Exam date, location and syllabus

Exam date, time and location:

Friday June 9th, between 12.15 and 15.05, in room B819 (N. H. Abel's building, 8th floor).  Information about the individual times has been sent by e-mail.

Syllabus:

A. Hatcher, "Vector Bundles and K-Theory":

• Clutching functions, pages 22-26.

J. Rognes, "Algebraic Topology III Spring 2023 / Chromatic Homotopy Theory":

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Steenrod algebra and its dual
• Chapter 3: Classifying spaces
• Chapter 4: Characteristic classes
• Chapter 5: Topological K-theory
• Chapter 6: Smooth bordism
• Chapter 7: Sequential and orthogonal spectra
• Chapter 8: Spectral sequences (except section 7)
• Chapter 9: Formal group laws
• Chapter 10: The height filtration (except section 7)
• Chapter 11: Morava K- and E-theory (except proof of Theorem 4.3)
• Chapter 12: Chromatic localization (only sections 1-5).

Starting questions:

Please be prepared to answer a randomly chosen one of these six
questions at the beginning of your examination.  Plan the level of detail so that you spend four to six minutes on your answer.