Math 527: Homotopy Theory
Spring 2011
Bert Guillou
email: bertg ♠ illinois ♦ edu
Phone: (217) 244-0286
Office: 330 Illini Hall
Time & Location: MWF 1:00-1:50, 441 Altgeld.
Office Hours: Thursday, 3-4:00.
Links:
- From MIT's Algebraic Topology student seminar, two lists (here and here) of papers in the subject.
- My old Category Theory notes
- The UIUC Topology seminar calendar
- Free online texts: Hatcher and May
- Neil Strickland's notes on compactly generated spaces
- My old Category Theory notes
Lecture Notes:
- Week 1. Homotopy, homotopy equivalence, the categories of based and unbased space.
- Week 2. Higher homotopy groups, weak homotopy equivalence, CW complex.
- Week 3. Cofibrations and the Homotopy Extension Property.
- Week 4. Relative homotopy groups, homotopy fiber, long exact sequence in homotopy, Whitehead theorem.
- Week 5. Cellular and CW approximation, the homotopy category, cofiber sequences.
- Week 6. Homotopy pushouts, fibrations and the Homotopy Lifting Property, Serre fibrations.
- Week 7. Homotopy pullbacks, Homotopy Excision, Freudenthal suspension theorem.
- Week 8. Stable homotopy groups, Hurewicz theorem, homology Whitehead theorem.
- Week 9. Proof of Blakers-Massey, Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces.
- Week 10. Constructions of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces, representation of cohomology by K(A,n)'s, obstruction theory.
- Week 11. Postnikov towers, principal fibrations.
- Week 12. Localization, finiteness of homotopy groups of spheres.
- Week 2. Higher homotopy groups, weak homotopy equivalence, CW complex.
Homework:
- Homework 1 (due Friday, Jan. 28)
- Homework 2 (due Friday, Feb. 11)
- Homework 3 (due Friday, Feb. 25)
- Homework 4 (due Wednesday, Mar. 16)
- Homework 5 (due Wednesday, Apr. 13).
- Homework 2 (due Friday, Feb. 11)
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