I will post my lecture notes here. I will update this as the term progresses. Lectures 1-6, Lectures 7-14 , Lectures 15-19 , Lectures 20-32 , Lectures 33-34 , Lectures 35-40 ,
A good overview is the paper 13/2 ways to count curves by Pandharipande and Thomas. The references within this paper provide an excellent guide to the literature.
Students will do an end of the term project which could be written or presented.
Here is Homework 1. Solution to HW1 Problem 3 is here.
Here is Homework 2a.
Here is Homework 2b.
Here is Homework 3a.
Here is Homework 3b.