Math 256 Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

The following schedule is extremely provisional and subject to change as the course progresses.
Week of Topics
1/17 Schemes and functors. Maps to projective space.
1/23 Projective morphisms. Ample sheaves.
1/30 Quasi-affine and quasi-projective, ample, very ample. Blowing up.
2/06 Differentials and deformations.
2/13 Smooth, étale, and unramified morphisms.
2/20 Introduction to cohomology.
2/27 Sheaf cohomology. Flasque sheaves. Cech cohomology.
3/06 Cohomology of affine and projective schemes
3/13 Finiteness of cohomology
3/20 Serre-Grothendieck duality
3/27 Spring Break
4/03 Curves, Riemann-Roch for Curves
4/10 Hurwitz's theorem. Projective embeddings
4/17 Surfaces: divisors on surfaces
4/24 Riemann-Roch for surfaces, applications
5/1 Reading Week