Edinburgh Surgery Theory Study Group

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Notes

1. Introduction to Surgery Theory - Andrew Ranicki
2. Surgery, handles and Morse Theory - Spiros Adams-Florou
3. Poincaré Duality, local coefficients and the handle chain-complex - Spiros Adams-Florou
4. Vector bundles and surgery - Patrick Orson
5. Cobordism theory (i) - Carmen Rovi
6. Cobordism theory (ii) - Carmen Rovi
7. The h-cobordism Theorem - Chris Palmer
8. Whitehead torsion and the s-cobordism Theorem - Spiros Adams-Florou
9. The Spivak normal fibration - Patrick Orson
10. Quadratic forms - Carmen Rovi
11. The even dimensional surgery obstruction - Patrick Orson
12. The kernel formation - Patrick Orson

• Algebraic and Geometric Surgery (2012, Oberwolfach)
  Diarmuid Crowley, Tibor Macko, Andrew Ranicki
  Notes by Patrick Orson
• Foundations of Algebraic Surgery (2001, Trieste)
  Andrew Ranicki
  Includes an explanation of mapping-cone interpretation of surgery
• Surgery Theory (2008, Münster)
  Andrew Ranicki
  Notes by Adam Mole
• A proof of the h-cobordism theorem (2009, Edinburgh)
  Spiros Adams-Florou
  With lots of pictures
• A proof of the h-cobordism theorem
  Sammy the Graduate Student
  Exclusively pictures!
• Manifolds and Poincaré Complexes
  James Davis and Nansen Petrosyan
  Lucid overview of the differences between manifold types and Poincaré spaces, and their connections via surgery.