Spinors in Geometry and Physics

Math 425 and Physics 498C

S.B. Bradlow and R.G. Leigh


Course Notes

Texts: (not required)

P.B. Gilkey
Invariance Theory, the Heat Equation, and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem
2nd edition, CRC Press, 1995.

J.W. Morgan
The Seiberg-Witten Equations and Applications to the Topology of Smooth Four-Manifolds
Princeton, 1996.


Web-site:

http://dbrane.hep.uiuc.edu/spin/

OR

http://w3.hep.uiuc.edu/~leigh/class/spin/


e-mail:

rgleigh@uiuc.edu

bradlow@uiuc.edu


Organization:

classes MWF 3pm, Loomis 144

occasional exercises will be suggested

occasional tutorials will be scheduled (in classtime) to discuss exercises

term paper required, topics to be agreed upon at a later date