D. Kotschick: Symplectic geometry

• Time and place: Thu 2-4 PM and Fri 10-12 AM in HS B 047
• Exercise classes: Tue 8:30 - 10:00 AM, room B 252
• Homework: The homework assignments can be downloaded from Simon Gritschacher's webpage here.
• Contents: The first half of this course is a standard introduction to symplectic geometry. In the second half we will study some specialised topics related to Lagrangian foliations on symplectic manifolds.
• Intended audience: All students of mathematics and/or physics at the master or doctoral level who are interested in geometry and already have some knowledge of the basic facts about smooth manifolds.
• References:
  D. McDuff and D. Salamon, Introduction to Symplectic Topology, Clarendon Press Oxford 1995
  A. Cannas da Silva, Lectures on symplectic geometry, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1764, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
  A. Weinstein, Lectures on symplectic manifolds, CBMS Lecture Notes, Vol. 29, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I. 1977.
  
• Examination: There will be an exam in July. Details about the registration for the exam will be given during the lectures. In the mathematics master programme, students can get credit for module WP8. In the TMP master programme, the module number is WP26.