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Course Objectives

This course provides students with a solid working knowledge in the basic techniques of Homotopy Theory and constitutes a natural continuation of the Math 537-538 sequences in Algebraic Topology. Topics will center around properties and calculations with higher homotopy groups as well as the more general theory of fibrations and fiber bundles. The course should be of interest to all students with research interests in topology or geometry. Topics are; Homotopy groups, Whitehead's theorem, CW approximation; homotopy excision, Hurewicz theorem; (co)fibrations, mapping path and loop spaces; fibre bundles, sphere bundles over spheres; obstruction theory, relation to cohomology; Postnikov towers.