LTCC Advanced Course:
Applications of Differential Geometry to Mathematical Physics
The courses on Applications of Differential Geometry to Mathematical
Physics took place at the University of Kent (Canterbury) on
12 November
2008 and 26 November 2008. The courses are part of the
advanced courses of the London taught course centre
(LTCC). A draft syllabus can be found
here. This advanced course will be
repeated
in 2010. For further information please contact Dr Steffen
Krusch.
Lecturers
Location
The lectures took place in Keynes College, room
KS23. Click here for an
interactive map of the University of Kent.
Schedule
On Wednesday, 12 November, the schedule was
- 11.00-12.00 Lecture 1 (Steffen Krusch)
- 12.00-13.00 Lunch break
- 13.00-14.00 Lecture 2 (Gavin Brown)
- 14.00-14.45 Tutorial 1
- 14.45-15.15 Tea
- 15.15-16.15 Lecture 3 (Andy Hone)
- 16.15-17.00 Tutorial 2
On Wednesday, 26 November, the schedule was
- 11.00-12.00 Lecture 4 (Andy Hone)
- 12.00-13.00 Lunch break
- 13.00-14.00 Lecture 5 (Gavin Brown)
- 14.00-14.45 Tutorial 3
- 14.45-15.15 Tea
- 15.15-16.15 Lecture 6 (Steffen Krusch)
- 16.15-17.00 Tutorial 4
Recommended Reading
We found the following literature quite useful, when preparing the course.
- M Nakahara, Geometry, Topology and Physics, Second
Edition, Graduate Student Series in Physics, Institute of Physics
Publishing, 2003
- R Bott and LW Tu, Differential Forms in Algebraic
Topology, Springer Verlag, New York, 1982
- NS Manton and PM Sutcliffe, Topological Solitons,
Cambridge University Press, 2004
- VI Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics,
Second Edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, New York,
1997
- O Babelon, D Bernard and M Talon, Introduction to Classical
Integrable Systems, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics,
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- D Huybrechts, Complex geometry,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005
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