What Is... Seminar

Tara Holm
What is an infinite staircase?

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 5:30pm
Zoom (link in abstract)

A natural question in symplectic geometry is, "When does one symplectic manifold embed symplectically into another?" This turns out to be surprisingly difficult to answer, even when the first manifold is a ball! I will give a quick introduction to what few answers we know to this question and point out many answers we do not know. I'll highlight some connections to discrete geometry and number theory. There will be a lot of pictures and I will not assume you know what "symplectic" means.

https://cornell.zoom.us/j/93555817768?pwd=S1RUVTZSV2Rnam1DR0dQcm5DK0t5Zz09

Meeting ID: 935 5581 7768
Passcode: 5j023y