Geometric Topology

 

Monday 1:00-2:15 Wednesday 1:00-2:15

 

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9/1 Introduction

9/6 PL-structures

9/8 PL-structures

9/13 Connected sums

9/22 Connected sums

9/27 National holiday

9/29 National holiday

10/4 Loop, sphere theorem

10/6 Loop sphere theorem

10/11 Free groups

10/13 Incompressible surfaces

10/18 Scott's core

10/20 Scott's core

10/25 I-bundles

10/27 I-bundles

11/1 Group extensions

11/3 Group extensions

11/8 Banff

11/11 Banff

11/15 Seifert fibered manifolds

11/17 Seifert fibered manifolds

11/22 Seifert fibered manifolds

11/24 Seifert fibered manifolds

11/29 Sufficiently large manifolds

12/1 Sufficiently larger manifolds

12/6 JSJ-decomposition

12/8 JSJ-decomposition

 

 

 

Books: 3-manifolds by J. Hempel Princeton University Press

Notes on basic 3-manifold topology by Allen Hatcher

Notes on geometry and 3-manifolds by Walter Neumann