Homology is an ubiquitous tool which arises in a natural way when approaching a wide variety of questions from all branches of mathematics. The course will present the classical setting of homology as well as an introduction to the more recent aspects that right now are changing the subject.The aim is to stress on the applications on different areas. To emphasize this aspect some thematic days on specific subjects will be organized. These sessions will be animated by an expert of the area and will be the occasion for the interested students to show their learning of the techniques introduced during the course.

• Introduction. The use of homology theory in different branches, through examples.
• The classical approach: Cartan and Eilenberg.
  We introduce some categorical notions and constructions: abelian categories, tensor products (if needed), adjoint functors, limits/colimits, projective and injective objects, flat modules and the first derived functors (Tor, Ext,…)
• The triangulated approach: Quillen’s exact categories vs. Gabriel-Zisman localization.
  The different approaches that lead to triangulated structures will be introduced: exact categories, localization, etc. The main aim is to present the seminal theorems of Rickard on the Morita theory for riangulated categories.
• Three thematic days:
  • A landmark for Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry: Étale cohomology.
  • A fundamental tool: Local Cohomology.
  • Further structure coming from homology theories: The Steenrod Algebra.

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