Olivetti Club

Nicki Magill
Symplectic embeddings of 4 dimensional ellipsoids

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 4:30pm
Online

One way to better understand the symplectic structure on a manifold is to consider embeddings that preserve this structure. Determining when an embedding exists allows us to understand the interplay of floppiness and rigidity for symplectic manifolds. In this talk, we'll spend some time understanding what is a symplectic structure, and then focus on various ellipsoid embedding results.

This talk is planned to not require any background of symplectic manifolds. And most of the manifolds we'll consider will be friendly balls and ellipsoids!

Refreshments in the comfort of your own home.