Columbia University G4344
Lie Groups and Representations

Basic information

Call number: 88780
Room/Time: MW 11:00--12:15, 307 Math
Discussions: Monday 5:15--6:15, 528 Math
Instructor: Mikhail Khovanov
Office: 517 Math
Office Hours: MW 3-4 (tentative)
E-mail: khovanov@math.columbia.edu
 
Webpage: www.math.columbia.edu/~khovanov/lgroups
 

Syllabus and text

Departmental syllabus for this course.

Online resources:
Lecture notes by Peter Woit
Dragan Milicic's lectures on Lie Groups, a pdf file.
Shlomo Sternberg's lectures on Lie Algebras, a pdf file.

The following books will be placed on reserve in the math library:
R. Carter, G. Segal, and I. MacDonald, Lectures on Lie Groups and Lie Algebras. I especially recommend Chapter II, by Segal.
Adams, Lectures on Lie Groups.
J.-P. Serre, Complex Semisimple Lie algebras.
J.E.Humphreys, Introduction to Lie algebras and representation theory.
T.Brocker and T.Dieck, Representations of Compact Lie Groups.
W.Fulton and J.Harris, Representation Theory: A First Course.