Date: 5 April 2019
Location: Hempfield High School, Room 213
 Speaker: Ping Xu, Pennsylvania State University
   Title: Symplectic realizations of Poisson manifolds

Abstract: Poisson brackets were originally invented in the early
19th century to provide a framework for optics and classical
mechanics. Poisson geometry developed into a separate branch of
mathematics during the 1960s, with applications involving various
aspects of physics, as well as other areas of mathematics such as
representation theory and integrable systems.  In this talk, I will give
a brief introduction of Poisson manifolds, and discuss symplectic
realizations of Poisson manifolds, a longstanding problem which can be
traced back to Sophus Lie.