MenuEvents for 11/30/2015 from all calendars
Colloquium - Matthew Strom Borman
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: BLOC 220
Speaker: Professor Matthew Borman, Stanford University
Description:
Title: The flexible-rigid spectrum of symplectic and contact geometry
Abstract:
Symplectic and contact structures arose historically from geometric methods of studying phase spaces in Hamiltonian dynamics. These geometric structures have no local invariants and many questions about these structures can be reduced to algebraic topology. Despite this flexibility, they do have global invariants and their Hamiltonian dynamics exhibit quantifiable rigidity properties. The spectrum between flexibility and rigidity is a driving factor in the development of modern symplectic and contact geometry. In this talk I will discuss this spectrum as well as my contributions to both the flexible and rigid sides.
