Date:
Tue, 2012-10-23 12:00 - 13:30
We will review several fundamental results regarding smooth and topological 4-manifolds, and demonstrate how to produce infinitely many exotic smooth structures on some basic 4-manifolds, in the hopes of showing that this is no black magic. This will be an introductory course; no prior knowledge, other than some familiarity with basic algebraic topology will be assumed.