University of Toronto's
Symplectic Geometry Seminar



upcoming conferences and announcements: symplectic geometry wiki




Fall 2009


Date Speaker Title and abstract Lunch venue
Sep 14
Alejandro Cabrera
Lie theory and supergeometry
Thai Angels
Sep 21
David Li-Bland
Integration of quasi-poisson structures
Sylvester's Café
Sep 28
Vikraman Balaji
Analogue of the Narasimhan-Seshadri theorem in higher dimensions and holonomy
Simon Sushi
Oct 5
Hans-Christian Herbig
On Deformation Quantization of Singular Symplectic Quotient spaces
Oct 12
Thanksgiving, University closed
Oct 19
Lisa Jeffrey
Real loci of based loop groups
Sylvester's Café
Oct 26
Megumi Harada
A generalized Schubert calculus for type A Peterson varieties
Thai Angels
Nov 2
no seminar, sadly
nothing to be announced
no lunch
Nov 9
Fabian Ziltener
A Maslov Map for Coisotropic Submanifolds, Leaf-wise Fixed Points, and Presymplectic Non-Embeddings
Sylvester's Café
Nov 12
4:00 pm, BA6183
(Unusual time and date)
Sean Fitzpatrick
Geometric Quantization in Contact Geometry
tba
Nov 16
Sergei Tabachnikov
Contact complete integrability
Simon Sushi
Nov 23
Marco Gualtieri
Poisson gerbes
Sylvester's Café
Nov 27
1:00 pm, BA6183
(Unusual time and date)
Leonid Polterovich
Analysis and geometry of the Poisson bracket
tba
Nov 30
Kiumars Kaveh
Duistermaat-Heckmann measure for reductive group actions and Newton-Okounkov bodies
Simon Sushi



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