Babytop

Student seminar in topology

Spring 2006






Ricardo Andrade
Chern Classes

Abstract:

This will be an elementary talk on characteristic classes. I will start by giving my favourite construction of Chern classes, and then do some calculations with these. Now, the point of the talk (if there is one...) is to show how both Chern classes and some results about them generalize to cohomology theories other than ordinary cohomology.