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- Ken Richardson (TCU, 10-3-2024ff): Foliations, Metrics, and Mean Curvature
See updated notes here.
- Efton Park (TCU, 9-12-2024ff): Traces, Determinants, and Toeplitz Operators
See updated notes here.
- Zhaoting Wei (George) (TAMU Commerce, 8/22/24 ff):
Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem, superconnections,
and index theorem
See updated slides here.
See a related joint paper with Bismut and Shen here.
- Greg Friedman (TCU, 4/1,15/24): Can you make a Möbius band?
- Scott Nollet (TCU, 1/29-???): Smoothing theorems in algebraic geometry
Notes from this lecture series
- Loren Spice (TCU, 11/6-11/27): The rolling ball and G_2
Go here to get the relevant paper by Baez and Huerta on the arxiv.
Go here to see a video related to the "coin paradox".
- Efton Park (TCU, 10/3-10/23): Polynomial Covering Maps
Notes from Lectures
- Ken Richardson (TCU, 8/28/23-9/25/23): Intro to the geometry of
contact and Sasaki manifolds
Notes from Lectures
- Scott Nollet (TCU, 4/3/23): Moduli of distributions
- Greg Friedman (TCU, 2/20/23): Geometric homology and cohomology
- José Carrión (TCU, 11/11,18/22, 12/2/22): Classifying amenable operator algebras
- Ignat Soroko (UNT, 11/4/22): Divergence in Coxeter groups
- Efton Park (TCU, 10/28/22): Unitary equivalence of normal matrices over topological spaces
- Ken Richardson (TCU, October, 2022): Lectures on formality, starting from basic principles:
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Lie Groups
(Link to Borcherds' 2012 notes, discussion in seminar led by Loren Spice)
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Lie Groups
(Link to Borcherds' 2012 notes, discussion in seminar led by Loren Spice)
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Traces and Determinants
(Efton Park, TCU)
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Geometric invariants of manifolds with
boundary and symmetry
(Ken Richardson, TCU)
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Quantum Motion on Manifolds
(Fred Xavier, TCU)
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Introduction to Singular
Riemannian Foliations, including recent results and open problems
(Ken Richardson, TCU)
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Smooth Projective Surfaces
(Scott Nollet, TCU)
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Moduli Spaces of Curves
(Scott Nollet, TCU)
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Injectivity of local diffeomorphism and the
global asymptotic stability problem
(Luis Fernando Mello,
Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil)
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Darbouxian Umbilic Points on
Smooth Surfaces in R3
(Luis Fernando Mello,
Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil)
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Polynomial vector fields in R3 having a
quadric of revolution as an invariant
algebraic surface
(Luis Fernando Mello,
Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil)
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On Central Configurations of the
n-Body Problem
(Luis Fernando Mello,
Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil)
- Coarse Geometry: Lecture 1,
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
(Efton Park, TCU)
- Amenable Groups
(José Carrión, TCU)
- Index Theory and Quantum Field Theory -- the Chiral Anomoly
(Christian Bär, Universität Potsdam)
- Toeplitz Operators
(Efton Park, TCU)
- The 27 lines on the smooth cubic in complex projective 3-space
(Scott Nollet, TCU)
- The Kodaira Embedding Theorem
(Scott Nollet, TCU)
- Introduction to the Work of Miriam Mirzakhani
(Ken Richardson, TCU)
- The Selberg trace
formula of compact Riemann surfaces
(Igor Prokhorenkov, TCU)
- SubRiemannian geometry
(Ken Richardson, TCU)
- The
Twin Prime Conjecture
(Qiao Zhang, TCU)
- Unitary Equivalence of Normal Matrices over Compact Hausdorff Spaces
(Efton Park, TCU)
- Unbounded operators on Hilbert space
(Efton Park, TCU)
- Witten's proof of the Morse Inequalities
(Igor Prokhorenkov, TCU)
- An entertaining proof using invertible cobordism and
an infinite process trick
(Greg Friedman, TCU)
- Diagonalization of Matrices of Continuous Functions
(Efton Park, TCU)
- Deligne-Lusztig Representations
(Loren Spice, TCU, incomplete)
- Unique Factorization and Class Groups
(George Gilbert, TCU)
- Local Class Groups
(Scott Nollet, TCU)
- Introduction to Fourier series
(Ken Richardson, TCU)
- Groups of homotopy spheres, surgery, and the Kervaire invariant
(incomplete, Greg Friedman, TCU)
- Elementary introduction to algebraic
geometry
(Scott Nollet, TCU)
- Introduction to the Ihara zeta function
for graphs
(Igor Prokhorenkov, TCU)
- Introduction to arithmetic quantum chaos
(Igor Prokhorenkov, TCU)
- Orthogonal Polynomials
(George Gilbert, TCU)
- A geometric glance at zeta functions, L-functions, and
automorphic forms
(incomplete, Ken Richardson, TCU)
- Functional Determinants
(Igor Prokhorenkov, TCU)
- Zeta functions and L-functions
(Qiao Zhang, TCU)
Additional links:
- Introduction to Clifford algebras
(Efton Park, TCU)
- The dictionary between commutative and noncommutative geometry
(incomplete, Efton Park, TCU)
Also: Efton's own notes.
- Quantum Field Theory Seminar
(incomplete, Igor Prokhorenkov, Loren Spice, TCU)
- Novikov Additivity Seminar
(incomplete, Greg Friedman, TCU)
- John Baez, UC Riverside, several lectures:
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Operator Theory Approach to Chern-Weil Theory, Introduction
to Smooth K-theory (Efton Park, TCU)
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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