Registration Deadline: January 24, 2027

Instructor: Professor Ian Hambleton, McMaster University

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Registration Fee:

• Students from our Principal Sponsoring & Affiliate Universities: Free
• Other Students: CAD$500

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Course Description

Selected topics: Morse theory, cobordism, classification of manifolds; introduction to Yang-Mills gauge theory (PDE on smooth 4-manifolds), applications to smooth vs topological structures on 4-manifolds, finite group actions.