The seminar takes place in B 046 on Thursdays 2:30 -- 4:00 PM.

9 May A. Nkeng	Sard's theorem and the Brouwer fixed point theorem [M1] Ch. 1+2+3
16 May T. Ose	Mapping degree mod 2 [M1] Ch. 4
23 May W. Böhnisch	Oriented manifolds and mapping degree [M1] Ch. 5
6 June G. Contri	Vector fields und Euler characteristic [M1] Ch. 6
27 June E. Hsiao	Introduction to Morse Theory [M2] Ch. 1+2 (see also [H] Ch. 6, Section 1)
4 July A. Brillante	Transversality and existence of Morse functions [K] Ch. IV, 1-3
11+18 July Z. Gao	Morse theory and homotopy type [M2] Ch. 3+4 (see also [H] Ch. 6, Sections 2-4)
23 July T. Ose	The Morse inequalities [M2] Ch. 5 (see also [H] Ch. 6, Sections 3-4)

References:
[M1] J. W. Milnor: Topology from the differentiable viewpoint, The University Press of Virginia 1965
[M2] J. W. Milnor: Morse theory, Princeton UP 1969
[GP] V. Guillemin and A. Pollack: Differential Topology, Prentice-Hall 1974
[H] M. W. Hirsch: Differential Topology, Springer Verlag 1976
[K] A. A. Kosinski: Differential Manifolds, Academic Press 1993