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Atiyah-Singer Index Seminar

Tue., Feb. 23, 2016 10:00 a.m.

Location: RIC 215

• Speaker:  Asghar Ghorbanpour
• Title: Chern-Weil Theory, II
  
• Abstract: 

  The theory of vector bundles over topological spaces provides a method
  to study the topology of the base. This is made possible by the theory
  of characteristic classes. In the case of vector bundles on smooth
  manifolds, Chern-Weil theory gives a computational recipe by which the
  curvature two form of connections is used to compute these classes. In
  this session (and the next one) of our seminar we will review the
  Chern-Weil theory. We are going to follow very closely the appendix C of
  the J. Milnor & J. Stasheff's fantastic book "Characteristic Classes".