Syllabus:
Name of the Speakers with their affiliation. |
No. of Lectures/Hrs |
Detailed Syllabus |
Speakers 2) Ganesh Kadu (S. P. Pune Univ., Pune) 3) Vijay Patankar (JNU, New Delhi) 4) ParvatiShastri (Mumbai Univ.) Associate Teachers: 1) Dilpreet Kaur (IISER, Pune) |
6 Hrs |
Algebra I (Linear Algebra and Group Theory)
Topics: (i) Operations of a group on itself, the class equation of the icosahedral group, operations on subsets, the Sylow theorems, the groups of order 12, computations on the symmetric group, the free group, generators and relations, the Todd-Coxeter Algorithm. (ii) Bilinear forms, symmetric forms: orthogonality, the geometry associated to a positive form, Hermitian forms, the spectral theorem, conics and quadrics, the spectral theorem for normal operators, skew-symmetric forms, summary of results in matrix notation. (iii) Linear groups, the classical linear groups, the special unitary group SU2, the orthogonal representation of SU2, the special linear group SL2(R), one-parameter subgroups, the Lie algebra, translations in a group, simple groups. (iv) Group representations, G-invariant forms and unitary representations, compact groups, G-invariant subspaces and irreducible representations, compact groups, G-invariant subspaces and irreducible representations, characters, permutation representations and the regular representation, the representations of the icosahedral group, one-dimensional representations, Shur’s Lemma, and proof of the orthogonality relations. |
Speakers 2) Rohit Holkar 3) Shantanu Dey 4) A. R. Shastri (IIT, Mumbai) Associate Teachers: 1) Krishna Masalkar (Garware College, Pune) |
6 Hrs each |
Analysis I (Complex Analysis) [Stein and Shakarchi] Chapters 2,3,4.
Topics: Cauchy’s Theorem and Its Applications, Meromorphic Functions and the Logarithm, The Fourier Transform |
Speaker 1) Sandeep Singh (IITB, Mumbai) 2) Amit Kuber (IITK, Kanpur) 3) Priyavrat Deshpande (CMI) 4) Dheeraj Kulkarni (IISER, Bhopal) |
6 Hrs each |
Topology I (Point Set Topology): [Simmons] Chapters 1-7 and Quotient spaces: [Armstrong] Chapter 4 ‘Identification Spaces’.
Topics: Sets and functions, metric spaces, topological spaces, quotient spaces, compactness, separation, connectedness, approximation, Weierstrass approximation theorem, Stone-Weierstrass theorem. |
Special Talks:
- Dinesh Thakur (Univ. of Rochester),
- A. R. Shastri (IITB, Mumbai)
Note: Faculty Members may pick and choose, or even introduce extra topics, so as to make the program more relevant to the students who have come to participate in AFS I.
Time Table:
Day |
Lecture 1 (9.30–11.00) |
Tea (11.00–11.30) |
Lecturer 2 (11.30–1.00) |
Lunch (1.00–2.30) |
Tutorial 1 (2.30–3.30) |
Tea (3.30-4.00) |
Tutorial 2 (4.00-5.00) |
Snacks 5.00 |
Mon |
Algebra-L1 |
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Analysis-L1 |
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Algebra-T1 |
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Algebra-T2 |
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Tues |
Topology-L1 |
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Algebra-L2 |
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Analysis-T1 |
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Analysis-T2 |
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Wed |
Analysis-L2 |
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Topology-L2 |
|
Topology-T1 |
|
Topology-T2 |
|
Thu |
Algebra-L3 |
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Analysis-L3 |
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Algebra-T3 |
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Algebra-T4 |
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Fri |
Topology-L3 |
|
Algebra-L4 |
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Analysis-T3 |
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Analysis-T4 |
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Sat |
Analysis-L4 |
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Topology-L4 |
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Topology-T4 |
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Topology-T4 |
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