Beskjeder

Tue May 7:

Sections 3.2-3.4  in Geiges "Contact Geometry".

Thu May 9:

Open books and Lefschetz fibrations, following Geiges "Contact Geometry" Section 3.5.1 and Sections 2.2-2.3 in https://www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~wendl/SFT8/Courte_precourse.pdf by Sylvain Courte.

Tue May 14:

More on Lefschetz fibrations, following Sections 3-5 of Exotic symplectic manifolds from Lefschetz fibrations by Maksim Maydanskiy.

Thu May 16:

TIght and overtwisted, Section 3.6 and 3.7 in Geiges "Contact Geometry".

Tue May 21:
Cancelled due to ...

Tue April 23:

Moved to Friday

Thu April 25:

More on handle attachment: smoothing corners and framings (Geiges book Sections 6.1, 6.2, 3.5)

Fri April 26 (14:15-16:00 in 1120):

Problem solving session 4

Tue April 30:

h-principles (Section 6.3 in the book by Geiges)

Thu May 2:

Sections 3.1-3.2  in Geiges "Contact Geometry"

Tue April 2:

Sections 2.2-2.4.2 in Geiges 

Thu April 4:

Sections 2.4.3- 2.4.5 in Geiges

Tue April 9:

Sections 2.4.4 and 2.6 in Geiges

Thu April 11:

Weinstein manifolds and Weinstein handle attachment, following https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.hokmj/1381413841

Tue March 19:

No lecture due to the The Abel Prize announcement 

Thu March 21:

Sections 28-30 of Cannas da Silva (Symplectic toric manifolds)

Tue March 26:

Problem solving session

Thu March 28:

Contact manifolds: We begin to study Section 2 of Geiges' notes https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307242

Tue March 5:

Sections 18,24 of Cannas da Silva (Integrable systems and reduction) 

Thu March 7:

Section 25 of Cannas da Silva (Moment map in gauge theory)

Tue March 12:

Section 26 of Cannas da Silva (Existence and uniqueness of moment maps)

Thu March 14:

Section 27 of Cannas da Silva (Convexity). We will meet in room 819.

Tue Feb 5:

Sections 1-4 in Sandon, Generating functions in Symplectic Topology

Thu Feb 7:

Sections 5-7, 16 in Sandon

Tue Feb 12:

No lecture since there is a pr?veforelesning about the Hodge conjecture at the same time.

Thu Feb 14:

Sections 12-13 of Cannas da Silva (Almost complex structures and compatible triples)

Tue Jan 22:

Section 3: Lagrangian submanifolds + Section 6.1: Isotopies and Vector fields + Section 18.1: Hamiltonian and Symplectic vector fields

Thu Jan 24 and Tue Jan 29:

Sections 6-8 : Local Forms

Thu Jan 31:

Problem solving session 1. See the folder Oppgaver for suggested exercises.

The lectures at Thursdays will be held at 10.00-11.45 instead of 9.15-11.00. We will still meet in NHA 1020.

The first part of the course will mainly follow the book

"Lectures on symplectic geometry" by Ana Cannas da. Silva. It is available at https://people.math.ethz.ch/~acannas/Papers/lsg.pdf