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SUMMARY:One of many possible introductions to symplectic geometry - Alexia
  Corradini\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Siao Chi Mok
DESCRIPTION:The aim of this talk is to share a taste of the flavourful fie
 ld that is symplectic topology\; what objects it studies\, what tools are 
 used to study them\, and some of the questions it addresses. Originally br
 ought to light for being the natural setting of Hamiltonian mechanics\, sy
 mplectic manifolds are fascinating objects whose study will take you on a 
 journey through fields as diverse as low dimensional topology\, holomorphi
 c curve theory\, A_∞ categories\, mirror symmetry (hence algebraic geome
 try)\, dynamical systems\, etc. We will give special attention to a useful
  tool known as moment maps\, which formalise the study of symplectic manif
 olds equipped with quantities conserved by certain symmetries (related to 
 Noether’s principle in classical mechanics).
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