Bi-Co Math Colloquium with Ipsita Datta
Ipsita Datta from the Institute for Advanced Study will give a talk titled, "What is Symplectic Geometry?"
Abstract: We will introduce symplectic vector spaces and symplectic manifolds and discuss examples. Symplectic manifolds are even dimensional manifolds with a symplectic form, which is a nice generalization of an area form. We will then look at my favourite type of submanifold - Lagrangian submanifolds. Then we will try to understand why symplectic geometry is interesting by discussing some history and some statements of famous theorems and conjectures like Gromov Non-squeezing.
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