Participants: Julian Chaidez, Michael Klug & Kyle Miller
Email: jchaidez@math.berkeley.edu
Office: 1044 Evans Hall
- Basic Info -
Meetings: F 1-2:30 at The Free Speech Movement
- Papers & Books -
[AD]
- Meetup Description -
This is a casual discussion group geared towards topics in discrete and computational geometric topology. We will meet two out of three weeks for an hour and a half per week, to discuss our current readings. The main topics will be:
basic triangulated manifold theory, and relating PL and smooth structure.
discrete morse theory, morse homology and applications
normal surface theory
- Schedule -
M 1.22: Arnold conjecture, Hamiltonian Floer theory [AD] § 6
Th 1.25: Maslov/CZ index I. [AD] § 7.1-7.2
M 1.29: Maslov/CZ index II. [AD] § 7.3
Th 2.1: spectral flow I. [RS] p 1-25
M 2.5: spectral flow II. [RS] p 25-40
Th 2.8: spaces of j-curves and perturbations. [AD] § 8.1-8.3
M 2.12: linearization, Fredholm index, decay. [AD] § 8.4,8.7-8.9