CS39-001 -- Symmetry and Topology -- Fall 2017

Emerging (Tentative) Schedule -- {under construction}


 L1
   8/28 C. H. Sequin
What is Symmetry?    Bilateral and Rotational Symmetries in 2D.   Hubcaps.

   9/4 HOLIDAY == Labor Day ==
 L2    9/11 CHS Translation.  Frieze Symmetries.  Musical Scales.  Symmetry Groups.
 L3    9/18 CHS Symmetry of Finite Objects.  The 5 Platonic Solids.  Intro to Topology.  The Genus of Handle-Bodies.
 L4    9/25 CHS 2-Manifolds with Borders.  Classification of 2-manifolds.
 L5    10/2 CHS Global Connectivity of 2D Worlds.  Moebius bands, Klein bottles, Projective Plane.
 L6    10/9
CHS Euler characteristic and Genus.  Graph Embeddings.
 L7  10/16 CHS Review of Euler characteristic and Genus. -- QUIZ
 L8  10/23 CHS Boy Surface.  Parameterized Sculpture Generation.
 L9  10/30
CHS
Knot Theory.  Scherk-Collins Toroids.
 L10   11/6 CHS Student Project PresentationRegular HomotopiesTurning Things Inside-Out.  
 L11  11/13 Class, CHS Student Project Presentations +  Regular Polytopes in Higher Dimensions.
 L12  11/20
Class, CHS Student Project Presentations +  Wallpaper Symmetries.
 L13  11/27
Class, CHS Student Project Presentations +  Threshold Concepts;  4D and beyond.
 L14   12/4
Class, CHS "Elevator Speeches"  Meta-Skills.  +  Wrap-up.
 PP

Class
Project Presentations
 PR

Class
Project Reports

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