Lecturer:
Course Type:
PhD Course
Academic Year:
2020-2021
Period:
October-December
Duration:
60 h
Description:
Topics to be covered:
1. Surfaces and their fundamental groups.
2. Mapping class groups and Dehn twists.
3. Constructions of 3-manifolds.
4. Heegard splittings.
5. Fundamental groups of 3-manifolds.
6. JSJ decomposition.
7. Prime decomposition.
8. Dehn's lemma and the sphere theorem.
Research Group:
Location:
A-136