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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Federica Pasquotto <f.pasquotto@math.leidenuniv.nl><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 30 October 2024 at 15:40<br>
<b>To: </b>Federica Pasquotto <f.pasquotto@math.leidenuniv.nl><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Adaloglou, N. (Nikolas)" <n.adaloglou@math.leidenuniv.nl><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Fwd: Symplectic Dirty Hands seminar: first meeting on Friday 1 November @ VU Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">Please find below the first announcement of a seminar on modern symplectic geometry, which may hopefully be interesting to some of you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">Federica</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">Starting on Friday November 1, the “Symplectic Dirty Hands“ seminar will kick off. The goal of the seminar is to gather master students, PhD students and
researchers who are curious about recent work in symplectic geometry and want to learn the main mathematical ideas behind it in an informal setting (we will get our hands dirty and go at a slow pace!).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">The seminar will be followable with a background of basic symplectic and differential geometry (as studied in Mastermath). The rest of the prerequisites will be discussed during
the first talks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">We will start by learning about the role of Fukaya categories to study the group of symplectomorphisms of a symplectic manifold: when can we generate free subgroups? We will mainly
be interested in understanding </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.2851" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.2851. Click or tap if you trust this link.">this
paper</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424"> by Ailsa Keating.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">We expect this will take up until February. After that we will choose all together another topic.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">The seminar will take place every other Friday in the time slot 13:00 – 14:30 and it will be in hybrid form with rotating location in Leiden, Utrecht, Amsterdam
(VU). There will be a one-hour talk followed by discussions. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">The first meeting will be coming Friday, 1 November, starting at 13:00, at VU Amsterdam, NU building (Maryam). </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">At this
<a href="https://www.nikadal.xyz/symplectic-dirty-hands-seminar" title="https://www.nikadal.xyz/symplectic-dirty-hands-seminar">
link</a>, you find a tentative schedule and some additional resources.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">If you would like to join the seminar, and receive the zoom link to attend online, or simply be kept updated about it, please write me an email to
</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:n.adaloglou@math.leidenuniv.nl">n.adaloglou@math.leidenuniv.nl</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">Symplectically yours,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">xxx</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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