Advanced class - Surgery theory

Tuesdays 12 in SR1

Schedule

• 27/04 - Introduction (Oscar Randal-Williams)
• 04/05 - Poincare duality and the Spivak normal fibration (Martin Palmer)
• 11/05 - Spherical fibrations (Oscar Randal-Williams)
• 18/05 - Normal Invariants (Ulrike Tillmann)
• 25/05 - Surgery and its effect on homology (Haaken Moe)
• 01/06 - Surgery below the middle dimension (Oscar Randal-Williams)
• 08/06 - Quadratic forms and formations (Martin Palmer)
• 15/06 - The even-dimensional surgery obstruction
• 22/06 - The odd-dimensional surgery obstruction
• 29/06 - The surgery exact sequence

Most material will be from

Surgery on simply-connected manifolds - Browder

Algebraic and Geometric Surgery - Ranicki

Surgery on compact manifolds - Wall

all available online.