The development of a labor reserve: the impact of colonial rule on Botswana

African Studies Center Working Paper No. 3

Milnor fibers and Links of Local Complete Intersections

We discuss and prove a number of cohomological results for Milnor fibers, real links, and complex links of local complete intersections with singularities of arbitrary dimension.Comment: 14 page

Notes on Perverse Sheaves and Vanishing Cycles

A working mathematician's summary of many results on the derived category, perverse sheaves, and vanishing cycles. This is the September 2013 version.Comment: 42 page