568 - Rational homotopy theory - Spring 2016 - UIC

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Time: 3:30-4:45pm TR.
Place: Taft Hall (TH) 305.

E-mail: benjamin.antieau@gmail.edu.
Course webpage: dantie1.people.uic.edu/201503-215.html.

Office hours: TBD in SEO 419.

Book: there is no book required for this course. I will be following Rational homotopy theory by Félix, Halperin, and Thomas and Rational homotopy theory and differential forms by Griffiths and Morgan.

Course objectives: to understand the connection between rational homotopy types and differential forms as well as the role of rational homotopy theory in applications in algebraic geometry, Riemannian geometry, and commutative algebra.

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