- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Friday, November 15, 2013 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006.
- Speaker
- Amey Kaloti – Georgia Tech.
- Organizer
- Amey Kaloti
Given a vector bundle over a smooth manifold, one can give an alternate
definition of characteristic classes in terms of geometric data, namely connection
and curvature. We will see how to define Chern classes and Euler class for the a
vector bundle using this theory developed in mid 20th century.