Hello Quantum Formalists,
The replay for lecture 8 is now available on the YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6N_Y7ao_aHs37APhitfR1SMX_VOqNDgj. The class now knows what a ‘smooth manifold’ is. A very important step into understanding the notion of a ‘Lie Group’ that will be covered in Module II. In the next session, we'll discuss diffeomorphisms and the classification of smooth manifolds. There will be some interesting/shocking classification facts about certain dimensions including dimension 4!
Lecture 9 will be the last official session of this crash course. However, I plan to have some extra sessions for the super curious on more advanced topics such as fibre bundles. But these extra sessions will come after the career and hackathon Q&A sessions that I would like to get out of the way first.
Lecture 9 Registration: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/topology-differential-geometry-crash-course-lecture-9. Please don't forget the clock has gone backwards by 1 hour in the UK!
Finally, many thanks to our friend George Zipperlen for the invaluable help he has been providing to the community on Discord. I highly encourage those who can to join George for the next group study session that will take place this Friday, November 5th, at 12:00 noon (EDT).
Have a great week, see you at the next lecture!
Bambordé