Math 256 Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

Week of Topics
1/19 Introduction to cohomology. Ext and Abelian categories
1/26 Complexes, cones and triangulated categories
2/02 Derived functors and derived categories. Sheaf cohomology.
2/09 Flasque sheaves. Cech cohomology.
2/16 Affine space. Projective space.
2/23 Finiteness of cohomology
3/02 Serre-Grothendieck duality
3/09 Perfection, cohomology and base change
3/16 Divisors, maps to projective space
3/23 Spring Break
3/30 Curves, Riemann-Roch
4/06 Hurwitz's theorem. Projective embeddings
4/13 The canonical embedding
4/20 Surfaces, Riemann-Roch,
4/27 Zeta functions
5/11 Applications
   

The above schedule is just a rough guide and subject to change as the course progresses.


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