Preliminary list of talks:
19.02.13 Review of linear algebra, vector bundles (Anand Dessai) [At] § 1.1
26.02.13 Operations on vector bundles (Aurora Boscato) [At] § 1.2-1.3, p. 6-14
05.03.13 Vector bundles over compact spaces I (Delphine Jaggi) [At] § 1.4, p. 15-23
08.03.13Examples and survey (Nicolas Weisskopf)
12.03.13 Vector bundles over compact spaces II (Jérôme Chammartin) [At] § 1.4, p. 23-31
19.03.13 Vector bundles with additional structure (Michèle De Nutte) [At] § 1.5-1.6, p. 32-41
26.03.13 Definition of K(X), consequences of Bott-periodicity, preliminaries (Denis Pythoud) [At] § 2.1, p. 42-50 , [Ha], p. 22, 24, 39-42
02.04.13 EASTER BREAK
09.04.13 Proof of Bott-periodicity (Alice Caiocca) [At] § 2.2, p. 51-64, [Ha], p. 42-51
16.04.1318.04.13 17:00 Relative K-theory,
long exact sequence of a pair (Anna Ferretti) [At] § 2.4, p. 66-76
23.04.13 K-theory as a generalized cohomology theory (Jenny Genazzi) [At] § 2.4-2.5, p. 76-80, [Hi] Chap. 1
30.04.13 Splitting principle, computations (Basil Reinhard) [At], p. 80-84, [Ha] p. 66-72
07.05.13 Adams operations (Xavier Richard) [At] § 3.1-3.2, especially p. 135-137, [Ha], p. 62-64
14.05.13 H-spaces and the Hopf invariant (Pierre-Nicolas Jolissaint), [Ha], p. 59-62, 64-65, [Eb], Chap. 11
21.05.13 Division algebras and parallelizability of spheres (Nicolas Weisskopf)
References:
[At] M.F. Atiyah, K-Theory, lecture notes 1964, Benjamin Press 1967
[Eb] Ebinghaus et al., Numbers, GTM 123, Springer, 1991
[Ha] Hatcher, Vector bundles and K-Theory, http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/VBKT/VBpage.html, 2009
[Hi] Hilton, General cohomology and K-theory, LMS, Lecture Notes Series 1, Cambridge University Press, 1971
For further information please contact Anand Dessai or Nicolas Weisskopf.