Mod(M^4) minicourse
August 4-7, 2022
LECTURE NOTES
Lecture 1 (notes by Peter Huxford)
Lecture 2 (notes by Peter Huxford)
Lecture 3 (notes by Peter Huxford)
Lecture 4 (notes by Sidhanth Venkat Raman)
Lecture 5 (notes by Sidhanth Venkat Raman)
Lecture 6 (notes by Sidhanth Venkat Raman)
Lecture 9-10 (notes by Lei Chen)
Lecture 11 (notes by Lei Chen)
Typed out Lectures 1-11 (by Seung uk Jang)
PROBLEM LISTS
Some open problems on mapping class groups of del Pezzo surfaces (by Seraphina lee)
Farb-Looijenga, Problems on mapping class groups of 4-manifolds, coming soon.
READINGS
Scorpan, Chapter 3
Lee, Isotopy classes of involutions of del Pezzo surfaces (preprint, 2022)
Lee, The Nielsen realization problem for high degree del Pezzo surfaces (preprint, 2021)
Farb-Looijenga, The Nielsen Realization Problem for K3 surfaces (to appear in J. Diff Geom.)
Lee, Handout on maximal parabolic subgroups of O(1,9)(Z)
EXERCISES
Exercises, 1
Exercises, 2
Exercises, 3
Discord Server
Click the link here for group chats, administrative and mathematical questions.
I encourage people to ask questions, and also to answer them!
Group Discussion
FROM JULY LECTURES
Lecture 1 video
Lecture 1 notes
Lecture 1 problems
Lecture 2 video
Lecture 2 notes
Lecture 2 problems
e^2=-1 proof
Lecture 3 video
Lecture 3 notes
Lecture 3 problems
INFORMATION FOR MINICOURSE
Schedule of talks
Discussion groups