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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 18.966 (Spring 2007) 
  • Course Title:
  • Geometry of Manifolds 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Mathematics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Denis Auroux 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 18.966 Geometry of Manifolds



    Spring 2007




    Course Highlights




    18.966 Geometry of Manifolds



    Spring 2007


    The symplectic sum of two Lefschetz fibrations.
    The symplectic sum of two Lefschetz fibrations. (Image by Prof. Denis Auroux.)


    Course Description


    This is a second-semester graduate course on the geometry of manifolds. The main emphasis is on the geometry of symplectic manifolds, but the material also includes long digressions into complex geometry and the geometry of 4-manifolds, with special emphasis on topological considerations.
     

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