Ken Richardson

Seminar Notes

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• John Baez, UC Riverside, several lectures:
  
  • My favorite numbers:
    Five    Eight    Twenty-Four
  • Zooming out in time
  • Fundamental physics: where we stand today
• Operator Theory Approach to Chern-Weil Theory, Introduction to Smooth K-theory (Efton Park, TCU)
• Differential Form Approach to Intersection Homology (Greg Friedman, TCU)
• Introduction to the Eta Invariant (Ken Richardson, TCU)
• Chern Simons Theory (incomplete, Igor Prokhorenkov, TCU)
• Morse Theory (incomplete, Greg Friedman, TCU)
• The Noether-Lefschetz Theorem (Scott Nollet, TCU)
• Picard groups and class groups of algebraic varieties (Scott Nollet, TCU)
• Scissors Congruence (Efton Park, TCU)
• Birationality of etale maps via surgery (Scott Nollet, TCU)
• Holomorphic injectivity and the Hopf map (Scott Nollet, TCU)
• A new Kunneth theorem for intersection homology (Greg Friedman, TCU)
• Kirillov Orbit Method (not complete, Ruth Gornet, UTA)
• Geometric Quantization (not complete)
• Exotic Differentiable Structures (Greg Friedman, TCU)
• Kodaira Vanishing Theorem
• Lie Groups Seminar Notes
• Introduction to Spectral Sequences
• Mod k index theorem
• Introduction to Symplectic Manifolds
• Algebraic Consistent Quantum Theory (Mark Sinnett, St. John's College, Annapolis)
• Extending Poincare Duality to Manifold Homotopically Stratified Spaces (Greg Friedman, TCU)
• The covering spectrum (Ruth Gornet, UTA)
• Wave Trace Formulae (see Uribe notes)
  Wave Trace Invariants on Torus
• Introduction to Index Theory Notes
• What is a Dirac operator good for? (somewhat incomplete)
• Efton's lecture notes on determinants of Toeplitz operators
• Greg's lecture notes on sheaf theory
• Barbara's lecture notes on the Toda lattice
• Quillen K-theory notes

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