Vorlesung Wintersemester 2015

Zeit und Ort:      Freitags, 09:15 - 10:45, A314 .
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Beginn der Vorlesungen: Freitag, 23.10.15,

Teilnehmerkreis: Studierende der Mathematik und Physik ab dem 5. Fachsemester

The course will be given in english.

Target Audience: Diploma Students, MSc students, PhD students, Postdocs

Prerequisites: basic knowldge of differential geometry and algebraic topology

Abstract: This course is meant to give a compact introduction to symplectic geometry with an overview over essential main phenomena, methods and results. Major emphasis will lie on the phenomenon of symplectic rigidity. The method of pseudoholomorphic curves will be introduced and explained along examples, but not thoroughly be deduced. A large part of the course will concern the field of Hamiltonian dynamical systems.

Literature:

• D. McDuff a. D. Salamon, Introduction to Symplectic Geometry,Oxford University Press
• H. Hofer a. E. Zehnder, Symplectic Invariants and Hamiltonian Dynamics