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This is an undergraduate student seminar on geometry and topology. Here is a course description for you to get an idea of how it runs and particularly for those of you who wish to register for credit. If you would like to propose a topic in geometry and topology for now or the future, write to Yifei Zhu. A possible topic for Fall 2025 is geometric models and their additive engineering, such as this and this. We have 3D printers handy thanks to support by the Department of Mathematics and the National Center for Applied Mathematics Shenzhen. The actual theme of the seminar will depend on the interests of the participants.

Previous Semesters

  • Fall 2024, Geometry and physics of Higgs bundles
  • Fall 2023, Modular curves
  • Spring 2023, Knot theory and low-dimensional topology
  • Fall 2022, Modular forms and their applications to geometry and topology
  • Spring 2022, Topological data analysis
  • Fall 2021, Differential forms in algebraic topology
  • Spring 2021, The wild world of 4-manifolds
  • Even earlier, we worked on Manifolds, sheaves, and cohomology and more.