Mth 637 Geometric Topology I

Topics from geometric and piecewise linear topology, knots and 3-manifolds and gauge theories, geometric structures and geometrization of manifolds, applications to differential topology, vector bundles and to mathematical physics. This is the first course in a sequence of three: Mth 637 Mth 638, and Mth 639. Expected preparation: Mth 436/Mth 536.