• Instructor Jon Brundan
• Office Hours for Winter 2008: M 15:00-16:00, Fenton 219 or stop by any time... if I'm in I'll answer questions!
• Class meets MWF 11:00-12:00, Deady 206.
• Books: I'll continue to teach quite closely from the book "Linear algebraic groups" by T. A. Springer. But you might find it better to get hold of a copy of "Linear algebraic groups" by J. E. Humphreys. Most people find the latter book easier to read independently, and it covers basically the same stuff. It is not necessary to get either -- I will provide rough notes at the end of each chapter of everything we've done in class. But you know its best to see the material more than once so getting hold of and making an effort to follow the material in one of these two books in parallel with the material from class is a good idea.
• The main topics this term: quotients then some elements of the structure theory of reductive algebraic groups.
• I will set exercises as we go and collect them in occasionally (probably twice).
• THERE WON'T BE ANY EXAMS THIS TERM.
• Note I will be away on 16 and 18 January and on 4 and 6 February. My plan is to give two additional *optional* one hour lectures on "Representations of algebraic groups" in the last week of January to make up for these four missed classes. I will fix up a time later on... maybe 4pm Thursday Jan 31 and Friday Feb 1 but this will likely change.
• Grading: Attendance: 80%, Homework 20%.
• I will try to keep this page updated with my class notes (PDF) as we go. Disclaimer: ALL MY NOTES ARE TEEMING WITH TYPOS!

Pages 1-8 including HW1 exercises 1-10.

Pages 9-16 including HW2 exercises 1-7.

Pages 17-23 including HW2 exercises 8-10.

Pages 24-32 including HW3 exercises 1-3.

Pages 33-42 including HW3 exercises 4-7.

Pages 43-49 including HW3 exercises 8-10.

FINAL EXAM. Due Friday of dead week (along with HW3). Here are SOLUTIONS.

Pages 50-60 including HW4 exercises 1-4.

Pages 61-67 including HW4 exercises 5-6.

Pages 68-74 including HW4 exercises 7-8.

Pages 75-78 (these are pretty incoherent and not really what we did in class -- sorry I ran out of steam at this point!).