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Topology and Related Topics Seminar |
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Date |
Tuesday 26 March, 2:30 pm |
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Venue |
Ramanujan Hall |
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Host |
Rekha Santhanam |
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speaker |
Sudarshan Gurjar |
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Affiliation |
IIT Bombay |
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Title |
Vector bundles and Characteristic Classes |
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Abstract |
This is the second talk in the series of three talks. We will give an introduction to the characteristic classes of a vector bundle. Characteristic classes are invariants of a vector bundle taking values in the singular cohomology of the base and satisfying the obvious functoriality property with respect to pullback. They are the measure of the non-triviality of the vector bundle. |