Riemannian Geometry I

4 Credits.

This course is a graduate-level introduction to foundational material in Riemannian Geometry. Riemannian manifolds, a smooth manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric. Topics include connections, geodesics, Jacobi fields, submanifold theory including the second fundamental form and Gauss equations, manifolds of constant curvature, comparison theorems, Morse index theorem, Hadamard theorem and Bonnet-Myers theorem.