higher algebra course starts on Wednesday March 6

[Barbara Fantechi]

The course will start Wednesday. March 6 and finish April 18, plus a few
extra lectures in the first week of June.
Schedule is Wed+Thu 11-13 plus an extra weekly lecture to be scheduled
during the first lecture, room 134 at Sissa.

Topics: we start with an informal introduction to abelian categories,
discussing the main examples (sheaves of modules on a ringed space). We
then define the associated derived category, and revisit the notion of
derived functors using a language different from the one in [Harsthorne,
Algebraic Geometry]. In particular, we are able to define left derived
functors even when the category doesn't have enough projectives. The focus
of the course will be on examples from algebraic geometry; the exact
content will be adapted to the interests and background knowledge of the
students.



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