 7
Homotopy and the Fundamental Group hw3
hw3 texfile

4 Jan 30 Ch 8 Homotopy and the Fundamental Group
(*Circle and Spheres)


Feb 1  Ch 8
Homotopy and the Fundamental Group
(*Circle and Spheres)
hw4
hw4 texfile

5 Feb 6 Ch 9 Free Group

Feb 8 Ch 6
Classification of Surfaces
hw5
hw5 texfile

6 Feb 13 Ch 10
Seifert-Van Kampen Theorem


Feb 15 Ch 10 Seifert-Van Kampen Theorem hw6
hw6 texfile

7 Feb 20 Ch 11 Covering Spaces


Feb 22 Ch 11 Covering Spaces


8 Feb 27 Ch 12 Classification of Coverings hw7
hw7 texfile

Mar 1 Ch 12
Midterm


9 Mar 6 Spring break !
 Have fun!


10 Mar 13 Ch 12 Classification of Coverings

Mar 15 Ch 5 Simplicial Complexes


11 Mar 20 Ch 13 Homology


Mar 22 Ch 13
Homology 


12 Mar 27 Ch 13 Homology 

Mar 29 Ch 13 Cohomology 

13 Apr 3 Ch 13 Cohomology 

Apr 5 Ch2 of Bredon
Smooth manifolds
hw8
hw8 texfile

14 Apr 10 Ch2 of Bredon Smooth manifolds


Apr 12 Ch2 of Bredon Tangent fields


15 Apr 17 Ch2 of Bredon Sard's Theorem


Apr 19 Ch2 of Bredon Immersion & Submersion
hw9
hw9 texfile

16 Apr 24 Ch2 of Bredon Vector feld & Tangent bundle


Apr 26 Ch2 of Bredon Embedding Theorem


17 May 1 Final Exam