Seminar series
Date
Fri, 04 Dec 2026
13:30
13:30
Location
C6
Speaker
Lina Deschamps
Organisation
Heidelberg University
We will start with classical mechanics and introduce the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian points of view, explaining how symplectic (and contact) geometry provides a natural framework for studying physical systems. I will then give some of the background needed to understand a class of flows called magnetic geodesic flows, focusing on my main playground: the cotangent bundle of the 2-sphere.