Instructor: Dr. Isabel
Darcy
Office:B1H MLH
Phone: 335- 0778
Email: idarcy AT math.uiowa.edu
Office Hours:
MW 2:30 - 3:20pm, Th 12:30 - 2:30pm, and by appointment.
Wiki course WWW site:
http://mathwiki.math.uiowa.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Syllabus:
http://www.math.uiowa.edu/~idarcy/COURSES/305/SPRING10/305syl.html
Tentative Schedule
| Week 1 (1/19 - 1/22) | Tuesday: Ch 1 pdf (color) |
| Thursday: Maggie Tomova | |
| Week 2 (1/25 - 1/29) | Tuesday: Maggie Tomova: Ch 3 |
| Tuesday Topology Seminar: Maggie Tomova | |
| Thursday: Charlie Frohman | |
| Week 3 (2/1 - 2/5) | Tuesday: Ch 2: pdf (color) |
| 3:30 pm Tuesday Topology Seminar: Charlie Frohman | |
| Thursday: Ch 2 | |
| Week 4 (2/8 - 2/12) | Tuesday: Ch 2, 5 (pre-lecture), post-lecture |
| Thursday: Ch 4, SB | |
| Week 5 (2/15 - 2/19) | Tuesday: |
| Thursday: SB | |
| Week 6 (2/22 - 2/26) | Tuesday: Review, 6C, 6D /(pre-lecture) , post-lecture |
| Thursday: | |
| Week 7 (3/1 - 3/5) | Tuesday: 5.2 |
| Thursday: 5.2, SB | |
| Week 8 (3/8 - 3/12) | Tuesday: ch 7, SB |
| Thursday: 7D_SB | |
| Spring Break Week (3/15 - 3/19) | |
| Week 9 (3/22 - 3/26) | Tuesday: Alexanderpolynomialreview |
| Thursday: Skein relations (SB) | |
| Week 10 (3/29 - 4/2) | Tuesday: SB |
| Thursday: SB | |
| Week 11 (4/5 - 4/9) | Tuesday: SB |
| Thursday: SB | |
| April 10-11 | AMS meeting |
| Week 12 (4/12 - 4/16) | Tuesday: SB |
| Thursday: SB mirrors and ribbons, Visualization of Seifert Surfaces, Julia Collins, Symmetries of rational links, project | |
| Week 13 (4/19 - 4/23) | Tuesday: SB
Lectures
on the topology of 3-manifolds: an introduction to the Casson invariant By Nikolai Saveliev:
Lecture 1: Heegaard Splittings **An introduction to Heegaard Floer homology Peter Ozsath and Zoltan Szabo An introduction to knot theory By W. B. Raymond Lickorish What is a Legendrian Knot? Joshua M. Sabloff Grid Diagrams: [Bru98] H Brunn. Uber verknotete kurven. Verhandlugen des ersten Internationalen Mathematiker- Kongresses, Zurich, pages 256259, 1898. **Grid diagrams and Legendrian links in lens spaces, Ken Baker, Eli Grigsby (powerpoint) , (pdf) **Constance Leidy: grid diagram Ghrist: Intro to homology |
| Thursday: SB | |
| Week 14 (4/26 - 4/30) | Tuesday: Exam 1 |
| Thursday: | |
| Week 15 (5/3 - 5/7) | Tuesday: |
| Thursday: | |
| Final Exam Week (5/17 - 5/21) | 9:45 A.M. Tuesday, May 11 2010 |