Seminars
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Seminar on characteristic classes
This is a seminar on vector bundles and characteristic classes based on the second part of the book by Milnor and Stasheff. In Fall ‘24, we covered the first half of the book in a special topics course (till Wu’s formula in the chapter “Computations in a Smooth Manifold”) conducted by Dr. Manish Kumar. Our goal in this seminar is to reach Thom’s theory on transversality and in particular study the first computation of the homotopy groups of a spectrum