What is … Hamiltonian Dynamics?
| This page hosts information on Alexander Fauck's talk "What is … Hamiltonian Dynamics?" at the "What is …?" seminar. This talk will help you better understand the talk by Michael Hutchings. |
Where & When
- Friday, April 21, 2017, 1.00pm @ BMS Loft at Urania
Abstract
- Classical mechanical systems are systems where the time evolution depends only on position and momentum. One can describe them with a vector field on the so called phase space - the Hamiltonian vector field. The studies of the dynamics of such a vector field (for example the motion of our planetary system or the 3-body problem) motivated the notion of symplectic and contact structures. In my talk I will explain some of these concepts and describe how they arise from the classical setup.
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