External Lecturer:
Q. Chen
Course Type:
PhD Course
Academic Year:
2013-2014
Period:
October-November
Duration:
40 h
Description:
We will cover the most important characteristic classes such as Stifel-Whitney classes, Chern classes and Pontrjagin classes as well as their relations to obstruction theory. Also, various application will be discussed. Hopefully we will keep an eye on the subject of elliptic genus, which is a quite active field since 1990s'.
Reference:
Characteristic Classes by Milnor and Stasheff.
Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Bott and Tu.
Manifolds and Modular Forms by Hirzebruch.
Research Group:
Location:
A-136