## Monday, Wednesday 9:00 (Rio de Janeiro's time)

The talks are available in the YouTube play list Videos
References:
Some background will be taken from
• W.S. Massey, A basic course in algebraic topology, 1991, GTM, Springer.
• G. E. Bredon, Topology and Geometry, GTM, 1993
• R. Bott, L.W. Tu, Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology, GTM, 1982

• Prerequisite: Complex analysis and basic topology. A basis knowledge of Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Topology would be useful, however, I believe that such a basic knowledge can be learned during this course!
• Final grades: 50% Exercises (there will be around 50 exercises) 50% Expositions. Those who need grade are supposed to prepare two or three half an hour exposition of parts of the course starting from 28 September 2020.
• Language: I will start the lectures in English, but the audience is allowed to ask questions in other languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Persian etc). I will repeat the question in English for the whole audience. I might also switch to Portuguese for few minutes after a question.
• Each lecture will be around 60 minutes (recorded). Apart from this there will be 30 minutes of discussion of exercises, the content of previous lectures, etc (not recorded).
• I will use my webcam and write in front of it. For a sample, see my seminar in GADEPs.

## Lectures

• 17/08/2020: Lecture 1
Section 2.1 and Section 2.2 of [Mov]. Introduction to the history of elliptic/abelian/multiple integrals (periods). What is the Hodge conjecture (one of the Millennium Prize Problems)?
I realized that right in the first day of my lectures, there will be no electricity (and so no internet at my apt.). Therefore, the first lecture will be from my ipad which I can use it in any place with internet!
• 19/08/2020, Lecture 2 Chapter 2 of [MovVil]. Cech Cohomology relative to a covering, p-cochains skew symmetric p-cochains.
• 24/08/2020, Lecture 3 Chapter 2 of [MovVil]. A fast review of the proof of $$\delta\circ \delta=0$$. The 0-th cohomology=global sections. Section 2.6 Acyclic covering, Leray's Lemma (announcement).Acyclic covering for the constant sheaf $$\mathbb Z$$. Good cover for manifolds (Bott-Tu page 42). Relative cohomology. Computing the cohomology of sphere: EXERCISE 1:
$$H^m(\mathbb S^n,\mathbb Z) \cong \left\{ \begin{array}{cc} \mathbb Z, & \, \, \hbox{ if } m=0,n\\ 0 & \, \, \hbox{ otherwise } \end{array} \right. ,$$
$$H^m(\Bbb B^{n}, \Bbb S^{n-1},\mathbb Z) \cong \left\{ \begin{array}{cc} \mathbb Z, & \, \, \hbox{ if } m=n\\ 0, & \, \, \hbox{ otherwise } \end{array} \right. .$$
• 26/08/2020, >Lecture 4 Section 5.2 of [Mov], EXERCISE 2: Exercise 5.1 of [Mov] Smooth projective varieties, two projective varieties intersects each other transversely, Hyperplane section, Veronese embedding and hypersurface sections, Theorem 5.1 the fundamental theorem of the topology of algebraic varieties. The case $$F/G^m$$
• 31/08/2020, Lecture 5, Lefschetz hyperplane section theorem[section 5.4]. Theorems from topology needed to prove this: Gysin sequence (Section 4.6 [Mov]),
• 02/09/2020, Lecture 6. The proof of the fundamental theorem of the topology of algebraic varieties I. Lefschetz fibration, Ehresmann's fibration
• 07/09/2020. Lecture 7. Independence day of Brasil, The lecture will happen exceptionally 08/09/2020. The proof of the fundamental theorem of the topology of algebraic varieties II. Milnor number, Milnor fibration, Ehresmann's fibration theorem, Blow-up along the indeterminacy points of a Lefschetz pencil.
• 09/09/2020, Lecture 8. Chapter 6 of [Mov]. Cohomology of smooth hypersurfaces, Picard-Lefschetz theory, Picard-Lefschetz formula.
• 14/09/2020, Lecture 9. Zarsiki topology, affine varieties, differential forms (Section 10.3 [Mov])), Hypercohomology(Section 3.2 of [MovVil])
• 16/09/2020, Lecture 10. Elements of algebraic de Rham cohomology, hypercohomology of the complex of C^infty forms is the usual de Rham cohomology, Serre's theorem, hypercohomology of the complex of algebraic forms for an affine variety is given by global forms, Atiyah-Hodge theorem (Hironaka's desingularization, Serre's GAGA). Obs. In the definition of normal crossing divisor in the video of Lecture 10 one must replace $$z_1=z_2=..=z_r=0$$ with $$z_1=0 \cup z_2=0 \cup ...z_r=0$$
• 21/09/2020, de Rham cohomology of affine varieties given by tame polynomials (Brieskorn modules)