Lectures: MWF 8:50AM-9:40AM, Room VAN VLECK B123
Office Hours: by appointment in Van Vleck 719
DESCRIPTION: Fundamental group; Classification of compact surfaces; Covering spaces; Homology; CW complexes.
READING SOURCES:
Sasho Kalajdzievski: An Illustrated Introduction to Topology and Homotopy, Chapman and Hall/CRC; 1st edition, 2015.
Allen Hatcher: Algebraic Topology, available here.
William Massey: A Basic Course in Algebraic Topology, Springer, GTM 127.
James Munkres: Topology, Prentice Hall, 2nd ed.
Steven Weintraub, Fundamentals of Algebraic Topology, GTM 270, Springer, 2014
GRADE:
Homework and class participation: 25%, Midterm: 25%, Final Exam: 50%.
As part of class participation, each student is expected to type up a week worth of lecture notes.
The midterm exam will take place on October 19, during the usual lecture time.
HOMEWORK: it will be assigned regularly and will be the main source of problems appearing in the exams. Our grader is Eva Elduque (VV 420).
First homework assignment, due on October 2nd.
Second homework assignment, due on October 16th.
Third homework assignment, due on November 6th.
Fourth homework assignment, due on November 20th.
Fifth homework assignment, due on December 7th.
LECTURES NOTES by students
First week, by Okan Akalin.
Second week, by Zijian Tao.
Third week, by Geoff Bentsen.
Fourth week, by Canberk Irimagzi and Soumya Sankar.
Fifth week, by Yuqing Li, Randi Wang and Dan Wu.
Sixth week, by Yuqing Li, Randi Wang and Dan Wu.
Seventh week, by Shengyuan Huang.
Eight week, by Chun Gan and Weitong Wang.
Ninth week, by Jacob Gloe
Ninth week b, by Jian Zhang
Tenth week, by Quiao He and Jinhua Xu.
Eleventh week, by Mikayla Kelley.
Eleventh week b, by Jeaun Park.