Speaker
Dusa McDuff (Barnard College)
Date
Thu March 1st 2012, 4:30pm
Event Sponsor
Mathematics Research Center
Location
Building 380, Room 380W
Gromov's work on the nonsqueezing problem showed that embedding questions lie at the heart of symplectic geometry. This talk will discuss a variety of these questions, mostly in four dimensions. It is aimed at a general audience, and will not assume prior knowledge of symplectic geometry.
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