Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis

Introduction to Marsden & Symmetry

Speaker: 
Alan Weinstein
Date: 
Wed, Jul 20, 2011
Location: 
Vancouver Convention Center, BC, Canada
Conference: 
ICIAM 2011
Abstract: 

Alan Weinstein is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a colleague of Jerry Marsden throughout Jerry’s career at Berkeley, and their joint papers on “Reduction of symplectic manifolds with symmetry” and “The Hamiltonian structure of the Maxwell-Vlasov equations” were fundamental contributions to geometric mechanics.

Class: 
Scientific
Subject: 
Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis
Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Physics

New geometric and functional analytic ideas arising from problems in symplectic geometry

Speaker: 
Helmut Hofer
Date: 
Mon, Oct 23, 2006 to Tue, Oct 24, 2006
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: 
PIMS 10th Anniversary Lectures
Abstract: 

The study of moduli spaces of holomorphic curves in symplectic geometry is the key ingredient for the construction of symplectic invariants. These moduli spaces are suitable compactifications of solution spaces of a first order nonlinear Cauchy-Riemann type operator. The solution spaces are usually not compact due to bubbling-off phenomena and other analytical difficulties.

Class: 
Scientific
Subject: 
Mathematics
Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis
Functional Analysis

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