Important change!

This course will this semester meet twice a week:  Tuesdays 1215-1400 and Thursdays 1015-1200, both times in room B738.  The next lecture will then be Thursday Jan.22.

In the first lecture I just discussed the basic definitions of smooth manifolds, tangent vectors and derivatives.  A leisurely introduction to this material, following my notation, can be found in section 5.1 of my notes for the course MAT4510 Geometric structures.