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December 01, 2011
Thursday, December 01
Colloquium
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Boris Khesin (University of Toronto)
Title: "Symplectic fluids and point vortices"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: We describe the motion of symplectic fluids as an Euler-Arnold equation for the group of symplectic diffeomorphisms. We relate it to the Lagrangian study of symplectic fluids by D.Ebin, describe a symplectic analog of vorticity and the finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems of symplectic point vortices.