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Jérôme Scherer

EPFL SV BMI UPHESS
MA B3 455 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
1015 Lausanne

Teaching & PhD

Current Phd

Virgile Simon Constantin

Past Phd As Director

Samuel Lavenir

Past Phd As Codirector

Kay Remo Werndli, Lyne Moser

Courses

Topology IV.a - Cohomology rings

MATH-506

Singular cohomology is defined by dualizing the singular chain complex for spaces. We will study its basic properties, see how it acquires a multiplicative structure and becomes a graded commutative algebra. We study an algebraic version, namely group cohomology, and compare both approaches.