Seminar series
Date
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
SR1
Speaker
Tom Baird
Organisation
Oxford
I will survey the theory of quasiHamiltonian spaces, a.k.a. group valued moment maps. In rough correspondence with historical development, I will first show how they emerge from the study of loop group representations, and then how they arise as a special case of "presymplectic realizations" in Dirac geometry.