SCHEDULE
MTH 434/534 — Winter 2015


This is a rough schedule showing which topic we will cover when. All dates are subject to change.
The topic links refer to the wiki version of the text, which is not the same as the official text...

  Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Week 1
(Jan)
5
Introduction
6  
 
7
Differential forms  
8  
 
9
Dot & Cross
Week 2
(Jan)
12
No class
 
13  
 
 
14    Polar Coords,
Higher Rank Forms,
Products
15  
 
 
16
Determinants,
Pictures
Week 3
(Jan)
19
MLK Day
 
20  
 
 
21    Tensors,
Inner Products,
Polar Coords IIa
22  
 
 
23    Bases,
Metric Tensor,
Signature
Week 4
(Jan)
26
Higher Rank,
Schwarz Inequality
27  
 
 
28
Orientation,
Hodge Dual
29  
 
 
30    Dot & Cross,
Euclidean Space,
Minkowski Space
Week 5
(Feb)
2    Hodge Dual II,
Pseudovectors
Gradient,
3  
 
 
4    Div & Curl,
Exterior Deriv
Polar Laplacian
5  
 
 
6
Properties,
Product Rules
Week 6
(Feb)
9
Orthogonal Coords,
Div, Grad, Curl
10  
 
 
11
Maxwell's Eqs I,
II & III
12  
 
 
13
Review
 
Week 7
(Feb)
16
Midterm
17  
 
18
Go over midterm
19
 
20
Integrals
Week 8
(Feb)
23    Polar Coords IIb,
Vector-Valued Forms,  
Vector Derivatives
24  
 
 
25
Connections,  
Levi-Civita
26
 
 
27
Polar Coords III,
Curves, Surfaces
Week 9
(Mar)
2
Surfaces,
Curvature
3
 
 
4
Curvature
Bianchi Identities
5  
 
6    Geodesic Curvature,
Geodesic Triangles,
Gauss-Bonnet Thm
Week 10
(Mar)
9
Topology
Corollaries of Stokes' Thm
10  
 
 
11
Integration by Parts
 
12  
 
 
13
No class
 
Finals
(Mar)
16  
 
 
17  
Final
(2–3:50 PM)
18  
 
 
19  
 
 
20