What's New

• (06/23/03) Patrick Perry's thesis on simplicial sets is now available off the projects page.

What's Old

• (12/16/02) Writeups are now available on the projects page.
• (12/04/02) The class is over! I will place the write-ups on the website by December 12th.
• (12/04/02) Jon's presentation is available on the projects page.
• (11/29/02) The first set of presentations are now available on the projects page.
• (11/25/02) Prof. Ileana Streinu points out that Leopold Vietoris (1891--2002), for whom the Mayer-Vietoris sequence was named, has died at the age of 111. He published 75 papers, one at the age of 103, and more than half after the age of sixty. The obituary in the Notices of AMS points out that the Rips complex we discussed in Lecture 8 was first invented by him and properly should be called Vietoris-Rips.
• (11/20/02) Slides for the Lecture 9 are available now on the schedule page.
• (11/12/02) Slides for the Lecture 8 are available now on the schedule page.
• (11/12/02) I have updated the projects page with a list of presentations and writeups.
• (11/06/02) Lecture 8 (November 13th) will be on Tuesday, November 12th. Same bat channel (Gates 392), same bat time (12:30).
• (11/06/02) I have placed software and reading for the data structures for today's class. Shewchuk's Triangle uses an alternate data structure for 2-manifolds (available under readings.)
• (11/06/02) Slides for the seventh lecture are available now on the schedule page. I have also updated slide 33. I will try to have the notes ready soon.
• (10/30/02) Notes and slides for the sixth lecture are available now on the schedule page.
• (10/23/02) Lecture 8 (November 13th) will be on Tuesday, November 12th. I will post the time and place soon.
• (10/23/02) Notes and slides for the fifth lecture are available now on the schedule page.
• (10/23/02) I fixed slides 4 to have X as the codomain of f and slides 5 to have the general homotopy definition (Lecture 5).
• (10/17/02) Corrected the lecture number on the notes for lecture 4. Sorry!
• (10/16/02) Notes and slides for the fourth lecture are available now on the schedule page.
• (10/15/02) I placed the slides for the last two lectures online on the schedule page. I also encourage you to play with Kali. Try drawing a "1" and see the wall paper each symmetry gives you.
• (10/09/02) Notes for the third lecture are available now on the schedule page.
• (10/02/02) Notes for the second lecture are available now on the schedule page.
• (09/28/02) Readings for the second lecture are available now on the schedule page.
• (09/25/02) Notes for 1st lecture are on the schedule page.
• (09/16/02) Class announcement and poster.