Differentiable Manifolds I, MATH 549, Fall 2018


Instructor: Daniel Groves, 727 SEO e.mail

Course webpage: http://www.math.uic.edu/~groves/teaching/2018-19/549/

Course hours:

MWF, 11:00-11:50AM, Room 302, Addams Hall.

Office hours:

Mondays 10am and Fridays 2pm.

(Or, you can make an apointment by e.mail or try stopping past my office.)

Text: "Introduction to smooth manifolds" by J.M. Lee, 2nd edition, Springer GTM, 2012.
Free eBook access through UIC library here.

Syllabus: Download here.

Course description:
This is a first year graduate course on smooth manifolds. We will introduce and study (smooth) manifolds, smooth maps, tangent spaces, vector fields and differential forms.

The plan is to cover most of the book in varying amounts of detail.

For this class, you will need to know some basic topology, and also linear algebra and calculus. Lee's book has Appendices on these topics which cover the necessary material.

Assessment: Homework sets will be due approximately every 1-2 weeks.
There will be a take-home midterm exam (date to be determined).
There will be an take-home final exam, which will be assigned by December 5, and will be due on December 14.
The relative weightings of these items will be: Homework 40%, Midterm 20%, Final 40%.

Take-home Final: (Due Friday, December 14, 2018, by midnight Chicago-time.) Download here.

Homework:

  • Due Monday, September 10, at the beginning of class. Do this homework.

  • Due Monday, September 17, at the beginning of class. Do this homework.

  • Due Monday, September 24, at the beginning of class. Do this homework.

  • Due Monday, October 1, at the beginning of class. Do this homework. Note: Typo in first question formula fixed on 9/28/18, 2.30pm

  • Due Monday, October 15, at the beginning of class. Do this midterm (see the instructions on the exam).

  • Due, Monday, October 22, at the beginning of class. Do this homework.

  • Due, Monday, October 29, at the beginning of class. Do this homework.

  • Due, Monday, November 5, at the beginning of class. Do this homework.

  • Due, Monday, November 12, at the beginning of class. Do this homework.

  • Due, Mondary, November 26, at the beginning of class. Do this homework.

  • There will be no class on Wednesday, November 21.

  • There will be NO CLASS on Monday, November 26 For complaints, talk to the weather and/or Southwest Airlines.