The purpose of this seminar is to study basic notions of contact geometry and contact Hamiltonian systems.  Hamilton's equations are more known in the context of symplectic geometry, where they model conservative mechanical systems. Through contact geometry, we will see how to account...

Place: Room 5.5, Department of Mathematics, Coimbra Time: May 10, from 11:30 to 17:00 Speakers and schedule: 11:30 - 12:30 Gonçalo Oliveira, IST Deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills: an example 14:30 - 15:30 Lucile Vandembroucq, Univ. Minho On the (higher) topological...