Symplectic Geometry Reading Group

This webpage is to maintain the schedule for the Symplectic Geometry Reading group in the Fall 2016 semester.

Information

Reference: Lectures on Symplectic Geometry
Meeting Times: Tuesdays 3:00 until Olivetti snacktime
Meeting Place: Outside Malott 5th Floor Lounge

Schedule

Date Reading
6 September 2016 Section 1: Symplectic Forms
13 September 2016 Section 2: Symplectic Forms on the Cotangent Bundle
20 September 2016 Section 3: Lagrangian Submanifolds
27 September 2016 Section 4: Generating Functions
4 October 2016 Section 18: Hamiltonian Vector Fields
18 October 2016 Section 12: Almost Complex Structures
25 October 2016 Section 13: Compatible Triples
1 November 2016 Section 14: Dolbeault Theory
8 November 2016 Section 15: Complex Manifolds
15 November 2016 Section 16: Kähler Forms
22 November 2016 No Meeting
29 November 2016 Section 17: Compact Kähler Manifolds

Possible Future Topics

Section 21: Actions
Section 22: Hamiltonian Actions
Section 25: Moment Map in Gauge Theory
Section 26: Existence and Uniqueness of Moment Map
Chapter XI: Symplectic Toric Manifolds