MAT1190HS – Algebraic Geometry

University of Toronto

Instructor

Name: Daniel Litt

Email: daniel.litt@utoronto.ca

Office Hours: 1pm Wednesdays, Huron 1018

Textbook

This course will cover Chapter III of Hartshorne’s Algebraic Geometry.

Mark Breakdown

Component Percentage
Assignments (graded on completion) 40%
Term Test 25%
Final Assessment 35%

Assignments

Assignments will be exercises from Hartshorne (and external sources), graded on completeness, not correctness.

Term Test

There will be one term test on February 24, the entire class period.

Final Assessment

The final assessment will be held during the last week of class.

Schedule of Lectures

Week Dates Topics
Week 1 Jan 6 - Jan 10 Hartshorne III.1: Derived Functors
Week 2 Jan 13 - Jan 17 Hartshorne III.2: Cohomology of Sheaves
Week 3 Jan 20 - Jan 24 Hartshorne III.3: Cohomology of a Noetherian Affine Scheme
Week 4 Jan 27 - Jan 31 Hartshorne III.4: Čech Cohomology
Week 5 Feb 3 - Feb 7 Hartshorne III.5: The Cohomology of Projective Space
Week 6 Feb 10 - Feb 14 Hartshorne III.6: Ext Groups and Sheaves
Week 7 Feb 17 - Feb 21 Reading week (no classes)
Week 8 Feb 24 - Feb 28 Hartshorne III.7: The Serre Duality Theorem. Term test.
Week 9 Mar 3 - Mar 7 Hartshorne III.8: Higher Direct Images of Sheaves
Week 10 Mar 10 - Mar 14 Hartshorne III.9: Flat Morphisms
Week 11 Mar 17 - Mar 21 Hartshorne III.10: Smooth Morphisms
Week 12 Mar 24 - Mar 28 Hartshorne III.11: The Theorem on Formal Functions
Week 13 Mar 31 - Apr 4 Hartshorne III.12: The Semicontinuity Theorem. Final