There are no lectures on April 8th and 10th due to the closure of the University.
There is no lecture on May 15th due to the event Dies Academicus.
Office hour: every Tuesday 14:00-16:00 in office 4.004.
There is no lecture on July 10th, and no office hour on July 9th. Last office hour session: July 16th 13:00-16:00.
Oral Exam Dates: July 18 and July 19. Please write to me before July 16th to fix a time slot for the oral exam. If necessary, July 17th is also possible. You can prepare something (a lemma or a theorem with the sketch of the proof) from the lecture to start with. It should be less than 5 minutes and I will ask questions after.
Lecture notes, updated 17.07.2024.
Exercise Sheet with solutions.
Summer semester 2024:
Mondays 8:15-10:00 Hörsaal 6, Hörsaalzentrum;
Wednesdays 8:15-10:00, SemR 0.006.
Lou van den Dries, Isaac Goldbring, Hilbert's 5th problem, Enseign. Math. 61 (2015), no. 1-2, 3-43.
Terence Tao, Hilbert's fifth problem and related topics, Grad. Stud. Math., 153, American Mathematical Society, providence, 2014.
Emmanuel Breuillard, Ben Green, Terence Tao, The structure of approximate groups, Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. 116 (2012), 115-221.
Ehud Hrushovski, lecture notes on approximate subgroups.