Classes

Symplectic geometry

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2020
This is an elected course taught 3 hours a week. The book by da Silva is used.

Geometry 1 (Coordinates Geometry)

Semester: 

Winter

Offered: 

2020
This is an obligatory course for first year students. It is taught 6 hours per week. It covers the introduction of coordinates in Geometry, algebra of vectors, the classical theorems of Geometry (Menelaus, Pappus, Ceva, Desargues), inner product, exterior product, mixed triple product, lines, planes, parallelism and orthogonality, areas, volumes, conic sections and the basic theorems (Dedenlin, Apollodorus), ending with a complete study of the second order equation.

Linear Algebra

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2018
(Athens, every year to Physics students, 3 hrs/week) Systems of linear equations, matrices, vector spaces and linear maps, eigenvalues/vectors/spaces, linear systems of differential equations with constant coefficients.

Curves and Surfaces

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2018
(Athens, undergraduate, every year, 6 hrs/week) Following Marfredo do Carmo's classical book on the subject.

Differential Forms

Semester: 

Winter

Offered: 

2017
(Athens, 3 hrs/week) Followed the book "Calculus on Manifolds", by M. Spivak.

Geometric Quantization

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2013
(Athens, MSc, 4 hrs/week) Discussed the orbit method. Kirillov's book is a good guide on the subject.

The Atiyah-Singer index theorem

Offered: 

2012
(Athens, seminar) Introduced K-theory of C*-algebras, pseudodifferential calculus, Fredholmness, ellipticity and analytic index, Lie groupoids, and finally gave the proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.

Differential Geometry

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2012
(Athens, MSc, 4 hrs/week) Manifolds, tangent vectors, vector fields, Lie bracket.

K-theory

Offered: 

2007
(University of Crete, seminar) Introduced topological K-theory and explained its relation with algebraic K-theory and C*-algebras. Presented Both periodicity, 6-terms exact sequence and Kunneth theorem.

Differential Forms

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2007
(Crete, undergraduate, 3 hrs/week) Followed "Calculus on manifolds" by M. Spivak.

History of Geometry

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2007
(University of Crete, undergraduate, 3 hrs/week)