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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2025
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MATH 544 001 (CRN: 26517)
TOPOLOGY OF MANIFOLDS
Long Title: TOPOLOGY OF MANIFOLDS
Department: Mathematics
Instructor: Harvey, Shelly
Meeting: 10:50AM - 12:05PM TR (13-JAN-2025 - 25-APR-2025)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Prerequisites: (MATH 444 OR MATH 539) AND (MATH 445 OR MATH 540)
Section Max Enrollment: 49
Section Enrolled: 2
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 26-DEC-2024 8:46PM
Final Exam: GR Course-Dept Schedules Exam
Description: A graduate course on the topology of fiber bundles, especially vector bundles and principal bundles, as well as their characteristic classes. It will cover differential forms as well as Stiefel-Whitney, Euler, Chern, and Pontryagin classes. If time allows, other topics may be included. The prerequisites for the class are the material from Math 444/539 and Math 445/540. In
particular, the student should be familiar with smooth manifolds, the tangent spaces, homotopy groups, covering spaces, and homology groups.