I will give the Seminar’s second talk for Semester 2 tomorrow afternoon on Zoom. Please find the details below. Anyone who would like to attend the talk or join the mailing list is asked to e-mail ciappara@maths.usyd.edu.au. Title: Constructions with vector bundles Abstract: We continue in parallel to Hatcher’s first chapter. After recapping the key notions from the first talk, we will look briefly at the more general notion of fibre bundles, and common ways they arise from vector bundles. We will then talk about the process of pulling a vector bundle back along a continuous map, which is important for the problem of classifying vector bundles over a fixed base space. Finally, we will see how clutching functions can be used to construct vector bundles on spheres. Time and date: 2 pm, Thursday 27 August