Date: 3 May 2013, 4:30pm Location: Hempfield High School, Room 213 Speaker: Zhigang Han, Millersville University Title: Some results on the spectral metric in symplectic geometry Abstract. I will begin with the definition of the spectral metric on the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms using Floer homology. Then I will discuss about some interesting results about this interesting metric.