What Is... Seminar

Tara HolmCornell University
What is a moment polytope?

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 5:30pm
Malott 207

I will give a quick introduction to symplectic geometry, and describe one of its main tools, the momentum map. I will introduce moment polytopes. I will discuss how their combinatorics can in some cases classify the corresponding symplectic manifolds. The talk will be motivated by plentiful examples and many pictures.